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Getting the right attitude about presidential candidates

Getting the right attitude about presidential candidates

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...

Presidential Portraits: George Washington

by Amanda Read Sheik | Feb 22, 2013 | Comedy, Dramatizing History, Filmmaking, Journal, Politics

Eight years ago, my sister Rachel and I made a cassette tape about George Washington for fun (yes, this is what teenage Read girls did for fun…in the era when I made a portrait of George Washington the desktop background on our computer). We organized a...

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