This limb is still pretty shaky, but I’ve decided to stay out here anyway.  And last week’s Obama grand tour has added, I think, considerable weight to my prognostication that ‘08 could well be a landslide election for John McCain.
This is not, in my mind, owing to the immense popularity of McCain, but more to [...]

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

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. 
I read that nearly [...]

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

I have come up with a brilliant-beyond-brilliant idea, hatched right in my kitchen, at the exact moment I heard more of Obama’s two-step rhetoric on Israel. 
We can get rid of those pesky Vermonters, who hate present-day America so much that they want out, and at the same time, we can secure that all-elusive peace in [...]

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

Ladies, I must sadly report that our heretofore favorite color has now been sullied beyond repair by the disgraceful traitors of the Code Pink minions.  Yes, it’s true.   Just as much as all of you, I too, wish it were not so, but all our pink has got to go.
Purging pinks from our wardrobes is [...]

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

Yes, friends, I admit it.  I am a Wal-Mart Shopper.  And believe me when I say unabashedly that I am a shopper extraordinaire.  I have loved shopping since I bought my first full ounce of chocolate-covered peanuts for 2 cents at Woolworth’s, using my own allowance.  I was five then.  I’m 57 now, and my [...]

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