Archived Articles by Larry Kelley
A compilation of all Larry Kelley’s published articles, blog posts and opinions.
What’s Wrong in California Can Spread to the Rest of U.S.
Jack Cashill is a national treasure. His latest book, What’s the Matter with California: Cultural Rumbles From the Golden State and Why the Rest of Us Should Be Shaking, is a highly informative and an important commentary. I recently caught up to Cashill at a speaking engagement at a gathering [...]
An ‘Infidel’ Reveals Islam’s Internal Fight
Edward Gibbon, perhaps the preeminent historian of the second millennium, in his Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, wrote that Mohammed had “no more than 17 wives: 11 enumerated and who occupied at Medina their separate apartments round the house of the apostle, and enjoyed in their turns the [...]
Iranian Discontent May Well Bring Regime Change
News coming from Iran these days runs the gamut from the specter of the terrorist/rogue state poised to acquire nuclear weapons to the hopeful defection and disappearance of one of its top military men, Gen. Ashgari. [See Defector Could Be Key to Regime Change in Iran, by [...]
NATO Winning Battle Against Terrorist Taliban in Afghanistan
About the Afghani Northern Alliance fighters and Western Military Although it is not fashionable to give President Bush any credit for successfully prosecuting the War on militant Islam, the Afghan theater is proving to be a solid model for the future where four positives for the West have emerged. One, [...]
The Iraq Surrender Report Post Mortem
Can anyone imagine Ronald Reagan appointing a blue-ribbon panel, partly comprised of his political enemies, and ordering it to produce a report that would tell him how to deal with the Soviet Union? Perhaps the most odious aspect of Iraq Study Group report was that it linked the Israeli-Palestinian conflict with [...]
Introducing ‘Good News From The Front’
An adequate working description of my new column might well be: Militant Islam vs. the West—The Good News. But now that both Iraq and Lebanon seem to be slouching toward civil war, now that schools open to Afghan girls are being attacked with savage impunity, now that Carl Levin, that [...]