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First Principles: United America Is Formidable To Foreign Ambition
“America united with a handful of troops, or without a single soldier, exhibits a more forbidding posture to foreign ambition than America disunited, with a hundred thousand veterans ready for combat.” – James Madison (1787)
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Tagged America, Disunited, First Principles, Fobid, Foreign Ambition, James Madison, Posture, Soldier, Troops, United, Veterans
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Three Card Monte
Mostly shills or marks, there’s something wrong with the world today… Three Card Monte by Michael Romani We see it play out on the street Where each of us should gladly greet Our neighbors not as strangers but friends God … Continue reading
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Tagged Con, Confidence Game, Despearate, False Confidence, False Star, God, Mark, Poem, Poetry, Providence, Reason, Season, Separate, Shill, Shrewd, Three Card Trick, World
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Free Expression Heeded
The world we meet and grow in should be one in which free thought leads to free expression. Some will be good. Some will be bad. But, each thought should be allowed it’s space to be experienced and grown from. … Continue reading
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Tagged Agenda, Cupidity, Dread, Emergency, Free Expression, Heed, Hope, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Practical, Propaganda, Rule, Strong, Think, Thread, Urgent, Weigh, Wisdom
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First Principles: The Art of Good Government Consists of Honestly Doing One’s Duties
“It behooves you, therefore, to think and act for yourself and your people. The great principles of right and wrong are legible to every reader; to pursue them requires not the aid of many counselors. The whole art of government … Continue reading
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Tagged Art of Government, Consist, Credit, Duty, First Principles, Honest, Thomas Jefferson
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Thought For the Day: Actions Speak Louder Than Words
“Actions speak louder than words; let your words teach and your actions speak.” – St Anthony of Padua
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First Principles: Without Freedom of Thought There Can Be No Wisdom
“Without freedom of thought there can be no such thing as wisdom; and no such thing as public liberty, without freedom of speech.” – Benjamin Franklin (1722)
Thought For the Day: Givers Have To Set Limits Because Takers Rarely Do
“Givers have to set limits because takers rarely do.” – Anonymous
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Tagged Givers, Irma Kurtz, Limits, Set, Takers, Thought For the Day
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An Informational Confession
The old adage is that information is power. In today’s reiteration of perhaps too, too much information out there, I believe it’s time we modify this. Clarity is power. An Informational Confession by Michael Romani Here then in this present … Continue reading
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Tagged 21st Century, Age, Clarity, Complex, Information, Information Age, Integrity, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Power, Reference, Wisdom
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Samson (XII)
Bringing the series to it’s conclusion. This then provides a bit of a nexus with King David and I think also how it interrelates with the very life of Jesus. The finale of the retelling of Samson and Delilah, as … Continue reading
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Tagged Jesus, King David, Nexus, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Samson and Delilah, Series, The Book of Judges
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