Daniel Clark's Past Articles

52 articles

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 ...

FOCA Hocus Pocus

published: January 26, 2009

In a 1988 vice presidential debate, Dan Quayle was asked what would be the first thing he'd do if he became president. He answered, "First, I'd say a prayer for myself and for the country.&quo...

Well, Egg-Shoes Me!

published: January 10, 2009

On May 18, 2001, former president Bill Clinton was walking through the streets of Warsaw, when he was struck by an egg thrown by an anti-capitalist protestor. But then, you already knew that, from ...

'Pro'-Bull: Abortionists' indefensibility defense

published: December 23, 2008

One of the most effective ways of defending the indefensible is to use its very indefensibility as a rhetorical shield. All you have to do is to say that nobody would ever do the terrible thing you...

Apocalypse, No

published: December 02, 2008

Obviously, we're headed into challenging economic times, but can things really be as bad as the Associated Press describes them? A November 23rd AP article about a Colorado farm was so bleak that i...

Obama's Oath of Office, extended version

published: November 17, 2008

I, Barack Hussein Obama -- recognize the irony of using my middle name as a part of this oath. Throughout the campaign, I took the position that it's racist to say the name "Hussein," alt...

Sorry, Chris, You're Being Insipid

published: October 29, 2008

If you're shocked that Christopher Buckley has endorsed Barack Obama, you obviously haven't been reading his column in the National Review. It's not that he's been expressing liberal opinions in hi...

"Vice" Versa

published: October 14, 2008

If you have any doubt as to who won the vice president debate, all you have to do is look at the transcript, and ask yourself how many minutes longer Sarah Palin's political career would have laste...

Refundable-oney

published: September 30, 2008

When Barack Obama positions himself as a fiscal conservative, he's not just kidding around. He fully expects the voters to accept this characterization, as evidenced by the tax plan from his campai...

Worst Mates

published: September 17, 2008

Why is it that when Joe Biden says Hillary Clinton would make a better running mate than he does, he's suddenly presumed to know what he's talking about? Perhaps it's because he's agreeing with bot...

First-Class Demagogues

published: August 28, 2008

Once in a while, a political ad will inadvertently tell you something important about the candidate or party that ran it. Such is the case with a series of Barack Obama campaign spots, which end wi...

Barack Obama's A Series Of Fortunate Events

published: August 13, 2008

To hear Barack Obama tell it, America's success in Iraq is the result of a series of unrelated accidents. In a July 21st interview with ABC's Terry Moran, the senator explained, "I did not ant...

Saddam's Invisible Tape

published: July 27, 2008

Journalism students used to use the "Five W's and an H" (Who, What, Where, When, Why and How) as a template for composing a hard news story. The difference between then and now is that th...