Finally! A book that offers a plan that can resolve our country's mind-boggling domestic problems and settle the troublesome international issues'including the war on terror'which threaten to erupt into global conflict. The "New Manifest Destiny" is a fresh, insightful look at the big problems that endanger the security of every nation in the modern world. In this account, Bill Washington uses the greatest axioms of the Bible to demonstrate the link between the abandonment of our traditional Christian values and the seemingly intractable problems that we face in the early 21st Century. In particular, the teaching of the mentally destructive dogma of the theory of evolution is cited as a major cause for our current downward spiral. The prophetic conclusion may come as a surprise to many, as The "New Manifest Destiny" it offers hope and encouragement to a world on the brink of disaster.

In the second novel involving the Virginia Militia featured in James E. Eubanks's A Southern Wind, Virginia billionaire and militia leader Claiborne Randolph is a highly powerful personal advisor to the U.S. president, and former government intelligence agent James Benton Stark is now a U.S. senator. This time, they're fighting a hideous virus infecting the people of the United States: illegal drugs. The presidential administration sends Lieutenant General John Hanberry and his forces to destroy the drug infrastructure of Colombia and confront China's growing influence in the old Canal Zone and Latin America. Hanberry's army is determined to end the perpetual cycle of human destruction caused by that insidious commerce-and they succeed. Emboldened by success in Colombia and Panama, the government, now led by President Randolph and Senator Stark, begins a new era of an American Democratic Empire based on the U.S. Constitution and the principles of freedom written by the Founding Fathers. But a bigger problem hides in the desert sands of Iran, one that won't be nearly as easy as their victories in Latin America and may just signal the end of the Virginia Militia .

Lewis, Clark and the surviving members of their expedition continue westward, only to learn there is nowhere to run on the river.

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As "Savior of the Union" and the "Great Emancipator," Abraham Lincoln has been lauded for his courage, wisdom, and moral fiber. Yet Frederick Douglass's assertion that Lincoln was the "white man's president" has been used by some detractors as proof of his fundamentally racist character. Viewed objectively, Lincoln was a white man's president by virtue of his own whiteness and that of the culture that produced him. Until now, however, historians have rarely explored just what this means for our understanding of the man and his actions. Writing at the vanguard of "whiteness studies," Brian Dirck considers Lincoln as a typical American white man of his time who bore the multiple assumptions, prejudices, and limitations of his own racial identity. He shows us a Lincoln less willing or able to transcend those limitations than his more heroic persona might suggest but also contends that Lincoln's understanding and approach to racial bigotry was more enlightened than those of most of his white contemporaries. Blazing a new trail in Lincoln studies, Dirck reveals that Lincoln was well aware of and sympathetic to white fears, especially that of descending into "white trash," a notion that gnawed at a man eager to distance himself from his own coarse origins. But he also shows that after Lincoln crossed the Rubicon of black emancipation, he continued to grow beyond such cultural constraints, as seen in his seven recorded encounters with nonwhites. Dirck probes more deeply into what "white" meant in Lincoln's time and what it meant to Lincoln himself, and from this perspective he proposes a new understanding of how Lincoln viewed whiteness as a distinct racial category that influenced his policies. As Dirck ably demonstrates, Lincoln rose far enough above the confines of his culture to accomplish deeds still worthy of our admiration, and he calls for a more critically informed admiration of Lincoln that allows us to celebrate his considerable accomplishments while simultaneously recognizing his limitations. When Douglass observed that Lincoln was the white man's president, he may not have intended it as a serious analytical category. But, as Dirck shows, perhaps we should do so—the better to understand not just the Lincoln presidency, but the man himself.