Author Archive | Joseph Kellard

On Super Bowl Sunday, Peyton Manning of the Indianapolis Colts will once again don the same white helmet with blue horseshoes that another star quarterback wore in a championship game nearly 50 years ago. I draw this timely parallel simply to recommend a biography that matches its hype, but for reasons other than those made [...]

This column was first published in the Herald after Sept. 11, 2001. I’m reprinting it (with some minor revisions), on the eve of the fifth anniversary of that blackest day in our nation’s history, as a reminder of the fundamental nature of America and her enemies. One day as I drove down Lexington Avenue, I [...]

Israel‘s enemies are once again at war with her. Today the enemy is Hezbollah, an Iranian-sponsored terrorist organization whose stated goal is to annihilate Israel. But whether it’s Hezbollah, Hamas or the Palestinians wagging war on Israel, you are their accomplice who call these continuous conflicts a “cycle of violence,” condemns Israel for its “disproportionate” [...]

The New York Sun reports on July 13 that the Turkish government may jail a novelist because she supposedly “insulted Turkishness.” The government tried to prosecute this novelist, Elif Shafak, in June on the same outlandish Turkish criminal code that prohibits denigration of any aspect of Turkish culture. The charges were dropped after a prosecutor [...]

America is the land of the uncommon man. It is the land where man is free to develop his genius — and to get its just rewards.” ~ Ayn Rand As Independence Day nears and with immigration a hotly debated issue, I’m reminded of how an atheist from the Soviet Union taught me what it [...]

My late mother, Rita, showered lots of love on her children, and she expressed her love to me best in a lesson capsulated by the saying “Be your own person.” My individuality sprouted at age 7, when the seeds of my atheism were sown. My Catholic school teacher taught that Jesus walked on a body [...]

Dan Marino, the most productive quarterback in National Football League history, was inducted in the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio, on Sunday, August 7. The following is a letter I wrote to the football legend prior to the induction ceremony on August 2, 2005. “[T]he sight of an achievement [is] the greatest [...]

For most Americans and me, the critical issue by far in this presidential election is the threat we face from our would-be terrorist killers. But how should we vote when both President Bush and Senator Kerry appear unfit to win the war against them? While Bush has toppled two anti-American regimes in Afghanistan and Iraq, [...]

An Oceanside High School student asked Donald Trump’s deputy, George Ross, how he would feel if Donald Trump fired him. “It can’t happen,” joked Ross, the Donald’s executive vice president, senior counsel and, as millions of “Apprentice” fans know him, right-hand man. “He can’t afford the severance pay.” Ross shared many facts and opinions about [...]

They built high towns on their old log sills, Where the great, slow rivers gleamed, But with new, live rock from the savage hills I’ll build as they only dreamed. ~ from “The Westerner” by Badger Clark Since September 11, 2001, I’ve strongly maintained that the twin towers must be rebuilt. Inspiringly, architect Herbert Belton [...]