A New Design for Education in America By Vicki E. Alger, Ph.D.

Education, being one of the top issues debated by the presidential candidates, is very much on the minds of all Americans. In an important new book, education reform expert Vicki E. Alger, Ph.D., author of FAILURE: The Federal Misedukation of America's Children, and Research Fellow at the Independent Institute shows us what the problems are and offers sound strategies toward improving on the failures of America's educational system.

Both presidential candidates are beginning to release comprehensive K-12 policy plans.  Last Thursday, Donald Trump gave a speech in Ohio on education laying out all the opportunities he will be proposing for parents to be given better and higher quality school choice.  Hillary Clinton has taken on education as a top priority of her campaign.

Both campaigns would benefit greatly from Dr. Alger's new book.  She writes, as an example, that Milwaukee's Parental Choice program (launched in 1990) was the country's first modern private school parental choice program. It began the modern era's parental choice movement. Since then Wisconsin has enacted three additional voucher scholarship programs. These programs serve low-income and special needs students. Wisconsin has also enacted a private school tuition income tax credit/deduction.

Dr. Alger says If we want to improve education, we need to reduce segregation, improve student outcomes and stop rationing education based on where children's parents can afford to live.  We need to expand these successful parental choice programs that empower parents, not the so-called experts whose policies have contributed to the status quo. Scientific research has shown that disadvantaged students participating in Milwaukee's flagship scholarship program had higher reading and math scores than similar non-scholarship students - and the program costs a fraction of what it does to send those same students to public schools. What's more, Milwaukee Public Schools responded positively to competition for students and associated funding.

In FAILURE, you will learn:

• that more than half of the U.S. offers families private school choice options;
• that school choice improves public schools;
• that more parental choice means more hope for children, including those from disadvantaged backgrounds;
• that Education Saving Accounts (ESAs) would allow families school choice for their children;
• about empirical research literature on the effects of school choice; and
• about the origins of the Milwaukee parental choice program.

FAILURE shows federal involvement in education has been an epic failure of myriad ineffective educational programs, a failure of massive wasteful spending, and a failure of the Department of Education to be a partner with state and local governments, rather than a boss. Fortunately, Dr. Alger's rigorous assessment enables her to identify and articulate the best strategy for success - namely, decentralizing education policy by ending federal involvement, returning power to state and local governments, and implementing parental choice.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Vicki E. Alger, Ph.D., is Research Fellow at the Independent Institute and the author of more than forty education policy studies. She has provided expert affidavits for the successful legal defense of educational choice programs for low-income, foster-care and disabled children. Her work was also used in the successful legal defense of tax-credit scholarship programs in the U.S. Supreme Court.

Angry White Male By Wayne Allyn Root

ANGRY WHITE MALE

How the Donald Trump Phenomenon is Changing America

and What We Can All Do to Save the Middle Class

By Wayne Allyn Root

Foreword by Roger Stone

Bestselling author, fiery media personality, TV producer and high-energy, in-your-face Donald Trump supporter, Wayne Allyn Root's new book, ANGRY WHITE MALE is the story of a powerful new revolution going on in American politics. Root has declared 2016 the year of the "Angry White Male" - a demographic he calls "the soccer moms of the 2016 election." This book tells their story - it is their personal testimony - and the man leading their latest charge is Donald J. Trump. In this explosive new book, the Trump phenomenon is seen through the eyes of the ultimate angry white male who is determined to save the middle class.

Early in life, Wayne Allyn Root and millions of Americans like him were taught to believe in the things that made America the greatest nation in world history - God, country, family, American exceptionalism, capitalism, Judeo-Christian values, the U.S. Constitution, the great American middle class, second amendment rights, the police and the military.  Republican nominee, Donald Trump, continues to remind us that these values are all under vicious, nonstop, over-the-top attack.  Everything that a typical all-American middle class kid was taught to believe in is being assaulted, brutalized and bankrupted. This is no coincidence.  On the contrary, it is a purposeful planned attack from those who hate America and particularly the white middle class. It is an all-out attack from people who want "to fundamentally change America."  

In ANGRY WHITE MALE, you'll learn:

• Just how much the Obama Administration's policies have damaged America;
• How the media has colluded to destroy Trump in order to get Hillary Clinton elected President - to finish the job Obama began;
• Why the media, liberals and the establishment, including many top elected GOP lawmakers, are so desperate to stop Trump and why they're just fine with the status quo; and
• Why liberals in America hate Trump, God, faith and the Constitution.

In ANGRY WHITE MALE, Root calls it as he sees it - raw, honest, politically incorrect and from the unique vantage point of a blue-collar, middle class kid who graduated from elite Ivy League Columbia University where he met the very leaders at the center of this conspiracy to destroy America and capitalism.  Root will reveal the exact game plan they designed back at Columbia. His college classmate at the time? Barack Obama. Root reveals how each specific policy of the past eight years has oppressed, depressed, targeted, persecuted, intimidated and bankrupted the shrinking middle class. Herein, he provides the playbook to win America back from the liberal Democrats, establishment Republicans, Wall Street titans, Hollywood film moguls, high-tech gurus and corporate elite billionaires who are so desperate to stop Trump.

At the heart of this book are 100 pages of concrete creative solutions in a section called, "God, Guns, Gold, Tax Cuts and Term Limits" in which Root lays out the counter-attack including: Middle Class Income Tax Vacation, Middle Class Contract with America, and the ultimate Middle Class Weapon of Self-Defense.  Trump's historic speeches of late encourage and embolden Americans to embrace a patriot commonsense action plan - not only just to survive, but to thrive and prosper - to make America great again.

Root tells us why he and his fellow Americans have every right to be angry.  He urges the middle class to take charge before they are legislated, targeted, intimidated and censored out of existence - and thus left penniless, powerless, jobless, feckless and afraid to speak out for fear of being shouted down and labeled a racist... and worse.

About the Author: Wayne Allyn Root is a middle class warrior and capitalist evangelist.  He is an entrepreneur, media personality, TV producer, syndicated columnist, international business speaker, and radio talk show host. Root is the author of several bestselling books including The Ultimate Obama Survival Guide, The Murder of the Middle Class, and The Power of RELENTLESS. He was the 2008 Libertarian VP nominee and has been the opening speaker at many Donald Trump events. He currently hosts his own radio show in Las Vegas and is a regular contributor to Fox News, Breitbart, TheBlaze, Newsmax, Townhall, the Washington Times, and USA Today.

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FAILURE By Vicki E. Alger

 New Book Gives U.S. Department of Education a Failing Grade

Education, being one of the top issues debated by the presidential candidates, is very much on the minds of all Americans.  Trump advocates for school choice, refers to common core as a "disaster," and is calling for an end to the Department of Education. Clinton wants to socialize students and believes that it takes a village to raise a kid. In an important new book, education reform expert Vicki E. Alger, Ph.D., author of FAILURE: The Federal Misedukation of America's Children, shows us what the problems are and offers sound strategies toward improving on the failures of America's educational system.

In FAILURE, you'll learn that for nearly 100 years the federal government left education almost entirely in the hands of state and local governments. Gradually, however, federal restraint gave way, culminating in 1979 with the creation of the U.S. Department of Education - a sprawling bureaucracy with more than 4,000 employees, 100 programs, and an annual budget of approximately $70 billion. What caused this dramatic transformation? Has it improved student performance? And how can we best ensure that America's schoolchildren will get the education they need for thriving in an increasingly technological, competitive global economy?

When President Jimmy Carter established the U.S. Department of Education (ED) in 1979 as the thirteenth cabinet-level agency, the advocates of a larger role for the federal government in education hailed it as a hard-won victory for America's taxpayers, educators and school children. But thirty-six years later, ED has yet to live up to the promises, which tells us:

• It has failed to act as a genuine partner to state and local governments, but instead lords over them. Strings attached to federal funding have created an ongoing tug-of-war between the feds and the states.
• It has failed to ensure that federal dollars are spent efficiently. Programs remain spread across multiple departments, perpetuating redundancy and waste of taxpayer dollars.
• It has failed to appreciably improve student academic performance. International assessments reveal that 17-year-olds as a group are only slightly better in math than they were in 1978, and their reading ability has remained flat since 1971.
• ED has failed to reach every meaningful goal its advocates had promised.

After providing a history and assessment of federal involvement of education (including a comparison with top-performing education systems worldwide), FAILURE offers a way forward. Dr. Alger's steps include:

• Immediately eliminating 19 non-program offices and divisions within the Department of Education, and returning the $14 billion in savings to taxpayers via a tax credit;
• Letting the American people work with local lawmakers and educators to set priorities that meet the specific needs of students in their communities;
• Empowering citizens to create parental choice programs in the states - including  tuition tax credits and educational savings accounts; and
• Abolishing ED and returning the federal government to its constitutional role in education (none).

Federal involvement in education, FAILURE shows, has been an epic failure - a failure of ineffective educational programs, a failure with massive wasteful spending, and a failure of the Department of Education to be a partner with state and local governments. Fortunately, Dr. Alger's rigorous assessment enables her to identify and articulate the best strategy for success - namely, decentralizing education policy by ending federal involvement, returning power to state and local governments, and implementing parental choice. [more...]

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Vicki E. Alger, Ph.D., is Research Fellow at the Independent Institute and the author of more than forty education policy studies. She has provided expert affidavits for the successful legal defense of educational choice programs for low-income, foster-care and disabled children. Her work was also used in the successful legal defense of tax-credit scholarship programs in the U.S. Supreme Court. 

Ronald Reagan Teaches from The Past

Learning From Reagan's Past

With the presidential election heating up daily and the media, the GOP and Republican Nominee, Donald Trump constantly making references to President Reagan's much-admired accomplishments, comes a very unique book about our 40th President.  Heralded by Hon. George P. Shultz, Secretary of State under President Reagan and renowned Reagan historians alike, Reagan's 1968 Dress Rehearsal: Ike, RFK, and Reagan's Emergence as a World Statesman is an inspiring never-before-told history of how Ronald Reagan began to restore pride in America when he first ran for president in the late 1960s.

Author and historian, Gene Kopelson's tireless research uncovered findings based upon never-before-analyzed critical archives. He reveals may lessons President Reagan can teach us today that mirror the past.

America is torn by racial strife, as blacks riot in the cities. A Democrat president is mismanaging a war in Asia, as he refuses to let American forces win the war. A Democratic leader sides with the law breakers and says that blacks do not have to obey the law. Is this 2016? No, it's the mid-1960s, and the only candidate running for the presidency who wants the rule of law to be paramount and to apply equally to all American citizens is the Republican candidate running for president for the first time: Ronald Reagan.

As part of a secret Kennedy-organized plan to harass conservative political enemies, RFK arranges for the IRS to audit ten years of Ronald Reagan's taxes. Then RFK pressures CBS to cancel Reagan's TV show. Faced with no income, Ronald Reagan decides to enter politics but needs the advice of a highly-respected senior political elder of the same conservative philosophy. 

Reagan turns to former President Dwight Eisenhower, and this begins a never-before-described multi-year political mentorship and friendship that changed American and world history. Eisenhower guided Reagan to win the governorship of California and then, as Reagan first sought the presidency in 1967-68, Ike mentored Reagan on world affairs. Indeed, future President Ronald Reagan's successes in no small part depended upon his fulfillment of Ike's policies, whose effects are very much with us today.  

A steadfast and principled conservative is running for president for the first time. He is an accomplished speaker who electrifies his audiences but is opposed by the GOP's establishment. Yet the grassroots American public loves him. Is this 2016? No, it's 1968 and Ronald Reagan is generating huge enthusiasm across the country as he tries to win the nomination from establishment-favorite Richard Nixon.

Early in the 20th century, Republican President Theodore Roosevelt first called for Americans never to be divided into subgroups; he wanted all citizens to be called Americans first. Yet Democrats call for division: they call Americans by hyphenated subgroups to promote discord: Black Americans, Mexican Americans, etc. In the mid and late 1960s, Roosevelt's call was continued by Republican Ronald Reagan on his first quest for the presidency and by his hidden political mentor, Republican and former president, Dwight Eisenhower. They saw through the Democrats' plan for divisiveness in order to claim grievances and garner votes.

Both Reagan and Eisenhower called for all citizens to see themselves as Americans first and to identify with the pride and goodness of their country. During Reagan's first campaign for the presidency in 1966-1968, and in the correspondence between Reagan and Ike, this theme of discarding the Democrats' "hyphenated Americans" was a critical theme for the unity of all Americans.

Go here to see Gene and the book featured on C-SPAN.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Gene Kopelson is president of the New England chapter, and on the Board of Trustees, of the Theodore Roosevelt Association, an active Churchillian, and a holocaust educator. As an historian, he has published works on Theodore Roosevelt's Great White Fleet, Ronald Reagan's 1966 campaign and Mexican American voters, the 1968 Nebraska and Oregon Republican primaries, and Washington State Republican politics in the 1960s. His research on Reagan and Eisenhower was featured in 2015 at the 125th Commemoration of the Birth of Dwight Eisenhower at the Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library.  Kopelson is a popular speaker and frequent guest on talk radio.

Armageddon By Dick Morris

Dick Morris's 'Armageddon' 

Reveals Hillary Secrets, Trump's Strategy

Set for Release June 28, 2016, Book Now!

Armageddon is the ultimate battle between good and evil. Now, in their powerful and timely new book Armageddon: How Trump Can Beat Hillary, authors Dick Morris and Eileen McGann reveal a surprising political game plan that could change the outcome of the 2016 elections.

"Make no mistake about it, Trump faces an uphill battle," Dick Morris says. "With a liberal media biased in Hillary's favor, demographic trends favoring younger and ethnic voters - and some Republicans at war with their own nominee - Trump must take a different approach. He can still win and defeat Hillary," Morris argues in Armageddon.

Few know and understand Hillary and Bill Clinton better than Dick Morris. For over 20 years, Dick served as their personal political adviser and trusted confidante. Dick knows their strengths and weakness... and their darkest secrets.

For the first time, he reveals Hillary's secrets in Armageddon - and explains why Trump must ignore the traditional GOP playbook to make her the issue and defeat her once and for all.  Morris believes the 2016 election will be the most decisive in history. America can go down the road of socialism, "Obama's third term," or take a path of economic and spiritual resurgence - one that makes us truly great again.

In Armageddon, Dick Morris outline his attack plan on Hillary:

• She is a "compulsive, pathological and serial liar" that must be exposed - he reveals the evidence.
• Hillary lost any claim to "commander-in-chief" after Benghazi - new details show she covered up her role.
• She will once again put America into another needless war.
• She is "obsessively secret and paranoid" - Morris reveals never before known details that show her to be the "controller in chief."
• She is very vulnerable to criminal prosecution right now - and may be the target of impeachment hearings almost from day one of any Hillary presidency.

But Morris says attacks on Hillary alone won't defeat her. Donald Trump needs a masterplan - a grand strategy to avoid the GOP mistakes of 2008 and 2012. Dick Morris gives solid advice to Trump that reveals:

• How Trump can woo 8 million white voters who failed to show up for Romney in 2012;
• Why terrorism may prove to be Trump's ace in the hole - and why he must expose Hillary and Obama's efforts to let terrorists into the U.S.;
• The fact that Obamacare is not a dead issue - and how Trump can use it get low-income voters who have been hurt by this socialist program;
• Why immigrants and union voters may prove to be Trump's biggest allies;
• Hillary's vulnerabilities with China, Iran, Israel and Mexico, and much more; and
• Trump's secret strategy for black voters: he can win a bigger proportion than any Republican using this one issue.

On Tuesday, November 5, 2016, American voters will make a momentous decision. They will decide whether or not this great country will remain a free market, constitutional democracy. The stakes could not be higher. If Hillary Clinton is elected president, it will mean the end of the America we know and love.

In Armageddon, Morris offers a manual on how the forces of good can win this battle. Whether you support or oppose Donald Trump, you need to get this book and share it with friends and family. And Republicans need to stop playing by the old rules of the game. Those rules don't work - they elected Barack Obama twice. Obama has changed America in fundamental ways. Now, in Armageddon, Morris shows Hillary's opponents how they can take advantage of her many vulnerabilities - to elect a president who wants to make America a great nation again.

ABOUT THE AUTHORS: Dick Morris is admired for his probing, insightful, hard-hitting, and clear commentary on Newsmax, Fox News, and other international media outlets. Time magazine has dubbed him "the most influential private citizen in America." A well-known political strategist, he was the architect of Bill Clinton's comeback landslide in 1996 and has handled the winning campaigns of more than 30 U.S. senators and governors. Internationally, he has piloted the successful campaigns of presidents and prime ministers of five continents. Together with his wife, Eileen McGann, he has written 15 books, including 10 New York Times bestsellers. Eileen is the publisher of thehillarydaily.com. Morris and McGann write for DickMorris.com. 

Reagan's 1968 By Gene Kopelson

The Never-Before-Told Story of Ronald Reagan's 

First Quest for the Presidency

"Kopelson has provided an extensively detailed and carefully documented account of Ronald Reagan's first foray into presidential candidacy. Particularly fascinating is the author's original research, which reveals how a highly successful president of a prior era-Dwight D. Eisenhower-provided invaluable advice and encouragement to Reagan, which helped to shape the leadership and accomplishments of our 40th president."

--The Honorable Edwin Meese III, former Attorney General

With the presidential election heating up daily and the media, the GOP and Republican Nominee, Donald Trump constantly making references to President Reagan's much-admired accomplishments, comes a very unique book about our 40th President.  Heralded by Hon. George P. Shultz, Secretary of State under President Reagan and renowned Reagan historians alike, Reagan's 1968 Dress Rehearsal: Ike, RFK, and Reagan's Emergence as a World Statesman is an inspiring never-before-told history of how Ronald Reagan began to restore pride in America when he first ran for president in the late 1960s.

Author and historian, Gene Kopelson's tireless research uncovered findings based upon never-before-analyzed critical archives.  Against the backdrop history of Reagan's first campaign for the presidency, it can now be revealed that behind the scenes, none other than former President Dwight D. Eisenhower was Ronald Reagan's hidden political mentor. In fact, throughout the 1960s, Ronald Reagan was tutored by former President Eisenhower on how to enter politics, how to run his 1966 gubernatorial primary, and then general election campaigns. Eisenhower even counseled Reagan on how to fight charges of antisemitism and critiqued Reagan's speaking style.

Reagan followed Eisenhower's political advice virtually to the letter, and indeed Reagan based his 1966 campaign theme on Ike who said he would endorse Reagan for president if he were the 1968 nominee, urged him to run for president as California's favorite son, and may actually have favored political winner Reagan over loser Nixon as the 1968 Republican nominee.

In Reagan's 1968, you'll learn that:

• Ronald Reagan ran for president for the first time in 1966-68 and did so deliberately with the goal of stopping Richard Nixon from achieving a first-ballot convention victory at the '68 GOP convention.  
• During many weekends during 1967-68, Reagan left Sacramento and crisscrossed the country to seek delegates, building a network of financial backers and setting up grassroots activist campaign staffs for the critically-important Wisconsin, Nebraska and Oregon primaries. 
• During Reagan's first quest for the presidency, Ike's mentorship of Reagan expanded into world affairs. While Reagan was the leading Republican hawk on Vietnam, his strategic calls for winning the war, and specific military and geopolitical tactics, came directly from mentoring by Ike. Reagan saw Vietnam through the lens of Eisenhower and Korea.
• Ronald Reagan's major public political foe during this era was Robert Kennedy.  Reagan trounces RFK during a 1967 debate on Vietnam.  Many Republicans did not want to see another Nixon-Kennedy debate fiasco for 1968 but rather a winner - Reagan as their nominee. Once RFK declared his candidacy in March, 1968, Reagan re-energized his campaign, which culminated in 5 scathing White Paper speeches attacking the foreign affairs failures of the Kennedy-Johnson years, tying RFK directly to them.
• Presidential candidate Reagan achieved almost 11% of the vote in the Wisconsin primary, then 22% in Wisconsin and Oregon. As favorite son, he won all California delegates and before the GOP convention, there were more votes cast for Reagan than for Nixon. Delegates couldn't wait to vote for Reagan on the second ballot.

Eisenhower's direct influence on Reagan continued until the end of Reagan's presidency. President Reagan saw his agreements with Gorbachev to lessen nuclear stockpiles, and the eventual collapse of the Soviet Union and communism, as his own official direct fulfillment of President Eisenhower's goals. Other crucial issues associated with President Reagan (tearing down the Berlin Wall, freedom for Eastern Europe, creating an anti-ballistic missile defense shield, siding with Israel versus staying neutral in the Mideast, how to deal with hostages and negotiate with communists and eventually to win the Cold War through peaceful means) all began during Reagan's first presidential campaign.

Ronald Reagan's 1968 campaign was a crucial dress rehearsal for his ultimate triumph in 1980. During 1968, Reagan became a world statesman and shaped his crusade to restore pride in America. For Reagan, Ike's tutelage was critical. Indeed, Ronald Reagan now may be seen as one of Dwight Eisenhower's proteges and his major political heir. This political mentorship changed America's national priorities through the end of Reagan's presidency, whose effects still are very much with us today.

Go here to see Gene and the book featured on C-SPAN.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Gene Kopelson is president of the New England chapter, and on the Board of Trustees, of the Theodore Roosevelt Association, an active Churchillian, and a holocaust educator. As an historian, he has published works on Theodore Roosevelt's Great White Fleet, Ronald Reagan's 1966 campaign and Mexican American voters, the 1968 Nebraska and Oregon Republican primaries, and Washington State Republican politics in the 1960s. His research on Reagan and Eisenhower was featured in 2015 at the 125th Commemoration of the Birth of Dwight Eisenhower at the Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library.  Kopelson is a popular speaker and frequent guest on talk radio.