Joseph Kellard

Joseph Kellard is a journalist living in New York. To read more of Mr. Kellard's commentary, visit his website The American Individualist at americanindividualist.blogspot.com.

“The Passion” of Howard Roark

"The Passion of the Christ," a movie that highlights Jesus' suffering and crucifixion, has met with both strong praise and heated criticism. Yet virtually no one has condemned this movie for championing the anti-life ideas fundamental to religion. By contrasting the...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

The Religious Left

The political-left properly condemns the political-right for lobbying government to force its religious values on others. However, the political left, despite that many of its proponents don't explicitly preach or practice religion (some are atheists), is itself...

Leonardo da Vinci: Renaissance Man Extraordinaire

"Many will think that they can with reason blame me, alleging -- that my proofs are contrary to the authority of certain men held in great reverence by their inexperienced judgments, not considering that my works are the issue of simple and plain experience which is...

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