by Amanda Read Sheik | Mar 17, 2015 | Politics
Amy Lutz of Young America’s Foundation writes, …Unfortunately, this appears to be a case of a university playing lip service to tolerance while members of its community promote actions that could arguably fuel intolerance. UCLA is just one of several...
by Amanda Read Sheik | Mar 17, 2015 | Politics, World Views
The journalist and Christian younger brother of the late polemical atheist Christopher Hitchens observed in an interview with Larry Taunton of Fixed Point Foundation that the appeal of “new atheist” literature and agendas is due to people (particularly the...
by Amanda Read Sheik | Jul 27, 2011 | Journal, Literary Projects, The Washington Times Communities, World Views
It has been quite awhile since I made a blog post categorized under the “Journal” label. In an effort to be professional and not fill the blogosphere with personalized, sentimental clutter that once characterized the silly blog posts of my teen years, I...
by Amanda Read Sheik | Feb 13, 2011 | Literary Projects, Politics, The Washington Times Communities
During the rather miserable halftime show of Super Bowl XLV, Will.i.am of The Black Eyed Peas ad-libbed the following message to President Obama in the middle of “Where is the Love?” lyrics: “In America we need to get things straight / Obama, let’s get...
by Amanda Read Sheik | Sep 11, 2010 | The Washington Times Communities, World Views
A disturbing aspect of James J. Lee’s case is that his quest was logical according to respected — albeit false — premises. This month began with a scare at Discovery Channel headquarters in Silver Spring, Md. Armed with a gun and explosives,...
