The Right to Bear Arms - and the wisdom of doing so is intended to present a cohesive argument for: 1) the right of the average citizen to go armed for the protection of self, family, friends and others; and 2) the advantage of an armed populace. These arguments are based on the research of leading legal experts, historians, economists, criminologists, and statisticians.
The Right to Bear Arms - and the wisdom of doing so is intended to present a cohesive argument for: 1) the right of the average citizen to go armed for the protection of self, family, friends and others; and 2) the advantage of an armed populace. These arguments are based on the research of leading legal experts, historians, economists, criminologists, and statisticians.
What if happiness isn't something you find, but something you create?In Happy For You, Patrick Thomas shares a deeply personal and transformational journey through adversity, self-discovery, and awakening. Drawing from mindfulness, psychology, Buddhism, and lived experience, this book offers practical tools and powerful insights to help you break free from the pressures of modern life, reshape your worldview, and reconnect with what truly matters.Whether you're navigating stress, searching for purpose, or simply longing for peace, Happy For You is a compassionate guide to finding joy-from the inside out.
Published in 1999, this text sets out to analyze fashions in management literature through studying patterns in the citations offered to leading management authors. Particular attention is paid to those publications which are cited extensively, but only for a short period - these publications are regarded as potentially subject to fashionable pressures. More detailed case studies of fashionable publications are undertaken to gain a greater understanding of what factors may lead to management fashions. The book represents a large-scale empirical analysis of management fashions and culminates in an empirically validated theory of management fashions.
Published in 1999, this text sets out to analyze fashions in management literature through studying patterns in the citations offered to leading management authors. Particular attention is paid to those publications which are cited extensively, but only for a short period - these publications are regarded as potentially subject to fashionable pressures. More detailed case studies of fashionable publications are undertaken to gain a greater understanding of what factors may lead to management fashions. The book represents a large-scale empirical analysis of management fashions and culminates in an empirically validated theory of management fashions.
After three quarters of a century of no real violence, retired economics professor, horseman, martial artist, and firearms enthusiast Ray Taylor finds himself involved in a violent conflict between a corrupt business organization and a technically advanced alien world that totally oppresses its population through psychological domination, but has lost its ability to defend itself against an outside threat. Taylor is invited to join a student, Floyd Wells, and a fellow professor, Susan Kelly, on an archeological dig as a horse wrangler; needed because the site is "...way back in the Rocky Mountains." Things start to unravel when he learns that the site is on the Moon and the Earth rises above its horizon, "Not the Moon or the Earth that we know. But a different Earth and Moon in another reality, another universe." The crowning problem: the project is financed by New Century Enterprises, a company known for criminal dealings with which Taylor has had problems before. Their interest is an ore unique to the alien Moon that, "...will burn for days...Burned under pressure it lasts far longer..." and has "...enough potential energy to create an atomic bomb equivalent without the radiation problem." Taylor finds himself facing the task of getting himself and his two "project associates" out alive and hopefully preventing New Century from getting their hands on a weapon capable of changing world order. Armed only with his forty five revolver, assisted by "... the smartest horse in any world", and hampered by age ("Golden years be damned I'm not up to this.") Taylor has a problem.
We are under siege. Wake up America This is no time to be giving the Administration the benefit of the doubt; we are in trouble. The United States of America is under siege from several fronts: We are under siege by militant Islamists (9/11, Iraq and Afghanistan, along with the various foreign and domestic terrorist attacks, are just parts of this.) They are not attacking us because we are free and prosperous, nor because we have troops in Asia, nor because we have not closed Guantanamo. They are attacking us because we are infidels. "Islam by the sword." We are at war with drug cartels on our southern border. They have outposts in U.S. Territory. We have been invaded by the drug cartels. Our southern border is undefended; we have been overrun by illegal immigrants. Our own government is attempting to destroy our nation as we know it. The current federal government is the most left leaning in our history. It is trying to remake our country to match Europe-just as the European economy is failing from the weight of their governments. The Obama administration is totally ignoring the Constitution and establishing new "laws" through executive orders coming out of the White House and rulings by the massive number of federal agencies created or enlarged by the "Imperial Presidency". Where are we now? Nearly half way through the slowest economic recovery in U.S. history (or perhaps the end of recovery and the start of the next downturn), saddled with useless laws and restrictions that hamper business growth, losing two wars (and having lost the international respect we once had), with an open southern border, and with an administration that enforces the law very selectively, and is increasingly swamped with scandals which it attempts to cover up by stonewalling: that's where we are What can we do? In the short term, we have to pull out of the ditch and stop the runaway pull to the left. In the long term, we have to make corrections to our government (largely returns to the original Constitutional principles) to avoid future runaways (to either the left or the right). And vote Voting is an obligation as well as a right. I'm not a politician nor am I an academic. I'm an American with a reasonably good education (BA in economics and political science 1960) who has worked for many different companies in several industries for more than fifty years. I have followed national politics for years. I passed the three quarter century mark more than a year ago. I remember what I was doing when Pearl Harbor was attacked and on VE and VJ days. I remember the concerns of nuclear annihilation that swept the country during the cold war. I sweated my National Guard unit being called to war during the Berlin and the Cuban missile crises. And I have never been as concerned as I am now. In all of those other times, the United States was a strong nation because of the strength of its citizens. The U. S. population held to a strong work ethic and moral code. Now, the ruling plurality dismisses individual achievement and traditional morality in favor of government handouts and being careful to not offend minorities-even if this means the destruction of the majority will. And the destruction of the majority's culture and rights. We elected a president with little experience, and about whom we knew next to nothing hoping for a "...change we could believe in." We got the slowest financial recovery in the history of our nation (it's still going and shows signs of getting worse before it gets better), a tremendous increase in national debt, an almost total loss of respect for our government in the international community, and a growing list of federal government scandals. So what did we do about it? We reelected him for a second term. This is the scary part. Have enough voters gotten tied into the gravy train to always swing the vote in favor of handouts?
Let's admit it. The world is far from perfect. Nobody believes in magic anymore. Or gods. Or Vampires. Hope itself is on the endangered list. Especially in New York City. Despite this, there's a place in Manhattan where the impossible not only exists, but bellies up to the bar to drink its fill. Owned by leprechaun Paddy Moran, it's a place where Dionysus pours the drinks and Hercules watches the door. It is a second home to the legends of our day and a beacon to troubled souls, all lead there by the simple magic of the rainbow. The name of the place is Bulfinche's Pub. One never knows what will come in the door next: Armageddon, or a terrified man with no socks. Whatever happens, two things are certain: Hope and Happiness never die, and the first drink is always on the house.
With the help of the mythical staff and partons of Bulfinche's pub, werewolf Ted Brand must rescue his family from a more powerful werewolf, and dodge a rogue agent with the Department of Mystic Affairs.
