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A Choice Example: In defense of killing children

Daniel Clark — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:44:35 +0000

A Port Charlotte, Florida deputy and a pair of bystanders are now being treated as heroes, for having stopped a woman from drowning her two children in a pond. Well, where do they get off?

Nobody has the right to force a woman to raise unwanted children. The people who pulled them out of that pond had no business getting involved, unless they were willing to adopt those kids themselves. Even then, the mother has a right not to put herself through the psychological trauma of giving up her children, without knowing what would become of them. If she’d succeeded in
drowning them, then at least she would have had closure. (more…)

Ain’t VAT A Shame: A tea party told-you-so on taxes

Daniel Clark — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 10:42:48 +0000

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 ill-informed red-state troglodytes understood that they were among the 95 percent of Americans who had received a tax credit from President Obama. The protesters were characterized as not only unintelligent, but paranoid, and, as if you hadn’t guessed, racist. (more…)

Time Bandit: Obama’s shifty and cynical ciphering

Daniel Clark — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 10:48:02 +0000

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, prompting news anchors to sniff that the definition of an optimist is someone who falls from a 50-story building, and after 40 floors says, “so far, so good.” That characterization doesn’t fit Obama. He’d be more apt to push you off the building, and then bore you with a speech about how much safer a distance from the ground you are than you had been just seconds earlier. (more…)

Dukes Of Death: Title IX rules ravage Duquesne

Daniel Clark — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 12:37:27 +0000

“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 as usual.

The school, which is located in the uptown section of Pittsburgh, described the “restructuring” of its athletic department in a press release, which read in part, “Focusing on and strengthening a core group of sports will maximize our ability to compete at the highest level, enhance the student athlete experience, and better utilize existing funding.” It turns out that this “core group of sports” is comprised of ten women’s programs, but only six men’s. That’s what remains after four teams — baseball, wrestling, men’s swimming and men’s golf — were abruptly given the axe. (more…)

“O” Is No “W”: Presidential critics are worlds apart

Daniel Clark — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 10:47:55 +0000

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 they did, now that a Democrat is Commander-in-Chief. Their basic argument is that, since Democrats who disagreed with George W. Bush’s policies were called anti-American (which they seldom were), then Republicans who now criticize the way Barack Obama is conducting the war must be disloyal also. (more…)

Red Kennedys: Honoring Commies in JFK’s name

Daniel Clark — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 15:18:05 +0000

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 red pajamas. To people who have never made the effort to understand his garbled lyrics, the refrain gives the impression that it is a celebration of American patriotism, when it’s really a mockery of it. Nevertheless, the 60 year-old musician has done little to dissuade those who shower him with admiration and money based on this misunderstanding. (more…)

Useless Emitters: Greenies endanger “non-persons”

Daniel Clark — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 13:38:38 +0000

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 footprints” without cramping their lifestyles. Now, they can buy “carbon offsets” to reduce the number of feet making prints, through contraception, sterilization and abortion. (more…)

Eat Your Mush … or start resisting eco-tyranny

Daniel Clark — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 10:48:54 +0000

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 your mush.” It wasn’t true, of course. That was just a convenient bit of junk science, to help the adults hoard all the bacon and sausages with a clear conscience. (more…)

Mean Word Things: Rush isn’t the drive-bys’ only target

Daniel Clark — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 10:46:07 +0000

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 apology to their readers and viewers, however, out of concern for their own journalistic integrity. (more…)

A Little Bit Country: The Dems diminish patriotism

Daniel Clark — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 14:00:42 +0000

Throughout the Bush administration, liberal Democrats self-righteously made the fatuous pronouncement that “dissent is patriotic.” Literally, that means that any contrarian position one might take must occupy the moral high ground, regardless of the nature of that from which it dissents. Since any position may be dissented from, it must be that they consider all ideas to be equal, with the moral differences existing within the people who advocate them. In other words, liberals believe that liberalism is good, for the very reason that it is the philosophy held by liberals. (more…)