With liberals now rushing out of the woodwork to denounce American stupidity over the persistent perception that Obama is not a Christian and may indeed be a stealth Muslim, it seems a perfect time to revisit the exact nature of Obama’s Christian experience. As I wrote extensively after my own visit to Jeremiah Wright’s [...]

Filed under: American Thinker, Commentary of the Day, Culture, Election, Politics, Religion by Kyle-Anne Shiver

Honestly, I haven’t heard such caterwauling and bellyaching in this country since Jimmy Carter was president. All I’ve heard this whole summer has been a rising cacophony of complaint. In every posh place I’ve been, whether church or Wal-Mart or Home Depot or the bagel shop, whether my primary polling place or regular citizens confab, [...]

Filed under: Commentary of the Day, Culture, Election, Goverment Reform, Pajamas Media, Politics by Kyle-Anne Shiver

I wrote this piece about Obama’s politics of collective redemption in February of 2008 (published in American Thinker).  I’m seeing it as more prescient by the day.
When I wrote this piece, I had just visited Barack Obama’s church home of 20 years in Chicago, Trinity United Church of Christ, then under the leadership of  Jeremiah [...]

Filed under: American Thinker, Commentary of the Day, Culture, Election, Politics, Religion by Kyle-Anne Shiver

Perhaps never before in American history have two individuals so captured the hearts, minds and imaginations of such a wide proportion of the citizenry as have Sarah Palin and Barack Obama. Both are charismatic, charming in their own ways, in glaring stand-above-the-crowd fashion. Both have written best-selling autobiographies, which have mesmerized large swaths [...]

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

We’re at a pivotal moment in American history. Never in our lifetimes have the consequences of liberal big government been on such ubiquitous display, not only here, but everywhere we look. The socialist democracies of Western Europe stand at the precipice of complete downfall. Many of our own liberal states are facing [...]

Filed under: American Thinker, Commentary of the Day, Culture, Election, Goverment Reform, Politics by Kyle-Anne Shiver