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The Significance of Reformation Day for the United States

by Amanda Read Sheik | Oct 31, 2012 | Dramatizing History, Luke Historians, Politics, World Views

October 31, 1517 was a forerunner to America’s Independence Day. The following scholarly excerpts can be found in Amos and Gardiner’s Never Before in History: America’s Inspired Birth, which enthralled me at the age of 14. “The American...

Strain Out a Gnat and Swallow a Camel: How Reverse Statism Endangers the Republic

by Amanda Read Sheik | Oct 31, 2012 | Politics, Satire, The Washington Times Communities, World Views

If you want to send a message to Washington, you must speak in its language. Washington only comprehends the electorate’s desires based upon the margin of victory between the winning candidate and the losing candidate from the opposing major party. If Obama...

Odd Ones Out: Why Third Parties Don’t Fit in the American Political System (Or, “A History of America’s Proudest Losers”)

by Amanda Read Sheik | Oct 24, 2012 | Politics

Even constitutional purist icon Ron Paul has not endorsed a third party candidate this election season. That should tell you a little about the dire ineffectuality of third partyism at this fiscally and morally calamitous moment in America’s history. To add...

Values Voter Summit 2012

by Amanda Read Sheik | Sep 13, 2012 | Appearances, Politics, World Views

I’m returning as a featured tweeter for the Values Voter Summit 2012. Yes, I’ll simply be commentating from my home in the hills of northeast Alabama (the internet is a wonder, isn’t it?). Here is the schedule of events I should be commentating...

Young & Conservative – The Documentary

by Amanda Read Sheik | Sep 9, 2012 | Appearances, Interviews, Politics, The Washington Times Communities, World Views

Here’s a little something I participated in with Alexander Thompson and Amanda Achtman in spare moments at Samford University, behind the scenes of America’s First Principles of Freedom Seminar hosted by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute and Alabama...
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