Monthly Archives: January 2022

First Principles: I Ask, Sir, What Is the Militia? It Is the Whole People. To Disarm the People Is the Best and Most Effectual Way To Enslave Them.

Posted on January 11, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“I ask, Sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people. To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.” – George Mason, Speech at the Virginia Ratifying Convention, 1788

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Thought For the Day: Act As If What You Do Makes A Difference It Does

Posted on January 11, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.” -William James, psychologist (11 Jan 1842-1910)

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An Appetite For Destruction

Posted on January 10, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

An Appetite For Destructionby Michael DoyleI awoke with a startled coughWondering how it was, I drifted offThe Mad Hatter’s world is no longer pretenseAs I awoke to a world of nonsenseThere were poets denying use of rhymeAs though that were … Continue reading →

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Thought For the Day: The Best Thing We Can Do With the Failures of the Past Is To Let Them Be History

Posted on January 10, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“The best thing we can do with the failures of the past is to let them be history.”– Gary Chapman, quote from The 5 Love Languages: The Secret to Love that Lasts

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First Principles: It Will Be of Little Avail To the People That the Laws Are Made By Men of Their Own Choice, If the Laws Are So Voluminous That They Cannot Be Read, Or So Incoherent That They Cannot Be Understood

Posted on January 10, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood; if … Continue reading →

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Words To Think

Posted on January 9, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Words To Thinkby Michael DoylePraying for blessing and favorAll words linked, meant to savorIn a world changing fastSo many moments that do not lastIn this living age of accelerationWe find many moments of fascinationLiving moments of radical transformationPast a bygone … Continue reading →

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Thought For the Day: I Pray That I Keep My Tongue From Evil and My Lips From Deceitful Speech

Posted on January 9, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“Beautiful One, I am grateful for my life and I want to see good days, so I pray that I keep my tongue from evil and my lips from deceitful speech. Let the words that I use be transparent and … Continue reading →

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First Principles: Dependence Begets Subservience and Venality, Suffocates the Germ of Virtue, and Prepares Fit Tools for the Designs of Ambition

Posted on January 9, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.” – Thomas Jefferson (1781)

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Dedicated To A Half Remembered Lorax, Part III

Posted on January 8, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Dedicated To A Half Remembered Lorax, Part IIIby Michael DoyleThere’s one word left to sayOne hope left yet to prayThere’s no need to second guessIt all comes down to unlessUnless we have faith of a mustard seedUnless we listen to … Continue reading →

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Thought For the Day: I Fear To See the Consequences of the Court’s Practice of Substituting Its Own Concepts of Decency and Fundamental Justice For the Language of the Bill of Rights

Posted on January 8, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“In my judgment the people of no nation can lose their liberty so long as a Bill of Rights like ours survives and its basic purposes are conscientiously interpreted, enforced and respected so as to afford continuous protection against old, … Continue reading →

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Monthly Archives: January 2022

First Principles: I Ask, Sir, What Is the Militia? It Is the Whole People. To Disarm the People Is the Best and Most Effectual Way To Enslave Them.

Thought For the Day: Act As If What You Do Makes A Difference It Does

An Appetite For Destruction

Thought For the Day: The Best Thing We Can Do With the Failures of the Past Is To Let Them Be History

First Principles: It Will Be of Little Avail To the People That the Laws Are Made By Men of Their Own Choice, If the Laws Are So Voluminous That They Cannot Be Read, Or So Incoherent That They Cannot Be Understood

Words To Think

Thought For the Day: I Pray That I Keep My Tongue From Evil and My Lips From Deceitful Speech

First Principles: Dependence Begets Subservience and Venality, Suffocates the Germ of Virtue, and Prepares Fit Tools for the Designs of Ambition

Dedicated To A Half Remembered Lorax, Part III

Thought For the Day: I Fear To See the Consequences of the Court’s Practice of Substituting Its Own Concepts of Decency and Fundamental Justice For the Language of the Bill of Rights

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