by Amanda Read Sheik | Jan 10, 2010 | Politics, World Views
It’s a commonplace scenario that was repeated recently: Christian invites unbeliever to salvation. Unbelieving onlookers wag their heads and proceed to enact the contemporary equivalent of stoning or the lion’s den, whichever stamps the notion out...
by Amanda Read Sheik | Nov 16, 2009 | Latitude 821, Politics, World Views
How often have you looked at someone who passionately disagrees with everything you stand for and thought, “just look at the facts! You can’t argue with facts, if these people would just look at the truth they would have to change their minds!”? I’m discovering that...
by Amanda Read Sheik | Oct 3, 2009 | Comedy, Politics, World Views
I wonder what Thomas Jefferson would think about college students having to read his rough-draft of the Declaration of Independence. First drafts are rather embarrassing, you know. Since I am tired of “Fact Checking Muslim Demographics” being my...
by Amanda Read Sheik | Aug 25, 2009 | Latitude 821, Politics, World Views
“I’m sure we’ve all heard some variation of the fact before: the average Muslim family has 8.1 children, while the American birth rate barely reaches the bare minimum for a culture to survive beyond 25 years – 2.11 children – and that is counting the influx of Latino...
by Amanda Read Sheik | Nov 2, 2008 | Comedy, Politics, Reminiscences, World Views
As this Election comes to an end, I would like to share with readers why such political experiences so deeply affect me. I didn’t think anything of politics and government until Election 2000, when I was a 10 year old child. I didn’t really have a clue...
by Amanda Read Sheik | Oct 29, 2008 | Politics, World Views
Read the following, and please read my mother’s blog post, A Call To Prayer and visit Dutch Sheets’ website, www.dutchsheets.org. The real issue of this election is Justice: the issue of the Supreme Court. The following sheds brilliant light on the...
