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Thought For the Day: I Think He Has Been Wrong On Nearly Every Major Foreign Policy and National Security Issue Over the Past Four Decades
“I think he has been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades.” – Robert Gates on Joe Biden’s track record
Na/GloPoWriMo #15: Played Cards
Na/GloPoWriMo #15: Played Cardsby Michael DoyleMaybe it seems insistentTo be so persistentIn finding time an illusionWhile we all seek our absolutionOur veins beg for transfusionCued as it were by life’s confusionDespite being a fancy dancerAnd at moments, a romancerWe all … Continue reading
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Tagged Absolution, Agonized, Alarm, All of My Life, All That Is Left, Alone, Astride, Bring Any Good, Cancer, Cards, Charm, Chase Dreams, Cheap, Clearly, Confusion, Consigned, Cued, Days, Dime, Dirty Faces, Disarm, Easy, Endure, Fancy Dancer, Farms, Fate, Feeling, Find the Savior Last, Follow the Sun, Found the Cure, Future's Past, Grime, Hearts and Minds, Here We Are, Hold Tight, Illusion, In Our Heads, Inner Treason, Insistent, Its Confusion, Long Forgotten, Loved Or Love, Matter, Merciful, Moments, Mothers, Na/GloPoWriMo, Necromancer, Never Knowing, New, One More Time, Payphones, Persistent, Played Cards, Poetry and Poems, Proven Up, Quaint, Quietly, Reason, Remembered Sorrow, Rhyme, Rise Again, Romancer, Short, Silence, Sing, Somehow more, Something to Live For, Sound Out, Speak To Our Dead, Staring, Studied, Succumb, Talk, Them, Thoughts, Time, Tombstones, Tomorrow, Transfusion, Unpunished Crime, Utter, Veins, Verbal, We Might Find, What Have I done, What Would We Give, Wishes, Wishing, Worst Illusion, Yearly
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Thought For the Day: Freedom of Religion Means the Right of the Individual To Choose and To Adhere To Whichever Religious Beliefs He May Prefer…and To Incur No Civil Disabilities Because of His Choice
“Freedom of religion means the right of the individual to choose and to adhere to whichever religious beliefs he may prefer, to join with others in religious associations to express these beliefs, and to incur no civil disabilities because of … Continue reading
First Principles: No Pecuniary Consideration Is More Urgent Than the Regular Redemption and Discharge of the Public Debt
“No pecuniary consideration is more urgent, than the regular redemption and discharge of the public debt: on none can delay be more injurious, or an economy of time more valuable.” – George Washington (1793)
Na/GloPoWriMo #15: In A Family’s Way
Na/GloPoWriMo #15: In A Family’s Wayby Michael DoyleI really need to buy an easy chairIf I am to keep the family flairEating summer sausage on cheesed squareReading news and pontificating without a careThat is if I am to live my … Continue reading
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Tagged All of These and More, Beauty, Belong To All of These, Best Friend, Big Sister, Blended, Breeze, By My Side, Cheese, Cherishing, Considered Choices, Course, Crash, Dad, Deeper Sense, Each of Them, Each Version, Easy Chair, Family, Family Flair, Family Ways, Family's Ways, Filled, Finding Room, Fine Art, Float, Free Flow, Habits, Had, Keep, Keep To This, Left, Life, Lines Drawn, Live My Days, Lonely, Loving Ways, Me, Mom, Mostly Happy, Mother's Voice, My Days, My Heart, My Tears Fall, Na/GloPoWriMo, Our Family Ways, Owned By These, Poetry and Poems, Pride, Remain, Riding Horse, Sad, Sometimes, Spirit, Spring Breeze, Square, Still, Stroll, Summer Sausage, Version, Voices, Waft, Watch, Way, Whom I Miss Most, Wood
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Thought For the Day: It Is Spring Again. The Earth Is Like A Child That Knows Poems By Heart
“It is spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
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Tagged Again, By Heart, Earth, Know, Like A Child, Poems, Rainer Maria Rilke, Spring, Thought For the Day
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First Principles: An Unlimited Power To Tax Involves, Necessarily, A Power To Destroy; Because There Is A Limit Beyond Which No Institution and No Property Can Bear Taxation
“An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, a power to destroy; because there is a limit beyond which no institution and no property can bear taxation.” – Justice John Marshall, McCullough v. Maryland (1819)
Na/GloPoWriMo #14: Quis ut Deus?
Na/GloPoWriMo #14: Quis ut Deus?by Michael DoyleMay parents had their preferenceBut my life has whispered its reverenceMaybe they meant to play oracle?But like the archangel’s rhetoricalThis name is a bit battle wornAs a soldier speaks on behalf of the forlornAnd … Continue reading
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Tagged Archangel, Battle Worn, Believe, Dedication, Lord's Warrior, Na/GloPoWriMo, Parents, Poetry and Poems, Quis Ut Deus?, Revelation, Reverence, Satan, Scorn, Sleeve, Soldier, Song for the Sea, Truth
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Thought For the Day: The Truth That Makes Men Free Is For the Most Part the Truth Which Men Prefer Not To Hear
“The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.” – Herbert Sebastien Agar (1897-1980)
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