“You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.” – William Faulkner
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Thought For the Day: You Cannot Swim For New Horizons Until You Have the Courage To Lose Sight of the Shore
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First Principles: The Ability To Produce Every Necessity of Life Renders Us Independent In War As Well As In Peace
“The ability to produce every necessity of life renders us independent in war as well as in peace.” – Millard Fillmore
We must have all of our necessary industries on American shores. Off shoring has been a failed experiment and this tariff war is the evidence of this failure.
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Thought For the Day: All That Man Needs For Health and Healing Has Been Provided By God In Nature; the Challenge of Science Is To Find It
“All that man needs for health and healing has been provided by God in nature, the Challenge of science is to find it.” – Paracelsus
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First Principles: The Power To Tax Is the Power To Destroy
“The power to tax is the power to destroy.” – John Marshall
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Thought For the Day: There Is A Longing Among All People and Creatures To Have A Sense of Purpose and Worth. To Satisfy That Common Longing In All of Us, We Must Respect Each Other
“There is a longing among all people and creatures to have a sense of purpose and worth. To satisfy that common longing in all of us we must respect each other.” – Chief Dan George
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First Principles: I Congratulate You, My Fellow-Citizens, Upon the High State of Prosperity To Which the Goodness of Divine Providence Has Conducted Our Common Country. Let Us Invoke A Continuance of the Same
“I congratulate you, my fellow-citizens, upon the high state of prosperity to which the goodness of Divine Providence has conducted our common country. Let us invoke a continuance of the same protecting care which has led us from small beginnings to the eminence we this day occupy.” – Zachary Taylor
His life was an interesting one. He did not spend any time in college but attained his status by always victoriously fighting for our country. His presidency was either the second or third shortest before he either died from Cholera or was poisoned. The jury is still out on that one.
Silenced Gentrification
Silenced Gentrification
by Michael Doyle
The sanctimonious and the truly racist
Bleat on as they savagely persist.
Demanding urban stratification
In lieu of what is deemed gentrification.
They claim that loving a bit of silence
Is tantamount to committing true violence
Against those too poor to find a solution
And put an end to noise pollution.
This is really a matter of presentation
At least more than it is representation.
Because you see, there is grace in quietude.
To my ears, I offer it gratitude.
It is easier in its sweet simplicity,
To find natural sounds greater than complexity.
Gentrification is not the case of rabid displacement.
Silence isn't silent in its embracement.
Artists enter the inner city like Johnny Appleseed
And just as suddenly it becomes about their needs.
Beauty and truth are found in the dreamer's hand,
This is something sociologists fail to understand.
Silence is not the world's fear of darkness.
It is humanity's stand to hold back the harshness.
It is the mind separated from overwhelming society,
And finding peace instead of angst and anxiety.
You don't have to be rich to enjoy a closed window.
You don't have to love the light to disdain shadow.
The clattering soundtrack of life that never ceases
Is not something that should be experienced in increases
More noise does not make a healthy society but is a mistake.
It is more than enough to make the nervous system shake.
To think there is something greater in the city's noise
Just reminds me that some need to find greater joys.
Those who fail to see this have missed the texture
That sound and light are the cosmic architecture.
And that in finding a bit of silence and quietude,
is something for which a thinking man finds gratitude.
(c) September 22, 2026 Michael Doyle
All Rights Reserved
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Thought For the Day: There May Be Trouble Ahead – But While There’s Moonlight, and Music, and Love, and Romance – Let’s Face the Music and Dance
“There may be trouble ahead – But while there’s moonlight, and music, and love, and romance -Let’s face the music and dance.” – Irving Berlin
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First Principles: I Am Not Influenced By the Expectation of Promotion Or Pecuniary Reward. I Wish To Be Useful, and Every Kind of Service Necessary For the Public Good Becomes Honorable By Being Necessary
“I am not influenced by the expectation of promotion or pecuniary reward. I wish to be useful, and every kind of service necessary for the public good, becomes honorable by being necessary. If the exigencies of my country demand a peculiar service, its claim to perform that service are imperious.” – Nathan Hale
On this date, we honor the death of a man who valued freedom and liberty for all of America over his own life. For this, we express our gratitude to Nathan Hale.
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Thought For the Day: It Does Not Require Many Words To Speak the Truth
“It does not require many words to speak the truth.” – Chief Joseph
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