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A Call For Dr. Carson

A Call For Dr. Carson

by Amanda Read Sheik | Dec 7, 2013 | Politics, The Washington Times Communities

Dr. Benjamin Carson brings a surgeon’s hand and eye to the health care debate…read my report in The Washington Times Communities.

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...

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...

In Batman, the good guy and the rich guy are one and the same…

by Amanda Read Sheik | Jul 17, 2012 | Appearances, Comedy, Politics, The Washington Times Communities

Is Mitt Romney…Batman? He does have that super hero jaw line…   (Thanks to my sister Rachel for making the header.) UPDATE (07/19/2012): My appearance on Demetri Ravanos’ show Morning Drive will be broadcast tomorrow morning on Talk Radio 850...

“By your words you will be justified…”

by Amanda Read Sheik | Jun 30, 2012 | Comedy, Politics, Satire, The Washington Times Communities

As a writer I have always taken Jesus Christ’s admonition about words with exceptional seriousness: “But I tell you that every careless word that people speak, they shall give an accounting for it in the day of judgment. For by your words you will be...

Fun with lettuce, Noccalula, and parakeets – oh, and the Supreme Court meets Obamacare

by Amanda Read Sheik | Jun 26, 2012 | Fair Hills Farm, Journal, Politics, The Washington Times Communities

So, I’ve been on summer break from college since mid-May. What do I have to show for it? Here is a glimpse of a few things I’ve been up to. The lettuce from the garden has been bountiful and delicious. By the months of July and August, however, most of the...
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