“Goodness is about character – integrity, honesty, kindness, generosity, moral courage, and the like. More than anything else, it is about how we treat other people.” – Dennis Prager
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Thought For the Day: Goodness Is About Character – Integrity Honesty, Kindness, Generosity, Moral Courage, and the Like. It Is About How We Treat Other People
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First Principles: Before I Formed You In the Womb I Knew You; Before You Were Born I Set You Apart; I Appointed You As A Prophet To the Nations
“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you; before you were born I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations.” – Jeremiah 1:5 NIV
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Thought For the Day: Knowing Your Own Darkness Is the Best Method For Dealing With the Darknesses of Other People
“Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely. Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.” – Carl Jung
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First Principles: Texas Can Make It Without the United States, But the United States Cannot Make It Without Texas
“Texas can make it without the United States, but the United States cannot make it without Texas”– Sam Houston
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Thought For the Day: The Framers of the Bill of Rights Did Not Purport To ‘Create’ Rights. Rather, They Designed the Bill of Rights To Prohibit Our Government From Infringing Rights and Liberties Presumed To Be Preexisting
“The Framers of the Bill of Rights did not purport to ‘create’ rights. Rather, they designed the Bill of Rights to prohibit our Government from infringing rights and liberties presumed to be preexisting.” – Justice William J. Brennan
First Principles: The Happiness of A People, and the Good Order and Preservation of Civil Government, Essentially Depend On Piety, Religion, and Morality
“The happiness of a people, and the good order and preservation of civil government, essentially depend on piety, religion, and morality.” – Fisher Ames
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Open Questions of Opportunity
Open Questions of Opportunity
by Michael Doyle
A landscape of soy and corn
Is grown and has become replete.
In it, a different paradigm is born,
One rejecting the smaller portions of beef.
There is an unhealthiness in the equation.
Leaner foods could redeem the soil and feed the nation.
Instead, we choose the Omega Six over Omega Three.
Doing this, we accidentally choose the inflammatory.
We butcher our way into the unhealthy
And forget our lives were born to be happy.
It comes to a question of life's quality,
And to open up questions of opportunity.
Somewhere on the path of ranching technology
The decision was made to be like a factory.
There something to being more than the cow.
The good and bad of it comes down to the how.
You can go on uncultured by the numbers of science,
But sooner or later, it bothers your conscience.
It kills the pastures to ranch by overgraze,
Poly-cultural farming will give us better days.
We butcher our way into the unhealthy
And forget our lives were born to be happy.
It comes to a question of life's quality,
And to open up questions of opportunity.
(c) July 23, 2026 Michael Doyle
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Agroforestry Dues
Agroforestry Dues
by Michael Doyle
Brazilian toil,
Brazilian biodiversity.
The modern ages have been disloyal,
But the people fight against adversity.
The heart of this
Is the Amazon Rainforest.
The samba beat cannot miss
As this green ocean fights to resist.
Atmospheric rivers float the skies,
The mists of irrigation before your eyes.
The heart of our planet's known connections,
Everything of life and nature flows in all directions.
It becomes necessary that we understand.
The Amazon and the Cerrado flow across unplanned,
While deforestation is destroying the land.
Soybeans and corn are the ruinous demand.
The soy frontier creates this vulnerability,
To the control point, the tired have no ability.
We must balance agriculture and make it viable,
The Amazon's peoples fight for their lands as able.
Replanting forests preserves biodiversity.
It's what the people can do within their ability.
The carbon market rebirths a way to live.
It saves lives and has proven lucrative.
Agroforestry is a better way of growing
The food we need while humbly knowing
That bringing back carbon and abundance
The Brazilian way helps feed the world in resplendence.
(c)July 22, 2026 Michael Doyle
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Thought For the Day: Most of the Important Things In the World Have Been Accomplished By People Who Have Kept On Trying When There Seemed To Be No Hope At All
“Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.” – Dale Carnegie
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First Principles: Militias, When Properly Formed, Are In Fact the People Themselves and Include All Men Capable of Bearing Arms
“Militias, when properly formed, are in fact the people themselves and include all men capable of bearing arms. […] To preserve liberty it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them.” – Richard Henry Lee
This then is what is meant by ‘militia’ in our Second Amendment, not the National Guard. Nor does it mean the Reserves. Those who pretend otherwise are ill-founded.
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