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Wildflowers is an action-adventure novel based on actual events in 1968 about an ex-Playboy Bunny named Lisa who kidnaps her two sons from school, Teddy and Cody, ages nine and ten--that she lost custody of to the boy's grandparents--for being deemed an unfit single mother by the California Dept. of Social Services.Caught between two worlds--the boys must choose between them. Against their better judgment--Cody and Teddy decide with their hearts over their heads and allow their mom to kidnap them from school where the threesome escape without being caught. Undaunted, Lisa's parents hire her ex-husband Sean, a private detective, to find the boys and bring Lisa to justice and the boys back to safety.Determined to do things her way and escape the boy's persistent father without leaving a trail, Lisa and the boys hitch-hike across the USA from San Diego, California to Miami, Florida, barely avoiding apprehension every step of the way. From there they travel by boat to the Bahamas where they meet a debonair and widowed casino operator Roger, whom Lisa falls in love with and the boys adore.With theirs dreams about to come true--they're suddenly shattered by gangsters, a hurricane, and buried treasure. Or are they?

It hit me at our final Daddy/Daughter Dance that my little girl was turning into a young lady, and what an honor it's been attending every one of those dances. I never missed a single one from the first grade to the fifth However, those dances were going to end when she moved on to middle school and she would most likely be dancing with boys her own age. Accepting the inevitable, I wished her the best and was confident she would pick a boy to dance with (or he choose her), who acted like a gentleman, and she a lady. When I reminisced about those special times, I wondered to myself if I had a son; and he had the same opportunity for a Mother/Son Dance; would he see how a lady behaves in his mother and learn from the experience and cherish it for the rest of his life, just like my daughter saw in me how a gentleman behaved at our dances? I'm certain of it, and that got me thinking that many of the points of view in this book should be seen from the mom's perspective.That, logically enough, was my inspiration to add a companion book to, Every Daughter Deserves a Gentleman: How to Master Gentlemanly Behavior & Become a Gentleman, with this one. This book's purpose is trifold by acting firstly as a useful guide for parents with helping them educate, guide and nurture their sons to dating ladies. Secondly, it's designed to show their son what a lady is, how they behave, and why they deserve one. And lastly, for the benefit of the dating candidates, it teaches them what's expected of a lady suitor and how to be one. By using this trifecta approach between parent, son and lady; each will better understand what their roles are and help ensure between them that every son deserves, and dates, a lady. This book, Every Son Deserves a Lady: How to Master Ladylike Behavior & Become a Lady, does just that by elevating the cause and purpose of gentlewomanly behavior and etiquette to a higher level for the benefit of all sons; teenage and adolescent boys, and young adult men.

Generations X, Y, and Z have been denied many sapient ideals and values as a result of free speech suppression and multi-media illiberalism. Lacking in viewpoint diversity, intellectual humility, and critical thinking skills, impressionable young minds are being imprinted by progressive 'regressive' indoctrination.The intellectual capital of these generations has devolved due to decades of exposure to biased and false narratives to the point where Antifa, BLM, OSF and SPLC are seen as social justice warriors-whereas conservatives, whites, Republicans, and Trump supporters are automatically depicted as privileged racist fascists. Everyone is entitled to their own opinions, but facts must be factual, logic be logical, and truth be truthful. These three cornerstones of sapient thought are being distorted by the trifecta of main stream media, big tech, and academia which have rejected the telos of truth, under the guise of a perverse version of social justice, and are in many ways the de-facto media arm of the Democratic Party. The pervasive results have been revealed in a variety of ways. On-campus watchdog groups have repeatedly shown how widespread disinformation is by interviewing students as to what their opinions are on, among other topics, recent Republican accomplishments under the Trump Administration. When presented with these policies, practices and their effects, a significant percentage believe they are from leading progressives, the Obama Administration, the Democratic Party, and so on. Repeatedly, the misinformed students are shocked when they discover these concepts were actually derived from more conservative sources. Every topic in Free Speech Madness provides a sapient point of view on the intellectual playing field, as opposed to the pervasive progressive lens through which virtually all topics are currently presented. For the indoctrinated, this textbook can function as a difficult but vital intervention. For the open-minded, it will be one revelation and epiphany after another. Are you a sapient being open to the unvarnished truth? If so, then Free Speech Madness is for you

Millions of today's youth, college students, and young adults have been brainwashed over the decades by fake news coming from mainstream media (MSM), social media, and leftist academia to the point where they lack the open mindedness, objectivity, and critical thinking skills to recognize it and its harmful effects.Fake News Madness offers an opportunity to be part of the solution to this problem. By spotting fake news media using ethical journalistic standards we can take action to fight and eliminate fake news with practical logic, facts, truth, and sapience-and together counter the biased and unethical journalism, mainstream news, and social media on and off campus.For some of you this MADNESS book will be a revelation, an epiphany, a sapient being moment. For others, it will be a triggering event, denial of truth, and a painful intervention. As the time-tested saying goes, "Everyone is entitled to their own opinions-but they're not entitled to their own facts." Facts are facts, the truth is the truth, but they can be skewed and manipulated for disingenuous methods and false narratives. Mainstream news, social media, and academia have perfected and promoted their liberal and leftist agenda without recourse. They are in many ways the media arm of the Democratic Party and many are infected with Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS).Only seven percent of American journalists identify as Republican and the rest claim that despite the fact they're all Democrats, they can be objective. It just ain't so Psychologists and the Heterodox Academy have shown that when people associate almost exclusively with those who agree with them, they suffer from groupthink, viewpoint orthodoxy, and confirmation bias-and lose their ability to see events clearly and objectively.In 2016 the fake news media narrative was more an unequivocal declaration: Donald Trump must not win. As well all know, he did, and the overwhelming pro-Clinton MSM predicted he would lose. And lose big How could they get it so wrong? And how could one man be the number one obsession and enemy of fake news?

The Heritage Foundation has so far documented 1,328 proven cases of voter fraud since America's founding. Nonetheless, these numbers are miniscule compared to the millions of legal votes cast. Even if they likely represent the tip of an iceberg of voter fraud-there are not enough "proven" cases in the 2020 election to alter the seven million plus Joe Biden election victory margin. Or are there?Is there some truth to Donald Trump's claims of a "stolen election" and "massive voter fraud" to justify his 2020 election loss when you analyze huge pro‐Biden vote dumps after election night in key battleground states? If we replace the phrases of "stolen election" and "massive voter fraud" with "gamed" election and massive voter "irregularities"-does he have a case?Furthermore, if we quantify these 2020 election gaming and irregularities by including the effect from election law changes enacted during the pandemic; combined with the subliminal leftist influence of big tech; a tsunami of fake news and false narratives, or voter fraud news suppression by mainstream media; and record setting funding by left leaning groups-yes, Trump has a case As you will discover in Voting Madness, the combined impacts of "gaming" and "irregularities" and perhaps outright voter "manipulation"-could have influenced millions-perhaps tens of millions of American votes-mostly Millennials-to the overwhelming benefit of Biden and Democratic candidates. Trump's legal team submitted more than 800 sworn eyewitness statements across six states consisting of affidavits, whistleblower accounts, witnesses, expert testimony, video and photographic evidence, statistical anomalies, and mathematical analyses to provide respective state and federal courts with innumerable demonstrations of mismanaged ballots, voting machine irregularities, due process transgressions, equal protection violations, actual fraud, and more. The vast majority have been dismissed due to improper legal procedures, lack of evidence or legal precedent, and some have been debunked and withdrawn. Yet others cannot be explained away-and until they are/or not-ongoing election integrity will be in doubt.

Today's California represents, by far, when compared to the rest of the United States, the worst that "so-called" progressivism has to offer-and if liberal, leftist, and Democratic Party pundits are correct with their declarations that "California is the wave of America's future"-the decline of our republic in most every category on the "sapience scorecard" is well on its way.The state has earned many times over its various California "crazy" monikers such as the Left Coast, Californification, Mexifornia and a host of others that bring light to the enormous failures of this once golden state whose California dreamin' utopia is now just a blur in the rear view mirror of California's history. Today, it's a neo-feudal dystopia but still has the world's fifth largest economy. How bizarre In most every statistic, from homelessness, housing, income disparity, identity politics, illegal immigration, environmental mismanagement, climate activism, public education, free speech suppression, anti-business and middle class, pro crime and homelessness, underfunded pensions, big labor and government, excessive taxation, irrational governance, etc.-California has fallen from grace to disgrace in the 21st century.So many of California's Democratic supermajority priorities, approved legislation, and socialist policies are beyond "unsapient"-more than just shear "madness"-they're firmly encamped in the "idiocracy" zone with a one-way ticket to a progressivism nightmare. Nevertheless, together, and united, we can stop this Hollywood horror script from becoming a woke reality show if we take decisive action now.California Madness provides a perfect object lesson for the rest of the United States as to how the California dream was destroyed, when, and by whom and why it's negative influence, if not corrected now, will eventually destroy the American dream as well.As a once proud native Californian, I cover the major issues facing California using viewpoint diversity, sapient think tanks, renowned authors, and detailed reports-all free of fake news and false narratives. For some of you this MADNESS book will be a revelation, an epiphany, a sapient being moment. For others, it will be a triggering event, denial of truth, and a painful intervention.

As extensively documented, our universities have been swept up into a new cultural movement, the so-called "social justice" movement, a key component of wokeness. "Social justice" ideology is based on the Marxist vision that the world is divided into oppressor classes and oppressed classes as noted in the Minding the Campus article "What Happened to Our Universities?" by Philip Carl Salzman, in October 2018 and is from their Free Speech in Peril collection.Unlike classical Marxism that divides the world into a bourgeois oppressor class and a proletarian oppressed class - that is capitalists oppressing workers - neo-Marxist "social justice" theory divides the world into gender, racial, sexual, and religious classes: male oppressors and female victims; white oppressors and people of color victims; heterosexual oppressors and gay, lesbian, transsexual, etc. etc. victims; Christian and Jewish oppressors and Muslim victims."Social justice" ideology leads to the rejection of oppressive institutions such as capitalism and Western Civilization. Universalistic criteria such as merit, achievement, and excellence are rejected today in universities and beyond because they allegedly disadvantage members of victim categories. Preferential measures on behalf of victims have been adopted as the overriding and primary purpose of universities today. Course topics, course substance, course references, recruitment of students, provision of special facilities and events for "victim" categories, hiring of academic and administrative staff, all are aimed to benefit members of "victim" categories and to exclude and marginalize members of "oppressor" categories.Sociology, anthropology, political science, English, history, women's and gender studies, black studies, social work, education, and law have all jettisoned their traditional fields of study to become "social justice" subjects, vilifying men, whites, heterosexuals, the West, capitalism, and advocating for women, people of color, gays etc., and Muslims. Now there is a full-throttle attack on the natural sciences and on STEM fields to infuse them with "victims," whatever these "victim" preferences and abilities might be, and to turn STEM into "social justice" fields, so that there would no longer be "science," but "feminist science" that is "socially just."How did all of this happen? What brought about this almost universal change in institutions of "higher learning"? Find out in this provocative campus guidebook Woke Free Campus Guide for Students, Faculty & Alumni: Establishing a "Woke Free" Environment on Campus by Abolishing DEI Bureaucracies and Restoring Equality (NOT Equity) in America's Universities.

Ruy Teixeira, a lifelong man of the Left, author of the 2002 The Emerging Democratic Majority, Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress and fixture of Democratic Party politics for more than 30 years who very much wants the Democratic Party to succeed, reports-the Democrats and the Democratic brand are in deep trouble: "That should have been obvious" he states "when Democrats underperformed in the 2020 election, turning what they and most observers expected to be a blue wave into more of a ripple. They lost House seats and performed poorly in state legislative elections. And their support among non-white voters, especially Hispanics, declined substantially."Still they did win the Presidency, which led many to miss the clear market signals this underperformance was sending to Democrats. That tendency was strengthened by the Democrats' improbable victories in the two Georgia Senate runoffs, which gave them full control of the federal government, albeit by the very narrowest of margins.The Democratic Party was once the political home of farmers, blue-collar workers, and lower-middle-class, and mostly Catholic "white ethnic" voters. Today, it's the party of affluent urban and suburban professionals, and also, in no small part, the party of the genuinely rich, from Silicon Valley to Wall Street and from Greenwich to Aspen.Nonetheless, today's Democratic Party seems deranged and unpredictable-insisting men are actually women if they think they are, claiming Biden's multi-trillion-dollar spending programs and wild currency creation will "reduce inflation," engineering a full-scale invasion of the American homeland by millions of illegal aliens so Democrats can stay in power forever, and so on.How did this happen? Why did it happen? And what's next? Keep reading to find out and be forewarned: For some of you this MADNESS textbook will be a revelation, an epiphany, a sapient being moment. For others, it will be a triggering event, denial of truth, and a painful intervention.

According to many government statistics, America's education system is failing due to lower expectations and the shift in focus from academic excellence in mathematics, science, reading, and history toward the implementation of social constructs like critical race theory equals fewer literate graduates."Public records and other evidence show that state-level and some local education officials are no longer focused on maintaining high academic standards and providing the best public education possible to students," according to Liv Finne."Instead, a concern for learning has been replaced by an aggressive political agenda designed to instill doubt, mental pain and low expectations in students. This race-centered agenda also seeks to divide children from teachers, their own communities and from each other. This harmful trend can only be resolved through policies that return high-quality academic standards to public education and well-funded and supportive education-choice programs that allow families to access alternatives services to meet the learning needs of all children."Finne, a former adjunct scholar now serving as Director of the Center for Education at Washington Policy Center, has been analyzing education policy for the past 13 years. Her research suggests the unmistakable decline in the literacy of America's students from fourth to twelfth grade is a direct result of the shift from academic excellence toward social constructs such as Critical Race Theory.Are you concerned about how illiberal and dysfunctional America's teacher's union and leftist dominated public education systems are in our thousands of high schools, community colleges, and 4-year universities? And how to reverse their 'D-' grade to an 'A+' grade? If yes, read on, but be forewarned: For some of you this MADNESS textbook will be a revelation, an epiphany, a sapient being moment. For others, it will be a triggering event, denial of truth, and a painful intervention.

Since the very formation of the United States, millions of people have entered this great nation as pilgrims, refugees, entrepreneurs, opportunists, nomads, missionaries, and pioneers as eloquently noted by sapient author Cole P. Zail in his AMAC Magazine Summer 2018 article "Immigration: Solidarity, Identity, and the American Dream."At its core, America is a country that unites people, however vast their differences may be, in the pride and exceptionalism of being able to call oneself an American. In a country made up of people from every race and nationality on earth, it's pertinent we preserve the significance of legal immigration, assimilation, and the process of becoming a naturalized American citizen.While we should celebrate our unique differences, we should, perhaps more importantly, celebrate the fact that we have joined together and blended ourselves into one nation, in spite of these vast differences. America's Founding Fathers were wise; they knew that our national strength could be preserved through unity. However, individuals who are not citizens do not have a right to American citizenship without the consent of the American people.As such, e pluribus unum exemplifies this unity and distills the essence of the United States, highlighting how we are a nation of individuals united by shared ideas and values, rather than by race or origin. Our populace is not bonded together by blood or birthplace, rather, we are united by our adherence to mutual values and our commitment to the Constitution. Becoming an American citizen has nothing to do with ancestry or ethnic identity; being American is a state of mind and a devotion to beliefs.This spirit of unity, this celebration of American citizenship, this shared faith in a national ideal-this is the true majesty of our great nation. Unfortunately for America and its legalized citizens-illegal immigration does not abide by these ideals-and its inherent costs to America's taxpayers, its assault on the core principles of the American Dream, and its disregard of American immigrations laws-all present clear and present dangers as this textbook will clearly, concisely and factually demonstrate.

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Are You a Sapient Being?Sapience, also known as wisdom, is the ability to think and act using knowledge, experience, understanding, common sense and insight. Sapience is associated with attributes such as intelligence, enlightenment, unbiased judgment, compassion, experiential self-knowledge, self-actualization, and virtues such as ethics and benevolence. Being a sapient being is not about identity politics, it's about doing what is right and borrows many of the essential qualities of Centrism that supports strength, tradition, open mindedness, and policy based on evidence not ideology. Sapient beings are independent minded thinkers that achieve common sense solutions that appropriately address America's and the world's most pressing issues. They gauge situations based on context and reason, consideration, and probability. They are open minded and exercise conviction and willing to fight for it on the intellectual battlefield. Sapient beings don't blindly and recklessly follow their feelings or emotions. Their unifying ideology is based on the truth, reason, logic, scientific method, and pragmatism-and not necessarily defined by compromise, moderation, or any particular faith-but is considerate of them. Does this sound like you? Or someone you want to be? Are you ready for a Society Advancing Personal Intelligence & Enlightenment Now Together (S.A.P.I.E.N.T. ). If the answer is yes-The S.A.P.I.E.N.T. Being might be right for you

Liv Finne, a former adjunct scholar now serving as Director of the Center for Education at Washington Policy Center, has been analyzing education policy for the past 13 years. Her research suggests the unmistakable decline in the literacy of America's students from fourth to twelfth grade due to lower expectations and the shift in focus from academic excellence in mathematics, science, reading, and history toward the implementation of woke Progressivism and social justice constructs like critical race theory (CRT).Government data for 2019 shows the average fourth grader has a 41 percent proficiency level in mathematics. By the eighth grade, the proficiency level drops to 34 percent. By the twelfth grade, America's students have an average math proficiency level of only 24 percent. In reading, fourth graders have an average proficiency rate of 35 percent. By eighth grade, the proficiency level drops to 34 percent, and by the twelfth grade, America's average student shows only a slight proficiency improvement to 37 percent. In writing, the proficiency levels are 28 percent in fourth grade with eighth and twelfth graders sharing a score of 27 percent.America's students fare worse in science, with fourth-graders having only a 36 percent proficiency rate and eighth-graders dropping to 35 percent. Twelfth-graders have only a 22 rate of proficiency in science. The worst scores come in history, with fourth-graders starting out with only 20 percent proficiency and dropping to 15 percent by the eighth grade. By grade 12, America's students have a paltry 12 percent proficiency level in history.Rather than develop curriculum that provides students with the qualifications needed to graduate high school, Finne says the education system has opted to lower the bar of academic standards. This new push by the school system to abandon efforts of academic achievement and shift toward woke social constructs like CRT is an effort to hide the fact that they have failed in their jobs to educate our children. "The whole idea is that if the community knew that their schools are not educating their children to basic levels they would rise up," Finne said. And now they are notes Moms for Liberty and other parental rights groups. The failure of our educational system goes beyond what they fail to teach. It includes what they do teach, or rather indoctrinate, and the graduates they send out into the world, are incapable of seriously weighing alternatives for themselves or for American society.