Especially since 9/11, our own generation’s Day of Infamy, our American troops have given us all they have to give. They’ve gone wherever we’ve sent them and done with honor all that we’ve asked of them. They’ve put their lives and limbs on the line every day for our Constitutional liberties and way [...]

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

It is extremely difficult for civilians to possibly understand the stress, and instant decision making demands, that are required in combat. A jury of pure civilians, judging military actions in combat, would not be truly be a “jury of peers.”- Captain Pete Hegseth, Iraq War Veteran and Executive Director, Vets for Freedom
I’ve never [...]

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

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

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

Part Two [See Part One here.]
From the outset of his campaign, Barack Obama has declared himself to be a Christian. He has appeared to be the far left’s answer to the religious right, the man who would embrace the religion of the majority rather than shy away from it, as Democrat secularists have repeatedly [...]

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