Daniel Clark's Past Articles

49 articles

Beyond Presumptuous: Assuming a BP-Lockerbie link

published: July 19, 2010

Congressional Democrats have scheduled hearings to start on July 29th, on a possible connection between British-based oil giant BP and the release of Lockerbie bomber Abdelbeset Ali Mohmed al-Megra...

Nincompassion: Lockerbie snafu weakens the West

published: July 13, 2010

Critics of the War on Terror claim that our military is "creating more terrorists" by fighting back against them, but the thing that really sustains our enemies is their belief that Weste...

Busybodies, Lazy Minds: Obama declares war on sloth

published: July 01, 2010

Just when you were probably convinced that liberal Democrats didn't believe in property rights, President Obama demonstrates that they do. The catch is that from his perspective, the property is yo...

Weighing Anger: Obama's contrived combustibility

published: June 13, 2010

Like so much of what goes on in politics these days, President Obama's recent campaign of calculated anger calls to mind The Flintstones. In one particular episode, Fred has some Swedish musicians ...

Vacancy On The Court: Liberals need no credentials

published: May 31, 2010

The flimsy resume of Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan has led pundits on both sides of the political aisle to ask whether she will become the next Harriet Miers, referring to the Bush nominee who ...

Megyn A Weak Case: Fox's Kelly defends Ginsburg

published: May 20, 2010

When Bill O'Reilly said, "I don't think Ruth Bader Ginsburg cares a whit about the Constitution," he was only stating the obvious. Maybe that's what made Fox News legal analyst Megyn Kell...

Donkey Schoen: Dems' Nazi charge gives foes ammo

published: May 09, 2010

Lacking any rational explanation for their belief that illegal aliens should be treated as pseudo-citizens, Democrats have resorted to a shallow comparison between Arizona's new immigration law and...

Freeload Riders: EU calls vacations a human rights

published: April 30, 2010

"Give me a ski weekend in the Alps, or give me death!" If Patrick Henry has any descendants in modern-day Europe, they may be saying things like that. At least if they're as daffy and pre...

Insidious Incorporation: No need to "extend" gun rights

published: April 16, 2010

In the case of McDonald v. City of Chicago, the Supreme Court is expected to "incorporate" the Second Amendment, meaning it will take a provision from the U.S. Constitution, and apply it ...

A Choice Example: In defense of killing children

published: March 11, 2010

A Port Charlotte, Florida deputy and a pair of bystanders are now being treated as heroes, for having stopped a woman from drowning her two children in a pond. Well, where do they get off? Nobody ...

Ain't VAT A Shame: A tea party told-you-so on taxes

published: February 24, 2010

During last spring's tea party demonstrations, the liberal media ridiculed the participants for naming their events after history's most famous tax revolt. Reporters wondered aloud whether those il...

Time Bandit: Obama's shifty and cynical ciphering

published: February 10, 2010

Media reports of President Obama's budget projections have called them "optimistic," but that's not quite right. You may remember that Ronald Reagan once described himself as optimistic, ...

Dukes Of Death: Title IX rules ravage Duquesne

published: January 29, 2010

"A strategic restructuring" is what Duquesne University is calling it. What it should be called is a brazenly illegal act of discrimination. Or else, you could simply call it liberalism a...

"O" Is No "W": Presidential critics are worlds apart

published: January 21, 2010

Having spent seven years doing all they could to hinder the War on Terror, liberals are now seeking absolution. Their method is to accuse their conservative counterparts of behaving the same way th...

Red Kennedys: Honoring Commies in JFK's name

published: January 07, 2010

One of the five artists honored at the Kennedy Center last month was Bruce Springsteen, whose signature tune Born in the U.S.A. describes life in America as basically being like hell without the re...

Useless Emitters

published: December 19, 2009

Good news from Copenhagen for all the global warming hypocrites out there. The National Population and Family Planning Commission of China has given them a new way to shrink their "carbon foot...

Eat Your Mush ... or start resisting eco-tyranny

published: December 01, 2009

If you grew up watching The Little Rascals, you probably remember those breakfast table scenes in which one of the grownups would say, "Meat is not good for little boys. Now be quiet and eat y...

Mean Word Things: Rush isn't the drive-bys' only target

published: November 15, 2009

Nobody would expect the liberal media to be remorseful about slandering Rush Limbaugh with racist quotes that were not only fabricated, but utterly implausible. You might think they'd offer an apol...

A Little Bit Country: The Dems diminish patriotism

published: October 26, 2009

Throughout the Bush administration, liberal Democrats self-righteously made the fatuous pronouncement that "dissent is patriotic." Literally, that means that any contrarian position one m...

G20-Baggers

published: October 06, 2009

"We're pleased we delivered a peaceful summit," says Pittsburgh mayor Luke Ravenstahl, and not without reason. After all, the protesters against the G20 Summit only smashed a couple dozen...

Dowdy Doody: Columnist puts on a puppet show

published: September 22, 2009

If you're wondering where New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd's extra sensory perception comes from, it just might run in her family. Decades ago, Ellwood P. Dowd believed he spoke to a giant, in...

Honduran Hypocrisy

published: September 01, 2009

President Obama has declared the ouster of Honduran president Manuel Zelaya to be "illegal." Exactly what he means by that is not readily apparent. The overthrow was ordered by that nati...

Sotomayorphosis

published: August 12, 2009

During her confirmation hearings, Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor described her judicial philosophy as "fidelity to the law." In a 2005 speech at Duke University, however, she said ...

Pennies From Heaven

published: August 02, 2009

If you had to explain to somebody how most politicians see the government's role in relation to the private sector, the "refundable tax credit" from President Obama's stimulus package wou...

Ginsburg Howls

published: July 16, 2009

Before any Republican senators agree to confirm another liberal Supreme Court nominee, they might pause to consider some recent remarks by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. In a July 12th interview with...