Daniel Clark's Past Articles

139 articles

Liberal Little Caesars: To the Left, the law is optional

published: July 18, 2013

No wonder liberals think conservatives are simple-minded. Here we are, still going by the book in Civics 101, while they’re busily rewriting the rules to grant themselves far greater powers ...

Forever Filibuster: Wendy Davis shows no substance

published: July 01, 2013

Not content with letting half a day’s worth of empty words fly across the floor of the Texas state senate, Wendy Davis responded to a critique from Gov. Rick Perry by going into a snit that s...

Rand Sullies Fourth: Paul's bill is just plain wrong

published: June 17, 2013

Last August, a well-meaning but misguided Spanish artist named Celia Gimenez took it upon herself to restore a mural of Jesus in her church. The tragic result was a figure that more closely resemb...

The Empty Chair II: Imagining an Eastwood-Obama sequel

published: June 01, 2013

The following is a fictitious revisiting of Clint Eastwood’s famous “empty chair” monologue, in which he poses questions to President Obama in absentia. Any similarity between th...

Blueprints For Bias: Media style guides censor the truth

published: May 17, 2013

The Associated Press has now prohibited the use of the word “Islamist” when referring to Islamic terrorists. This is the latest in a long line of changes to media style guides, through...

History Of Horrors: Gosnell trial reveals nothing new

published: May 01, 2013

Since the start of abortionist Kermit Gosnell’s trial, the leading drama queens of the pro-abortion movement have taken turns declaring, “I know ye not, old quack.” In reality, b...

O's Daddy Problem: Fathers matter, but they don't, he says

published: April 18, 2013

In a rare moment of gut-spilling from the normally aloof President Obama, he told a Chicago audience in February, “I wish I’d had a father who was around and involved.” It wasn&r...;

Buchanan At The Bat: 3 strikes on Iraq, and Pat's out

published: April 01, 2013

If this is the tenth anniversary of the invasion if Iraq, that must be why tiresome defeatists like Pat Buchanan have been filling the editorial pages with completely unjustified I-told-you-sos. F...

Truth To VAWA: Libs wink at violence against women

published: March 15, 2013

Congressional Republicans’ halfhearted resistance to the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act has been portrayed as evidence of the GOP’s “War on Women” –...

(D)-nial: National debt, and other right-wing fantasies

published: March 01, 2013

During last year’s campaign, President Obama assured David Letterman that the national debt is not a problem in the short-term. In this year’s State of the Union Address, he indicated t...

Who's Minding The Military: Obama abandons his post

published: February 15, 2013

If outgoing Defense Secretary Leon Panetta’s testimony on the Benghazi attack is to be believed, President Obama abandoned his post as Commander-in-Chief, even as the lives of ambassador Chri...

Two-Bibles Barack: O's inaugural oath overkill

published: February 01, 2013

Barack said, “Let there be another Bible,” and lo, there was another Bible. But why? At President Obama’s second inauguration, he took the oath of office with his hand placed on ...

"Revenue" Redefined: Libs abuse another innocent word

published: January 18, 2013

Sometimes it seems like it would be a good idea to publish a liberal-to-English dictionary. That way, normal people would be able to understand what liberals mean when they take already existing wo...

Sleight Of Arms: Liberals' anti-gun pincer movement

published: January 01, 2013

In the aftermath of the mass murder (not “the tragedy”) in Newtown, Connecticut, we’re hearing the predictable calls for “commonsense” gun legislation. President Obama...

The Bright Side Of Hell: Obama's win has its good points

published: November 20, 2012

In the wake of President Obama’s reelection, conservatives are reacting as if America as we know it will no longer exist. And you know what? They’re right. Obama promised to “fund...

Obama's $4 Trillion Tale: The deficit is not cumulative

published: October 31, 2012

President Obama’s pamphlet, “A Plan For Jobs & Middle-Class Security,” has been laughed off as a flimsy collection of dubious boasts and campaign buzzwords, but there’s ...

Detail & The Donkey: Obama skates on specifics

published: October 16, 2012

Since Mitt Romney announced his tax plan, the media have demanded that he provide more detail. In particular, they want to know exactly which deductions he wants to eliminate while cutting the rate...

Mitt's Off: Stop conceding the character issue

published: October 01, 2012

You’ve surely heard by now that President Obama is really a nice guy. It isn’t true, of course, but you’ve surely heard it. That’s because Mitt Romney’s strategy, such...

Sandra Fluke's America: War on women, by whom?

published: September 17, 2012

At the three-day abortion festival also known as the Democratic National Convention, that party’s celebrity victim du jour, Sandra Fluke, echoed the famous “Robert Bork’s America&...

Akin To Akin: The biologically ignorant Sen. Boxer

published: August 24, 2012

By now, practically everybody has condemned Missouri Republican Senate candidate Todd Akin for his bizarre claim that a natural defense mechanism prevents women from becoming pregnant as a result o...

The Wimp Factory: Dems mass-produce wussy nominees

published: August 15, 2012

For the second time in its mercifully soon-to-end existence, Newsweek has published a cover story suggesting that a presidential nominee should be concerned about “The Wimp Factor.” The...

You Didn't Fil-A That: Chicken fight is only round one

published: August 01, 2012

Democrat mayors across America have evidently gotten the memo from party headquarters. If you own a business, it’s not nearly as much yours as you think it is. Your property only exists thank...

General Welfare Fraud: Roberts creates a tax loophole

published: July 04, 2012

It’s fitting that the Supreme Court handed down its Obamacare ruling the same week that it threw out the “stolen valor” law against falsely claiming military decorations, because ...

An MSNBC Transcript of Lincoln's Historic Speeches

published: June 26, 2012

“Four years ago our fathers proposition all men. Now we are engaged in testing whether so conceived. We are great on a resting place. It is altogether fitting that we do this. But men, living...

An Open Letter to Bottom Dollar Foods

published: June 15, 2012

When Bottom Dollar Foods arrived in Pittsburgh, it immediately became my favorite grocery store. A discount supermarket that carries name brand items in addition to its store brands, it has also go...