I love America. Since my fourth-grade social studies class, when I first remember being exposed to the customs, mores and governments of other nations, I have never once wanted to have been born anywhere else, to have lived anywhere else or to have called anywhere else my homeland. On the occasions I’ve traveled [...]

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

From the Daily Beast today, we learn that the Ground Zero Mosque developers, who still owe more than $200,000 in back taxes, have jumped the funding shark. Evidently, those Saudi millions have failed to come through as planned and the mosque developers have applied for a federal grant to get their “cultural bridge” out [...]

Filed under: Pajamas Media, Politics, Religion, War by Kyle-Anne Shiver

With 70% of Americans standing in hardened opposition to a victory mosque being built on our national graveyard at Ground Zero, it would take a complete elitist ninny to sum this up as “Islamaphobia.” But since our elitists are indeed calling the 70% of us irrational, phobic nutcases, it would seem an awfully good time [...]

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

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, Culture, Election, Politics, Religion 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, Culture, Election, Politics, Religion by Kyle-Anne Shiver