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. How dare they!
My first thought was for our troops risking their lives and limbs far away from home, under the command of this distinguished Gentleman-Scholar-General, and how [...]

Filed under: American Thinker, War by Kyle-Anne Shiver

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. We were going to stamp out prejudice, discrimination, and every other foul practice in the hemisphere. No more bashing folks of color. No more negative [...]

Filed under: American Thinker, Culture by Kyle-Anne Shiver

Ever since Hillary Clinton boasted at the Yearly Kos convention this summer that Media Matters was indeed her own brainchild, I’ve been subscribing to the group’s daily, vital, emergency, vast-right-wing-conspiracy alerts. So for several months now, a half-dozen Media Matters email screeds have landed in my inbox every day on various topics, all claiming [...]

Filed under: American Thinker, Election by Kyle-Anne Shiver

When I first heard the Hollywood writers were going on strike, my first thought was a prayer: Please God, let it be true.
The roughly 12,000 members of the Writers Guild of America are loudly picketing across America in their attempt to go for America’s entertainment jugular. The last writers’ strike in 1988 [...]

Filed under: American Thinker, Culture, Family by Kyle-Anne Shiver

In 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.
Let me start by simply saying, “Thank you.” To every man and woman who preserved my liberty this year, and for [...]

Filed under: American Thinker, War by Kyle-Anne Shiver