Kelly O'Connell

Kelly O'Connell is an author and attorney. He was born on the West Coast, raised in Las Vegas, and matriculated from the University of Oregon. After laboring for the Reformed Church in Galway, Ireland, he returned to America and attended law school in Virginia, where he earned a JD and a Master’s degree in Government. He spent a stint working as a researcher and writer of academic articles at a Miami law school, focusing on ancient law and society. He has also been employed as a university Speech & Debate professor. He then returned West and worked as an assistant district attorney. Kelly is now is a private practitioner with a small law practice in New Mexico.

Most Recent Articles by Kelly O'Connell:

Liberal Alchemy: Obama’s Attempt to Turn Government Garbage into Healthcare Gold

The Purpose of Law is to Prevent Injustice From Reigning – Bastiat

Stating the Obvious--It's Easier to Destroy than Build an Empire

Obama's Navel-Gazing Dilettantism in Foreign Policy is Eminently Misguided & Appallingly Dangerous

Before we Bomb the Daylights Out of Syria, Shouldn't we First Seek Illumination?

Americans Must Stand up to High Lawlessness, If We Are to Last as a Law & Order Nation

Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery?--Patrick Henry

The Limits of Tyranny are Measured by the Endurance of the Oppressed--Frederick Douglass

"Resistance to Tyrants is Obedience to God" - Thomas Jefferson

15 Reasons Why America Must Embrace Bible-Friendly Policy to Survive the 3rd Millennium (pt. 2)

Part 1: 15 Reasons Why America Must Embrace Bible-Friendly Policy to Survive the 3rd Millennium


"Better Ten Guilty Persons Go Free, Than One Innocent Man Suffer"--Blackstone's Ratio

Intellectual Ankle-Grabbers Drowning in Tank for Obama

If Random Choices Improve Your Outcomes, You Know You're a Failed Leader

Mindless, Progressive Automatons Have Filled America With Righteous Indignation

Only by Allowing Free Expression Can America's Rich Legacy of Liberty be Kept Alive

Will Our Political Ubermensch Ever Wake up & Sniff the Petroleum Distillate?


Were the Boston Bombers Trying to Help Create an International Caliphate?

Will the USA Come to Regret Trading Religious Tolerance for Rank Indifference?

If Religious Liberty Helped Create America's Greatness, Can We Really Survive Without it,

US Sheriffs: Preservers of the Last Vestiges of Our Separation of Powers?

Are America's Constitutional Sheriffs Liberty's Last, Best Hope?

Can the Right to Forcefully Defend One's Own Life -- Really be Canceled by Government?

Part 2: "The Struggle of the Left to Rationalize its Positions is an Intolerable Sisyphean Burden"--David Mamet

Part 1: "Liberalism is Meant to Make the Poor Richer, Not the Rich Poorer"--Jeremy Bentham

How did Ultra Progressive Dewey Become America's Patron Saint of Education?

The Death of Love Has Debased America's Greatness


If Fathers are Removed From Society, How Can Anyone Understand Authority?

Was Jesus a Libertarian? January 30, 2013
Can a Return to our Founding Principles Help Revive America?