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Monthly Archives: September 2020
First Principles: A People Who Would Stand Fast In Their Liberty Should Furnish Themselves With Weapons Proper For Their Defense and Learn the Use of Them
“A people who would stand fast in their liberty, should furnish themselves with weapons proper for their defence, and learn the use of them. It is indeed an hard case, that those who are happy in the blessings of providence, … Continue reading
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Tagged Defense, First Principles, Furnish, Learn, Liberty, Peopole, Simeon Howard, Stand Fast, Use, Weapons
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Thought For the Day: Women Belong In All Places Where Decisions Are Being Made. It Shouldn’t Be That Women Are the Exception
“Women belong in all places where decisions are being made. It shouldn’t be that women are the exception.” – Ruth Bader Ginsburg I strongly believe that President Trump should name a conservative, rule of law woman. Let’s see if he … Continue reading
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Tagged All Places, Belong, Decisions, Exception, Made, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Shouldn't Be, Thought For the Day, Women
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First Principles: It Must Never Be Forgotten That the Liberties of the People Are Not So Safe Under the Gracious Manner of Government As By the Limitation of Power
“It must never be forgotten…that the liberties of the people are not so safe under the gracious manner of government as by the limitation of power.” – Richard Henry Lee
Thought For the Day: Give Me the Liberty To Know, To Utter and To Argue Freely According to Conscience, Above All Liberties
“Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.” ― John Milton in Areopagitica You may read this classic work for free here: http://www.dartmouth.edu/~milton/reading_room/areopagitica/text.html
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Tagged Above All Liberties, According, Areopagitica, Argue, Conscience, Freely, Give, John Milton, Know, Liberty, Thought For the Day, Utter
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First Principles: ‘Tis the Business of Little Minds To Shrink; But He Whose Heart Is Firm and Whose Conscience Approves His Conduct Will Pursue His Principles Unto Death
“I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, … Continue reading
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Tagged Approves, Business, Conduct, Conscience, Death, Distress, Firm, First Principles, Gather Strength, Grow Brave, Heart, Little Minds, Love, Principles, Pursue, Reflection, Shrink, Smile, The Person, Thomas Paine, Trouble
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Covid and the Constitution
Covid and the Constitutionby Michael DoyleVoices arrayed together against an institutionOut of control of the reining in by the ConstitutionChecks and balances swept away along with our rightsStill, we ride forward like beleaguered knightsStay at home orders meant for communicable … Continue reading
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Tagged 14th Amendment, Abeyance, Abuse of Authority, Adversity, Aghast, America, Array, Ask, Beautiful, Beleaguered Knights, Best Practices, Blight, Bureaucrats, Case, Casinos, Chains, Checks and Balances, Churches, Closed Down, Constitution, Contrarian, Conversation, Cost of Silence, Course, Covid, Crown, Current Crisis, Death or Liberty, Decision, Deliberation, Desperate Situation, Dictate, Draconian Regulation, Economy, Effective, Embrace, Emergency Police Powers, Enforcement Issues, Executive Branch, Executive Dictate, Exercise, Face, Fail, Federal, Feduce, Force, Forgiving, Fray, Free, Freedom, Freedoms, Functionalism, Good Citizens, Governance, Government, Great, Health, History, Hour, Institution, Interpretation, Irritation, Jeopardy, Laboring Oar, Legal, Legislation, Legislature, Libertarian, Liberty, Limitation, Lives Lived, Looking Out, Loss of Our Liberty, Lost Liberty, Machination, Make A Living, Mankind, Mask, Money, Nation, Natural Law, Nature, New Normal, Noble, Open, Others Will Take, Out of Control, Overbearing, Partisan Warfare, Peaceful Assembly, Permanent Emergency, Perspective, Philosophy, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Point, Political Landscape, Pretending, Price, Protected Right, Pushback, Question, Quiet, Rationalism, Recall, Rein In, Restrain, Right, Rights, Rigor, Rule of Law, Safety, Samuel Adams, Sealed Fate, Security, Seize, Separation of Powers, Soul of Our Nation, States, Stay At Home Orders, Steps, Strangle, Stripping Away, Strong Enough, Surrender, Suspension, Swept Away, Technocrats, The Courts, The People, Today, True Representation, Ugly, Unending, Unfair, Urgency, Virtue Signaling, Virus, Vocal, Voices, We The People, Welfare, Withstand, Worse
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Musing My Articulation
Musing My Articulationby Michael DoyleFilled with intense moments of suspensePut aside as real and yet it’s just pretenseThere is the much to do about all these thingsMusical, be it instrumental or songs I singI approach forward in my matriculationLooking at … Continue reading
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Tagged Adjustment, All Who Came Before, Amplitude, Articulation, Attack, Attitude, Change, Choice, Composition, Decay, Establish, Exploratory, Feel Deep, Fill, Flourish, Forward, Gratitude, Grounded In, Heaven Sent, Instrumental, Latitude, Matriculation, Moments, Motifs, Muse, Musical, Musical Notation, Myself, Oratory, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Pretense, Real, Remember, Sing, Single Notes, Sound, Standard, Suspense, Swell, Texture, Things, Timbre, Tone Colors, Travel, True, Voice
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First Principles: I Hope That We Shall Crush In Its Birth the Aristocracy of Our Monied Corporations Which Dare Already To Challenge Our Government To A Trial of Strength and Bid Defiance To the Laws of Our Country
“I hope that we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations, which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength and bid defiance to the laws of our country.” – Thomas Jefferson
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Tagged Aristocracy, Bid Defiance, Birth, Challenge, Country, Crush, Dre, First Principles, Government, Hope, Laws, Monied Corporations, Thomas Jefferson, Trial of Strength
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Thought For the Day: We’ve Spent About $22 Trillion In Government Money Where 70% Goes Not To the Poor But To Those Who ‘Serve’ the Black
“And what we’ve done over the last 50 years, we’ve spent about $22 trillion in government money where 70 percent goes not to the poor, but to those who serve the poor. Blacks have been in office and conditions for … Continue reading
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