Author: Daniel Clark
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August 15, 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 anticipate … the convergence of not …
July 30, 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 then, reporters would try their …
July 17, 2008
During a debate this past April, Sen. Barack Obama distanced himself from Weather Underground founder William Ayers by saying, “the notion that somehow as a consequence of me knowing somebody who engaged in detestable acts 40 years ago, when I …
July 2, 2008
The handling of Barack Obama calls to mind a movie called The Harder They Fall, in which Humphrey Bogart played a boxing promoter whose client was a heavyweight named Toro Moreno. Bogey learned early on that Toro couldn’t fight his …
June 14, 2008
“You want flies with that?” This bad pun, and others like it, may soon be coming to a restaurant near you. That is, at least, if the environmental activists get their way, as they always seem to do. A …
June 1, 2008
When the Interior Department placed the polar bear on the “threatened” list, it did so on the basis of predictions from computer models. One could easily have guessed as much, since that decision could not have possibly been based on …
May 17, 2008
Sen. John KERRY: Mister Giant, you are an obscenely wealthy man. Some would even say you haven’t legitimately earned this obscene wealth of yours. How do you respond to those criticisms? Mr. Jolly Green GIANT: People have got a …
May 5, 2008
If conservatives are having trouble motivating themselves to vote this November, they might keep in mind that a Democrat victory could mean the return of Philip Coyle to the Pentagon. An inveterate missile defense skeptic, Coyle is usually presented by …
April 20, 2008
The summary of a recent Pentagon report says there was “no ’smoking gun’” connecting Saddam Hussein to al-Qaeda. One can just imagine how furiously somebody must have lobbied to have that language included, because those are the same three magical …
April 3, 2008
Like Bill Clinton before him, Barack Obama is waging a campaign of “change” — a buzzword whose meaning he’s never been forced to explain. That’s because the word itself resonates with his liberal supporters, who see virtue in the image …
April 2, 2008
When Barack Obama tried to distance himself from the anti-American ramblings of his spiritual advisor, Jeremiah Wright, he enlisted the help of not one, but eight American flags. He must have figured that, with all those banners standing behind him, …
February 20, 2008
Political campaigns are often likened to football or chess, but the way the Republicans wage them, they’re more like the game of Risk. If you grew up in a house with two or more boys in it, you’re no doubt …
February 6, 2008
In the Dr. Seuss story Green Eggs and Ham, a nosy little runt named Sam I Am stalks a man who’s done him no harm, and, for reasons never explained, incessantly demands that he eat green eggs and ham.
January 23, 2008
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has decided to postpone the construction of an American missile defense base in his country, a move that news reports have attributed to his being less pro-American than his predecessor, Jaroslaw Kaczynski. Tusk’s reason for …
January 6, 2008
As Bugs Bunny once said, “Of course you know, this means war.” Someone needs to tell that to Ron Paul, before he drives himself Looney Tunes over what he calls the “undeclared war” in Iraq. The idea that the …
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