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J.F. Kelly, Jr. - Contributor
J.F.
Kelly, Jr. is a retired Navy Captain and bank executive who
writes on current events and military subjects. He is a resident
of Coronado, California.
Biden Time
by J. F. Kelly, Jr. 8/28/08
The Limits of Power; the Burdens of Leadership
by J. F. Kelly, Jr. 8/20/08
Gaining from the Games
by J. F. Kelly, Jr. 8/14/08
Party Politics vs. Good Governance
by J. F. Kelly, Jr. 8/7/08
Innocents Abroad: Obama Goes Global
by J. F. Kelly, Jr. 8/1/08
Mending a Broken Border
by J. F. Kelly, Jr. 7/24/08
Defining Differences
by J. F. Kelly, Jr. 7/18/08
A Supreme Mess
by J. F. Kelly, Jr. 7/11/08
Supporting the Services
by J. F. Kelly, Jr. 7/3/08
Supreme Court v. National Security
by J. F. Kelly, Jr. 6/27/08
Poor Policies Produce Gas Pains
by J. F. Kelly, Jr. 6/18/08
Recruiting the Right Running Mate
by J. F. Kelly, Jr. 6/12/08
Sliding Toward Mediocrity
by J. F. Kelly, Jr. 6/5/08
Chaos on the Southern Frontier
by J. F. Kelly, Jr. 5/29/08
Redefining Marriage
by J. F. Kelly, Jr. 5/22/08
Demonizing Big Oil
by J. F. Kelly, Jr. 5/9/08
Peanut Diplomacy
by J. F. Kelly, Jr. 4/30/08
Clinging to Guns and God in Small-town America
by J. F. Kelly, Jr. 4/24/08
Olympic Realities
by J. F. Kelly, Jr. 4/16/08
Should Education Be Exempt from Budget Cuts
by J. F. Kelly, Jr. 4/10/08
Dueling Democrats
by J. F. Kelly, Jr. 3/28/08
How Will We Know When We’ve Won?
by J. F. Kelly, Jr. 3/27/08
Managing the Mortgage Meltdown
by J. F. Kelly, Jr. 3/20/08
Muddling Along in the Middle East
by J. F. Kelly, Jr. 3/14/08
A Losing War on Drugs
by J. F. Kelly, Jr. 3/7/08
Defining Change
by J. F. Kelly, Jr. 2/29/08
All the News that Fits Its Purpose
by J. F. Kelly, Jr. 2/26/08
Identity Issues
by J. F. Kelly, Jr. 2/14/08
Candidate McCain
by J. F. Kelly, Jr. 2/13/08
Candid Comments Concerning the Candidates
by J. F. Kelly, Jr. 2/1/08
Who Will Win the Whale Wars?
by J. F. Kelly, Jr. 1/24/08
Iranian Recklessness
by J. F. Kelly, Jr. 1/15/08
Campaign Fatigue
by J. F. Kelly, Jr. 1/9/08
Pakistan at the Precipice
by J. F. Kelly, Jr. 1/4/08
Medicine for the Masses
by J. F. Kelly, Jr. 1/3/08
National Priorities for the New Year
by J. F. Kelly, Jr. 12/27/07
Keeping Christmas
by J. F. Kelly, Jr. 12/26/07
Propping Up the Peace Process
by J. F. Kelly, Jr. 12/22/07
Your Government at Work
by J. F. Kelly, Jr. 11/30/07
Bush-bashing Bridge Players
by J. F. Kelly, Jr. 11/21/07
Defining Torture
by J. F. Kelly, Jr. 11/16/07
Judging the Catholic Church
by J. F. Kelly, Jr. 11/9/07
A Dysfunctional Government
by J. F. Kelly, Jr. 10/26/07
What Is the Plan for Iran
by J. F. Kelly, Jr. 10/23/07
Fleet Weak
by J. F. Kelly, Jr. 10/9/07
Campus Capers at Columbia
by J. F. Kelly, Jr. 10/5/07
Reforming the Ruling Class
by J. F. Kelly, Jr. 9/28/07
Inconvenient Allies
by J. F. Kelly, Jr. 9/21/07
Politicizing the Petraeus Progress Report
by J. F. Kelly, Jr. 9/14/07
Who Speaks for America
by J. F. Kelly, Jr. 8/31/07
Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Politics
by J. F. Kelly, Jr. 8/23/07
The Consequences of Mortgage Madness
by J. F. Kelly, Jr. 8/10/07
The Summer of Our Discontent
by J. F. Kelly, Jr. 8/10/07
Contempt and the Congress
by J. F. Kelly, Jr. 8/3/07
Breaking the Sound Barrier
by J. F. Kelly, Jr. 7/27/07
At War with Ourselves
by J. F. Kelly, Jr. 7/20/07
Why the Immigration Bill Failed
by J. F. Kelly, Jr. 7/13/07
The U.N. and Human Rights
by J. F. Kelly, Jr.[writer]
7/3/07
Kill This Bill
by J. F. Kelly, Jr.[writer]
6/26/07
Birth of a Terrorist State
by J. F. Kelly, Jr.[writer]
6/20/07
Extending the Missile Defense System
by J. F. Kelly, Jr.[writer]
6/14/07
Will the UN Rule the Waves
by J. F. Kelly, Jr. [writer - Coronado, CA]
6/8/07
Palestine is a State of Mind
by J. F. Kelly, Jr. [writer]
6/7/07
Another Wrong Approach to Immigration Reform
by J. F. Kelly, Jr. [writer]
5/30/07
Rewriting the Rules of War
by J. F. Kelly, Jr. [writer]
5/16/07
Mortgage Madness vs. Predatory Lending
by J. F. Kelly, Jr. [writer]
5/3/07
America’s Suicide Terrorists
by J. F. Kelly, Jr. [writer]
4/27/07
A Nation of (Legal) Immigrants
by J. F. Kelly, Jr. [writer]
4/25/07
Accelerating the Cultural Decline
by J. F. Kelly, Jr. [writer]
4/20/07
Confrontational Congress on Collision Course
by J. F. Kelly, Jr. [writer]
4/11/07
Assault on the Presidency
by J. F. Kelly, Jr. [writer]
3/30/07
General Pace and Political Correctness
by J. F. Kelly, Jr. [writer]
3/22/07
Two Sides of a City
by J. F. Kelly, Jr. [writer]
3/16/07
Bankruptcy And The Bishop
by J. F. Kelly, Jr. [writer]
3/10/07
Congress in Wonderland
by J. F. Kelly, Jr. [writer]
3/1/07
Muddled Middle East Policy
by J. F. Kelly, Jr. [writer]
2/20/07
The Consequences of Failure
by J. F. Kelly, Jr. [writer]
2/15/07
The Vanishing Fleet
by J. F. Kelly, Jr. [writer]
2/13/07
A Nation in Decline
by J. F. Kelly, Jr. [writer]
2/2/07
The Perils of the President
by J. F. Kelly, Jr. [writer]
2/1/07
Bush Bashers Behaving Badly
by J. F. Kelly, Jr. [writer]
1/17/07
No Easy Exit
by J. F. Kelly, Jr. [writer]
1/12/07
Dealing with Domestic Priorities
by J. F. Kelly, Jr. [writer]
1/10/07
Resolutions for the Ruling Classes
by J. F. Kelly, Jr. [writer]
12/27/06
The Real Reason for the Season
by J. F. Kelly, Jr. [writer]
12/18/06
Rangel Resurrects Draft Debate
by J. F. Kelly, Jr. [writer]
12/4/06
Democrats Riding To The Rescue
by J. F. Kelly, Jr. [writer]
11/28/06
Learn to Lead, or Lose Elections
by J. F. Kelly, Jr. [writer]
11/17/06
Fences Make for Fine Neighbors
by J. F. Kelly, Jr. [writer]
11/9/06
Impasse in Iraq
by J. F. Kelly, Jr. [writer]
11/1/06
Nuke-ing Non-proliferation Hopes
by J. F. Kelly, Jr. [writer]
10/20/06
San Diego’s Airport of the Future
by J. F. Kelly, Jr. [writer]
10/12/06
With Justice for All, Including Terrorists
by J. F. Kelly, Jr. [writer]
10/2/06
Staying
the Course
by J. F. Kelly, Jr. [writer]
9/20/06
Grading
the Congress
by J. F. Kelly, Jr. [writer]
9/15/06
Preparing
for the Worst
by J. F. Kelly, Jr. [writer]
9/6/06
Profiling,
Politics and Political Correctness
by J. F. Kelly, Jr. [writer]
8/31/06
Who
Won in Lebanon?
by J. F. Kelly, Jr. [writer]
8/22/06
The
Threat from Within
by J. F. Kelly, Jr. [writer]
8/15/06
Assessing
the Blame in Lebanon
by J. F. Kelly, Jr. [writer]
8/8/06
Keep
Bolton, Can Kofi
by J. F. Kelly, Jr. [writer]
8/2/06
Freedom
of the Press
by J. F. Kelly, Jr. [writer]
7/19/06
Missile
Diplomacy
by
J. F. Kelly, Jr. [writer]
7/13/06
Civil
Liberties 5, National Security 3
by
J. F. Kelly, Jr. [writer]
7/7/06
Insufficient
Outrage
by J. F. Kelly, Jr. [writer]
6/29/06
Exporting
Her People
by J. F. Kelly, Jr. [writer]
6/23/06
Election
Fatigue
by J. F. Kelly, Jr. [writer]
6/13/06
Vietnam
Syndrome
by J. F. Kelly, Jr. [writer]
6/6/06
Getting
it Wrong Again on Illegal Immigration
by J. F. Kelly, Jr. [writer]
5/23/06
The
New Meaning of War
by J. F. Kelly, Jr. [writer]
5/16/06
A
New Civil Rights Movement?
Illegal immigration is not the same thing…
[J. F. Kelly, Jr.] 4/5/06
Illegal
Immigration: A Belated Debate
Plug the holes in the dike first…
[J. F. Kelly, Jr.] 3/29/06
Airport
Search Turning Counterproductive
San Diego's snipe hunt...
[J. F. Kelly, Jr.] 3/23/06
Port
Management Paranoia
Trust it to Congress?…
[J. F. Kelly, Jr.] 3/7/06
Values
to Die For
Cartoon riots demonstrate the cultural chasm…
[J. F. Kelly, Jr.] 2/13/06
All
Threats Taken Seriously
Mahmoud Amadinejad and a nuclear Iran…
[J. F. Kelly, Jr.] 2/7/06
Middle
East Maelstrom
Hamas takes over…
[J. F. Kelly, Jr.] 2/2/06
The
War Against the War on Terrorism
Stoking the NSA wiretap flames…
[J. F. Kelly, Jr.] 1/27/06
Rewarding
Anti-government Behavior on Campus
Academic hypocrisy…
[J. F. Kelly, Jr.] 1/19/06
Advice
and Consent Dysfunction
Confirmation for Samuel Alito…
[J. F. Kelly, Jr.] 1/17/06
A
Bad Year for the Ruling Classes
What public servants?
[J. F. Kelly, Jr.] 1/6/06
Political
Priorities for the New Year
Put America before politics…
[J. F. Kelly, Jr.] 12/30/05
Curbing
Congressional Power Abuse
Let the President do his job…
[J. F. Kelly, Jr.] 12/28/05
‘Tis
the Season for Political Correctness
What happened to Christmas?…
[J. F. Kelly, Jr.] 12/15/05
Bush
on the Border
A token gesture...
[J. F. Kelly, Jr.] 12/8/05
Saving
The Snowy Plover
What about environmental protection for Marines?...
[J. F. Kelly, Jr.] 12/7/05
The
Eternal Airport Search
Study, study and more study…
[J. F. Kelly, Jr.] 11/30/05
Second
Term Syndrome
Deadly partisanship in a dangerous world…
[J. F. Kelly, Jr.] 11/4/05
Sifting
Through the Proposition Propaganda
Tune out the special interests…
[J. F. Kelly, Jr.] 10/19/05
Blame
is the Name of the Game
Battle of the clueless...
[J. F. Kelly, Jr.] 9/12/05
Another
Kind of Gulf War
Katrina...
[J. F. Kelly, Jr.] 9/7/05
Winning
Big in the Lawsuit Lottery
Who told juries to "send a message"?
[J. F. Kelly, Jr.] 9/1/05
Supporting
The Troops, But…
Demoralizing the military
[J. F. Kelly, Jr.] 8/23/05
Confrontation
in Carlsbad
Illegal immigration out of control…
[J. F. Kelly, Jr.] 8/16/05
The
Enemy Inside Europe's Borders
Clashing cultures impede assimilation...
[J. F. Kelly, Jr.] 8/10/05
Needed:
A Strong Will to Win
How do we fight a PC war on terror?...
[J. F. Kelly, Jr.] 8/2/05
Life
With China
Threats have consequences...
[J. F. Kelly, Jr.] 7/29/05
The
Public’s Right to Know
Media above the law?...
[J. F. Kelly, Jr.] 7/15/05
A
Timetable for Iraq
The Vietnam Syndrome...
[J. F. Kelly, Jr.] 7/8/05
UN
Requires More than Minor Reform
Hyde UN Reform Act..
[J. F. Kelly, Jr.] 6/23/05
Advise
and Consent, not Delay and Obstruct
The Senate grinds to a halt...
[J. F. Kelly, Jr.] 6/10/05
European
Disunity
EU confusion...
[J. F. Kelly, Jr.] 6/7/05
The
Great Stem Cell Debate
Two sides...
[J. F. Kelly, Jr.] 6/1/05
Big
Media Gets It Wrong... Again
Bias leading to sinking credibility…
[J. F. Kelly, Jr.] 5/26/05
Nightmare
On 32nd Street
The Court martial-lite of Petty Officer 3rd Class Pablo Paredes…
[J. F. Kelly, Jr.] 5/17/05
Time
Now for Action on Illegal Immigration
The border must be secured…
[J. F. Kelly, Jr.] 5/13/05
A
Fine Mess in America’s Finest City
Consistently ineffective San Diego government…
[J. F. Kelly, Jr.] 4/28/05
Assessing
Blame for Declining Verbal Skills
There’s enough to go around…
[J. F. Kelly, Jr.] 4/19/05
How
Do We Really Feel about Illegal Immigration?
The Bush administration needs political courage…
[J. F. Kelly, Jr.] 3/29/05
When
Moral Codes and Laws Collide
The Schiavo tragedy…
[J. F. Kelly, Jr.] 3/23/05
The
Right Man for the Job
John Bolton & the U.N…
[J. F. Kelly, Jr.] 3/16/05
Supreme
Folly
The growing internationalism of the SCOTUS left wing…
[J. F. Kelly, Jr.] 3/10/05
Paying
Respects to Europe
Maybe the European leaders ought to be mending the fences…
[J. F. Kelly, Jr.] 3/7/05
Not
Welcome On Campus
Anti-military academia…
[J. F. Kelly, Jr.] 2/15/05
Assault
on the Warrior Culture
The job is victory…
[J. F. Kelly, Jr.] 2/10/05
Will
Democracy Now Bloom in the Middle East?
Giving Iraqis a chance…
[J. F. Kelly, Jr.] 2/2/05
Bush’s
Global Vision
Democracy and freedom…
[J. F. Kelly, Jr.] 1/26/05
Bush
Tackles Domestic Agenda
Social Security debate…
[J. F. Kelly, Jr.] 1/21/05
The
Driver’s License: America’s ID Card
Defacto...
[J. F. Kelly, Jr.] 1/4/05
National
Priorities for the New Year
Suggestions for the Administration…
[J. F. Kelly, Jr.] 12/29/04
A
Politically Correct Holiday Season
Celebrating Christmas the Holidays…
[J. F. Kelly, Jr.] 12/17/04
Iraqi
Elections Must Not Be Postponed
Democracy must prevail…
[J. F. Kelly, Jr.] 12/10/04
Alcohol,
Sports and Violence
Who's responsible?…
[J. F. Kelly, Jr.] 12/2/04
Survival
in Combat
Trial by media…
[J. F. Kelly, Jr.] 11/30/04
One
Nation, Indivisible, But Mostly Red
Bridging the gap?…
[J. F. Kelly, Jr.] 11/19/04
Getting
Back to Business
The election is behind us... finally...
[J. F. Kelly, Jr.] 11/10/04
Living
With the Electoral College System
What did the Founders know?...
[J. F. Kelly, Jr.] 11/3/04
It’s
Still the Economy
Poll
the pocketbook...
[J. F. Kelly, Jr.] 10/29/04
Things
I Hate About Each Presidential Candidate
Choosing...
[J. F. Kelly, Jr.] 10/21/04
Getting
Out the Vote
Do the uninformed really need to go to the polls?...
[J. F. Kelly, Jr.] 10/8/04
Nets
v. Bush
Don’t Believe Everything You See on TV...
[J. F. Kelly, Jr.] 9/30/04
Has
the UN Outlived its Usefulness?
Rampant incompetence and deep set corruption...
[J. F. Kelly, Jr.] 9/23/04
Defining
and Identifying the Enemy
The
enemy has a face...
[J. F. Kelly, Jr.] 9/16/04
Wasting
a Presidential Election Campaign
Issues?
What issues?...
[J. F. Kelly, Jr.] 9/1/04
Redeploying
America’s Military Forces
A
global war, a new challenge...
[J. F. Kelly, Jr.] 8/26/04
Caught
Between Iraq and a Hard Place
Has
the US been too tolerant?...
[J. F. Kelly, Jr.] 8/20/04
Kerry’s
Qualifications for the Presidency
What
counts the most?...
[J. F. Kelly, Jr.] 8/1104
A
Continued Assault on Our Borders
The
federal government must take action...
[J. F. Kelly, Jr.] 8/6/04
The
Reagan Comes Home
USS
Ronald Reagan arrives in San Diego...
[J. F. Kelly, Jr.] 8/4/04
A
Court Without Clout
Anti-Israel
politics from the rulers of the law...
[J. F. Kelly, Jr.] 7/22/04
The
Polarization of America
The shrinking middle ground...
[J. F. Kelly, Jr.] 7/14/04
Bias
in the Media
Agenda journalism and "objective" reporting...
[J. F. Kelly, Jr.] 7/6/04
Chaos
in the Classrooms
Political correctness and the disintegration of education...
[J. F. Kelly, Jr.] 6/30/04
Code
of Wartime Conduct
..for politicians and journalists...
[J. F. Kelly, Jr.] 6/15/04
Lament
for a Leader
Restoring our pride...
[J. F. Kelly, Jr.] 6/10/04
Quandary
for Catholic Candidates
Growing conflicts between Church and State..
[J. F. Kelly, Jr.] 5/4/04
Can
the Terrorists Win?
We can't walk away from Iraq...
[J. F. Kelly, Jr.] 4/30/04
Living
With His Anti-war Past
Should John Kerry become commander-in-chief?
[J. F. Kelly, Jr.] 3/18/04
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