A little over a month ago, I was sitting with my daughter in a darkened theater, watching with dozens of other horror-struck Americans as, on the giant screen, a little Jewish boy, accompanied by his new friend, a German boy of about the same age, were herded naked, in shocked confusion to their [...]

Filed under: American Thinker, Culture, Morality, Politics, Religion, War by Kyle-Anne Shiver

Laura 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, which I’m quite certain, is precisely the way she planned it.
I took an instant liking to Laura Bush; I won’t deny it.  After [...]

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

Every day, for the past several months, I’ve made a habit of thanking God in my morning prayers, for the emergence of Barack Obama.  Not because my hope is in Obama.  But because my hope is always, unequivocally in God.
As so many have noted, 2008 is not an ordinary American election.
Rather than two [...]

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

Deconstruction, I’m told, is still all the rage on college campuses throughout the Land. Part of the broader movement of postmodernism which has attempted to tear down the old certainties upon which Western Culture is founded.
The academics’ pet theory of the past 30 years has touched numerous facets of our society. These thorny deconstructionists [...]

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

‘Well done, my good and faithful servant. Since you were faithful in small matters, I will give you great responsibilities.’ –The Gospel of Matthew 25:23 (New American Bible) Parable of the Talents
America is a unique country. We are the new world, not the old. We elect leaders in a reasonable step-by-step fashion, [...]

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