Archived Articles by Larry Kelley
A compilation of all Larry Kelley’s published articles, blog posts and opinions.
Is Sarah Palin Stupid?
Last Sunday on ABC’s This Week with George Stephanopoulos Katrina Vanden Heuval of Nation Magazine, ended one of her comments by dismissing an initiative (or it might have been someone’s statement) as being so stupid as to be “Palinesque.” Mathew Dowd followed by prefacing his remarks, “...You’re using Sarah Palin’s [...]
Ruthless Powers Will Always Rush to Fill a Power Vacuum
As this President and his party preside over the decline of our economy, the country’s ability to influence events which impact its vital interests and national security continues to wane. The utter pointlessness of the nuclear weapons talks between the five permanent powers of the UN Security Council and Iran [...]
This Administration Simply Can’t Run a Secret War
"The notion that my White House would purposely release classified national security information is offensive. It's wrong." — President Obama. With Diane Feinstein, the long-standing Democrat Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, decrying the “avalanche of leaks” which is compromising our allies, our intelligence operations and warriors, and our “assets” [...]
The Downside of the Walker Win
While everyone in the US outside of the Democrat core constituencies celebrated Scott Walker’s win in the Wisconsin recall election, there was a disturbing aspect to it. Despite the fact that Walkers reforms reversed his state’s slide into insolvency, reversing a 3 billion dollar annual deficit into a break-even revenue [...]
News from the Front: The CIA is Now an al-Qaeda Killing Machine
While most of us in the conservative commentariat have found much to appall us, as it pertains to this president’s management of national security and the war on terrorists, in order to maintain our collective credibility, it’s imperative that we give him credit when it is due. This week the [...]
War is Deceit (Part 2)
In the Islamic Hadiths which are elaborations on the Koran, the statement, “War is Deceit,” is attributed to the Prophet Mohammad by his most reliable biographer, Muhammad al Bukhari (810-870). Islam is the only major religion which venerates deceit and proudly holds it up as a central pillar of its [...]