Deregulating God

Is God gone? Dr. Carlene Bawden contends that we have brazenly privatized God, abandoned his laws, reduced him to a mere commodity, then seized from his offerings only what served our ruthless greed. Without God's Laws the world stands in disarray, ripe with hate, fear, rampant crime, economic and social injustices, while religious wars rage across the globe. Deregulating God focuses on the spiritual solution to restoring humanity, beginning by removing illusions and lies that live on in our nations. Dr. Bawden guides readers across social, political, and psychological terrain to discover the means of restoring God, soul, and humanity. Four Laws of Love mandate that our acts be deliberate, mission oriented, empty of all expectation, given with pure intention, and derived from our surrendered self. Plowing beneath trendy chatter into quantum or esoteric reality, see how consciousness and energy fields prove our seamless physical and soul connection. As readers riffle the pages, words flow from phenomenology to poetry to prayer. Deregulating God is an exceptional and original venture into spirituality. Dr. Bawden is an avid proponent of energy medicine and spiritual healing and an advocate of quantum laws governing human and cosmic affects of electromagnetism and the interconnectivity of all things, people, and events. She is a national award-winning writer, was department editor/writer for two national magazines, holds a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin, and was on the faculty of the Department of Environmental and Economic Development. She went to D.C. to work for the U.S. Congress and later for the White House, addressing national policy issues, traveling the States and overseas. While in Washington, she was a prolific writer and national speaker, frequently offering testimony before Congress and writing speeches for the vice president and key members of Congress. Dr. Bawden currently resides in Apple Valley, MN.

Kevin J. Vanhoozer develops a new vision of Christian theism by establishing divine communicative action as the formal and material principle of theology. His contribution revisits long-standing controversies such as the relations of God's sovereignty tohuman freedom, time to eternity, and suffering to love.

Studies the politics of rate-setting as a mechanism for cost containment in health care

The nation's federal, state, and local public service is in deep trouble. Not even the most talented, dedicated, well-compensated, well-trained, and well-led public servants can serve the public well if they must operate under perverse personnel and procurement regulations that punish innovation and promote inefficiency. Many attempts have been made to determine administrative problems in the public service and come up with viable solutions. Two of the most important—the 1990 report of the National Commission on the Public Service, led by former Federal Reserve chairman Paul A. Volcker, and the 1993 report of the National Commission on the State and Local Public Service, led by former Mississippi Governor William F. Winter—recommended "deregulating the public service." Deregulating the public service essentially means altering or abolishing personnel and procurement regulations that deplete government workers' creativity, reduce their productivity, and make a career in public service unattractive to many talented, energetic, and public-spirited citizens. But will it work? With the benefit of a historical perspective on the development of American public service from the days of the progressives to the present, the contributors to this book argue that deregulating the public service is a necessary but insufficient condition for much of the needed improvement in governmental administration. Avoiding simple solutions and quick fixes for long-standing ills, they recommend new and large-scale experiments with deregulating the public service at all levels of government. In addition to editor John DiIulio, the contributors are Paul A. Volcker, former chairman of the Federal Reserve, now at Princeton University; former Mississippi Governor William F. Winter; Gerald J. Garvey, Princeton; John P. Burke, University of Vermont; Melvin J. Dubnick, Rutgers; Constance Horner, former director of the Federal Office of Personnel Management, now at Brookings; Mark

Novel set in the late nineteen-eighties recounting first years of airline deregulation and the effects it had on that industry and its employees. Corporate raider Carlo Clemenza is the chief villain of the piece. He uses junk bonds, uncompromising Soviet styled negotiation tactics, sham bankruptcies and ruthless abrogation of union contracts to crush competing airlines and to bring airline workers to heel. His methods earn him countless death threats. Thousands of professional pilots find themselves compelled to start their careers over or with no careers at all. One pilot decides to take direct action and makes Clemenza "The target." But his pursuit of the well protected Clemenza makes him a target in turn.

The truth is we are all just a little bit crazy in some areas of our life to a whole lot of crazy. Being miss-directed is one of the things mankind has in common as the various forms of insanity work the same way in every one of us. We've all been programmed to unknowingly believe in a host of lies and it's our belief in the need to uphold the lies that do us in. There are laws that pertain to the universe. These laws cannot be broken without creating diverse consequences. With every action there is an opposite reaction of effect. And where do the decisions we make come from? They generally come from our minds. The question then becomes, "Who's controlling the mind?" If your mind is at work and in agreement with you then you would rightly say you are controlling your mind. But if you occasionally find that your mind is working against you then you should consider you are not solely in control. Jesus referred to Satan as, the father of lies. I intend to show how the workings of evil are constructed through the placement of lies and how these lies in combination are at work to disrupt our lives. I will show how the longest and greatest lie is packaged and how the six major steps that makes up a combined package works powerfully against you. Then I will show how the effects from the lies get all mixed in with the pain you experience and how the end results can be devastating. This book is about our need for revelation and offers the reader an opportunity to begin a personal journey with life as it truly is. This is a lifelong journey in Spirit and truth and it begins with your full recognition of the need for having God working continuously in your life.

Airline deregulation is a failure, conclude Professors Dempsey and Goetz. They assault the conventional wisdom in this provocative book, finding that the Airline Deregulation Act of 1978, championed by a profound political movement which also advocated the deregulation of the bus, trucking, rail, and pipeline industries, failed to achieve the promises of its proponents. Only now is the full impact of deregulation being felt. Airline deregulation has resulted in unprecedented industry concentration, miserable service, a deterioration in labor-management relations, a narrower margin of safety, and higher prices for the consumer. This comprehensive book begins by exploring the strategy, tactics, and egos of the major airline robber barons, including Frank Lorenzo and Carl Icahn. In separate chapters, the strengths, weaknesses, and corporate cultures of each of the major airlines are evaluated. Part Two assesses the political, economic, and social justifications for New Deal regulation of aviation, and its deregulation in the late 1970s. Part Three then addresses the major consequences of deregulation in chapters on concentration, pricing, service, and safety, and Part Four advances a legislative agenda for solving the problems that have emerged. Professors Dempsey and Goetz advocate a middle course of responsible government supervision between the dead hand of regulation of the 1930s and the contemporary evil of market Darwinism. The book will be of particular interest to airline and airport industry executives, government officials, and students and scholars in public policy, economics, business, political science, and transportation.

People have always questioned the power of God. The question is also posed in scriptures. "Is there anything too hard for the Lord to do" ? The scriptures has a response- "with God nothing shall be impossible"! How big is your God depends on the limitations of your mind. Read on!