Daniel Clark's Past Articles

81 articles

That's Why We Have a Bill of Rights, Dr. Paul

published: January 31, 2012

Do state governments have the right to legalize murder? According to Ron Paul, they do. During a January 19th debate in Charleston, South Carolina, former senator Rick Santorum charged that Congre...

Bubba Takes The Cake: At last, the Clinton Legacy

published: January 16, 2012

Former White House pastry chef Roland Mesnier likes Bill Clinton, so there's no reason he would have made up the story he told at the Katzen Center for the Arts, as cited by an article in Washingto...

O's Gun Show: Fast & Furious = Bowling for Columbine

published: December 27, 2011

At their 2004 national convention, the Democrats honored Michael Moore by seating him right next to former president Jimmy Carter. If that was outrageous, it was nothing compared to the fact that t...

We've Been Had: Reagan's words have gone unheeded

published: December 01, 2011

In Ronald Reagan's first inaugural address, he described America by saying, "We are a nation that has a government, not the other way around." Thirty years later, that doesn't exactly rin...

Sour Mash, Bitter Man: or, Hit the road, Jack Daniel's

published: November 21, 2011

If you read the label on a bottle of Jack Daniel's (not that one happens to be handy), you'll see that it's made in "Lynchburg (Pop. 361)." Perhaps this should be updated to say, "at...

The Second Man: Libs reveal their anti-truth bias

published: October 31, 2011

You can tell a liberal is trapped when he pulls out the trusty fill-in-the-blank evasion that White House press secretary Jay Carney used when discussing the "Occupy Wall Street" demonstr...

Orator Overrated: Ranking Obama's worst speeches

published: October 01, 2011

President Obama is renowned as a great orator, as he would be the first to tell you. According to Harry Reid's 2009 book, The Good Fight, the Senate majority leader praised then-Senator Obama for g...

Label Them Liberal: No Labels, no honesty, no guts

published: September 17, 2011

You might remember a Peanuts strip in which scoutmaster Snoopy tries to teach his bird scouts a lesson in survival. "If I were lost in the woods, you know what I would do? I'd open this can of...

State Of Inebriation: PA tries to hold its liquor

published: August 25, 2011

Eccentric Russian politician Vladimir Zhirinovsky once tried to win his country's presidency by promising cheap vodka, "at every corner, around the clock." Despite the populist appeal of ...

Ella's End Run: HHS decree makes you pay for abortion

published: August 11, 2011

Using one of the many powers ceded to her by the Democrats' health care law, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius declared that a broad range of "women's preventive services&q...

Starve The Swarms: or be devoured by gov't gluttony

published: July 30, 2011

Liberals often justify their disdain for our nation's founding documents by saying that the men who wrote them could not have foreseen the way things are today. Our founders needed no foresight abo...

The "Reason" Excuse: FFRF practices political religion

published: July 14, 2011

If you've been reading the papers lately, you're probably aware that the Freedom From Religion Foundation is becoming increasingly busy. The Wisconsin-based atheist organization has backed an unsuc...

Unmisrememberizing Dubya: GOP should reclaim GWB

published: June 27, 2011

In a June 21st piece at National Review Online, Rich Lowry suggests that Republicans are becoming increasingly disdainful of former president George W. Bush. He's probably right about that, and it'...

Mattel Lacks Mettle: Another victim of liberal "dialogue"

published: June 15, 2011

In September of 2000, Republican congresswoman Helen Chenoweth-Hage of Idaho attended a public hearing about wildfires at the University of Montana. It was there that a young environmentalist storm...

Tying One On: "Green Ribbon Schools" defy sobriety

published: May 30, 2011

Our federal Department of Education has got a lot to worry about, if it chooses to do so. American students now rank only 48th in math and science, according to the latest survey by the World Econo...

Petulance: Animal ethicists are just more liberal killjoys

published: May 17, 2011

"I am not an animal! I am a human being!" That John Merrick, what a bigot. Didn't he realize that by claiming superiority over other creatures, he was being speciesist? Too bad there wer...

Totalitarianism For Tots: School lunches are just a start

published: April 29, 2011

The prohibition on bagged lunches at Chicago's Little Village Academy elementary school was not the result of Michelle Obama's culinary reign of terror, as was widely assumed when it was first repo...

HRC-ing Things: Making a mountain out of Hillary

published: April 15, 2011

Now that President Obama has formally announced his candidacy for reelection, speculation has begun swirling about a possible primary challenge from Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, despite her ...

Inexact Science: Liberals' words reveal their ignorance

published: March 29, 2011

If there's ever a time that liberals are more dishonest than when they claim to defend the Constitution, it's when they pose as the embodiment of scientific integrity. Because they accuse their con...

Karljacked: Rove's attack against Palin is petty

published: March 10, 2011

If Karl Rove doesn't think Sarah Palin would make a good presidential candidate, he could have made a reasonable case for his point of view, as could be made against any other potential candidate b...

MoveOn Ron: Time to stop humoring Rep. Paul

published: February 21, 2011

During the 2008 Republican presidential primary campaign, Texas congressman Ron Paul repeatedly blamed the 9-11 attacks on America's foreign policy. So why do conservatives continue to tolerate him...

Kermit Gonsell's Guardians: Philly killer had plenty of help

published: February 11, 2011

News accounts of Philadelphia abortionist Kermit Gosnell have portrayed him as an isolated lunatic, who committed acts so heinous that nobody else in his profession could have dreamt they were happ...

Rare, As In Bloody: Abortion booms in blue states

published: January 28, 2011

As every good liberal pretends to know, the cause of high abortion rates is religious conservatives' refusal to cooperate with "family planning" advocates, toward the supposedly common go...

Wussy, Heal Thyself: Rendell's rant misses the point

published: January 08, 2011

At last, outgoing Pennsylvania governor Ed Rendell has started making sense. Too bad he's only talking about football. Upset by the postponement of the December 26th Philadelphia Eagles-Minnesota ...

Total WMD-nial: No amount of evidence is ever enough

published: December 31, 2010

The existence of Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction has been verified by many sources that liberals would normally find unimpeachable, including Saddam himself, the United Nations Monitor...