by Amanda Read Sheik | Apr 23, 2015 | Politics
In an interview with Marie Claire, Jaime Herrera Beutler (R-WA) recounts a congressional freshman experience that may be all too common on Capitol Hill. A committee chairman asked for her signature to co-sponsor a bill without letting her read the actual bill. Beutler...
by Amanda Read Sheik | Apr 15, 2015 | Culture, Politics, World Views
…The ordinance these cyber bullies hated to lose equated sexual orientation and gender identity with race as a protected class. The problem with creating a protected class based upon behavior is it threatens freedom of conscience for those who do not want to...
by Amanda Read Sheik | Apr 15, 2015 | Academic Freedom, Politics, World Views
Thomas Jefferson drew the line of injury at breaking his leg or picking his pocket, but today this is offensive: “I ask you to consider both sides, read the bill, talk to your friends, talk to your family, do some research and come up with your own decision concerning...
by Amanda Read Sheik | Apr 4, 2015 | Politics, THE WORD, World Views
We human beings, regardless of political persuasion, wrestle with our independence. We wrestle because we desire to be in complete control of our own destiny in the flesh, whether it be trusting our handmade individualism or trusting our man-made government to be our...
by Amanda Read Sheik | Mar 26, 2015 | Politics
We are culturally conditioned to expect more from a president than we should, and what we ask for is what we will get. Thus, if we want a president who has a constitutionally limited approach to the executive branch, we have to take a constitutionally limited approach...
by Amanda Read Sheik | Mar 23, 2015 | Culture, Politics, Style
Political correctness is an exercise in punishing the literate for the sins of the illiterate. Those who are informed are able to acknowledge that while the farthingale (“hoop skirt”) style that frequented centuries gone by reflects an impracticality that...
