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Monthly Archives: June 2022
First Principles: Wondrously Strange Then and Much To Be Regretted…Were We To Neglect the Means and To Depart From the Road Which Providence Has Pointed Us To So Plainly
“No country upon earth ever had it more in its power to attain these blessings than United America. Wondrously strange, then, and much to be regretted indeed would it be, were we to neglect the means and to depart from … Continue reading
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Tagged Blessings, Earth, First Principles, George Washington, Means, Neglect, No Country, Pointed, Power, Providence, Regret, Road, Strange, United America
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Thought For the Day: The Right of Citizens To Bear Arms Is Just One More Guarantee Against Arbitrary Government, and One More Safeguard Against Tyranny
“Certainly one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right of citizens to keep and bear arms. This is not to say that firearms should not be very carefully used … Continue reading
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Thought For the Day: The Story of Mankind Shows That War Was Universal and Unceasing For Millions of Years Before Armaments Were Invented or Armies Organized
“This truth may be unfashionable, unpalatable, no doubt unpopular, but, if it is the truth, the story of mankind shows that war was universal and unceasing for millions of years before armaments were invented or armies organized. Indeed, the lucid … Continue reading
First Principles: A Free People (Claim) Their Rights As Derived From the Laws of Nature, and Not As the Gift of Their Chief Magistrate
“A free people [claim] their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate.” – Thomas Jefferson (1774)
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Tagged Chief Magistrate, Claim, First Principles, Free People, Gift, Laws of Nature, Rights, Thomas Jefferson
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Thought For the Day: The Second Amendment Was Given To Us As Protection Against Tyranny By the Federal Government and the Congress of the United States
“Recent school shootings have lured ill-informed Americans into a war on our Second Amendment guarantees, led by the nation’s tyrants and their useful idiots. … The Second Amendment was given to us as protection against tyranny by the federal government … Continue reading
First Principles: Guard With Jealous Attention the Public Liberty. Suspect Every One Who Approaches That Jewel.
“Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.” – Patrick Henry (1788)
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Tagged Attention, Downright Force, First Principles, Give Up That Force, Guard, Jewel, Patrick Henry, Preserve, Public Liberty, Ruined, Suspect
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Galatian Credibility
Galatian Credibilityby Michael DoyleIn our leadership and our abilityTo lead is limited to our credibilityThis is something important to knowIf we are are to keep our ability to growCalled to lead in our capacityCalled to display this sensibilityIntegrity is the … Continue reading
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Tagged Ability, Capacity, Competent, Credibility, Galatians, Grow, Integrity, Know, Leadership, Poetry and Poems, Sensibility
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Thought For the Day: The Only Good Bureaucrat Is One With A Pistol At His Head. Put It In His Hand and It’s Good-Bye To the Bill of Rights
“The only good bureaucrat is one with a pistol at his head. Put it in his hand and it’s good-bye to the Bill of Rights.” – H. L. Mencken (1880-1956)
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Tagged Bill of Rights, Good Bureaucrat, Good-Bye, H.L. Mencken, Hand, Head, Pistol, Thought For the Day
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First Principles: The Ordaining of Laws In Favor of One Part of the Nation, To the Prejudice and Oppression of Another, Is Certainly the Most Erroneous and Mistaken Policy
“The ordaining of laws in favor of one part of the nation, to the prejudice and oppression of another, is certainly the most erroneous and mistaken policy.” – Benjamin Franklin (1774)
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Tagged Another, Benjamin Franklin, Certain, Erroneous, First Principles, Laws, Mistaken, Nation, Oppression, Ordain, Policy, Prejudice
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Thought For the Day: There’s No Question That In Some Big Ways, This Administration – Including the President and Some of His Closest Economic Advisors – Got Inflation Wrong
“There’s no question that in some big ways, this administration — including the president and some of his closest economic advisors — got inflation wrong.” – CNN White House Correspondent MJ Lee
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Tagged Biden, Big Ways, Economic Advisors, Inflation, MJ Lee, No Question, This Administration, Thought For the Day, Wrong
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ALOHA PROMISES FOREVER 