Politics makes strange bedfellows. And when you try the straighten the sheets afterward, stubborn telltale lumps remain. Before highfalutin’ pomposity went mainstream in America, we provincial folks on this side of the pond — across the big water from old Europe — were down to earth and downright contemptuous of in-the-clouds intellectualism.
In former times, when [...]

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

Old Left rhetoric meets New Media networking.
Most of us are wise to the ways of admen, pollsters, speechwriters, and pundits. We know how high-flying words can be deployed in the service of cynical aims, and how the noblest sentiments can be subverted in the name of power, expedience, greed, or intolerance. - Barack Obama, The [...]

Filed under: Election, National Review by Kyle-Anne Shiver

I admit it: in certain ways I have led a very sheltered life. My circle of acquaintances may have led me astray in understanding American antisemitism.
As an American, who grew up in the two decades just after World War II, I have long had a strong repugnance for even the slightest hint of antisemitism. [...]

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

Hillary finally gave her long-demanded-by-the-Dems concession speech yesterday to a pretty raucous crowd of supporters, mostly female it seemed to my weary eyes.   Her small but stalwartly devoted family was there, Bill, Chelsea and Momma Rodham.  And, certainly, the basic rhetorical elements were there, so that most could easily conclude it was indeed a concession [...]

Filed under: Commentary of the Day by Kyle-Anne Shiver

Cavemen and the folks over at the oh-so-modern PETA have one very big thing in common.  Cavemen lacked the invention of the actual wheel; PETA folks lack its cultural equivalent.
In the case of the cavemen, the wheel was absent simply because human society had not yet developed to the fine point whereby brains overcame brawn [...]

Filed under: Commentary of the Day by Kyle-Anne Shiver