This is my first attempt at writing a book. Im 63 Caucasian, happy, handsome and horney --not a real good speller. I am semi-retired. I write books, make model, collect coins and raise beagle dogs. I go on date sites and porn sites sometimes. I love the ladies and always have since 5 years old. I used to cut wood and do logging and had a dump truck, excavation company for 30 years and a long haul trucker for seasonal work; wrecked my truck 2 times.

Legislative term limits are reshaping the political landscape in numerous states; however, few of the effects are consistent across all states. Everything from the political environment to the level of legislative professionalism within a state influences the trends that are often attributed to term limits. To cut through these many trends and isolate the ones most likely created by term limits, this volume develops comparisons of states with term limits to similar states without term limi...

Epic wildfire. Devastating drought. Cataclysmic flooding. Extreme weather in the wake of climate change threatens to turn the American West into a region hostile to human habitation—a “Great American Desert,” as early US explorers once mislabeled it. As Bruce E. Cain suggests in this timely book, the unique complex of politics, technology, and logistics that once won the West must be rethought and reconfigured to win it anew in the face of a widespread accelerating threat.The chall...

Why do American political reform efforts so often fail to solve the problems they intend to fix? In this book, Bruce E. Cain argues that the reasons are an unrealistic civic ideal of a fully informed and engaged citizenry and a neglect of basic pluralist principles about political intermediaries. This book traces the tension between populist and pluralist approaches as it plays out in many seemingly distinct reform topics, such as voting administration, campaign finance, excessive partisan...

Prolific LDS author Bruce E. Dana explores three rarely discussed-but deeply fascinating-teachings unique to the theology of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. In this insightful and thought-provoking book, Dana examines questions that invite deeper understanding and spiritual reflection:How were Adam and Eve truly created?In what way did eating the Forbidden Fruit bring about mortality?Is Cain still alive today because of his earthly sins?

The stories in this book are as real as memory and documentation can insure, but then, all such stories suffer from the impact of multiple retellings and time.Included in this book are tales of adventures and misadventures, lucky breaks and near mishaps, rabid dogs, runaway horses and wild boars, surprise alerts and smashed gates, real terrorists and missed flights, muddy canals and successful rescues, getting fired and finding talents, being first and being last. Woody Caine invites yo...

Americana is a music that defies definition. It isn’t rock, although it does encompass rock. It isn’t folk, but folk is there. It isn’t Celtic, but it is woven with Celtic threads. It is a blend of forms, music that draws on a wide range of influences. Gathering these many genres together, Americana continually reinvents itself and actively tells the story of its origins and its future.The Americana Revolution: From Country and Blues Roots to the Avett Brothers, Mumford & Sons, and...

THE BLUE GIRL, CANDY LEE CAINEMIKE AND CANDICE HOLDER'S ONCE NEAR-PERFECT MARRIAGE has become mysteriously troubled. He holds himself solely responsible for their problems but has avoided confronting them head-on through seemingly respectable immersion in his career. Equally into avoidance, her reaction has been to retreat ever more deeply into herself.UNABLE TO COMPREHEND why their relationship has gone so far off the rails, they've been overcome ...

Cain’s Cycle is the dramatic tale of an unnamed narrator as he is drawn into the demanding and dangerous world of motorcycle gangs. After he meets Speed, the one who will become his future blood brother, a young man seeking a sense of belonging, commitment, and brotherhood purchases a chopper and all the accouterments and joins the Pagans, a motorcycle gang known for racing, drinking, using drugs, and confronting anyone who crosses them. The young man idolizes Speed who mentors him during ...

The application of the Political Question Doctrine is at a crucial crossroads as the Supreme Court continues to test new "War on Terrorism" initiatives. Historically, the political question doctrine has held the courts from resolving constitutional issues that are better left to other departments of government, as a way of maintaining the system of checks and balances. However, the doctrine's many ambiguities have allowed a roughly defined juxtaposition of the branches of government during...

These volumes analyze the transformation of the American right in recent years. While the roots of that transformation can be traced back to the 1970s, the last decade has seen further radical revisions of its ideology, style and policies. The contributors argue that both the organized Republican Party and the wider American right have changed profoundly, especially since the Trump presidency of 2017-2021, reflecting long- and short-term alterations to the political dynamics of the United ...

In this state-of-the-art textbook, a distinguished team of established experts and rising scholars discuss the legacy of the Obama years and the impact of the unexpected Trump presidential victory of 2016. Carrying on the tradition set by its predecessors of incisive, authoritative and up-to-date coverage, this eighth volume explores the policy dilemmas faced by the Trump administration, as well as the doubts over the efficiency of America’s key political institutions, its policy-making pr...