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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...

Odd Ones Out: Why Third Parties Don’t Fit in the American Political System (Or, “A History of America’s Proudest Losers”)

by Amanda Read Sheik | Oct 24, 2012 | Politics

Even constitutional purist icon Ron Paul has not endorsed a third party candidate this election season. That should tell you a little about the dire ineffectuality of third partyism at this fiscally and morally calamitous moment in America’s history. To add...

I Never Thought I Would See The Day…

by Amanda Read Sheik | Sep 3, 2008 | Politics, World Views

…When the Evangelical Christian Conservatives sided with the Socialist Liberals.  I am in deep anguish to see it.  There are so many other things I want to write about and yet I cannot shake the dire straits of this Election from my mind.  I think I might be...

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