Kelly O'Connell

Easter and the American Tradition of Revival--It Can Happen Again!

On Easter, the God of spiritual redemption and revival is celebrated. Coincidentally, no single factor has been more influential in the conception and formation of America, than Christian revivals in US history. The first colonial Americans were religious dissenters and reformers.

Obama & Catastrophe as Public Policy: Marx's Revolution Cometh

Can it possibly come as a shock, given the stunning, leftist trajectory of Obama's reign -- that his current spokesman decorates his house with old USSR posters, and other communist artifacts? In fact, to the extent that Barack's staff seems to have any ideological bent, it would appear to be communism, and its heroes.

Why Liberalism is Pseudo-Religious Intellectual Poison

WHY do liberal folks never get it? Why do a million successive failures not clue them in that their ideas are failure incarnate? These geniuses refuse to amalgamate the raw data laying all around to inexorably force the conclusion that the premises of liberalism are false. Because, much like how poison works--by mimicking the good things our bodies need, but delivering death instead of life--liberalism is a faux religion, a fake ethics. Liberalism causes death.

Noah's Flood: Real History or Fable?

Battling over the biblical accuracy of the movie Noah should not distract us from discussing the larger message of this ultimate of all disaster epics. For the film's opening success reveals the enduring hunger in the West for the Bible's stories, topics of merit, and the public's understandable curiosity whether Hollywood ever shows fidelity.

Leaderless in America: US Desperately Seeks Principled Direction in a Merciless World

As if Americans needed another example of Barack's mind-numbing, feckless, apologetic, undermining, utterly damaging, sarcastic presidency, we are now informed that the president has unilaterally decided to hand over control of the Internet to a world body.

In Casablanca, Would Obama be Freedom-Fighter Rick, or the Depraved Nazi Leader

The film Casablanca is a 1940s period piece detailing a love triangle set during the darkest days of WWII, in the exotic locale of Northern Africa's Morocco. It somehow transcended its very ordinary set and props to become regarded as one of the greatest movies of all time. But why has the film made such an enduring impact?

President Pantywaist Capitulates Again in Ukraine

Obama, the Dudley Do-Wrong of world politics, has made his next tremulous and stumbling maneuver by speechifying a warning vis-à-vis Kiev, then standing down to President Putin over his Ukrainian invasion. More, it's utterly bizarre how the left in the American political spectrum refuses to either admit Barack is an astounding danger to the future of our democratic republic, or to stand up to him over his many shameful actions.

Wisdom Abandoned: American Children Thrown to the Wolves

A society cannot hope to survive without some recognition and preservation of collective wisdom. It is part of each culture's duty to the coming generation to collect wisdom. We must instruct upon the difference between success and failure, upon character and virtue, and the difference between good and evil.

Barack's Assault on Work Merely His Latest Stupid Insult Against Common Sense

The confounding statement by Obama's spokesman regarding whether Americans under ObamaCare will choose to work is nothing short of appalling and nonsensical. Certainly, of all the myriad attacks Obama has launched against Americans, this may be the most fundamental and perverse. For what kind of a person, let alone leader, tries to persuade others that work is an option?

Why Socialism is a Pseudoscience

An astounding number of current world problems are traceable directly, or indirectly, to the intellectual infection called Marxism. Just last century an incomprehensibly large number of persons were directly murdered, or indirectly caused to die as a result of applying Karl Marx's ideas.

Is Barack a Default Satanist? Yes, and Here is Why

Most people believe in some kind of God. Less believe in the existence of personified evil, or the Devil. And yet the question of this essay, whether Barack has satanic characteristics, does not really depend upon whether Satan exists. Because whether as a literal figure, or simply as a literary device, there are certain devilish qualities which are hideous and highly destructive when any personality bears them. And Barack seems to carry virtually all of these traits.

The Crazed Chairman Mao: "My Boy, Barack!"

It is probably inevitable, with his unhinged attack against China's economy, countryside and populace, that Chairman Mao Zedong would be compared with Barack Obama. Both men lacked all background or instinct for leadership. Nor did they have any apparent interest in individual human beings.

Since Liberals Demand Accountability: Can Global Warming "Experts" be Disappeared?

In like a lion, out like a lamb--or, it began with a growl, but ended with a whimper! What did? Why, Global Warming, naturally. Of course, it wasn't supposed to end like this! Midwest wind-chill temperatures could hit -70˚ tonight, as meteorologists predict the lowest readings in decades. Meanwhile, in the antarctic, pinned near glaciers, a second ice breaker must be freed by the US Coast Guard.

America's Real Crisis: The Question of Who, or What -- is our Authority

Underneath the maelstrom of America's political crisis is a question that demands an answer. The question: What is America's ultimate source of authority? Have we finally begun to evolve into humanism, as leftists claim--after centuries of ignorant, bigoted and sexist Bible fixation?

Duck Dynasty Dystopia: Pandemonium of Putrefied Political Correctness

When Phil Robertson, patriarch of the Duck Dynasty Empire, opined to Gentleman's Quarterly magazine that homosexuality was a sin, his goose was cooked. The powers that be, the elites, the croaking mandarins and the enforcers of cultural homogeneity demanded his sacrifice to the gods of the age.

Cowardice is Ruling & Ruining American Politics, Institutions & Life Itself

American history is defined by greatness borne of courage. Yet, at a time of unprecedented power and authority, both military and moral, America has entered into a strange period of apparent imminent internal collapse. This inexplicable funk, a time of testing in the desert, has no certain outcome.

Is Barack Mentally Malnourished? A Reasonable Explanation for Obama's Mind

In fact, a weird, recent phenomenon emerges from the perpetual miasma, confusion and drama composing the life and times of Barack Obama. Many strain at the question -- What drives the man? In office he has appeared arrogant and self-satisfied to a degree remarkable even for a US president. Further, he has so often seemed ignorant or obtuse to his surroundings, and of the topics presented to him.

"Barack the Incompetent"--It Has a Nice Ring, Doesn't it?!!

Historians will look back upon Obamamania with a sense of disbelief and humor, every bit as much as those studying the Tulipomania (see Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds). That Obama's powers to mesmerize, amaze and compel have dissipated is the most pedestrian observation, recalling Lord Byron's famous lines;

Three Christian Warriors Who Battled Heresy Whilst Waging War

Veteran's Day is an occasion of auspicious recognition of our heroes in uniform. While Americans have always mixed their Christian religion with the armed services, beginning with the Revolutionary War, today we are told that only pacifism is enlightened. Or we are informed that any religious person owes a duty to other citizens to keep his or her mouth shut in public. Finally, we are informed that religion in world history is only a negative and all the world's problems are caused by people of belief.

Four Legal Arguments Why ObamaCare is Bad Law & Ought be Overturned

When it became obvious on the day of ObamaCare's premier that the Internet websites did not work, some were wildly disappointed, others angry, while another group heaved a sigh of relief. The fact that the legislation may not be fully available for months, or years, gives Americans a unique opportunity to review and potentially revoke this law. So we now have a chance at congress' equivalent of a mulligan--a do over to right any obvious wrongs. So what would such bad elements be?