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,...
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 6, 2008 | Politics, Satire, World Views
There are many fine Christians that have taken opposite sides in this Presidential Election. I have no desire to drive a wedge between myself and them because of politics, seeing that they may very well be right on other issues and valuable allies in the...
by Amanda Read Sheik | Sep 11, 2008 | Politics, World Views
As we have now entered the seventh anniversary of that day of terror, September 11, 2001, it is humbling and amazing to see how much has changed. I was an 11 year old child at the time, and last year on this very day I wrote a reminiscence of the event in full. If...
