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First Principles: Religion Is A Matter Which Lies Solely Between Man and His God,…He Owes Account To None …For HIs Faith Or His Worship
“Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not … Continue reading
Thought For the Day: It Is Our Nature To Conform Which Is Born From Our Requirement of Self-Approval
“It is our nature to conform; it is a force which not many people can successfully resist. What is its seat? The inborn requirement of self-approval.” – Mark Twain (1835-1910)
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Tagged Conform, Force, Inborn, Mark Twain, Nature, People, Requirement, Resist, Seat, Self-Approval, Success, Thought For the Day
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On Becoming A World Power
American history continues as the United States advanced post Civil War into the early 1900s, our strength grew and with it wisely or unwisely we expanded our foreign policy out into the world with all its challenges good and bad. … Continue reading
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Tagged 1900s, 1946, Abroad, Alaska, Ambition, America, American History, Americas, Annexiation, Argue, Avarice, Becoming, Benediction, Beveridge, Booty, Canal, Caution, Civil War, Colonialism, Cuba, Dedication, Deploy, Destroy, Divide, Elite, Entanglement, Europe, Evidence, Extrication, Filipino, Flag, Focus, Foreign Policy, Free, Future, Gomper, Great Power, Grover Cleveland, Hawai'i, Heart, Ideals, Imperialism, Independence, Interest, Intrigue, Inward, John Quincy Adams, Land, Liberty, Manifest Destiny, March, Mckinley, Monroe Doctrine, Monster, Nation, Navy, Ocean, Photograph, Platte Amendment, Poem, Poetry, Practical, Puerto Rico, Racism, Reason, Remember the Maine, Republic, Russia, Samoa, Sanctimony, Self Rule, Seward's Folly, Social Darwinism, Social Gospel, Soul, Spain, Spirit, The Phillipines, Trade, Trading Port, War, War of 1812, William Howard Taft, World Power, Yellow Dog Journalism
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I of the Camera
It’s the first official day of NaPoWriMo/GloPoWriMo 2020! So what’s the prompt, right? “… a self-portrait poem in which you make a specific action a metaphor for your life – one that typically isn’t done all that often, or only … Continue reading
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Tagged 2020, Amazing, Awesome, Beautiful, Blur, Break of Day, Camera, Close Up, Color, Composition, Conscious, Dance, Decision, Distance, Dreams, Emphasis, Extraordinary, Eye, Flow, Focal, God, Green, Heart, Human Being, I, Inner, Interesting, Keep, Learn, Lense, Lesson, Life, Light of Moon, Marvel, Moment, NaPoWriMo/GloPoWriMo, Normal, Ordinary, Perspective, Photograph, Pleasure, Poem, Poetry, Praise, Premises, Prime, Reflexive, Seeing, Self Portrait, Show, Soft, Softness, Soul, Stir, Stream, Telephoto, Thin, Time, Trick, Trip, Tune, View, Visual Poetry, Wide, Witness, Wonderful, World
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Thought For the Day: Obstacles Cannot Crush Me. Every Obstacle Yields To Stern Resolve. He Who Is Fixed To A Star Does Not Change His Mind.
“Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.” – Leonardo da Vinci Contrast President Trump’s resolve versus the whining voices of finger pointers and blame shifters like … Continue reading
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Tagged Change, Crush, Fix, Leonardo da Vinci, Mind, Obstacles, Resolve, Star, Stern, Thought For the Day, Yield
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First Principles: We Cannot Be Too Careful In Excluding Foreign Influence In Our Republic
“Foreign influence is truly the Grecian horse to a republic. We cannot be too careful to exclude its influence.” – Alexander Hamilton (1793)
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End of the Frontier
Between the 1870s to the early 1900s, American society became a vast sea of sea change in matters of all forms of transformation going on at once. End of the Frontier by Michael Doyle The travesty of the Civil War … Continue reading
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Tagged America, Assimilation, Big, Big Business, Blessing, Bold, City, Civilization, Cohesion, Columbus, Commerce, Commodity, Corporation, Curse, Development, End, Exploration, Face, Family Business, Federal, Finance, Foreign Born, Frederick Turner, Frontier, Gains, Grand Review, Hero, History, Immigration, Industrialization, Industry, Infrastructure, JP Morgan, Labor, Losses, Melting Pot, Moderinization, Modern, Money, Moot, Nation, National Power, Nature, Oil, Peril, Photograph, Pluralism, Poem, Poetry, Population, Power, Profession, Providence, Railroad, Republican Values, Revitalization, Rockefeller, Salad, Sea Change, Society, Spirit of the West, Town, Transformation, Transportation, Unification, Urban, Virtue, Washington D.C., World Columbian Exposition
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To A Northern Cardinal
It’s almost that time…. April 1st is the first day of NaPoWriMo/GloPoWriMo 2020. As a warm up, the first suggestion was to write a poem about any bird. I thought of an eagle in this time when we all need … Continue reading
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Tagged Air, Blanche, Branch, Breeze, Bright Spot, Brim, Call, Chipping, Company, Crowd, Dart, Dash, Den, Disappear, Dress, Flutter, Fly, Holiness, Joy, Life, Limb, Loud, Loved Once, Loyalty, Mate, NaPoWriMo/GloPoWriMo 2020, Northern Cardinal, Perch, Photograph, Pines, Pleasant, Poem, Poetry, Red, Remember, Shelter, Sigh, Silken Wings, Sing, Song, Stand Out, Tears, Visit, Warning, Window, Writing
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Swing Around the Circle
Civil War ends and an attempt at racial justice was attempted. How did things get so completely flawed? Swing Around the Circle by Michael Doyle A country brought to ruin sought salvation From a barren wasteland in need of transformation … Continue reading
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Tagged 15th Amendment, America, Andrew Johnson, Anguish, Assassination, Black America, Bloody Shirt, Bureau of Reconstruction, Carpetbagger, Citizen, Civil Rights, Civil War, Congress, Contentment, Corruption, Country, Derringer, Destruction, Elite, Eloquence, Executive Power, Forty Acres and A Mule, Freedmen, Freedmen's Bureau, Freedom, Golden Spike, Hayes, History, Idealism, Impeachment, Inclination, Incorporation, Inequality, John Wilkes Booth, Justice, Kept, Lincoln, Loyalty, Marginalize, Military District, Nation, Noose, North, Obligation, Our American Cousin, Peonage, Photograph, Plantation, Planter, Poem, Poetry, Promontory, Prosperity, Racial Justice, Radical Republicans, Ratification, Reconstrution, Reincorporation, Relation, Resentment, Restitution, Ruin, Salvation, Scalawag, Sharecropper, Slavery, South, Stanton, Swing and Circle, Tennessee, Transform, Treason, Tyrant, Ulysses S Grant, Vote, Wept, Yeomanry
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Thought For the Day: The Ideal of Beauty Is Simplicity and Tranquility
“The ideal of beauty is simplicity and tranquility.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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