The president of the United States has always been elected with the presumption that he will be the president of all the people of the United States. Barack Obama has shown that he has been the extreme exception to that expectation. Barack Hussein Obama began his presidential campaign with a promise to 'share the wealth' of the country and to 'spread the wealth around.' He never once promised to create an environment in America to help the poor earn their share of the wealth. His was a promise to give them something, not to give them the opportunity to earn something for themselves by being...

This love lost and found and historical novel begins with a current day vehicle accident on a Mississippi highway. The vehicle chasing an elderly couple, Thornton and Melissa, careens over a bridge leaving two of the three occupants dead. While aiding the survivor, Thornton is puzzled by the survivor's incoherent comments and wonders if his life is in danger, and what relationship a little girl has with the survivor's family and his family. The story reveals that relationship began from a tragic event at the end of the Civil War. Set in the South, many scenes are alive depicting hardships,...

While many people wait to choose success from a silver platter others know how to reach out and grab it. It's not by waiting for success to just happen, or for someone to deliver it free of charge. Most who try to be successful are successful. Those who only wait for that success delivery are always disappointed. It never arrives by just waiting and hoping. One who wants success must make it happen. They must know how to plan and set clear and realistic goals, how to arrange the plan, how to remain focused and motivated, and how to disregard those problems and obstacles along the way to that...

While stealing Mayan artifacts from a secret dig site in Mexico, Digger and his smuggling partners uncover ancient Atlantean artifacts. Digger becomes trapped between his commitment to his smuggling partners and his self-imposed duty as an archaeologist to document the important find. His partners are concerned only about the value of the ancient items, especially a fifty pound golden urn. The disagreement, along with being pursued by federal agents, creates mistrust within the group. They suspect Morgan's wife, Karen, of being an informant. In his urgency to escape the killing spree that...

The author, once a stutterer, shows how he overcame stuttering, after the age of fifty. He believes anyone who can form the right attitude, accept the responsibility, and work hard enough will eliminate their stuttering problem, or at least reduce it to a controllable level that will allow more freedom and happiness. Presented in two parts, the first part shares anecdotes, stories, and examples to show that attitude and perceptions are important in preparing to approach one's stuttering problem with the realistic anticipation that it can be improved. Part Two gives clear and specific details...

Designed for readers beyond picture books, but not so advanced that fun and imagination are removed, Forest Trails and Fairy Tales is the author's second book that fills that important niche. Reference pictures are included but not enough to restrict a child's reading practice and development. Reading fun begins when Jack and Jill meet familiar nursery rhyme characters as they explore along forest trails. The meet Humpty Dumpty, who often falls because he has a self-image problem. They also accompany Red Riding Hood as she visits her grandmother and finds that Granny is friends with B.B....

In this book: Individuals learn how to free themselves from the peer pressure monster to achieve greater success. Parents discover how they can defeat the negative influence of the monster to provide more effective guidance to their children. Teachers discover a tool to gain better classroom discipline and to encourage a higher level of academic motivation to students. Leaders learn how to increase workplace productivity, instantly, by removing the peer pressure monster from the workplace to allow potential super-stars to be real super-stars. The peer pressure monster roams freely to destroy...

Even within our education system, hijacked and led to failure by national education policies and mandates, students can still escape to gain a good and effective education. Current education policies dictate each student be educated as a robot off an assembly line. This concept is contrary to reasonable humanity. Every child is unique, guided by different nurturing, examples, social structure, dreams and aspirations. Instead of allowing and guiding students to find their natural paths to success within their perceived realities, government assigns group realities. This creates despair, and...

Education in America is no longer education. It has evolved into a political, economic, and social concept where real education ideas and plans are given last thought or consideration, if any. These policies have thrown education into a confused jungle with no hope for weak students to survive or escape. If education policy-makers really wanted to improve education, that task would be simple; as any problem-solving is simple. They have not identified the fundamental education problem to be solved. That problem is the lower twenty-five percent of students who are unprepared to learn, caused by...

A serious, but ignored threat to the economic prosperity of America is the school dropout rate. It's now approaching 25 percent, and would be higher if, in many cases, certificates were not substituted for diplomas. The problem: students are being brainwashed with social ideas, not taught how to learn. Isn't it ironical that teachers spend many years in school learning their subject matter and learning how to teach, but students are never given simple instructions on how to receive and process that instruction - how to learn? A high dropout rate not only jeopardizes our national prosperity...