Daniel Downs
Articles by Daniel Downs
May 08, 2008
Shulamit Aloni is one Israel's leading liberals. In a November 2007 Ha'aretz article, Aloni wrote,
"The government of Israel, with all due respect, does not represent the Jewish people but rather the citizens of the state of Israel who elected it. Israel is a sovereign state, which is still consi...
March 27, 2008
The following report is another demonstration of the ACLU's disregard for community values, democratic process, moral decency, and impressionable children. They care about only one thing forcing on America their radical and anarchical secular views.
Last spring, the Sacramento Public Library Autho...
February 05, 2008
Have you been listening to the national media´s campaign coverage? It seems ultra-liberal Hilary Clinton is now a born-again religious centrist. She now regularly uses the G— word. Her live-in personal aid I a devout Muslim. Bill also frequently heard using the G—word while stumpin...
January 23, 2008
With an approval rating of around twenty percent of Americans, House Democrats attempted but failed again to override President Bush´s veto of SCHIP. Notice the Democrats´ stealthy maneuver. While recession issues and the presidential campaign distract America, they continue to pursue their middle c...
January 22, 2008
All of the criticism about oil profiteers in the Whitehouse engenders skepticism about the ties of current presidential candidates to increasing oil profits and possibly to Saudi Arabia. Consequently, I did some googling to see what I could find. The results are not earthshaking but they are informa...
January 16, 2008
According to a Rasmussen survey conducted in July, 59% of Americans said the debates were not informative and useless. In September, only 29% of Americans told Rasmussen that the debates were informative and 56% regarded them as a waste of time. Pew Research conducted a survey in which 55% of Americ...
January 15, 2008
I asked a cow once what she thought of Ron Paul. She told me to moo-oo-ve. I was surprised by rude the response. Looking down, however, I quickly realized that I was probably standing on her lunch. So, I moved off the patch of green grass. Then, I again asked Betsy what she thought of presidential c...
December 24, 2007
In a December 19 Newsmax article, Charles R. Smith reported Santa’s was on a return trip from China when his sleigh went down somewhere in the South China Sea. As reported by officials of both the Chinese government and the North Pole, one of several Chinese military escorts was blinded by Rudolph’s...
December 21, 2007
A December 17 report by BBC News revealed two-thirds of UK citizens looked forward to spending time with family this Christmas. In the same poll conducted for the Children’s Society, 40% of respondents said they had already gone over budget on presents.
Do you remember the song Money can’t buy ...
December 17, 2007
Christmas is only 8 days away and presidential candidates want Santa Claus to bring them more campaign funds. Actually, they want Santa to bring them a guaranteed win in the primaries beginning January 3 and ending June 3. Nonetheless, presidential candidates require lots of money to advertise their...
December 13, 2007
On November 5, Senator Chuck Grassley, ranking member of the Senate Committee on Finance, wrote a letter to six media-based ministries for information regarding expenses, executive compensation, amenities given to executives, and board governance. The inquiry is part of Grassley’s long-standing inte...
November 30, 2007
Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee leads the pack of Republican presidential hopefuls, according to the latest Rasmussen Report. Rasmussen surveyed 839 Iowa caucus participants on November 26 and 27. The survey findings show 28% of Iowans favor Huckabee, 25% Romney, 12% Giuliani, 11% Thompson, and 5% s...
November 19, 2007
What is the problem with modern democracy? The United States insists on getting Israelis, Palestinians, and other interested parties to hold land for peace talks at the Annapolis Conference. President Mahmoud Abbas demands Eastern Jerusalem to be turned over to his illegitimate government while Prim...
November 05, 2007
Congress is worse than any lame duck president they would like to create. Democrats are drunk with power and intend to rip off the poor to bless the middle class with more welfare dependency. They have created a more socialist version of a conservative bill they know most Republicans and the Preside...
October 26, 2007
Democrats passed their new State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) bill yesterday. If it passes the Senate, President Bush has already promised to veto it. The following is a summary of his reasons:
"The Democrats' new legislation continues to cover children in families earning more th...
October 14, 2007
A report by Israel National News claims anti-Semitic violence has increased since Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad visited New York City. Anti-Semites painted Nazi swastika on a Columbia University bathroom walls along with a man wearing a skullcap on one of the bathroom doors. That was two day...
October 04, 2007
Since 1776, public education has been a hot topic during election campaigns. No less heated than the current round of debates over federal educational reform legislation were the debates in early American society over the need for national education. The media sensationalized the debate about the im...
September 25, 2007
President Bush declared the 24th of September as Family Day. In his September 20, 2007 proclamation, President Bush said the following:
“Families are the cornerstone of our Nation. On Family Day, we underscore our dedication to strengthening America's families and recognize the importance that th...
September 24, 2007
Pray for the peace of Jerusalem (Ps. 122:6a)
What does the peace negotiations between Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas portend for the peace of Jerusalem? According to Aaron Klein of World Net Daily, Abbas will settle for nothing less than full control over the Temple Mou...
September 12, 2007
It is hard to imagine politicians and opportunists—a capitalist term, by the way—stooping so low as to prey upon the poor in order to gain votes or make a profit. It seems immoral. At least since the Watergate scandals, Americans discovered politicians often have problems with morality. An ancient a...
August 27, 2007
As presidential campaign rhetoric spews across America’s airwaves, liberals of all stripes and special interests fault Republican’s for their zealous efforts to defend Terri Schiavo’s right to life. Even the prestigious financial publication, The Economist, got in on the act recently. The liberal sp...
August 17, 2007
Will a liberal dominated Congress cave in to public pressure also led by liberal democrats to impeachment of President Bush and his administration? Democrats have already proposed two bills of impeachment. They want the heads on both Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and Vice President Dick Cheney o...
July 28, 2007
The old saying “what a web we weave” is certainly applicable to the United Nations (UN) and NGOs like the Center for Reproductive Rights. They weave a web with all nations and peoples as their prey. More precisely, they prey on those people they intend never will have a chance to exist.
In a rece...
July 23, 2007
Are the courts filled by reprobate judges who have lost all sense of moral decency? The Economist seems to think so. In a June 28th Economist article entitled Judges Behaving Badly, the author lists a series incidents exposing the corrupt state of America’s judiciary. A former judge attempted to su...
July 15, 2007
It is important to realize that the problem of illegal aliens is one created by democrat liberal policy. When the liberal-led Congress in 1965 opened the borders to all comers, the democrat-engineered problem began. Edward Kennedy was among the members of Congress who encouraged mass immigration and...
June 27, 2007
U.S. Chamber of Commerce leaders are among those singing President Bush’s tune on immigrant amnesty. They propose an immigration reform plan propped up by four pillars.
One pillar proposes to increase border security, which echoes the twice-failed bill being debated in Washington. They want ill...
June 22, 2007
Did American voters elect congressional democrats to spend millions of dollars on contraceptives for foreign peoples? Apparently, House Democrats think they did. According to the Catholic Families and Human Rights Institute (C-Fam), US House Appropriation Committee approved a new foreign aid bill th...
June 18, 2007
Are public charter schools in Ohio filled with unregulated crooks? Xenia City Schools Supt. Jeffrey Lewis seems to think so. He recently wrote an article entitled “What to know about Ohio’s charter schools” that was re-published in Schools Matter. His argument is misleading and sometimes inaccurate....
June 06, 2007
Senator Ted Kennedy and Department of Education Secretary Margaret Spelling recently published an article The Politico. In “National epidemic, economic necessity,” they claim a national epidemic exists causing large disparities in our economy. The national epidemic they refer to is the large number ...
May 26, 2007
When it comes to education, over 82% of Americans still send their kids to public school. So why are Americans not happy with public education? Socialism may not be such a good thing, but socialism does seem to be the problem. As will be shown, secularism, an offshoot of American socialism and human...
May 09, 2007
The American Association of School Administrators (AASA) has been running a campaign called Stand Up for Public Education for a number years. The purpose of the campaign is to improve the public image of America’s secular schools. Since No Child Left Behind, public education has come under serious p...
April 30, 2007
Florida lawmakers are attempting to create a voucher program for children in foster care and for juvenile delinquents. They believe such a program will help stabilize the lives of those children so that they eventually become productive citizens. According to Stephanie Garry of The Miami Herald,
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April 20, 2007
On 18 April, the U.S. Supreme Court in Gonzales v Carhart defended the constitutionally guaranteed right to life of the partially born. In a 5-4 decision, Justice Kennedy wrote the majority opinion upholding criminal law against performing partial birth abortions. The opinion concentrated on three m...
April 17, 2007
On April 16, a storm ravaged the northeast with rain and snow causing widespread flooding, power outages, destruction of property, and even death. In response to this tragedy, the IRS announced that affected taxpayers have a two day extension to file their tax returns.
Affected states range fro...
April 13, 2007
School vouchers are at the top of the educational news charts in April. From Florida to Utah, liberals and professional educators continue waging war against parental freedom and choice. In Georgia, parents won legislation giving disabled kids the opportunity to attend private schools, according to ...
April 07, 2007
And a young child shall lead them” is an old prediction originating in the Middle East. The saying may have referred to a prophecy of an expected Messiah, but in this story it refer to two children not just one. Rachel and Kelsi Okun are not out to save the world, but they are attempting to make it ...
April 03, 2007
Virtual charter schools offer the best of all worlds. They provide a public-secular curriculum and the benefits of both private and home-schooling. They allow motivated parents full participation in their children’s education, which in turn builds stronger family relations. Because virtual charter s...
March 24, 2007
In last week’s article, pros and cons of virtual public schooling were addressed. For those not up-to-date on educational programs and terminology, this week I begin with an explanation of what a virtual charter schools is. According to the US Chamber of Commerce report Leaders and Laggards, virtua...
March 17, 2007
Are two new virtual school openings a step closer to the fulfillment of national school choice envisioned by the US Chamber of Commerce?
Last week the US Department of Education announced plans to open two new virtual charter schools in Indiana. Indiana Virtual Charter School and the Indiana Con...
March 15, 2007
As far as the IRS is concerned, the state of America is improving. The latest edition of the Statistics of Income Bulletin informs us that the final tally of 2006 income tax returns has yet to be determined. However, last years statistics are complete. The IRS claims they received 134.5 million U.S....
March 05, 2007
Last week, “Leaders and Laggards: A State-by-State Report Card on Educational Effectiveness” was published by the US Chamber of Commerce. Attempting to apply evaluation methods of quality business practice, the study evaluates state school systems based on nine separate criteria. Those criteria are ...
February 28, 2007
Ohio rural citizens are in good company with their fight against Mega-Dairy Farms. From California to Maine, citizens are rising against the continued onslaught of factory farms, mega dairies, and corporate agribusiness. Why all the stink?
The problem with factory farm operations is the ferocious...
February 21, 2007
According to a recent Middle East Media Research Institute (Memri) article, journalists inspired a debate that arose at the last Saudi national bi-annual education conference. The debate was focused on whether school curricula promotes violent extremism by teaching jihad. Saudi critics, like Abd Al-...
February 09, 2007
Criticism of the President’s 2008 fiscal budget abound. Here is a genuine bipartisan phenomenon. The democrat led Committee on the Budget called it unrealistic and bad for the poor. The conservative Cato Institutecriticizes the President for not making enough program cuts. Chris Edwards, Cato’s Dire...
February 02, 2007
President Bush raises the ire of liberals again. During his ‘State of the Nation’ speech, the President briefly mentioned his continued support for school choice programs. Many were quick to notice his intention to continue pursuing implementation of his school voucher plan. Even though it was remov...
January 29, 2007
Offshoring jobs is one of the hot issues in the current presidential campaign. Kerry blames President Bush for massive job losses. Blame game Kerry must have forgot that in 1993 he voted for those losses. In 1993, Senator Kerry voted to implement the North American Free Trade Act (NAFTA). Unlike Ker...
January 26, 2007
The fight of Meerland Dairy Agribusiness to establish another factory farm is on. So is the fight for our freedom and rights. Vreba-Hoff Corporation and the people seeking to create the Concentrated Animal Feed Operation (CAFO) claim the legal right to do so. Existing federal and state law does give...