Daniel Clark's Past Articles

139 articles

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...

Dual-Use Dupes

published: July 06, 2009

When organized crime uses a legitimate establishment as a cover for an illegitimate one, that's what's known as a "front." That mobsters would use a front to conceal their illicit activit...

Miranda V. America

published: June 17, 2009

So now we're reading Miranda rights to captured terrorists in Afghanistan. That makes it official; it is absolutely impossible to caricature President Obama, because he'll eventually get around to ...

Less Is Morbid: Socialized medicine kills by design

published: May 31, 2009

With the possible socialization of American medicine looming, we've all heard accounts of the hardships caused by service cutbacks in countries with so-called "universal health care." Peo...

Red Zone Menace: Congress threatens the BCS

published: May 15, 2009

During congressional hearings on college football's Bowl Championship Series, Rep. Joe Barton (R, Texas) said the current system is "in my mind a little bit like Communism. You can't fix it. I...

Making A Socia-List

published: April 27, 2009

The February 16th edition of Newsweek joyously declared, "We're All Socialists Now," demonstrating that it's perfectly acceptable to acknowledge the existence of socialists, just as long ...

Uighur The World

published: April 14, 2009

After a week of speculation that 17 Uighur detainees from the Guantanamo prison might be released into the general American population, National Intelligence Director Dennis Blair took things a ste...

A Voter-Caused Disaster

published: March 25, 2009

In an interview with the German magazine Der Spiegel, Janet Napolitano, our new Secretary of Homeland Security, said that she's rejected the word "terrorism," and has instead renamed terr...

Out "O" Touch

published: March 12, 2009

Of all the problems that plagued the 1992 re-election campaign of George H.W. Bush, perhaps the most pervasive was the oft-repeated charge that he was "out of touch." This characterizatio...

Obama's Success Story, or Saving Jobs Made Easy

published: February 25, 2009

While defending his "stimulus package" during his first presidential press conference, President Obama said, "I think my initial measure of success is creating or saving 4 million jo...

The Trans-Former VP

published: February 11, 2009

While delivering a January 28th speech to the Senate about "climate change," former vice president Al Gore said something peculiar, even by his standards. "For years, our efforts to ...