"Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom," asserted Thomas Jefferson. Jesus debated the question of TRUTH with Pilate. We didn't get an answer! So as a simultaneous under and overstatement to, "WHAT'S ON MY MIND?"..I SAY:The kid's right but no one's LISTENING -THE EMPEROR IS NOT WEARING ARMANI AND HIS LADY, NOT DRAPED IN GOOCHY-GOOCHY...THEY ARE BARE-SSED NAKED! You know the kid's telling the truth, BUT.. my self-serving ? NOT FOR THE GREATER GOOD- SELF-INTERESTS (I-MEISMS , THE PRESENT WORLD PARADIGM) impels, compels me to duck under the radar and LIVE A HELLISH LIE! BASTA, ENOUGH, NO MORE BS, I'm with the kid. " One man with courage makes a majority." - THANKS ANDREW JACKSON. "THE TRUTH SHALL SET YOU FREE." BELOVED ALL...FOLLOW THE YELLOW BRICK ROAD TO -"THE ORIGINAL POCKET PATRIOT," AN EMPOWERING, SUPER-PAC INSTRUMENT OF NON-PARTISAN, PAST AND PRESENT AMERICAN VOICES ECHOING ACROSS TIME. THAT WHATEVER ELSE IT IS - TRUTH IS THE FIRST AND LAST PRINCIPLE OF A DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC.. and every single human on the planet, naturally.

"Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom," asserted Thomas Jefferson. Jesus debated the question of TRUTH with Pilate. We didn't get an answer! So as a simultaneous under and overstatement to, "WHAT'S ON MY MIND?"..I SAY:The kid's right but no one's LISTENING -THE EMPEROR IS NOT WEARING ARMANI AND HIS LADY, NOT DRAPED IN GOOCHY-GOOCHY...THEY ARE BARE-SSED NAKED! You know the kid's telling the truth, BUT.. my self-serving - NOT FOR THE GREATER GOOD- SELF-INTERESTS (I-MEISMS , THE PRESENT WORLD PARADIGM) impels, compels me to duck under the radar and LIVE A HELLISH LIE! BASTA, ENOUGH, NO MORE BS, I'm with the kid. " One man with courage makes a majority." - THANKS ANDREW JACKSON. "THE TRUTH SHALL SET YOU FREE." BELOVED ALL...FOLLOW THE YELLOW BRICK ROAD TO -"THE ORIGINAL POCKET PATRIOT," AN EMPOWERING, SUPER-PAC INSTRUMENT OF NON-PARTISAN, PAST AND PRESENT AMERICAN VOICES ECHOING ACROSS TIME. THAT WHATEVER ELSE IT IS - TRUTH IS THE FIRST AND LAST PRINCIPLE OF A DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC.. and every single human on the planet, naturally.

For the past three decades, many history professors have allowed their biases to distort the way America’s past is taught. These intellectuals have searched for instances of racism, sexism, and bigotry in our history while downplaying the greatness of America’s patriots and the achievements of “dead white men.” As a result, more emphasis is placed on Harriet Tubman than on George Washington; more about the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II than about D-Day or Iwo Jima; more on the dangers we faced from Joseph McCarthy than those we faced from Josef Stalin. A Patriot’s History of the United States corrects those doctrinaire biases. In this groundbreaking book, America’s discovery, founding, and development are reexamined with an appreciation for the elements of public virtue, personal liberty, and private property that make this nation uniquely successful. This book offers a long-overdue acknowledgment of America’s true and proud history.

Embrace Your Patriotic Spirit! &break;&break;"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it." - Thomas Paine &break;&break;A fitting tribute to American heroes past and present, the Pocket Patriot is an inspirational collection of quotes that embrace, celebrate, and preserve the American Spirit. &break;&break;This packed volume is: &break; Filled with more than 2,000 quotes from founding fathers and early pioneers to current leaders and innovators&break; Organized by subject, including civil rights, ethics, war and peace, equality, and freedom&break; Educational, with a biographical index giving readers a peek at the lives of the esteemed leaders &break;&break;Patriotic and inspiring, this book will make a perfect gift for military personnel, veterans, and any person who celebrates America.

Performing Truth answers the most pressing questions facing any theatre-makers who are wrestling with how to present historical, political or socioeconomic information in an engaging, entertaining, and galvanizing way. How to make data compelling and documents mobilizing? How to keep an audience interested in what might be dry, dire, or depressing? How to surprise an audience and keep them alert? Collecting together the performance texts of international performance artist and activist L.M. Bogad, this book accompanies each script with essays that further explore that work's performance strategies. It also equips readers with specific resources and pedagogical tools to help those wishing to stage these pieces or create their own work to engage with similar topics. Bogad also provides "takeaways" for each piece, illustrating the challenges of its particular subject matter and how to overcome those challenges with innovations unique to performance art. This is a key guidebook for artists and theatre-makers facing the challenges of engaging with information in an era of fake news, propaganda bots, and the polarization of ideological spheres, as well as students and teachers taking on that challenge in theatre studies, performance studies and performing arts classrooms.

A New York Times bestseller • A New York Times Notable Book “The tale of how Konnikova followed a story about poker players and wound up becoming a story herself will have you riveted, first as you learn about her big winnings, and then as she conveys the lessons she learned both about human nature and herself.” —The Washington Post It's true that Maria Konnikova had never actually played poker before and didn't even know the rules when she approached Erik Seidel, Poker Hall of Fame inductee and winner of tens of millions of dollars in earnings, and convinced him to be her mentor. But she knew her man: a famously thoughtful and broad-minded player, he was intrigued by her pitch that she wasn't interested in making money so much as learning about life. She had faced a stretch of personal bad luck, and her reflections on the role of chance had led her to a giant of game theory, who pointed her to poker as the ultimate master class in learning to distinguish between what can be controlled and what can't. And she certainly brought something to the table, including a Ph.D. in psychology and an acclaimed and growing body of work on human behavior and how to hack it. So Seidel was in, and soon she was down the rabbit hole with him, into the wild, fiercely competitive, overwhelmingly masculine world of high-stakes Texas Hold'em, their initial end point the following year's World Series of Poker. But then something extraordinary happened. Under Seidel's guidance, Konnikova did have many epiphanies about life that derived from her new pursuit, including how to better read, not just her opponents but far more importantly herself; how to identify what tilted her into an emotional state that got in the way of good decisions; and how to get to a place where she could accept luck for what it was, and what it wasn't. But she also began to win. And win. In a little over a year, she began making earnest money from tournaments, ultimately totaling hundreds of thousands of dollars. She won a major title, got a sponsor, and got used to being on television, and to headlines like "How one writer's book deal turned her into a professional poker player." She even learned to like Las Vegas. But in the end, Maria Konnikova is a writer and student of human behavior, and ultimately the point was to render her incredible journey into a container for its invaluable lessons. The biggest bluff of all, she learned, is that skill is enough. Bad cards will come our way, but keeping our focus on how we play them and not on the outcome will keep us moving through many a dark patch, until the luck once again breaks our way.