Kyle-Anne Shiver from Creators Syndicate

That Light in the Tunnel is Still a Locomotive for 11/06/2009

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Tuesday night, when my financially-flogged, nerve-wracked husband announced the election returns, he breathed a deep sigh of relief and beamed, "It may not be much, but I finally see a light at the end of the tunnel."

To which I replied, "Yep, but it's still a locomotive." He threw a pillow at my head and switched to the ultimate fight on Spike TV.

So, down to ...

Updated: Fri Nov 06, 2009

Democrats' Health Care Scheme is Pure Insanity for 10/30/2009

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Whole industries and banks are biting the dust; unemployment lingers close to double-digits; government deficits rise like a mountain of nuclear waste; the communist Chinese are buying up our debt in anticipation of God knows what kind of future demands upon us; and more soldiers die needlessly while the president dithers with his golf game. Purely mad social engineers — Obama, Pelosi and ...

Updated: Fri Oct 30, 2009

Hating Whitey Makes Unexpected Comeback for 10/23/2009

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Here we are only nine months into the ubiquitously proclaimed "post-racial presidency," and all that promised harmony among the races has disappeared faster than a Chicago minute. All it took for addled minds to conjure shadows of racism behind every whitey tree in the whole American forest were voices raised in dissent over the president's far-left policies.

No sooner had Cong ...

Updated: Fri Oct 23, 2009

Barry Honey, Can We Talk About Afghanistan? for 10/16/2009

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

My dear Mr. President, now that you pre-emptively have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, I hope you see that it's time to go whole-shark fishing in Afghanistan or else cut bait and bring all our valiant guys and gals home. More dithering is simply not an option. There are only two ways to go here, either all in or all out. Staying in without the means to bring a just peace in the end is just ...

Updated: Fri Oct 16, 2009

The Fairy Tale that Really was for 10/09/2009

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

There once was a young man named Barry, living in the magical land of Kumbayah, aka Oz. Barry had a vision, he did. And, oh, honey, a fine, fine vision it was.

He imagined a world without nation states beating up on each other, a world that could be molded and controlled by a beneficent, newly minted committee of kings. He dreamed of being the king of kings, single-handedly making the se ...

Updated: Fri Oct 09, 2009

Wimpy Foreign Policy Never Saved Anyone's Day for 10/02/2009

Fri, 02 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Barack Obama seems anxious to follow in the footsteps of the last century's most well-known appeasers, Chamberlain and Carter. And if our president were even half as smart as his billing has claimed, then he would know — merely judging from these two — that appeasers never win and their wimpy foreign policy never saved anyone's day. Quite the opposite, in fact.

Remembering th ...

Updated: Fri Oct 02, 2009

Sucker-Punching Voters Provokes Angry Dissent for 09/25/2009

Fri, 25 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

For the few media folks still scratching their heads in puzzled frustration over the massive displays of public discontent with Barack Obama's presidency, this one's for you. No, the discontent is not about his race, his smoking or whether he wears a helmet while riding his bike. It's not about his wife's biceps or her shorts or her fake eyelashes. It's not even about the president's vainglorio ...

Updated: Fri Sep 25, 2009

Sucker-Punching Voters Provokes Angry Dissent for 09/25/2009

Fri, 25 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Sorry, Honey, but Truth Trumps the Race Card for 09/18/2009

Fri, 18 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

It takes a bit of real grit these days for a white Southerner to talk publicly about the race card. But there are some things so egregiously off the mark that only a coward would remain silent in the face of them. So, count me in. I'm a Southerner. I'm white. And I'm about as riled as I've ever been.

It took a whole bottle of Pepto-Bismol last weekend to ease my nauseated response to Mau ...

Updated: Fri Sep 18, 2009

Eight Years and Many Still Don't Get it for 09/11/2009

Fri, 11 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Historical moments, frozen and encapsulated in each individual's memory, sometimes define whole generations. These moments spark familiar "where-were-you-when …" conversation starters that mysteriously have the power to weld otherwise quite disparate people into a cohesive voice.

My own generation had three of them before we even reached adulthood: JFK, MLK and RFK. That trio o ...

Updated: Fri Sep 11, 2009

Cap Taxes, Trade Congress for 08/12/2009

Wed, 12 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

I'm all for cap 'n trade; it's a nifty idea. Simply splendid. Positively stupendous. Brilliant beyond brilliant. I just have a different take on the whole notion. I prefer very stringent caps on taxes and spending, coupled with a 2010 trade-in of the entire U.S. Congress.

What in holy tarnation do those people think they're getting paid to do? While these Roman throwbacks attempt to save ...

Updated: Wed Aug 12, 2009

Mainstream Media's Tea Party Cognitive Dissonance for 08/11/2009

Tue, 11 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

In all my years of watching news coverage in America, I don't believe I have ever witnessed more condescending, amateurish, purely politicized reporting than what transpired among the liberal mainstream media (MSM) covering of America's Tax Day Tea Parties. The Tea Parties represented a very significant news event.

Whenever close to 300,000 middle-class Americans put their productive liv ...

Updated: Tue Aug 11, 2009

Moral Education for the New Order for 08/10/2009

Mon, 10 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

The Rasmussen folks revealed a poll wherein American young people are just about evenly divided on whether they prefer capitalism to socialism. Among our under-30 crowd, 37 percent prefer capitalism, 33 percent socialism, and 30 percent are undecided.

Sucking at the teat of the state has never looked so good, apparently. Well, this certainly helps explain Obamamania.

Tie this pure ...

Updated: Mon Aug 10, 2009

The Racism Trap Defined for 08/09/2009

Sun, 09 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

I received a number of emails vociferously attacking my character on the basis of the column I wrote for American Thinker, "The Obama We Knew, but Denied." I was called a "racist," a "race-baiter" and a "white elite."

Since I don't live in a "nation of cowards," as Attorney General Eric Holder has suggested, I generally face all such char ...

Updated: Sun Aug 09, 2009

Barry, Honey, Can We Talk about Torture? for 08/08/2009

Sat, 08 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

My dear Mr. President, I've just finished reading the formerly top-secret, classified CIA memos detailing interrogation techniques used in the aftermath of Sept. 11. And frankly, Barry, honey, I'm shocked. Positively shocked that any U.S. president would make such documents public knowledge.

As a mother, who has invested blood, sweat, tears and every last vestige of my natural hair color ...

Updated: Sat Aug 08, 2009

GOP Woes and Social Conservatives for 08/07/2009

Fri, 07 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

As the clamor grows to purge the GOP of its socially conservative stands, especially its pro-life stance, it might be wise for the prudent party hotshots to take a closer look. Despite some rather angry voices attempting to scapegoat conservative Christians as chest-thumping purists, the data on public opinion surrounding abortion suggests that the Republican Party's pro-life stance is simply n ...

Updated: Fri Aug 07, 2009