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Kyle-Anne Shiver
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October 19, 2012
Mitt proved himself at the Alfred E. Smith dinnerAny time one can have both a pleasant, engaging, attractive, charming man and a man of high character, intelligence, a strong work ethic, loyalty and true grit, it is a most welcome anomaly
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August 23, 2012
Gloves Are Off: Mitt Said 'Bless His Heart' to BarackBarack Obama, bless his heart, really doesn't know what just hit him in Iowa this week.
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June 22, 2012
Is This Republic Worth Saving?We've got the means to save ourselves. But if we don't have the will, the means will surely come to naught. Means never used never succeed.
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January 24, 2012
Brace Yourself for the Anti-Mormon Slime MachineIf you thought that aggravating race- and wealth-based divisions was as low as the Obama machine could get, just wait for the religious bigotry that will be unleashed on Mitt Romney if he obtains the GOP nomination.
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January 21, 2012
Why I'm Giving Newt a Pass on the Scarlet-A FactorHow could I, outspoken defender of monogamy and premarital chastity, so compromise my own principles to vote for a man who has trashed his own wedding vows and, if he wins the presidency, would ensconce his former mistress as first lady?
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December 18, 2011
Could Hitch Be Tebowing Today?Hitchens spent his very substantial intellect, oratory gifts, and writing talents defaming God, yet I have grieved over his passing as though he were a close friend or relative.
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November 5, 2011
Careful, OWS Envy-Mongers! The One Percent Have Got Your Number"Go ahead and continue to take us down, but you're only going to hurt yourselves. What's going to happen when we can't find jobs on the Street anymore? Guess what: We're going to take yours."
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June 25, 2011
Bernanke's Soft Patch: It's the Uncertainty, Stupid!Mr. Fed, Ben Bernanke, told reporters this week that he's clueless as to why America's economy is in this "soft patch."
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June 10, 2011
Morally-Schizoid Liberal Women and Their Weiner HusbandsEvidently, the liberal woman is capable of the most severe form of psychological denial known to humankind.
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June 6, 2011
Why Our Elites Just Can't Get No RespectAlas, the higher one climbs upon his own high horse, the more ignominious his fall from grace.
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April 26, 2011
The Chord Donald Trump StrikesTrump is giving voice to the all-male side of our collective American psyche. He's brought one heck-of-a-lot of yang into this all-yin modern political class.
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April 16, 2011
Trump and Obama's Brittle NarrativeThe Obama narrative is complete hogwash and that Republicans made a huge error in '08 by allowing it to stand. Donald Trump does a service in questioning it.
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April 15, 2011
That Donald Trump Is Pretty ShrewdTrump, the master builder/developer, knows that before you can build something new, you may have to demolish what stands there now.
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April 11, 2011
The Coverup of Abortion's Real RisksAbortionists in this country are actively burying risk research just as tobacco companies did many decades ago.
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March 28, 2011
Biden's Journalist-in-the-Closet Caper Is a Big Bleeping DealThe "most transparent" administration in the history of the world locks a reporter in a closet to keep him from mingling with Party fat-cats
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February 10, 2011
What Will GOProud Bring to the Conservative Table?There is something fundamental missing in this big, fat heap of internecine squabbling over GOProud participating in CPAC.
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January 25, 2011
State of the Obama 'Remaking America' RevolutionRight now, Americans are forcing transformation on Barack -- not the other way around.
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January 23, 2011
I Have a Dream that the Abortion Holocaust Will EndIn 1960, when I was in the fourth grade, I learned the word "Holocaust."
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November 22, 2010
Obama and Holder and Their Massive Failure to ThinkObama & Company have been called the Keystone cops too many times to count. But they are far, far worse than mere incompetents.
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November 2, 2010
This Is America, Stupid!And it's not just the economy. It's the disrespect for the wishes of the electorate, who pay for everything.
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November 2, 2010
The Difference between Radicals and Moderates, Circa 2010Pop quiz question for Election Day: What's the difference between a radical and a moderate in 2010?
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November 1, 2010
Shock: Community Organizer Flops on 2010 StumpIt's almost painful to watch a man so out of his depth that he has reduced the Presidency of the United States of America to stand-up, comedic salesmanship.
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October 27, 2010
Attack-Dog Behar Picks Wrong CrusadeDuring the president's recent appearance on the televised female coffee klatch "The View," he suggested that Joy Behar become the "attack dog" she said he needs to fight back against conservatives.
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October 26, 2010
The Big, Blue D Stands for 'Devil'The devilish Democrat line hasn't changed much since slavery and secession; it's just dressed up a little for public consumption.
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October 18, 2010
Maureen Dowd and Revenge of the Homely RedheadThe woman who has made a fortune out of cocktail-party cattiness has decided, this week, to aim her eternally-adolescent barbs at attractive Republican women.
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October 14, 2010
Left-Wing Radicals and the 2010 Conservative Growth SpurtOnce Americans saw the left-wing radicals in charge, the majority of the electorate drew the simple conclusion that socialist radicals are dangerous to life, liberty, and the unencumbered pursuit of happiness
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October 9, 2010
Michelle Obama Panhandles Poor for Rich Democrat PolsAt least Marie Antoinette was willing to let the people eat cake.
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October 7, 2010
Rules for Radical Conservatives Will Help Us Save AmericaA remarkable American classic which will help all us conservatives save America.
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October 2, 2010
The Other America Marches on WashingtonA "One Nation" rally with all the hoopla the state-sponsored media can throw at it...
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September 9, 2010
Time for an Islamaphobia Beer SummitThe big question of our era is: Can Islam become a religion of peace?
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September 2, 2010
Beck's 'Obsession' with Black Liberation Theology Thoroughly JustifiedLA Times columnist Tim Rutten has dug himself into a pit of theological quicksand with his harsh criticism of Glenn Beck.
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August 22, 2010
Obama, Black Liberation Theology and Karl Marx...RevisitedIt seems a perfect time to revisit the exact nature of Obama's Christian experience.
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July 1, 2010
Our Troops Need You! Yes, you.Remember when George W. Bush was Commander in Chief and every single American was made thoroughly cognizant, 24/7, that we were indeed a nation at war?
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June 18, 2010
So What's a Patriot to Do? Confront a Liberal TodayIt's vital at this very opportune teaching moment, when the Obama they saw as a political savior is standing proverbially naked on the Gulf, to confront them with the choice they made.
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June 17, 2010
Are Liberals Breaking Up with Obama?The presidency does not lend itself to vainglorious appraisals of one's own abilities; all is laid bare when push comes inevitably to shove.
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June 14, 2010
A Mom Asks: Should We Care What's Wrong with Obama?From the Dr. Mom perspective, it's not hard to surmise that the boy, Barry Obama, was victimized by Murphy's Law of Character Development.
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June 7, 2010
Shouldn't We All Be Israelis Now?I must now ask whether Barack Obama is signaling to the entire Muslim world that Israel is theirs for the taking.
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May 6, 2010
Obama Stands with Muslims as He PromisedNow that Barack Obama is well into his presidency, it's clear that he is keeping at least one promise he made.
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March 14, 2010
The Real Tea Party Story: Community Builders vs. Community OrganizersThe counterfeit altruism of Saul Alinsky's community organizer movement has more than met its match in the Tea Partiers, genuine community-builders.
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March 1, 2010
Soros: Another Golden Match for AriannaThe vast shadow influence wielded by George Soros and the rise of Arianna Huffington's website.
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November 26, 2009
Blessed with freedom? Thank a soldier.We now have a Commander in Chief, who in shallow, selfish mode, regards our troops as a "pretty good photo op."
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November 14, 2009
How many at Fort Hood died because of the Army's gun ban?If I were the parent or spouse of one of those killed in the terrorist attack at Fort Hood last week, I would begin raising utter hell in the public arena the minute my loved one was buried
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November 13, 2009
Inside the Tea Party ExpressKyle-Anne Shiver reports from aboard the Tea Party Express II.
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November 12, 2009
Tea Parties: Misunderstood and Vastly UnderratedIn a nutshell, the Tea Parties are a visible expression of the widespread rekindling of the love of liberty.
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November 12, 2009
Daily Kos attacks tea party columnThere really are two Americas, you know. Liberals, who make up only 20% of the Country, live in a delusional world
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November 9, 2009
Obama Stands with Dictators and MuslimsOur president sends clear signals when it comes to wimping out on the friends of liberty.
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November 6, 2009
That Light in the Tunnel Is Still a LocomotiveDid the two GOP victories this week signal a beam of sunshine in a tunnel gone dark with fear and gloom? Or is that light conservatives see just the same old Obama locomotive?
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October 30, 2009
Democrats' Healthcare Scheme Is Pure InsanityAttempting to foist upon us a system already tried-and-failed so many times in so many places pushes the current national healthcare debate into the realm of pure lunacy
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October 23, 2009
Hating Whitey Makes Unexpected ComebackHere we are only nine months into the ubiquitously proclaimed "post-racial presidency," and all that promised harmony among the races has disappeared faster than a Chicago minute.
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October 22, 2009
Vets for Freedom Head to WashingtonAwakening our president and Congress to the needs of our troops on the ground, still at war.
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October 21, 2009
Media Matters & President Obama in LockstepRevival of right-wing conspiracy charges are all the rage in the age of Obama, but liberals are just playing the same old shell game.
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October 20, 2009
Alinskyite in Chief Is a Master PolarizerThere's a whole lot of polarizing going on in Obama's America. Unity is out, apparently. Polarization is still in. And Rush Limbaugh and Fox News are the new Bush.
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October 16, 2009
Barry honey, can we talk about Afghanistan?More dithering is simply not an option. There are only two ways to go here, either all in or all out.
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October 14, 2009
What Soros Wanted, Obama DeliversIf all of this does not hint at a shadow presidency with a powerful oligarch pulling the strings on a neophyte president, I honestly don't know what would.
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October 12, 2009
Peace, Brother. But what about Chicago?Did the Nobel folks ever think to check the utter lack of peace in our president's adopted home town, the first place to receive his miracle-touch community organization, aka peace initiatives?
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October 9, 2009
The fairytale that really wasThere once was a young man, named Barry, living in the magical land of Kumbayah, aka Oz. Barry had a vision, he did. And, oh honey, a fine, fine vision it was.
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October 9, 2009
Peace in the Twilight ZoneWe've entered the Twilight Zone where a make-believe peacemaker is a Nobel Laureate.
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October 2, 2009
Wimpy foreign policy never saved anyone's dayBarack Obama seems anxious to follow in the footsteps of the last century's most well-known appeasers, Chamberlain and Carter.
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September 25, 2009
Obama and the Trust FactorIf universal healthcare proves to be the president's Waterloo, as suggested by John Boehner (R-OH), the mushrooming ACORN scandal may yet be his Watergate.
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September 22, 2009
Stimulating Leftist Causes, Not the EconomyThere's not much in this world that red-blooded Americans hate more than being flim-flammed.
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September 18, 2009
Sorry honey, but truth trumps the race cardPresident Obama has the rightful honor of being just as publicly scorned, ridiculed, disliked and embattled as every single white-male president who has preceded him.
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September 18, 2009
Media Matters Launches Fight FOX CampaignShoot the messenger is not a viable political strategy.
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September 16, 2009
Democrats Jumping the Race-Card SharkWelcome to the post-racial presidency of Barack Obama, in which it has suddenly become a racial issue when American citizens dare to criticize the president.
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September 15, 2009
The upside of fearConservatives, who see the possibility of all-out Obama storm on our own shores are not to be confused with the screaming sky-is-falling ninnies ready to dump the entirety of Western economies onto the ash heap
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September 15, 2009
ACORN operating in Maryland IllegallyWell, the little ACORN story just keeps sprouting bigger branches
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September 11, 2009
Eight years and many still don't get itHistorical moments, frozen and encapsulated in each individual's memory, sometimes define whole generations.
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August 31, 2009
The Lobbyists-First Healthcare Reform BillIn the vernacular preferred by most men I know, Obamacare could be called the "Screw-You" plan.
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August 19, 2009
The Alinskyite's Big, Fat Governance FailureWhat happens when power-grab tactics, taught by a rabble-rousing revolutionary, suddenly catapult a charismatic demagogue into the highest power-perch in the world?
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August 13, 2009
Obama's Nazi Straw man: An Old Alinsky TrickThe White House is playing one of old Saul Alinsky's favorite fake-em-out tricks of the revolutionary trade.
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August 12, 2009
Obama Failed to Master Alinsky's Rule #12Alinsky's 12th Rule of Tactics: The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative.
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August 11, 2009
The Alinsky Way Vs. the American WayThe Dems have become so immersed in the Alinsky Way that they've nearly plum darned forgotten the American Way.
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August 9, 2009
Protest for Me, But Not for TheeWhat happens when the middle class feels even more victimized than the nation's poor?
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August 6, 2009
Firing up the leftist baseI've been watching the media onslaught aimed at these townhall protesters, and now think I understand why we saw a huge pickup in coverage on the birth certificate controversy over the last 2 weeks
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August 4, 2009
Dems Begin Alinsky-in-August OffensiveThe healthcare-takeover plotters in the Democrat war room have charted their Alinsky-in-August offensive.
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August 3, 2009
Media Matters Firing up Anti-Birther MachineThis just in my email box from those leftist guerrilla warriors over at Media Matters. They are launching an ad campaign to attack Lou Dobbs for mentioning the birth certificate controversy.
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August 2, 2009
Media Matters desperate to discredit embarrassing Obama photoWhat's a left-winger to do when Barack Obama gets caught showing his character? Deny, discredit and denigrate, of course!
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July 7, 2009
Cap Taxes, Trade CongressI'm all for cap 'n trade; it's a nifty idea. Simply splendid. Positively stupendous. Brilliant beyond brilliant. I just have a different take on the whole notion.
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July 1, 2009
Obama's True Colors Shine in HondurasObama's response to the Honduran military removing a dictator-wannabe from office tells us who he is.
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June 11, 2009
You Might Be a Misogynist if...you don't want Letterman fired.There are not many mere words which will cause my normally quietly-simmering, red blood to boil over
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June 10, 2009
Adorable Obama Couple Paper DollsThe children of the world are to be properly indoctrinated with a positively ingenious new product: The Barack and Michelle Obama Paper Doll & Cut-Out Book
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May 23, 2009
Operation Gratitude in Facebook Face-off for TroopsHow you can help Operation Gratitude help the troops, at no cost to you.
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May 21, 2009
Barry Honey, Where Has All the Love Gone?Barry Honey, you rode the love-train to victory. I have truly tried to give you the benefit of the doubt with regard to your intentions, hoping they were indeed fraught with goodwill.
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May 15, 2009
Defeating Political RidiculeI've been working for the past year on solid methods to defeat the politics of ridicule - the tactics advocated by Saul Alinsky to every 60s radical that ever burned a draft card or a bra.
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May 8, 2009
Suckers United for ChangeIf asked for a word to describe an Obama voter, there is only one that any sentient person could offer: SUCKER.
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May 4, 2009
GOP Woes and Social ConservativesThe data on public opinion surrounding abortion suggests that the Republican Party's pro-life stance is simply not the problem some imagine.
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April 28, 2009
Barry Honey, Can We Talk about Torture?My dear Mr. President, I've just finished reading the formerly top-secret, classified CIA memos detailing interrogation techniques used in the aftermath of 9/11. And frankly, Barry honey, I'm shocked.
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April 20, 2009
MSM's Tea Party Cognitive DissonanceIn all my years of watching news coverage in America, I don't believe I have ever witnessed more condescending, amateurish, purely politicized reporting than what just transpired
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April 16, 2009
Tea Parties about Far More than TaxesFolks who believe that the American Revolution was over nothing but taxation are as dimwitted as was King George in his day. So too yesterday's Tea Parties.
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April 16, 2009
Media Matters Launches Anti-Fox CampaignThe folks at Media Matters are not content with having their far-left talking points lead the news on all the major networks except one
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April 14, 2009
Moral Education for the New OrderAmerica's younger generation is well-prepared morally for the arrival of socialism.
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April 8, 2009
The Medical Conscience Clause: Guard it with your life.Even in times of all-out war and conscription, there was always respect in America for an individual's religious/moral beliefs in the realm of killing other human beings.
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April 2, 2009
The Soros Doctrine in Obama Foreign PolicyPresident Obama is rapidly replacing the Bush Doctrine with The Soros Doctrine, implementing the foreign tenets of the principal financier of the American left.
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March 31, 2009
The Racism Trap DefinedSince I don't live in a "nation of cowards," as Eric Holder has suggested, I generally face all accusations of racism with individualistic fervor.
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March 30, 2009
The Obama We Knew But DeniedWhat if an American President campaigned as a pragmatic centrist, promised tax cuts to 95% of the American people and pledged himself to a new era of government honesty, openness and bipartisanship, but never had any of those intentions?
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March 11, 2009
Voters' Obama Folly Coming Home to RoostIt's only been 7 weeks since the man whose resume fits nicely on the back of a postage stamp became the most powerful human being in the universe.
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February 18, 2009
Barry Honey, can we talk about hypocrisy?"Mr. President" seems way too stiff and stilted for you, our most populist-appealing president ever.
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February 13, 2009
Alinsky-ites at the Gates of Talk RadioFellow citizens, if you like what ACORN did to the home mortgage industry, then you're going to just plum love what the Democrats have in mind for talk radio.
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February 11, 2009
Murphy's Law, the Peter Principle and Barack ObamaWhat happens when everything that can go wrong in a person's character formation does go wrong, and that person continues to be promoted to his level of incompetence?
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February 5, 2009
Barry, honey, can we talk about money?No one, with two-cents worth of knowledge about money, thinks that the way to work out of a budgetary nightmare is to max out his credit cards, and then apply for umpteen more of the things
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January 28, 2009
Barry, Honey, can we talk about Gitmo?"President Obama" seems a far too stiff and stilted salutation for a people's president who called a female journalist "sweetie."
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January 22, 2009
Roe Is Only the BeginningI always prefer to debate atheists, such as Camille Paglia, on the abortion issue. The arguments are simple, direct and uncomplicated by walls of denial.
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January 18, 2009
G. W. Bush, a President Worthy of the OfficeI already miss you, G. W. For seven years now, since the shock of 9/11, I've taken great comfort in knowing you were at the helm
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January 16, 2009
Hating the JewsHating Jews is as old and entrenched as, well, as old as the Bible.
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January 4, 2009
Kyle-Anne to Laura Bush CommentersSome readers have objected to Kyle-Anne Shiver's coumn on Laura Bush. She responds.
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January 1, 2009
Laura Bush, Steel MagnoliaLaura Bush has single-handedly restored the term, "lady," to the American vocabulary. And she has done it with such rare aplomb that nary a soul seems to have even noticed -- precisely the way I'm convinced she planned it.
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November 27, 2008
America, the BlessingThe America-hating disease has spread like a brush fire upon the earth.
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November 10, 2008
American Troops Still in Harm's Way? Oh yeah. Them.When was the last time you saw American soldiers being interviewed in prime time?
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November 5, 2008
Large Crow Has Been OrderedI confess, it's true. I believed in the common sense of the American people despite every poll, every warning sign, every reality, it seems.
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November 2, 2008
Was Jesus a Socialist? That is the question.While I truly tremble at the mere mention of the name "Jesus" in the same sentence with the word, "socialism," this question is one of the central issues of this presidential election, with Barack Obama a convert to the Marxist Black Liberation Theology practiced by Jeremiah Wright.
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November 1, 2008
Kyle-Anne, a Blonde, Responds to DunnDear Mr. Dunn: Although we've never met, I must confess to a secret love affair with your writing.
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October 30, 2008
The Repugnance of SocialismThe reasons for loathing socialism are as clear as the nose on anyone's face.
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October 29, 2008
Open Letter to Americans Who Love IsraelWill Americans really elect a president at such a perilous time, who seems to be clueless about foreign affairs, especially with regard to Israel and the Middle East?
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October 22, 2008
Obama's Culture of Death and the Catholic VoteMeasured at approximately 25% of the American electorate, Catholic voters often determine electoral outcomes in a number of important battleground states.
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October 20, 2008
Stealing the Presidency: An Obama/ACORN PrimerHere we are two weeks out from what may very well be an actual, stolen presidential election.
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October 15, 2008
Obama's Radical Revolution:Its Alinsky Root and Global VisionIn Obama's book, Dreams from My Father, there is a strange revelation, perhaps intended as a signal
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October 3, 2008
Palin Has Everything that CountsSarah Palin has everything that counts. She has had my admiration since day one, and I've seen nothing of significance to change my mind.
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September 30, 2008
From Which of These Guys Would You Buy a Used Car?My grandfather's election question has always been the most reliable: "From which of these guys would you buy a used car?"
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September 18, 2008
A Portrait of American Wisdom: John McCainThe more I read about John McCain, the more I admire him. And to be perfectly honest, it is sometimes what others refer to as his "rougher edges" that I admire the most.
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September 12, 2008
Putting Lipstick on the Community Organizing PigNo matter how much lipstick, finery and linguistic switcheroo Obama employs, his gig as a community organizer is still just a fancy-dancy way of explaining the role of a paid people's agitator.
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September 5, 2008
Obama's Tattletale Campaign Is PitifulIt is time for Barack Obama to grow up and demonstrate to this Country that he is not missing a vital piece of male equipment -- his fortitude.
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September 4, 2008
Palin Rules, Libs DroolFrom liberal women, one hears nothing but complaint and woe-is-me tales of how unbearably hard their lives as women have been. Sarah Palin doesn't wallow.
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September 4, 2008
Straight from the Pravda PlaybookOkay, now I must admit that I've seen it all. Today, I received this from those folks at Media Matters, who now have the task of protecting the back of one Barack Obama
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September 2, 2008
Lieberman rockedJoe Lieberman's was by far the best speech I've yet seen in both conventions.
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September 1, 2008
Why Palin Is a Bee in Dems' BonnetsIf you've ever seen a lady with a bee in her bonnet, and all the crazy contortions she'll make to get the darned thing out before it stings her lovely head, you'll understand precisely why the Democrats are taking such crude swats at Governor Sarah Palin.
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August 24, 2008
Obama, Biden, Foreign Policy and the Catholic VoteWell, I must admit that over the course of the past 8 months, Barack Obama has given me quite a few What-in-the-world-is-he-thinking-? moments...
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August 17, 2008
Obama's Christian Creds Vs. Abortion and InfanticideIf there is one issue, upon which Barack Obama has been willing to take a front-and-center political stand, it is on abortion and, yes, even infanticide.
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August 14, 2008
Obama's Alinsky Hoodwink is Coming Home to RoostWinning a national Presidential election is not at all the same thing as organizing a group of citizens to agitate for more government interventions and taxpayer money.
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August 8, 2008
McCain's Country-First Life Is a WinnerIf Barack Obama presents a target-rich environment in his inflated balloon of media hype over one non-accomplishment after another, John McCain presents the opposite.
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August 6, 2008
The Imperious Nancy PelosiPower is known to do some mighty strange things to otherwise quite normal people.
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August 1, 2008
Why I'm Thanking God for ObamaEvery day, for the past several months, I've made a habit in my morning prayers of thanking God for the emergence of Barack Obama. Not because my hope is in Obama, but because my hope is always, unequivocally in God.
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July 28, 2008
Deconstructing ObamaDeconstruction, I'm told, is still all the rage on college campuses throughout the Land.
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July 26, 2008
Who's Paying Mr. Eurobama?Since Mr. Eurobama is so popular on the other side of the Pond, and since he is clearly the Euros' pick in our Presidential contest, I'm just wondering whether we are still going to be stuck paying his salary and for all of the hoopla he seems to garner wherever he goes.
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July 24, 2008
The Bubble of Obama SupremacyBarack Obama is riding within the biggest fantasy bubble this side of Oz. You know what happens to bubbles.
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July 17, 2008
Call Me a Proud, Scared ConservativeBarack Obama is quite fond of disparaging what he has derisively labeled, "the politics of fear."
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July 13, 2008
Could 2008 Be a McCain Landslide?Ah yes, dear readers, this title has nailed me. I'm an unconventional thinker, a woman who is wont to go madly against the grain, in nearly all matters.
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July 5, 2008
Victory in Anbar? What victory?Victory in Anbar Province, Iraq? If you Google, "Anbar victory," all you will find is a bunch of outdated stuff. Let the elitists live in their bubble of unreality, folks. We'll celebrate on our own.
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July 4, 2008
Operation Gratitude Doing 4th-of-July Patriotism Year-roundHappy Independence Day, dear readers! Now, you might want to take a short break from waving your flag, put your sparklers on hold and grab a hanky. This story is going to put a lump in your throat
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July 3, 2008
Obama Vs. McCain: The Wisdom FactorI have watched, with terrific amusement, Barack Obama's arrogant strutting of his stuff on the campaign stump. He reminds me of a young bull, all pumped up with pride, ready to charge with lightning speed
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June 30, 2008
McCain, My ManI'm ready to stand front and center now, dear readers, and admit that I voted for John McCain in the 2000 Republican primary.
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June 26, 2008
Our Troops Deserve All We Have to GiveOur American troops have given us all they have to give. Today with the From the Frontlines webathon, we have a chance to give something back in a meaningful way.
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June 25, 2008
War, Hell and Civilian JuriesUntil a few weeks ago, I wasn't even aware that our Congress had enacted legislation in 2000 to require civilian prosecution for criminal acts committed in war
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June 19, 2008
The Dems and their Lumpy Obama BedPolitics makes strange bedfellows. And when you try to straighten the sheets afterward, stubborn telltale lumps remain.
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June 9, 2008
Obama, Black Liberation Theology and AntisemitismWhen I read the Black Liberation Theology books of James H. Cone, I saw a subtly disguised, resentful kind of antisemitism which I had never encountered before.
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June 5, 2008
Obama, Black Liberation Theology and Karl MarxFrom the outset of his campaign, Barack Obama has declared himself to be a Christian. But the Black Liberation Theology he discovered at Trinity United differs from conventional Christianity.
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May 28, 2008
Obama, Black Liberation Theology, and Karl MarxBarack Obama proclaims his Christianity, but what kind of Christianity is it? Words matter, but they can mean different things to different people.
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May 21, 2008
Barry honey, can we talk?Senator Obama, I think it might be time for you to do a bit of adjustment on that attitude of yours. Time to ditch some of that peevish audacity and pick up an ounce of humility.
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May 15, 2008
Summer Soldiers by Any Other Name: Act IIAmerican patriots should have known better, I suppose, than to think that the Winter Soldiers would have enough pride not to show their faces in public again after their March tomfoolery in Detroit.
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May 9, 2008
Our Ferocious Home-Front Warrior: Melanie MorganNo war can be won without a lot of behind-the-scenes home-front help. Of course, there's home-front help, and then there's home-front battle.
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May 8, 2008
My Female Pride in Hillary Is EmergingBefore I finish writing this, I may be running for the Pepto Bismol. That's not a joke.
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May 6, 2008
Hamas Needs Shrinks Without BordersThe homicidal maniacs of Hamas outdid even their most deranged Islamic brethren by putting out a film claiming that the Jews secretly planned and carried out 6 million deaths of their own people.
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May 2, 2008
It's Obama's Character, StupidI picked up a copy of Time magazine yesterday, in which a columnist declared that issues of "character" were a "distraction" in the Presidential race. What a heap of pure poppycock!
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April 3, 2008
In the Company of HeroesLast weekend, I was profoundly privileged to be in a roomful of the some of the most intelligent, reasonable and sane human beings I have ever encountered.
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March 26, 2008
War Heroes Turned Away from Public SchoolThe national organization, Vets for Freedom, is currently sponsoring a Heroes Tour of American cities. Protestors kept them out of a school in Minnesota/
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March 18, 2008
Is Obama Trying to Bamboozle Us with His Wright Denials?I thought I might have entered one of those political twilight-zone moments when I read this statement made by Obama Saturday, in response to reports on his pastor of twenty years
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March 16, 2008
Knowing Obama by the Company He Keeps"People will know you by the company you keep," my grandmother told me. "So, be very careful how you choose your friends
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March 13, 2008
Summer Soldiers by Any Other NameThe so-called Winter Soldier testimonies of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans start today in Washington, D.C. We now know a great deal about the original Winter Soldiers, who were the first Americans to try this aid-and-abet-the-enemy scheme on such a large scale
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March 11, 2008
Women Voters and the Obama CrushEverywhere Obama goes, before he even opens his mouth, Democrat women fall all over themselves in awe. They chant. They swoon. They have fallen to the Obama crush.
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March 7, 2008
Hillary Hardball vs. Barack Softball: Is there a Genuine Difference?Call it a hunch or woman's intuition, but I have a strong sense that in the weeks ahead, the American electorate is going to be bombarded with Hillary bashing from the liberal pundit class.
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February 29, 2008
Military Recruiters Necessary for our Common DefenseProviding for the common defense and securing the blessings of liberty aren't little governmental after-thoughts, nor do they come cheap.
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February 27, 2008
George Soros and the Alchemy of 'Regime Change'What does a very aged multi-billionaire do after he spends $25 million dollars to force a presidential election his way, and still falls flat on his face?
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February 22, 2008
Barack and Michelle Keeping the FaithI'm not buying the Obama campaign spin on Michelle Obama's patriotic faux pas this week, any more than I'm inclined to believe that Barack Obama's refusal to wear our flag pin in his lapel is a meaningless gesture.
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February 20, 2008
Operation Gratitude in IraqOperation Gratitude, which has sent 300,000 care packages to our troops serving in harm's way, started because one American mom decided that she could not sit idly by in her safe, comfortable home doing nothing while our young men and women willingly left safety and comfort behind to fight for the rest of us.
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February 15, 2008
Berkeley at the First Amendment BrinkAs a Southerner, I have watched the Berkeley vs. U.S. Marines brouhaha with a very keen interest. I'm not all that sure those people in Berkeley know what can happen to people who decide to mess around with the United States government.
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February 11, 2008
Obama's Politics of Collective RedemptionA messianic fever grips a segment of the American populace and media. A great leader seems to them poised to redeem our collective sins and change nearly everything, bringing about a new era in which permanent solutions are found to age-old conditions.
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February 4, 2008
Time for Republicans to Get a GripIt's one thing when your political adversaries denounce your Party and hold a gleeful funeral procession with your ashes on public display. It's another thing altogether when your own luminaries dance to the opponent's fight song
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January 28, 2008
Who's Afraid of John McCain?When the New York Times endorsed John McCain last week, the conservative blogosphere was quickly abuzz with the obvious harm the left-wing newspaper would do to McCain's chances.
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January 24, 2008
Hillary and Bill Use Alinsky Tactics To Bring Down ObamaObama was up; now he's down. Even though Obama seems to be harnessing the South Carolina black vote that will give him that state's delegates, he has been feeling the brunt of the Clintons' mastery of the tactic of polarization, taught decades ago to Hillary by Saul Alinsky.
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January 22, 2008
Saving the Trees and Killing the ChildrenToday markes the 35th anniversary of a Supreme Court decision that changed America.
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January 21, 2008
War? What War?A pertinent question for 2008 might be: How many 9/11's does it take to wake a sleeping giant and keep him alert at the helm?
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January 17, 2008
Obama, Hillary and Alinsky's TacticsThe emergence of a racial tinge to the Democratic Party nomination fight was all but inevitable, given both Hillary Clinton's and Barack Obama's training as disciples of Saul Alinsky.
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January 10, 2008
Do You Believe in Magic?Do you believe in magic? I don't either, but there are few among us who wouldn't agree that Barack Obama's meteoric political rise this year has seemed downright magical.
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January 8, 2008
Obama's Alinsky JujitsuAs she copes with falling behind Barack Obama in every major poll, I suspect it must bother Hillary that he also appears to have mastered the playbook used by her own political teacher, the legendary amoral guru of left wing activism, Saul Alinksy.
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January 1, 2008
Dreaming of a United-We-Stand America in 2008With the assassination of Benazir Bhutto last week, we in America are jolted back to the reality that we are a world at war with IslamoFascist armies.
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December 27, 2007
Top Advisor's Role Needs ClarificationThe candidate's top advisor has an ethically dubious past. Don't we deserve to know what his role would be if the candidate wins?
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December 25, 2007
Rejoice! America's Love for Troops Cannot be Blocked by the MSM'Tis the season to be jolly and joyful, and one of my greatest personal joys this year has been corresponding with some of our soldiers on the front lines of America's defenses in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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December 22, 2007
Hillary's Socialist-Santa Routine and Huckabee's Christmas KidnapAs we say Down South, whenever you encounter one of these slick deceivers, who appear a great deal nicer or different than their actions demonstrate, you need to keep a close guard on both your wallet and your knife
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December 21, 2007
Whose Christmas Is It Anyway?Here we go again. Even before the Thanksgiving turkey made it through the leftover cycle, the now-annual, national Christmas squabble began.
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December 19, 2007
Aw Shucks-a-bee, Why Not Huckabee?Aw shucks, I like this guy, Huckabee. He's a smooth talker, he is. Why, he could charm the hide right off an ornery gator at a hundred yards and be wearing the genuine-hide boots by suppertime. But I'd have to be hog-tied for sure to give him my vote.
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December 14, 2007
Pro-Lifers, Gory Pictures and the First AmendmentThe Abortion War still rages. More than 45,000,000 souls lost Baby Battles since 1973. Occasionally a battle involves not only one baby, but the whole of the unborn class of humanity.
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December 5, 2007
Death Before BurkasThe ultimate oppression of our age, no matter how one cares to cut it, slice it, dice it, whatever, is hands-down the subjugation of females - from birth to the grave - in places ruled by this cockamamie Sharia law.
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December 4, 2007
Cancel Election; Let the AP decideThis morning the Associated Press and I have a major difference of opinion.
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December 4, 2007
This is priceless! Bill complains about wife's pressRight on the heels of widespread complaints from various members of the national press that they cannot get near Hillary Clinton, along comes hubby Bill to publicly gripe that reporters refuse to cover her.
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December 3, 2007
Will Hillary's Sweet Nothings Persuade America?Hillary Clinton appears to be either scared to death of the voters, disturbingly paranoid about the media's intentions, or haughty enough to believe that the Presidency is her entitlement, considering the way she treats the press.
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November 29, 2007
Who Has Betrayed Whom?When MoveOn.org ran its full-page ad defaming General Petraeus, our Commander in Iraq, in the New York Times last September, my American blood reached the boiling point.
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November 26, 2007
Have You Bashed a White Male Today?While I was a teenager and still enthralled with my own generation, the Boomers, I truly believed that we were heralding a new and better human nature.
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November 23, 2007
Hillary Gets Backing of French Ex-President's WifeBernadette Chirac, wife of the former French president, came out in support of Hillary Clinton
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November 20, 2007
Media Matters and Its NannyI've been subscribing to a few of Media Matters' daily, vital, emergency, right-wing-conspiracy alerts. So for several months now, a half-dozen Media Matters email screeds have landed in my inbox every day.
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November 17, 2007
Prominent scientist abandons embryonic stem cell researchOne of the foremost scientists in stem cell research, Prof. Iam Wilmot, the creator of Dolly the cloned sheep, has decided to completely abandon his work with embryos in favor of the more productive, and morally acceptable, adult stem cell research.
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November 12, 2007
Hollywood Writers Strike is a Golden OpportunityWhen I first heard the Hollywood writers were going on strike, my first thought was a prayer: Please God, let it be true.
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November 11, 2007
An Open Letter of Thanks to VeteransIn my opinion, our American military veterans have really gotten the public shaft for nearly 40 years. So, I'm determined to put in my two cents' worth for anyone who cares to read it.
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November 7, 2007
Hillary's gender gambit crashingOlder liberals don't seem to get it that the younger generations, the new liberals, are becoming fed up with the wailing, whatever-cards of the sixties hippies.
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November 6, 2007
Hillary's Gender SpinI never thought I would see a day when I could agree with anything coming from the pens of Maureen Dowd and Kate Michelman. But on Hillary Rodham Clinton, we all see eye to eye.
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November 2, 2007
Long Live Sarkozy!French President, Nicolas Sarkozy, may have just inadvertently fired another "shot heard around the world," declaring a male revolution against the feminization of politics and media
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October 31, 2007
If Congress Truly Wants to Help ChildrenWhile the Democrats in Congress sell socialism with the "it's for the children" ploy, I'd like to point out just a few of the things the ruling-majority Democrats could actually do to improve the lives of American children across the board.
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October 30, 2007
Republican Women Too Smart to Fall for Hillary's RuseDepending solely on his own "internal" polling, Mr. Mark Penn - Public Relations guru extraordinaire, and Hillary's campaign strategist -- says that a full 24% of Republican women will punch their ballots for Hillary
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October 26, 2007
Code Pinkos Turn RedScreaming, "War Criminal!" at our own Secretary of State, Dr. Condoleezza Rice Wednesday, Code Pink followers exchanged their lovely, subdued pink costumes for the more easily identifiable blood-red.
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October 19, 2007
Congress needs an interventionWhat in the name of heaven is going on in our Congress? I have to remind myself that I'm indeed watching the procedures of the most prestigious law-making body in the history of civilization and not one of my grandmother's renowned, fake hissy-fits
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October 13, 2007
My Opinion on Ann Coulter's Opinion of the JewsI'm no more an expert theologian than Ann Coulter is, but I have been a Christian nearly all of my life and have logged in more than 40 years of personal and formal Bible study.
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October 10, 2007
The Religious Quest of George SorosTivadar Schwartz, George Soros' father, rejected his own Judaism in youth, but found another "religion" at some point in the First World War.
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October 9, 2007
Hillary, Soros, Alinsky, and RushFor the past couple of months, I've been reading up on the Clinton/Soros connection into the wee hours of every night.
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October 5, 2007
We Need Idealism in Faith and Pragmatism in PoliticsThe way a lot of folks are getting all whipped up over the top-tier Republican candidates -- and their human frailties hung out to dry like soiled laundry -- one might be tempted to think that every great leader this Country has ever had was morally perfect.
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September 30, 2007
Sorry, Fred, I'm Sticking With RudyFrankly, there is nothing in this world that would make me happier than to cast my Republican Primary vote early next year for Fred Thompson.
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August 31, 2007
Patriots Vs. Professional DemonstratorsNobody had to pay the anti-war demonstrations of the Vietnam era. Times have changed.
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August 28, 2007
Hillary's Ironic Use of the Word 'Unscrupulous'Hillary Clinton is now pitching her multi-billion dollar bailout plan for the "victims" of "unscrupulous" mortgage brokers who act "dishonestly and try to take advantage of people".
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August 25, 2007
Iraq Anti-War Movement: A Pop Quiz for AmericansBeginning August 28, America will witness the new thrust of Anti-Iraq War Protests.
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August 11, 2007
Hillary Scares MeMost especially as a woman, I have become more and more concerned that Hillary Rodham Clinton just might be elected as the first female President of the United States
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July 12, 2007
The Free Market Cure Made Us Less SickoWhat we already have with giant HMO's and "Managed Care" companies is a dim preview of the fiasco that a single-payer system of Nannystate care would inevitably produce.
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May 21, 2007
Democrats and the SouthThe article "Democrats and Apologies" brought back memories of my own childhood in the South.
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May 12, 2007
Television: Your Entertainment BargainI read the other day that television is missing 2.5 million viewers this spring. I am positively appalled. What on earth could healthy Americans be doing with all that free time if we're not watching television?
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April 15, 2007
When Women Cry Wolf About RapeIt is time for us - especially us women -- to come down hard on the woman who cried "Wolf" and those who enabled her. They caused a whole lot more damage than the little boy in the fairytale.
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April 5, 2007
De Facto DiplomacyNancy Pelosi went to Syria, not as a private citizen, but on our payroll in her official capacity as Speaker of the United States House of Representatives
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April 3, 2007
Living-Room WarriorsI get very queasy when I consider the fact that we are urged by our media and the Democrats to fight the Iraq War using newspaper/television opinion polls for decision making.
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March 20, 2007
Disgraceful De Facto DiplomatsNo Constitutional scholar am I, but I do seem to recall from my seventh-grade civics class that responsibility for relations with foreign governments resides in the Executive Branch
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February 21, 2007
Why I - a Staunch Pro-Lifer - Am Voting for GiulianiIn most of the Presidential elections since 1973, I have been what the pollsters refer to as a "single-issue" voter in my support for vigorous pro-life candidates. But this primary, I'm voting for Guiliani
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February 18, 2007
Playground PoliticsWhen I was still young, I believed that I belonged to the best generation ever to grace Planet Earth. We were the boomers! We invented the Generation Gap
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December 25, 2006
At Peace with War (A short story)Benjamin Able awakes before dawn to the nostalgic aroma of bread baking in his mother's kitchen. His uniform hangs on the closet door, neatly pressed and waiting for him, just as he knew it would be. He smiles. Homemade bread. Pressed uniform. Ah, the comforts of home.