Daniel Cassidy column
Daniel J. Cassidy served on the staff of Senator Herman E. Talmadge, while working his way through The Catholic University of America.
He also served as a government relations executive for industry and non-profit organizations, and was a founder and Treasurer of the American League of Lobbyists.
In 1989, he was appointed by President George H.W. Bush as Special Assistant in the U.S. Department of Education, and in 1992 joined the Executive Office of the President as Congressional Liaison for the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy.
In 1994, he became Director of Education Policy for Jersey City Mayor Bret Schundler, coordinating a statewide campaign for education reform and school choice, establishing one of New Jersey's first charter schools, and serving as President of the New Jersey Scholarship Fund.
During the administration of George W. Bush, Cassidy served as Secretary's Regional Representative for the U.S. Department of Education, promoting the policies and programs of the President and Secretary in Region II.
He has published numerous articles in newspapers and journals. Visit his blog at www.SunlitUplands.org
He also served as a government relations executive for industry and non-profit organizations, and was a founder and Treasurer of the American League of Lobbyists.
In 1989, he was appointed by President George H.W. Bush as Special Assistant in the U.S. Department of Education, and in 1992 joined the Executive Office of the President as Congressional Liaison for the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy.
In 1994, he became Director of Education Policy for Jersey City Mayor Bret Schundler, coordinating a statewide campaign for education reform and school choice, establishing one of New Jersey's first charter schools, and serving as President of the New Jersey Scholarship Fund.
During the administration of George W. Bush, Cassidy served as Secretary's Regional Representative for the U.S. Department of Education, promoting the policies and programs of the President and Secretary in Region II.
He has published numerous articles in newspapers and journals. Visit his blog at www.SunlitUplands.org
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November 16, 2015
Governor Haley, we call on you to follow the lead of the Governors of Michigan and Alabama and reverse your plans to settle Syrian "refugees" in South . . .
Daniel Cassidy
August 23, 2013
The disgraced and discredited Archbishop of Newark, John J. Myers, has lashed out like a cornered rat at his critics, the media, politicians, members of the . . .
Daniel Cassidy
March 19, 2013
Cristina Kirchner, the kleptocrat, socialist leader of Argentina, has an approval rating in that country that only Jimmy Carter might envy. She also has . . .
Daniel Cassidy
September 25, 2012
The latest Pew Survey showing Catholic support for President Obama speaks volumes about the regard in which America's Catholic bishops are held by America's . . .
Daniel Cassidy
September 14, 2012
The article below from The Sydney Morning Herald is an interesting overview of the Second Vatican Council and its aftermath.
Those of us just old enough to . . .
Daniel Cassidy
September 11, 2012
Shock, horror, outrage — Mitt Romney has betrayed the conservative cause, flip-flopped on his pledge to repeal ObamaCare, and isn't who he recently . . .
Daniel Cassidy
August 28, 2012
"Conservative pragmatism" has brought us to a conclusion that will probably shock our readers — it would be better for Barack Hussein Obama to be . . .
Daniel Cassidy
August 16, 2012
The valiant Judie Brown, founder of the American Life League and America's foremost and uncompromising champion of life, has posted an open letter to His . . .
Daniel Cassidy
August 9, 2012
In recent weeks we have read that Catholic Relief Services has given millions to organizations that fund contraception and abortion throughout the world. Now, . . .
Daniel Cassidy
July 14, 2012
It is being reported tonight that Condoleezza Rice is leading a short list of potential Vice Presidential running mates for Obama White. That the Romney . . .
Daniel Cassidy
April 17, 2012
Today is the 85th birthday of our Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI, and this week we will mark the 7th anniversary of his election to the Chair of Saint Peter. . . .
Daniel Cassidy
March 24, 2012
We just left a message for Senator Jim DeMint at his Washington Office (202-224-6121) expressing our bitter disappointment that he has joined establishment . . .
Daniel Cassidy
January 10, 2012
They were patriots who loved their country but were wearied by a government whose distant wars and foreign intrigues placed a crushing and ever-growing tax . . .
Daniel Cassidy
December 24, 2011
The corrupt socialists that head the government of Argentina must once again be facing domestic political problems. It has become routine for precarious regimes . . .
Daniel Cassidy
December 15, 2011
One month before the Republican presidential candidates will be in Myrtle Beach for an important debate, Newt Gingrich has opened a double digit lead over his . . .
Daniel Cassidy
November 29, 2011
In every Congressional election cycle, a few key races become the focus of national attention because of the power of the personalities involved, the contrast . . .
Daniel Cassidy
September 27, 2011
We received an unsolicited robo conference call tonight from Rick Perry and his South Carolina campaign organization. Like his vaccination mandate for little . . .
Daniel Cassidy
September 11, 2011
To those who accuse us of blind partisanship, we would suggest that the highest praise this blog has ever paid to an American politician was to President Harry . . .
Daniel Cassidy
August 29, 2011
Irene, the category 1 hurricane downgraded to a tropical storm, provided the country with a good glimpse of liberal, big government politicians who have long . . .
Daniel Cassidy
August 21, 2011
Here's Bank of America lobbyist James Mahoney promising Rick Perry that America's largest bank will help him out. Mr. Mahoney is a former secretary of the . . .
Daniel Cassidy
July 23, 2011
It is a sad fact that our system for picking presidential candidates has become one in which only those with burning ambition can make it through a multi-year . . .
Daniel Cassidy
June 22, 2011
Sunlit Uplands readers know that we bow to no one in our utter contempt for the Marxist who is deliberately dividing and undermining this country from the Oval . . .
Daniel Cassidy
May 19, 2011
The Catholic University of America has announced that Speaker of the House John Boehner will receive an honorary doctoral degree in law and deliver the . . .
Daniel Cassidy
February 12, 2011
It is good that European leaders are finally acknowledging that they have a civilization to defend — a civilization that has been overrun and is dying, . . .
Daniel Cassidy
December 17, 2010
Barack Hussein Obama is seen by many commentators as the most anti-British President in modern American history because he has never passed up an opportunity to . . .
Daniel Cassidy
November 23, 2010
With Republicans gaining more state legislative seats nationwide than at any time since 1928, it is easy to overlook the gain of a mere 3 state house seats in . . .
Daniel Cassidy
October 9, 2010
Of all the grassroots, freedom-loving organizations that have emerged in response to threats from statist, fascistic socialists, perhaps no group is more in . . .
Daniel Cassidy
August 30, 2010
South Carolina's Senator Jim DeMint continues to surprise even his supporters with the power of his moral suasion, his principled defense of liberty and . . .
Daniel Cassidy
June 16, 2010
It is remarkable to see all this Democrat hand-wringing over the Democrat Senate candidate in South Carolina who won with 60% of the vote. And it illuminates . . .
Daniel Cassidy
May 13, 2010
Comments made recently by Mrs. Laura Bush in support of gay marriage remind me of a school visit she made early in the administration of her husband. She asked . . .
Daniel Cassidy
March 31, 2010
"If you were of the world, the world would love its own. Yet because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.. . . .
Daniel Cassidy
March 29, 2010
As we have noted here, here, here, here, and here, the current Chairman of the Republican National Committee is not merely unqualified for the job he has been . . .
Daniel Cassidy
March 20, 2010
"You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt lose its savour, wherewith shall it be salted? It is good for nothing any more but to be cast out, and to be . . .
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