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By Andrew Breitbart
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Friday, April 13, 2012
Righteous Indignation: Excuse Me While I Save the World! [RIGHTEOUS INDIGNATION] [Hardcover] (Unknown Binding)
By Andrew Breitbart
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Saturday, April 7, 2012
An American Son: A Memoir (Hardcover)
By Senator Marco Rubio
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Few politicians have risen to national prominence as quickly as Marco Rubio. At age forty-one he’s the subject of widespread interest and speculation. But he has never before told the full story of his unlikely journey, with all the twists and turns that made him an American son.
That journey began when his parents first left Cuba in 1956. After Fidel Castro solidified his Communist grip on power, Mario and Oria Rubio could never again return to their homeland. But they embraced their new country and taught their children to appreciate its unique opportunities. Every sacrifice they made over the years, as they worked hard at blue-collar jobs in Miami and Las Vegas, was for their children.
As a boy, Rubio spent countless hours with his grandfather, discussing history and current events. “Papa” loved being Cuban, but he also loved America for being a beacon of liberty to oppressed people around the world. As Rubio puts it, “My grandfather didn’t know America was exceptional because he read about it in a book. He lived it and saw it with his own eyes.”
Devastated after his grandfather’s death, Rubio was getting poor grades and struggled to fit in at his high school, where some classmates mocked him as “too American.” But then he buckled down for college and law school, driven by his twin passions for football and politics. He played football at a small college in Missouri, then came back to Florida to attend Santa Fe Community College and the University of Florida. He went on to earn his law degree from the University of Miami and took a job at a law firm, which paid him a handsome salary that allowed his father to retire.
As a young attorney he ran for the West Miami City Commission, a role that led to the Florida House of Representatives. In just six years he rose to Speaker of the House and became a leading advocate for free enterprise, better schools, limited government, and a fairer, simpler tax system. He found that he could connect with people across party lines while still upholding conservative values.
His U.S. Senate campaign started as an extreme long shot against Florida’s popular incumbent governor, Charlie Crist. Undaunted by the early poll numbers and the time away from his wife and kids, Rubio traveled the state with his message of empowerment and optimism. He upset Crist in both the primary and a dramatic three-way general election, after Crist quit the GOP to run as an independent.
Now Rubio speaks on the national stage about the challenges we face and the better future that’s possible if we return to our founding principles. As he puts it, “Conservatism is not about leaving people behind. Conservatism is about allowing people to catch up.”
In that vision, as in his family’s story, Rubio proves that the American Dream is still alive for those who pursue it.
Wednesday, April 4, 2012
Death on Facebook, Short Stories for the Digital Age (Kindle Edition)
By Claude Nougat
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An innovative take on storytelling: short stories for the digital age. All eight stories in this collection are recent and firmly anchored in our fast-changing, globalized world where what happens in Iraq or India feels like it has happened next door. Innovations from the Kindle to smart phones and video games have changed the way we live.
The stories can be funny or sad, even tragic, and always end with an unexpected twist. For each one, Claude Nougat gives a quick hint of what inspired her:
Death on Facebook: culture clashes or how an innocent picture posted on the world’s largest social network can have deadly consequences. (Story set in India)
The Great Hacker Heist: when virtual reality overtakes the physical world or how video games can unexpectedly disrupt normal lives. (Setting: USA)
Wickedness on Wikipedia: when an excess of information comforts prejudice and leads to irrational behavior and tragedy.(Setting: France)
Diary of a 98 year-old Lady: recounted from the point of view of a senior citizen, it records the frustrations of becoming dependent on others, especially in the digital age. (Setting: Italy, Rome)
The Prince and the Art Dealer: the excesses of Contemporary Art or a tale of gullibility.(Setting: An Arab Gulf State)
Kill Mamma: when parents’ unrealistic expectations for their children become like the walls of a prison and the only escape is murder. (Setting: Italy, Parma)
The Ice Maker: unexpected and tragic fallouts of a war when the occupying power belongs to another civilization. (Setting: Iraq)
Good-bye Melinda: studying abroad can have unwanted, lethal results. (Setting: Italy, Florence)
The book has about 20,000 words.
An innovative take on storytelling: short stories for the digital age. All eight stories in this collection are recent and firmly anchored in our fast-changing, globalized world where what happens in Iraq or India feels like it has happened next door. Innovations from the Kindle to smart phones and video games have changed the way we live.
The stories can be funny or sad, even tragic, and always end with an unexpected twist. For each one, Claude Nougat gives a quick hint of what inspired her:
Death on Facebook: culture clashes or how an innocent picture posted on the world’s largest social network can have deadly consequences. (Story set in India)
The Great Hacker Heist: when virtual reality overtakes the physical world or how video games can unexpectedly disrupt normal lives. (Setting: USA)
Wickedness on Wikipedia: when an excess of information comforts prejudice and leads to irrational behavior and tragedy.(Setting: France)
Diary of a 98 year-old Lady: recounted from the point of view of a senior citizen, it records the frustrations of becoming dependent on others, especially in the digital age. (Setting: Italy, Rome)
The Prince and the Art Dealer: the excesses of Contemporary Art or a tale of gullibility.(Setting: An Arab Gulf State)
Kill Mamma: when parents’ unrealistic expectations for their children become like the walls of a prison and the only escape is murder. (Setting: Italy, Parma)
The Ice Maker: unexpected and tragic fallouts of a war when the occupying power belongs to another civilization. (Setting: Iraq)
Good-bye Melinda: studying abroad can have unwanted, lethal results. (Setting: Italy, Florence)
The book has about 20,000 words.
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Monday, April 2, 2012
Once We Were Kings: The Decline And Fall Of The American Empire (Kindle Edition)
By Ron Taylor
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Once We Were Kings: The Decline And Fall Of The American Empire explores nine key ways federal government policies, social disorder, and a decline in moral values are destroying democracy in America and threatening your constitutional rights and freedoms. This book has been formatted for optimal use on your Amazon Kindle Reader and the various free Kindle apps.
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On a warm summer day in 1969 I sprinted barefoot in exhilaration across the Mojave Desert with my best friend, oblivious to the blistering hot sand between my toes. Neil Armstrong had just walked on the moon, and there was nothing America could not accomplish.
Like many other days in our youth we talked about America, and shared a common cultural literacy grounded in the admiration of our fore fathers, the strength of our military, our vast natural resources, and a government that for the most part left us alone in our individual pursuit of happiness and the American Dream.
It was the best of times, and as far as we were concerned, America was the greatest country the world had ever known.
We knew in our hearts that we were lucky to be born in America, but that was before the insidious powers of corruption, greed, and the loss of our moral compass eroded the foundation of this nation, and undermined the efforts of her patriots and patriarchs.
For a short time we walked the earth like kings. And while I continue to believe America is a great nation, and may in fact have her best days ahead, the die has been cast. In my opinion, we are on the verge of massive civil unrest, economic collapse, and eventually the Balkanization of “These United States” into regional nation states, trapped in mediocrity and poverty.
Once We Were Kings: The Decline And Fall Of The American Empire explores nine key ways federal government policies, social disorder, and a decline in moral values are destroying democracy in America and threatening your constitutional rights and freedoms. This book has been formatted for optimal use on your Amazon Kindle Reader and the various free Kindle apps.
From the text:
On a warm summer day in 1969 I sprinted barefoot in exhilaration across the Mojave Desert with my best friend, oblivious to the blistering hot sand between my toes. Neil Armstrong had just walked on the moon, and there was nothing America could not accomplish.
Like many other days in our youth we talked about America, and shared a common cultural literacy grounded in the admiration of our fore fathers, the strength of our military, our vast natural resources, and a government that for the most part left us alone in our individual pursuit of happiness and the American Dream.
It was the best of times, and as far as we were concerned, America was the greatest country the world had ever known.
We knew in our hearts that we were lucky to be born in America, but that was before the insidious powers of corruption, greed, and the loss of our moral compass eroded the foundation of this nation, and undermined the efforts of her patriots and patriarchs.
For a short time we walked the earth like kings. And while I continue to believe America is a great nation, and may in fact have her best days ahead, the die has been cast. In my opinion, we are on the verge of massive civil unrest, economic collapse, and eventually the Balkanization of “These United States” into regional nation states, trapped in mediocrity and poverty.
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Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Can't Is Not an Option: My American Story (Hardcover)
By Nikki Haley
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A rising star in the Republican Party shares her inspirational memoir of family, hope, and the power of the American Dream.
Decades before their daughter surprised the nation by becoming governor of South Carolina, Nikki Haley's parents had a dream. Ajit and Raj Randhawa were well-educated, well-off Sikhs in the Punjab region of India. But despite their high social status, the Randhawas wanted more for their family-the opportunities that only America could offer.
So they left behind all they had known and settled in Bamberg, South Carolina (population: 2,500). As the first Indian family in a small Southern town in the early 1970s, the Randhawas faced ignorance, prejudice, and sometimes blatant hostility. Nikki remembers stopping at a roadside produce stand with her father, who always wore his traditional Sikh turban. Within minutes, two police cars pulled to make sure they weren't thieves.
But the Randhawas taught their children that they should never think of themselves as victims. They stressed that if you work hard and stay true to yourself, you can overcome any obstacle. The key is believing that can't is not an option.
The family struggled to make ends meet while starting a clothing business in their living room, eventually growing it into a multimillion- dollar success. At age twelve, Nikki started to do the bookkeeping and taxes after school. After graduating from college and entering the business world, she watched business owners like her parents battle government bureaucracy and overregulation.
Her frustration inspired her to get into politics and run for the state legislature. That first campaign, against an entrenched incumbent, led to racial and religious slurs and threats-but Haley, like her parents, refused to back down. She won on a promise to fight for reform, lean budgets, and government accountability, which is exactly what she did-much to the dismay of South Carolina's old guard politicians.
Soon she had a reputation as a conservative leader who could get things done. In the same state where her family was once ridiculed, she inspired a diverse grassroots following. In November 2010 she was elected South Carolina's first female governor and first nonwhite governor, and only the second Indian American governor in the country.
Haley's story, as told firsthand in this inspiring memoir, is a testament to the power of determination, faith, and family. And it's proof that the American Dream is still strong and true in the twenty- first century.
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The Third Coincidence (Kindle Edition)
By David Bishop
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Headlines scream across the nation as a country in near panic pleads for the capture of the killers. With little progress, U.S. President Samuel Schroeder asks Jack McCall, a veteran of the CIA and Defense Intelligence, to head up a special multi-agency task force to find the killers. A frustrated and unhappy FBI designates, as its representative, Rachel Johnstone, an agent with whom Jack has had some personal history. The Third Coincidence unfolds amidst continued assassinations, accusations that the president is attempting to form his own secret police, and confirmation hearings for reluctant nominees to fill the vacant positions while the Supreme Court struggles to sustain a quorum. Will a terrorist group or a mad assassin succeed in destroying these revered intuitions? In the spirit of The Day of the Jackal and The Manchurian Candidate, this story is juxta-posed through the eyes of both the hunter and the hunted as the devious plot to change America hurdles forward.Headlines scream across the nation as a country in near panic pleads for the capture of the killers. With little progress, U.S. President Samuel Schroeder asks Jack McCall, a veteran of the CIA and Defense Intelligence, to head up a special multi-agency task force to find the killers. A frustrated and unhappy FBI designates, as its representative, Rachel Johnstone, an agent with whom Jack has had some personal history. The Third Coincidence unfolds amidst continued assassinations, accusations that the president is attempting to form his own secret police, and confirmation hearings for reluctant nominees to fill the vacant positions while the Supreme Court struggles to sustain a quorum. Will a terrorist group or a mad assassin succeed in destroying these revered intuitions? In the spirit of The Day of the Jackal and The Manchurian Candidate, this story is juxta-posed through the eyes of both the hunter and the hunted as the devious plot to change America hurdles forward. Read more
Friday, March 23, 2012
The M-16 Agenda (Kindle Edition)
By James P. Wilcox
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A man is not apt to forget the instant he becomes a killer; that one fateful instant when he takes another's life. It would not matter that Jack Granger has killed, all soldiers train to kill, except that he is the Democratic nominee in the presidential election of 2020. Having secured the nomination as Governor of Missouri and on the strength of his M-16 Agenda, his political platform developed in the killing sands of Iraq, Jack is days away from the White House when the situation in Iraq and in Washington D.C. changes everything. Now it is a race against time, and his own past, as he makes a last ditch effort to save his bid for the presidency, and possibly the world.
From the war torn battlegrounds of Iraq to the halls of power in Washington D.C., M-16 Agenda follows one man's rise to the heights of political power, as he struggles to live up to the promises he made to his fellow soldiers, his family, and himself.
A man is not apt to forget the instant he becomes a killer; that one fateful instant when he takes another's life. It would not matter that Jack Granger has killed, all soldiers train to kill, except that he is the Democratic nominee in the presidential election of 2020. Having secured the nomination as Governor of Missouri and on the strength of his M-16 Agenda, his political platform developed in the killing sands of Iraq, Jack is days away from the White House when the situation in Iraq and in Washington D.C. changes everything. Now it is a race against time, and his own past, as he makes a last ditch effort to save his bid for the presidency, and possibly the world.
From the war torn battlegrounds of Iraq to the halls of power in Washington D.C., M-16 Agenda follows one man's rise to the heights of political power, as he struggles to live up to the promises he made to his fellow soldiers, his family, and himself.
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