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First Principles: The Question Is, Not What Rights Naturally Belong To Man, But How They May Be Most Equally and Efficiently Guarded In Society
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Thought For the Day: The Whole People, Who Formed the Union…Men, Their Rights and Nothing More; Women, Their Rights and Nothing Less
“It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union…. Men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less.” – Susan B. Anthony
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Tragic Seasons
Tragic Seasons
by Michael Doyle
Suddenly, once upon a time,
We thought that we had learned
Those things of faith and trust
Could somehow be magically earned.
If only we learned to see
The other side differently.
Mostly, we wanted to believe
The best of the world we conceive.
But then we learned to look for signs,
To see the adversary for their designs.
We learned to believe in who was concealed,
And look for reality when the face was revealed.
We learn the languages of deception,
When we see each other as we truly are.
Each side's bargain brings its connection,
Bringing us closer from afar.
It matters little whether person or country.
We must believe what we are shown.
The words we speak are simple mythology
Meant to cover up truths never fully known.
When we search for answers in fairytales,
We learn that the truest versions come to consequence.
And though we might throw pennies down wishing wells,
What we find are lies and monster pay recompense.
Some secrets are to be kept inside,
Hidden behind a prideless veil.
It's not that it's a matter of pride,
But that each knows that it's just as well.
These are the clueless games we learn to play.
We keep harm's way at arm's length,
While never putting all our cards on display.
Life is a negotiation made from a position of strength.
Time brings us to our deals with the Devil.
We tell ourselves these are for good reasons,
Until we find ourselves never quite on the level,
And that our reasons change with life's seasons.
There is a truth that only two souls can share.
It begins with a smile and ends in true care.
Whoever said that life isn't inevitably fair
Has never found themselves n love's snare.
(c) March 12, 2026 Michael Doyle
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Thought For the Day: There Are Two Kinds of Music. Good Music, and the Other Kind
“There are two kinds of music. Good music, and the other kind.” – Duke Ellington
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First Principles: Government Is A Trust, and the Officers of the Government Are Trustees. And Both the Trust and that Trustees Are Created For the Benefit of the People
“Government is a trust, and the officers of the government are trustees. And both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people.” – Henry Clay
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To Your Glory
To Your Glory
by Michael Doyle
My mind has understood,
Your way is that of the good.
Knowing what I know,
My faith is more than just a show.
Your path is the one that is right.
I'm keeping Heaven in my sight.
There's no need to search high or low,
Not since knowing what I know.
Looking back, I see what you've done.
Since I've followed the Father and the Son.
Faithfulness is a forever thing.
It's to your glory that I sing.
There have been times when I've felt weak,
And I felt that I could not speak.
In your presence, I feel a need to praise.
You are the sustainer of my days.
Your truth has been revealed
In the moments that I've held.
You move me and all that's good.
In my growing faith, it's understood.
Looking back, I see what you've done.
Since I've followed the Father and the Son.
Faithfulness is a forever thing.
It's to your glory that I sing.
(c) March 11, 2026 Michael Doyle
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Thought For the Day: My Feelings Are Too Loud For Words and Too Shy For the World
“My feelings are too loud for words
And too shy for the world.” – Dejan Stjanovic
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First Principles: Power Always Thinks…That It Is Doing God’s Service When It Is Violating All His Laws
“Power always thinks… that it is doing God’s service when it is violating all his laws.” – John Adams
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A Republic Is Not Majority Rule
A Republic Is Not Majority Rule
by Michael Doyle
A republic depends on the rule of law.
It's not majoritarian rule, please recall.
It's a people whose struggle for liberty
Depends on the law for its binding authority.
Conflicts arise between life's desire and scarcity
In the political interplay of majority and minority.
But the adjudication is based on legal theory,
Not feeling, not persuasion, and not the majority.
Our government is ruled by the people's representation.
Neither slaves nor masters hold the reins of this nation.
The rule of the mob is prone to passions and jealousy.
For this cause, we cannot give our nation over to democracy.
From ballot to bullet, there exists but little appeal,
Only stare decisis can keep our governance simple and real.
In all of our nation's history, we find a thread of preference,
That's what makes this work most is our habit of deference.
A deference to the will of the people expressed by election
Is to be allowed to suggest our nation's chosen direction.
When factions resist this general will, we have obstruction.
This tendency of late must be guarded against our destruction.
Freedom and liberty cannot depend on popular sovereignty.
Not wholly anyhow, as that can give birth to perversity.
Such perversity as voting a people subject to slavery.
Calhoun's paradox has been played out in our bloody history.
Political institutions tend to mesh and then to bind.
It may not be easy to see, but let's not be too blind.
Compromises have come and gone in this country's legacy.
The best we can do is to do our best to keep our dignity.
This then lends itself to the question of moral priority.
Sometimes, God's good truth transpires over sovereignty.
Natural rights create the mandate of truest legitimacy.
This, then, is the ultimate guide to what creates primacy.
It is in bowing to the will of the people's primacy
That we avoided the absolutism feared in American history.
Feared as being the dictatorial impulses of tyranny,
That could most likely put us in the chains of slavery.
It awakens in us the need for our forewarned vigilance,
The awareness saving us from Kansas-Nebraska's violence.
Political differences sometimes birth widespread hostility,
And so it has been, at times, throughout American history.
(c) March 10, 2026 Michael Doyle
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First Principles: Nations Do Not Die From Invasion; They Die From Internal Rottenness
“Nations do not die from invasion; they die from internal rottenness.” – Abraham Lincoln
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