As an over-50, female Boomer, I have watched, with terrific amusement, Barack Obama’s arrogant strutting of his stuff on the campaign stump. He reminds me of a young bull, all pumped up with pride, ready to charge with lightning speed, not too sure where his target is, but fired up and ready to ram [...]

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

I woke up this morning, took at long, hard look at myself, and decided that it’s high time I came out of the closet on John McCain. I’m ready to stand front and center now, dear readers, and admit that I voted for John McCain in the 2000 Republican primary.
I had just finished reading [...]

Filed under: American Thinker, Election 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

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