by Amanda Read Sheik | Nov 26, 2012 | Comedy, Journal, Literary Projects, Politics, Satire, World Views
“All experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.” ~Thomas Jefferson, Declaration of Independence (1776) This past summer I...
by Amanda Read Sheik | Nov 17, 2012 | Appearances, IndiRes, Politics, World Views
Finally, an organization for conservatives that actually utilizes our limited-government, individualist philosophy in its own design. Behold my latest project with Matthew Perdie: IndiRes.com @IndiResolve on Twitter To empower individual efforts for the purpose of...
by Amanda Read Sheik | Nov 6, 2012 | Politics, World Views
The hours are ticking down to the moment when Americans decide which candidate to hire as chief executive of the U.S. government for the next four years. Take a few minutes to watch some scenes that will further inform you of the issues behind the big choice in...
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...
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...
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...