A Constitutional Republic No More

The deliberations of the Constitutional Convention of 1787 were held in strict secrecy. Citizens gathered outside Independence Hall in Philadelphia during the proceedings, attempting to learn what sort of government had been agreed upon behind closed doors. As he exited the Hall, a women asked Benjamin Franklin, "Well, Doctor, what have we got a republic [...]

By | 2016-10-31T10:19:28-07:00 October 27th, 2016|blogroll, News From the Front, Presidential Election, Townhall Magazine, United States of America, US History|Comments Off on A Constitutional Republic No More

The Crushing Wages of Progressivism

(First in a series on National Security and the 2016 presidential election) On the same day, September 27, 2016, nine days before the first presidential debate between Clinton and Trump, a Somali American, Dahir Adan, stabbed nine people in a Minneapolis mall and an Afghan American, Ahmad Rahami detonated a pressure-cooker bomb in the heart [...]

By | 2017-02-28T07:31:04-08:00 September 28th, 2016|blogroll, Civilization History, News From the Front, Presidential Election, Published Articles, Resurgent Islam, Townhall Magazine, United States of America|Comments Off on The Crushing Wages of Progressivism

Book Review: The Field of Fight by Lt. General Michael T. Flynn

The Field of Fight: How We Can Win the Global War Against Islam and Its Allies As we are in the final run up toward a presidential election where one of the candidates is arguably guilty of criminal malfeasance and very possibly treason, General Flynn’s new book, The Field of Fight, is an important argument for [...]

By | 2017-02-28T07:31:04-08:00 July 29th, 2016|Book Reviews, Islam, News From the Front, Presidential Election, Resurgent Islam, United States of America|Comments Off on Book Review: The Field of Fight by Lt. General Michael T. Flynn

The Flying Killer Robots and Psychological Warfare

The recent killing of the Taliban Chieftain, Mullah Akhtar Mansour, by a drone inside the Pakistan province of Baluchistan, is a striking reminder that we have entered a futuristic world where war is waged by flying killer robots and that we have witnessed a massive leap forward in the history of human conflict. Given that [...]

By | 2017-02-28T07:31:04-08:00 May 31st, 2016|blogroll, Islam, News From the Front, Presidential Election, Townhall Magazine|Comments Off on The Flying Killer Robots and Psychological Warfare

How Does the Next President Stop Losing the War on Terror

I spoke to Cliff May who is the founder and President of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies which he created immediately following 9/11. FDD today is one of the nation’s most highly regarded national security policy institutes. Kelley:  Do you agree with my assessment that we are losing the war on terror which, of course, is a misnomer? [...]

By | 2017-02-28T07:31:05-08:00 February 12th, 2016|Islam, News From the Front, Presidential Election, Published Articles, Townhall Magazine, United States of America|Comments Off on How Does the Next President Stop Losing the War on Terror

The 45th President Will Need to Employ Smarter Power

Before Obama’s election in 2008, in the halls of American academia, among the deans of international studies, the concepts of soft power versus hard power had been well-established bipolar modes of operation by which America conducted its foreign policy. For the academics, soft power was comprised of diplomacy such as the offering of mutually beneficial [...]

By | 2017-02-28T07:31:05-08:00 February 4th, 2016|News From the Front, Presidential Election, Published Articles, Townhall Magazine, United States of America|Comments Off on The 45th President Will Need to Employ Smarter Power

The Permanent Marxist Majority

Ominously, Tuesday night we found that an electoral majority can be assembled from among of the ultra rich, minorities, cultural liberals, unionized workers, the easily duped young idealists, and women, and that they can be mustered by an eloquent advocate of the compulsory society. Given this president’s dismal record over his first term, this election [...]

By | 2012-11-08T09:38:47-08:00 November 7th, 2012|Presidential Election|10 Comments

Vote 2012!!

It is widely understood that our current entitlements, Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, and the vast welfare beurocracies have already put this country on course toward insolvency and a fate similar to what Greece faces today. But the daunting thing to consider is nearly one half of American voters will vote to reelect a president which [...]

By | 2017-02-28T07:31:12-08:00 November 6th, 2012|Presidential Election|4 Comments

Obama’s War on Women

If it were not so infuriating the Obama campaign’s accusation that it is Romney who is conducting a war on women, it would be laughable for its abject hypocrisy. It recently came to light that the women on the Obama White House staff were being paid far less than their male counterparts holding comparable positions. [...]

By | 2012-10-25T16:30:37-07:00 October 25th, 2012|Islam Women, Presidential Election|4 Comments

Obama’s Candy Crowley Moment

In the just concluded Townhall debate, the most telling moment signaling Obama’s utter failure as President came during the discussion of the Benghazi attack. Obama was crashing and burning in his vein attempt to defend his own defenseless statements and those of his administration which labeled an al-Qaeda attack as a spontaneous reaction to an [...]

By | 2017-02-28T07:31:13-08:00 October 17th, 2012|Presidential Election|Comments Off on Obama’s Candy Crowley Moment