Lessons My Father Taught Me By Michael Reagan

Son Reveals Ronald Reagan as Never Before

"Michael Reagan knew Ronald Reagan better than anyone alive today, and this book reveals him as more than just a great leader, but as a good father with a great soul, a role model for all of us. No one has done more to apply Reagan's principles than Michael, and this book is just one more example of that."    --Newt Gingrich, Fmr. Speaker of the House

Michael Reagan realized something. All his life people have been asking him the same question: "What was your dad really like?" So much had been written about his dad's life, his politics, his Hollywood career but little was ever revealed about Ronald Reagan the man, the private man, home with his wife, kids and friends.And nobody alive knows more about who Ronald Reagan really was than his eldest son, Michael.

For the first time, his just-released book Lessons My Father Taught Me: The Strength, Integrity, and Faith of Ronald Reagan reveals Michael's personal insights into the qualities that made his dad - qualities that can help any of us succeed in our relationships and life. Michael says his father was "the greatest man he ever knew."

But their relationship - and his father's relationship with his other children - had been very rocky at times. The family had weathered a bitter divorce when Michael's mother, Jane Wyman, the famous Hollywood actress, decided she no longer wanted to remain with her husband. Michael wanted to show how his father successfully dealt with the personal defeat of that divorce and remained a great father to him and his sister.

He also uses this book to share the true secrets of his dad's greatness - overcoming tremendous obstacles to become a famous actor, governor of California and president.

He is convinced that people in all walks of life can tap into the same power of faith and love that motivated his dad.

In Lessons My Father Taught Me, Michael reveals several very surprising stories about his father - some even quite shocking - and many that have never been disclosed to the public before. The book reveals:

• Michael's years as a "Beverly Hills brat" and how his dad treated him differently than the kids of Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, and other Hollywood stars;
• The big mistake he made with son Ron, Jr. and his failure to "show up;"
• How he discovered a man could express affection without embarrassment;
• The shocking fact that neither Ron nor Patti ever voted for their own father and the surprising reason why;
• Why Ronald Reagan believed "attitude is everything;"
• Reagan's obsession with keeping his charity secret - even from his own family;
• Ronald Reagan's private and "intense" work ethic and why he hid it from the public;
• Reagan's advice always to not only work hard but "work smart;"
• Reagan's obsession with "truth" and why even as an actor he couldn't play an evil character well;
• The important lesson about revealing your "inner truth" to your friends and family to bond and grow;
• His dad's belief that people should be open to "re-creating" their life if facts demanded;
• Time and again, Michael explains how his father used "failure as a launching pad" for his next big success;
• Ronald Reagan had only one reason he wanted to be president, and he revealed it one night to his son;
• A secret promise to his daughter Maureen made Sandra Day O'Connor the first woman Supreme Court justice (it had nothing to do with politics);
• How Reagan surprisingly wasn't bothered by rumors his son Ron might be gay;
• Michael's encounter with actor Alec Baldwin and what he had to say about the former president;
• How optimism can be nurtured and cultivated, it's not always genetic;
• The most important leadership quality his father had;
• The Christian ideals and values shared by his mother, Nelle, that shaped his life and worldview;
• The time Gov. Reagan jumped into a swimming pool wearing his jacket and tie, shocking onlookers;
• Why Reagan wanted to personally meet his would-be assassin John Hinckley and the reason the meeting never took place;
• Dealing with scandal: how Reagan used life principles to put to bed what was to be his Watergate;
• Ethics lessons: his dad revealed scandalous information about JFK to his family and explained why people of "good character" would never make an issue of that publicly;
• ...and much, much more.

Michael Reagan concludes in Lessons My Father Taught Me that his father's ultimate lesson was the "power of one" - that each and every individual has an incredible ability to make themselves a better person while influencing and changing the world.

NOTE: Michael is also available to talk about Donald Trump's candidacy, how his Dad may have felt about the GOP frontrunner, and the impact Trump will have on Ronald Reagan's legacy. Go here to read: "Michael Reagan, son of Ronald, on his relationship with his famous father and the state of politics today."

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Michael Reagan is the eldest son of Ronald Reagan and the chairman of The Reagan Legacy Foundation. Michael, a New York Times bestselling author, is a popular national speaker on issues related to conservative politics. He blogs for Newsmax.com.

Horowitz Freedom Center Targets BDS Supporters with Campus Poster Campaign

Posters allege BDS activists have “allied themselves with Palestinian terrorists” and “perpetrate... Jew hatred on this campus.”

Visit Stop the Jew Hatred on Campus.

The David Horowitz Freedom Center claimed credit today for posters that appeared on the campus of UC-Santa Barbara attacking the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel as a “Hamas-inspired genocidal campaign to destroy the world’s only Jewish state” and naming individual students and faculty members who promote BDS on the Santa Barbara campus.  David Horowitz, President of the Freedom Center, commented, “We’ve decided to get up close and personal with merchants of Jew hatred on our campuses.”

Several versions of the posters were hung on campus late last night in a guerilla campaign to draw attention to the problem of Jew hatred at UCSB. In addition to defining the BDS movement as a genocidal campaign to wipe out Israel, one poster names a number of prominent campus BDS activists and states, “The following students and faculty at UC Santa Barbara have allied themselves with Palestinian terrorists to perpetrate BDS and Jew Hatred on this campus.” [more...]

The Last Goodnight By Pulitzer Prize Nominated Author

A World War II Story of Espionage, Adventure, and Betrayal   By Howard Blum New York Times Bestselling author of Dark Invasion Film rights already optioned by Columbia Pictures, The Last Goodnight: A World War II Story of Espionage, Adventure, and Betrayal is Vanity Fair contributing editor and New York Times bestselling author Howard Blum's latest work - an international political WWII biography. Already a political and social science bestseller, The Last Goodnight is the story of international spy, Betty Pack who paved the way for women who now have an increasing role in the CIA.

Betty Pack was an American debutante who parlayed her charm, intelligence, and sexual largesse into an impressive career as a spy. In The Last Goodnight, Blum tells the all-but-forgotten story of this "Mata Hari from Minnesota" (Time), whose bravery, sense of adventure-and often fluid morality-knew few bounds. Drawing on a trove of previously untapped papers-including Betty's own dictated testimony-Blum gives us a riveting account of the double life and clandestine work of a woman who OSS chief general "Wild Bill" Donovan called "the greatest unsung heroine" of WWII.

Blum shapes the narrative around Betty's last hurrah-her 1963 reconnection with a wartime colleague Harford Montgomery Hyde, who would become her biographer and, inevitably, her lover. Betty knew she was dying, but yearned to escape the boredom of a second marriage lived out in near isolation in the Pyrenees. Working with Hyde allowed her to recall her glory days, which play out beyond the imaginings of even the finest espionage thriller writer.   Using the code name "Cynthia," Betty would become a major intelligence asset. She thought nothing of seducing men of influence and power to gain access to codes, ciphers, and secrets. She obtained Polish notebooks that proved key to Alan Turing's success deciphering the "unbreakable" messages sent by Germany's Enigma machines, secured Italian naval ciphers (by seducing an Italian Naval attache) that helped the Royal Navy triumph over Mussolini's forces at sea, and snuck into the French Embassy in Washington to break into a safe and photograph Vichy naval codes. In an interview Howard Blum can discuss: * Betty Pack's many contributions, most notably how she was directly responsible for obtaining the Polish notebooks that were key to Alan Turing's success in  deciphering the "unbreakable" messages sent by Germany's Enigma machines. * How Betty Pack was a pioneer. Today, Forty percent of CIA operatives are women, including the Deputy Director and other top officials. The former head of MI-6 is a woman. Betty Pack came before all of them. * The importance of human intelligence - field operatives - in this era of primarily electronic intelligence. It was spies like Betty Pack who demonstrated the value of a liberated agent, and now the agencies are finally getting around to recruiting a new generation of operatives who are not reluctant to express their own concepts of personal freedom. In the wake of the Brussels and other recent terror attacks, our government is realizing the need for the nation to rely once again on individual secret agents (human intelligence) rather than electronic means to get intelligence even in this modern age of terror. We need, the CIA is now saying, to be able to do what we did in the past - to infiltrate covert operators into the enemy camp, and Betty Pack is a prime (and extraordinary) example of how successful a single operative can be.

"A dazzling masterwork of narrative nonfiction. Howard Blum has vividly captured the extraordinary life of a passionate, complicated, thoroughly modern woman who did nothing less than help win World War II."                   

--Mitchell Zuckoff, New York Times bestselling author

About the Author: Howard Blum is the author of New York Times bestsellers including Dark Invasion, the Edgar Award - winner American Lightning, as well as Wanted!, The Gold Exodus, Gangland, and The Floor of Heaven. Blum is a contributing editor at Vanity Fair. While at the New York Times, he was twice nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting.

The 30-Minute Millionaire

The 30-Minute Millionaire

The Smart Way to Achieving Financial Freedom

By Peter J. Tanous and Jeff Cox

With jobs and the economy weighing heavily on the minds of Americans as we all listen to the presidential candidates offering supposed solutions, investing experts and best-selling authors Peter J. Tanous and Jeff Cox present their new book, The 30-Minute Millionaire - a guide to smart investing based on many years of experience - a step-by-step guide to achieving financial success.

Whether you're new to investing or already preparing for retirement, the authors provide practical advice with specific examples, giving you the tools and knowledge you need on your path to becoming financially secure. In this book, you'll learn how to:

• * Build a well-balanced, risk-mitigated portfolio;
• * Achieve consistent returns over the long run through a passive approach;
• * Follow contemporary asset allocation rules and objectives;
• * Maintain discipline and patience in the face of difficult markets;
• * Avoid common, and not-so-common, investing pitfalls;
• * Invest in ETFs, commodities, gold, and other assets;
• * Ignore time-consuming market reports; and
• * Understand the Fed's role in the economy and financial markets.

The authors also give detailed instructions on exactly how much cash you'll need to start (less than you think!) and the best advice from financial gurus on your journey ahead. Stop trying to actively pick stocks, trade in and out of positions, analyze the data only the wonks understand, or time the markets.  Get on a simple, true path to financial freedom today with The 30-Minute Millionaire.

"Who better than two keen observers of markets to guide us to successful wealth accumulation in a world flooded with information containing lots of signals and noise. By showing investors how to be a lot smarter about their time allocation, including what to look for and why, this book provides you with important and durable tips and insights."

--Mohamed A. El-Erian, Chief Economic Adviser at Allianz

ABOUT THE AUTHORS:

Peter Tanous - President of Lynx Investment Advisory. Over his forty-year career as a finance professional, he has held executive positions at Smith Barney, Bank Audi (U.S.) and served as chairman of Petra Capital Corporation, an international investment bank that he co-founded. Tanous is the author of several critically acclaimed books including Investment Gurus, Wealth Equation, and Debt, Deficits, and the Demise of the American Economy.

Jeff Cox has worked as a journalist since 1987 and is a staff writer with CNBC.com where he covers all markets and frequently appears on CNBC TV. In addition, he provides market commentary for radio stations across the country and his articles often run on TheStreet.com, Yahoo!, and AOL Money. Cox has also worked at CNN Money and as a senior editor for two Pennsylvania newspapers. Author of Debt, Deficits, and the Demise of the American Economy.

GI Film Fest Marches into Theaters Nationwide on 4/7 for a Cinematic Salute to the Troops

The GI Film Festival is proud to present a Cinematic Salute to the Troops, in select cinemas nationwide for an extraordinary one-night event!    Hosted by actor, comedian and Navy veteran Jamie Kaler, this incredible event will feature two true stories of bravery, integrity and leadership in the inspiring Wounded Warrior story CLIMB and the WW2 special operations doc thriller THE REAL INGLORIOUS BASTARDS, plus celebrity commentary with Gary Sinise, Adam Driver and Danny Trejo, and more!   After both features, catch a behind-the-scenes look into GI Film Festival DC X, including a sneak peek at the military apocalyptic zombie movie Range 15 which premieres at GIFF X in DC this May. Range 15 stars William Shatner, Sean Astin and Danny Trejo and was produced and directed by military veterans!   Gather friends and family as we all come together to honor the warrior spirit! Find a local theater and buy tickets here (http://www.fathomevents.com/event/gi-film-festival).

About Jamie Kaler: An accomplished actor, comic, host, voice-over artist and radio personality, Jamie Kaler is probably best known for his starring role as "Mike" on the hit TBS show, "My Boys." His prolific acting career includes appearances on FRIENDS, WILL AND GRACE, HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER, PARENTHOOD, and KING OF QUEENS, as well as numerous films and over 150 commercials. He is currently the host of "America: Facts vs. Fiction" on the American Heroes Channel which is entering its third season. Jamie graduated from Boston University on an NROTC scholarship and served as an officer in the U.S. Navy before beginning his career as a performer.

Deduct Everything! By Eva Rosenberg, EA

Deduct Everything!

By Eva Rosenberg, EA

Just in time for tax season comes a tax book like no other. Packed with money-saving strategies every taxpayer can use, Deduct Everything! - #1 in Hot New Releases in Personal Taxes on Amazon - is the definitive guide to help you keep more of your hard-earned money at tax time.  You will learn all the latest tips from national tax expert and best-selling author Eva Rosenberg - the award-winning TaxMama© - a seasoned tax professional - including how to save money with hundreds of write-offs, legal tax breaks, credits and loopholes.

Whether you want to become a “tax vigilante” and fight to eliminate or reduce your taxes wherever you can, or you just want to become more “tax aware” and follow the fundamental rules to lower your taxes, Eva Rosenberg - the TaxMama© will show you the way. A popular financial tax columnist and consultant, Eva has given practical tax advice to millions through her Web site, and now she brings her proven strategies to anyone looking to take advantage of hidden, but legal, loopholes and deductions. With the help of Eva’s book Deduct Everything! you can save money and make sure your tax return is audit-proof. This comprehensive guide covers:

·       * Rules of thumb for record-keeping and staying organized;

·       * Secrets to mortgage, tax and insurance deductions;

·       * Maximizing work-related expenses;

·       * Making the most of medical expenses and health savings accounts;

·       * Strategies to utilize deductions and credits for education; and...

·       * Lots of tips on how to make more money - some of it tax-free!

What makes this tax book different from all the other tax books? Most tax tip books provide hundreds of deductions straight out of the IRS publications. Deduct Everything! bypasses most of the routine information you can find elsewhere. Eva tells you WHY a particular tax strategy is important – or unwise.  She provides links or references to specific tax codes, IRS publications, even tax court cases – especially when a strategy seems too good to be true.

More than tax breaks, Deduct Everything! provides ways to EARN MONEY and links to resources to help you generate enough income to live on, for people who don’t have specific skills or degrees. Eva shows you how to generate tax-free income via crowd-funding and how to do it correctly so you won’t fall into the taxable income trap.

Deduct Everything! even provides information about areas that many tax professionals find confusing. The good news for tax professionals using the book is that references are provided to support everything so you can look it up before advising your clients. It contains information about tax credits many people don’t know about, or understand how to use and has a wealth of links and contacts that you won’t find anywhere else.

Deduct Everything! is available wherever books and E-books are sold!

Eva Rosenberg, EA is an award winning, seasoned tax professional who teaches other tax professionals about ethics, tax preparation, IRS collections representation and more. She even advised FedEx to learn how to eliminate tax anxiety during the filing season.http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/163006047X/

David Horowitz Freedom Center Launches Campaign to Combat Jew Hatred

David Horowitz Freedom Center Launches Campaign to Combat Jew Hatred at American Colleges and Universities

New Initiative Will Refute Genocidal Lies About Israel Which Fuel Anti-Semitism on Campus

Citing a large and disturbing rise in anti-Semitic incidents on American college campuses, the David Horowitz Freedom Center today announced that it is launching a new campaign to counter Jew hatred at the nation’s colleges and universities.

On college campuses across America, hatred and bigotry directed at Jews is at an all time high. From swastikas appearing on Jewish fraternity houses to mock “apartheid walls” which disseminate mendacious Hamas propaganda, from anti-Semitic Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions resolutions to angry and sometimes violent attempts to shut down pro-Israel speakers, America’s universities have become a new fount of Jew hatred which then leeches into our broader culture. Despite their rush to accommodate other campus minorities, American universities have done little or nothing to protect the Jewish students under their charge.

This Jew hatred is fomented by campus organizations—most notably Students for Justice in Palestine— that support the terrorist regimes in Gaza and the West bank who spread lies about the Jewish state. Chief among these lies is the claim that the Jews “stole” Arab land to create the state of Israel.

The lie that Jews are responsible for the theft of Arab land is regarded as a universal truth by many students on campuses across the nation, leading these students to shun and condemn Jews, as well as those who dare to defend Israel, for this supposed crime. To take just one example, UCLA student Lisa Marie Mendez, who is also an employee at the UCLA Medical Center, recently wrote on social media:

“F**king Jews. GTFOH with all your Zionist bullshit. Crazy ass f**king troglodyte albino monsters of cultural destruction. F**king Jews. GTFOH with your whiny bullshit. Give the Palestinians back their land, go back to Poland or whatever freezer-state you’re from, and realize that faith does not constitute race.”

This view of Jews as the thieves of Palestinian land is far from rare, and translates into a growing hostility towards Jews on American campuses. A recent study from the Brandeis Center for Human Rights found that more than half of nearly 1,200 Jewish students surveyed at 55 campuses nationwide reported having experienced or witnessed anti-Semitism on campus during the last year.

Stop the Jew Hatred on Campus will confront the agents of this anti-Semitism by refuting the four primary and genocidal lies about the Jewish state spread by Palestinian terrorists and their campus allies which underpin the modern architecture of Jew hatred. These lies include the claims that Israel occupies Palestinian land and that Israel is an apartheid state. These lies and rebuttals to them may be found on the campaign Web site: www.StoptheJewHatredonCampus.org.

Students at campuses across the nation will participate in the campaign by holding teach-ins to raise student awareness about Jew hatred and anti-Semitism, and to combat the genocidal Hamas propaganda which has become a familiar presence on American campuses.

These teach-ins will feature speakers including David Horowitz, Daniel Pipes, Richard Cravatts and others who can expose the truth about Jew hatred on campus and the steps we must take to thwart it. Participating students may also distribute literature including the Freedom Center pamphlets: Big Lies: Demolishing the Myths of the Propaganda War Against Israel and Why Israel is the Victim, organize campus film screenings, participate in poster campaigns, and hold silent vigils outside the campus offices of Students for Justice in Palestine (one of the chief instigators of campus Jew hatred) to raise awareness of these pressing concerns. These events will be concentrated during the week of March 7-11, but may also occur throughout the spring semester.

“In order to win the campus war against Israel and the Jews, our first task must be to subvert the malicious and genocidal lies that form the basis of the pro-Hamas and anti-Israel propaganda on American campuses,” stated Freedom Center founder and chairman David Horowitz. “Campus Jew-haters have been hiding their true intentions behind a false front of humanitarianism by claiming that Israel is an ‘apartheid’ state that oppresses the Palestinians.  Our campaign will reveal these lies as Hamas propaganda and expose the baseless Jew hatred, absent all noble intentions, which lies at the heart of anti-Israel activism on campus.”

The David Horowitz Freedom Center, founded in 1989, is a not-for-profit organization located in Los Angeles, California. The Center is a School of Political Warfare whose mission is to identify the enemies of free societies like America and Israel, and devise ways to defeat them. To carry out this mission, the Center publishes Frontpagemag.com, JihadWatch.org and TruthRevolt.com. These sites are visited by more than 3 million readers per month. The Center also operates a website, DiscoverTheNetworks.org, which is an encyclopedia of the political left that receives more than 6 million visits per year. The Center operates a number of other programs including, the Israel Security Project run by Caroline Glick, the Individual Rights Foundation and the campaign, www.StoptheJihadonCampus.org. The Center is currently publishing a nine-volume series by David Horowitz called The Black Book of the American Left. [more...]