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A blog by Susan Shelley, author of "The 37th Amendment: A Novel"

If you’re following the fun in California’s 30th Congressional District race, where yours truly is a Republican candidate running against dual incumbents Brad Sherman and Howard Berman, you’ll be happy to know that the debate on Monday, April 30, at 6:00 p.m. Pacific Time, will be live-streamed on the Internet.
So whether you’re in Washington or [...]

President Obama said today the Supreme Court would be engaging in judicial activism if the justices throw out the health care reform law.
“For years we’ve heard that the biggest problem is judicial activism or a lack of judicial restraint,” the president said, “That a group of people would somehow overturn a duly constituted and passed [...]

How do you clean up corruption in government? That’s a question I’ve been asked often since entering the race for Congress in California’s 30th district last September.
There are two answers to that question. One is the old joke about politicians being like diapers — they should be changed often, and for the same reason.
The other [...]

This week, Democratic lawmakers cheerfully marked the second anniversary of the passage of the health care reform law.
Two years ago, I was so angry over it that I became personally involved in politics, volunteering for a GOP candidate for Congress as director of communications.
This year, I’m running for Congress myself. Last week, I had [...]

The shocking and sad news this morning of the death of conservative writer and activist Andrew Breitbart was a blow to everyone who loves freedom and admires courage.
Mr. Breitbart was a rare individual who was not frightened, not intimidated and not impressed by powerful Democratic Party incumbents and the powerful media elites who keep their [...]

The difference between a free country and a dictatorship is that in a dictatorship the government can do whatever it wants to do, whenever and to whomever it chooses; while in a free country, the government’s powers are limited.
The United States is a free country because the U.S. Constitution limits the power of the government. [...]

An open letter to journalists covering the Jewish Journal’s February 21 candidate forum in the 30th congressional district at Temple Judea in Tarzana:
I’d like to formally set the record straight and answer Jewish Journal publisher Rob Eshman’s continuing false statements that my campaign is not “viable,” that I haven’t or hadn’t “filed,” and that my [...]

I’ll be the guest on Christopher Maider’s radio show “The Meat & Potatoes Show,” tonight. It’s conservative talk radio in Worcester, Massachusetts, at midnight Eastern time. Tune in to 91.3 FM if you’re in or near Worcester, or listen on the Internet at www.wcuw.org. That’s midnight Eastern time, 9:00 p.m. Pacific. Tune in, it will [...]

As you know if you read America Wants to Know regularly, the writer of this blog is running for Congress in California’s 30th District, the west and south San Fernando Valley area of Los Angeles. This is the district where longtime Democratic incumbents Brad Sherman and Howard Berman are running against each other, thanks to [...]

For anyone who creates content, on a large scale or a small scale, there is nothing more frustrating than trying to get paid for it.
At one time, content creators — who used to be known as writers, actors, directors, songwriters, musicians and sometimes producers — would struggle and struggle until finally they sold something or [...]