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Just Facts: How Media Outlets Provoke Racial Strife

by Amanda Read Sheik | Oct 8, 2020 | Just Facts, Politics, World Views

Fear not: Another Look at Trump’s Pro-Life Views

Fear not: Another Look at Trump’s Pro-Life Views

by Amanda Read Sheik | Oct 9, 2016 | Politics, World Views

After Governor Mike Pence’s clear defense of the sanctity of life in the vice presidential debate, I figured it would be timely to publish this (updated) article I wrote months ago explaining Donald Trump’s views on this subject. What are we to make of...
Why I Won’t Speak Against Trump In God’s Name

Why I Won’t Speak Against Trump In God’s Name

by Amanda Read Sheik | Feb 29, 2016 | Politics, World Views

Americans were warned that not electing the 2012 Republican presidential candidate would have consequences, but probably didn’t expect the Donald Trump phenomenon to be one of them. Like begets like, but an extreme begets its opposite. Barack Obama was the anti-Bush,...

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...

War Over Women: Hilary Rosen, Ann Romney, and what American women want

by Amanda Read Sheik | Apr 20, 2012 | Politics, The Washington Times Communities

So, here’s my latest column in the Communities at The Washington Times… Rosen vs. Romney: The equality of homemakers and the relate-ability of presidential candidates Who really has a “dark ages” viewpoint of stay-at-home motherhood, and what...
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