When the regular season of the National Football League concludes and coaches are fired and replaced, an annual tribalist ritual accompanies these activities. It involves advocates of "diversity" crying that there are too few black head coaches, and that more of them...
Joseph Kellard
Joseph Kellard is a journalist living in New York
The Corruption of the Concept Sovereignty
No more corrupt yet popular reason exists for opposing military strikes against Islamic terrorist states out to destroy America. The reasoning goes like this: these states are "sovereign" and thereby immune from preemptive attacks. "We are really appalled by any...
Thankful to Be American
Before the Berlin Wall came down, I worked at a supermarket where a regular customer, a refugee from Communist Yugoslavia, once told me, "In my old country, we were lucky to have small shops that sold some food; in America, we have supermarkets for toys." Not a...
Do you want your child to die fighting in Iraq?
"Do you want your child to die fighting in Iraq?" This type of question is one of the subtle, insidious ways by which pacifists try to undercut the war against Islamic terrorists. To understand how this is done, we must first take an honest look at our enemies....
The Guilt of Defense Attorneys
Samantha Runnion was a victim of perverse ideas. Not just the ideas that drove Alejandro Avila to kidnap, sexually assault and strangulate her, but also those that lawyers use to get defendants off who they know are guilty. One such lawyer, Alan Dershowitz, who helped...
Let’s Not Execute Capital Punishment
Every argument opposing capital punishment -- e.g., it fails to deter would-be murderers, it's administered according to racial/economic bias, it kills innocent people -- evades the fundamental basis for why state execution, when used with discretion, is just. One...
Patriots Taxed by Taxes
American companies are incorporating into Bermuda to lower their taxes. Some people suggest that this growing trend is unpatriotic. In reality, these companies are acting in the spirit of America's original patriots. The New York Times reported1 that these companies...
Sports = Life
"Athletes don't contribute anything to society," some people say. These critics also paint the love of watching sports as an "escape" from life's important issues. But, at root, sports have life-and-death implications. They can provide people the moral and emotional...
Sex and Beer Versus The Government: The Disease of Bureaucracy
Some months ago MSNBC.com reported that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimate raising the state tax on a six-pack of beer by 20 cents could reduce the nation's gonorrhea rate by almost 9 percent.1How are beer and a sexually transmitted disease...
Why Racism Persists
"Any Day Now," a weekly sitcom on cable TV's "Lifetime" channel, chronicles the lives of two woman-one black; the other white - who have renewed their childhood friendship that began in Birmingham, Alabama, during the early 1960s. The show featured a special two-hour...
George W. Bush’s Contradictory Stand on Abortion
George W. Bush holds a most contradictory stand on abortion. Earlier this decade he said: "I do not like abortions. I will do everything in my power to restrict abortions." Yet when asked if he would seek a constitutional ban on all abortions, he replied in the...
The Importance of Principles in Foreign Policy, the Economy, and Political Change
Joseph Kellard for Capitalism Magazine: What is your assessment of President Clinton's foreign policy in the Balkans? Tracinski: Well, to start with, I think his so-called victory in the recent Kosovo conflict is really an unmitigated disaster. First, we ended up...
Violence in American Schools: An Interview with Dr. Michael Hurd
Capitalism Magazine: Many people, sociologists and psychologists among them, blame the rash of shootings by kids in schools on the violence depicted in video games, movies, and TV and on the prevalence of guns in America. What do you think is the most fundamental...
The Modernists Embrace Normality
The art of Norman Rockwell is experiencing a revival in popularity, having been exhibited lately in many museums. A noteworthy cause of this revival has been the praisers of modern "art." That ilk of critics and college professors who had always regarded Rockwell as...
The Government’s Assault on Sexual Pleasure
Six woman recently file suite against the state of Alabama over a law it enacted last year regarding vibrators and other sex toys. The law states that selling or distributing "any obscene material or any device designed or marketed as useful primarily for the...
The Tragic Meltdown of the American “Melting Pot”
America was once proudly known as the "melting pot." Its inhabitants, both native and foreign, understood at least implicitly that the essence of being American was that one was free to shed certain of his characteristics, such as race, and live by his individual...
The Black Listing of Elia Kazan
When the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced it would honor director Elia Kazan with a Lifetime Achievement Award, Hollywood liberal-leftists objected. The "Committee Against Silence" (CAS), a group of former "blacklisted" writers, has planned a...
The “Sensitive” Road to Censorship
During the O.J. Simpson criminal trial, people of that court replaced saying the word "nigger"(as used by former LA police detective Mark Fuhrman) with "the 'N'-word." Last year, Merriam-Webster was asked by certain people to omit the said racial epithet from their...
A Double Standard of Hypocrisy: Feminism’s Love Affair with President Clinton
Why have certain feminists refused to demand Bill Clinton's resignation? For in his sexual affair with Monica Lewinsky, he committed an act of "sexual harassment" that these feminists eagerly apply to other violators of it, whose resignation or termination from their...
Public Education’s Escape Through ADD and Ritalin
Nearby certain Long Island public schools there are street signs that read: "Drug Free School Zone." Yet the educators of these schools are pushing a drug called Ritalin on students they diagnose with "Attention Deficit Disorder" (ADD).Regarding this issue, educators...
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