- How Trump can be more bipartisan;
- Clear plans to fix health care;
- Plans to fix the budget and entitlements;
- How to restore confidence in the American system; and
- How to revitalize defense and bring the country back together.
Monday, July 31, 2017
America in the Age of Trump By Doug Schoen
America
in the Age of Trump
Opportunities
and Oppositions in an Unsettled World
By
Doug Schoen & Jessica Tarlov
America in the Age of Trump by Doug Schoen and Jessica Tarlov is
a bracing, essential look at the failure of a great nation to meet the needs of
its people and the challenges of the age—and the resulting collapse of public
trust in government, as well as a pervasive crisis of national values, from
broken families to a loss of faith in the American idea itself.
This
crisis of values occurs just as the country faces an unprecedented array of
fiscal, economic, social, and national-security challenges—out of control
federal spending, frighteningly large deficits, massive gaps of income and
opportunity, cultural division, and a dangerous world in which American power
seems increasingly incidental.
In
America
in the Age of Trump, Doug Schoen and Jessica Tarlov offer a
definitive and unique assessment of a nation in turmoil, looking beneath
well-known problems to identify underlying yet poorly understood causes.
Readers will confront the crises, one by one: of trust, values, and governance;
of education, economic opportunity, and fiscal solvency; of national security,
domestic tranquility, and race relations.
In
America
in the Age of Trump, Doug addresses:
America in
the Age of Trump gathers
in one place a clear and comprehensive evaluation of the fundamental issues
confronting the American future while offering bold, fresh approaches to
meeting these challenges. Other books have described the specter of American
decline, but none has been so comprehensive in its diagnosis or
forward-looking—and non-ideological—in its remedies, explaining how we might
yet overcome national self-doubt to reclaim our traditional optimism, reassert
our place in the world, and secure a prosperous future for our citizens.
ABOUT THE AUTHORS:
Doug Schoen
has been one of the most influential Democratic campaign consultants for over
30 years. His political clients include New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg
and Indiana governor Evan Bayh, and his corporate clients include AOL Time
Warner, Procter & Gamble, and AT&T. Internationally, he has worked for
the heads of states of over 15 countries. He is the author of multiple books
and is a regular contributor to the Wall
Street Journal, the Washington Post,
and various other newspapers and online publications as well as Fox News
Channel.
Jessica Tarlov
is Senior Director of Research and Consumer Insight at Bustle, the largest
independent news and lifestyle site for women. She is a regular contributor on
FOX News Channel.
Monday, July 17, 2017
The Challenge of Modernizing Islam By Christine Douglass-Williams
The Challenge of
Modernizing Islam
By Christine
Douglass-Williams
Some of the foremost moderate and reformist Muslims in the Western world interviewed include the outspoken Zuhdi Jasser, Tawfik Hamid, Sheikh Dr. Subhy Mansour, Raheel Raza, Salim Mansur and Qanta Ahmed. Christine asks them tough questions about how they deal with problematic Koran passages, how they intend to get their message across to the Muslim world, and more.
Christine can address the following talking points in The Challenge of Modernizing Islam:
- Anti-Islamophobia motions and drives. The
term “Islamophobia” is specific, very different from the term anti-Muslim
bigotry, and is also a term which is not supported by genuine moderates
and reformists;
- The turf war raging within Islam and the
distinction to be made between genuine moderates and crypto-moderates
(usually with connections to the Muslim Brotherhood);
- The race card and the power it wields to the
point of political leaders and authorities compromising Western security
and evolved constitutions - and how Islamists choose beleaguered groups to
battle their anti-racism/Islamophobia causes, i.e., Black Lives Matter,
natives in Canada and the Palestinian narrative;
- The fake news of the far left in sustaining
a victimology narrative and an us-versus-them formula (entrenched in past
guilt) used to condition emotions;
- How the Palestinian narrative of violent
“resistance” has now permeated Western institutions and society at large
through stealth Islamist infiltration and their messages;
- How lack of cultural knowledge and how
diversity groups/dialogues have been warped and manipulated by Islamists,
how important goals toward necessary assimilation have been abandoned and
suppressed by Islamic supremacist indoctrination;
- The bigotry of low expectations and how
global brutality and barbarism committed worldwide by “those brown and
black people” in the name of Islam and are largely accepted. If called out,
the truth-teller is labelled racist and a bigot;
- Aayan Hirsi-Ali who was called a
"white supremacist" by a group of Muslim women. If white
people or Jews were blowing up people globally in the name of Judaism and
Christianity today and openly preaching hate in rallies, there would be a
huge outcry;
- The danger of civil war (which Sweden is
close to) as a result of escalating rage among law-abiding citizens who
are witnessing their fought-for democracy sink into a Sharia pit, where
their freedom to speak truth is under attack, where their children's
schools are being Islamized, and where they must kowtow to Muslims or be
branded racists;
- The effectiveness of Islamist incursion via
the Muslim Brotherhood's fifth column, threats by jihadists and failure by
Muslim refugees to assimilate, which are major threats to Western
democracy; and
- How mosques, madrasas, Islamic cultural
centers are often radicalized and serve as “safe places” to conquer the
House of War.
About the Author: Christine Douglass-Williams is a nine-time international award-winning journalist and television producer. She is an appointed director with the Canadian Race Relations Foundation and an appointee to the Office of Religious Freedom as an external advisor. She also writes for the Gatestone International Policy Council, at which she has served on the Board of Governors. Her writing has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Jewish Press, Breaking Israel News, Front Page Magazine, and the Hudson Institute, as well as many other news outlets.
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