First Principles: The Laws Should Be Rigidly Enforced Which Prohibit the Immigration of A Servile Class To Compete With American Labor, With No Intention of Citizenship

“The laws should be rigidly enforced which prohibit the immigration of a servile class to compete with American labor, with no intention of acquiring citizenship, and bringing with them and retaining habits and customs repugnant to our civilization” – Grover Cleveland

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Thought For the Day: The Best Thing In Life Is To Go Ahead With All Your Plans and Dreams, To Embrace Life and To Live Everyday With Passion

“The best thing in life is to go ahead with all your plans and your dreams, to embrace life and to live everyday with passion, to lose and still keep the faith and to win while being grateful. All of this because the world belongs to those who dare to go after what they want. And because life is really too short to be insignificant.” – Charles Chaplin

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Brilliant Pebbles and A Dome

Brilliant Pebbles and A Dome
by Michael Doyle

Brilliant pebbles laid out
Is an efficient strategy
As it removes the layers of doubt
Residual in our window of history

There is a weave of known cost
About all that might be lost
Were we to live by tradition
War is the ugly business of nations

Biological or nuclear; there is a diversity
In the weapons array, we face as our adversity
Considering our adversaries, there's no pretense
We need to think two steps forward in our defense

Recognizing the reality of our insecurity
Morally, it's better to defend externally
It comes down to a matter of great clarity
Taking care of our own isn't cheap talking charity

The principles are maybe a bit rhymeless
As they are assuredly needed and timeless
We must join hands in our fearful capacity
So that mutually assured destruction isn't our legacy

An EMP attack on our electric grid
Would result in mass destruction and rid
Our ability for our society to survive
We must learn to think about keeping our nation alive

We must consider a protective dome
To prevent such an attack on our home
It comes to the greater utility of defense
Instead of thinking only in terms of equal offense

(c) April 15, 2025 Michael Doyle
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First Principles: Stepping Up In Opposition

Stepping up in opposition to the gravitational suck of those who attempt to redefine what freedom and liberty mean:

          A fundamental difference between the allegedly progressive and true classical liberal idealists, now called conservatives, is in how freedom and liberty are defined. There is indeed an emancipatory element to the correct definition of these words. This meaning was fundamental to ending the reign of the autocratic aristocrats, from which the founders rebelled. This has carried forward in the civil rights movements, which have rightfully expanded the enjoyment of these rights to an increased base of people. However, those who initially called themselves “liberals” and now “progressives” have lost the substance by grasping at illusory shadows.

These shadows found in Marxian and Marcusian ideas are actually regressive in nature when it comes to stripping freedom, liberty, and rights from the people in favor of expanding government encroachment. It is private individuals and not collectivist interests that hold the ideals of property properly. The threat these collectivists impose on the property rights of individuals is every bit as once held by arrogant kings and greedy elites. Only the titles have changed. The sphere of government must be shrunk down in size to protect against this and not allowed to expand, encroaching on the rights of private citizens.

“Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.” —Aesop (c. 620–564 BC)

          We must stand firmly in opposition to the continuing misinformation being disseminated as the history and the principles of the republic of the United States of America.  There is a very evil propaganda program moving forward to discredit the founders of this nation and the very philosophies for which they were willing to bleed, and some die to found this great nation. This nation has seen plenty of controversy from its very beginning.  But never before have so many fallen for the miscast aspersions of Marcusian-based Critical Race Theory and the like.  As early as 1805, authoress Mercy Warren felt the need to step up against tyranny in the name of good and wise government (Warren 1805).  This is even more so needed today.

“It is necessary for every American, with becoming energy to endeavor to stop the dissemination of principles evidently destructive of the cause for which they have bled. It must be the combined virtue of the rulers and of the people to do this, and to rescue and save their civil and religious rights from the outstretched arm of tyranny, which may appear under any mode or form of government” – Mercy Warren, Author, 1805

More than that, it is the duty and sacred obligation of every free man and woman who holds the name of American to not only uphold our republic’s founding principles but also pass this on to the coming generations. America has temporarily lost her way and teeters on the edge of the abyss. One of the primary reasons for this is that the modern understanding is no longer as initially meant. The right to liberty is to be free of the coercive influence of others. The modern meaning has come to replace the coercive parties, allegedly to make up for historical oppression. 

Liberty has come not to mean equality of opportunity but access to services and goods regardless of ability to afford or to earn a level of transportation, housing, and medical care that exceeds general welfare. This is even at the cost of trampling the rights of others.  Therefore, it is necessary to constrain the government’s powers and preserve the rights of all citizens. The Declaration sought to guarantee the right to pursue happiness and not happiness itself. Material wealth and happiness itself must be earned, not mandated.

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First Principles: Each Department Is Truly Independent of the Others, and Has An Equal Right To Decide For Itself What Is the meaning of the Constitution

“My construction of the constitution is very different from that you quote. It is that each department is truly independent of the others, and has an equal right to decide for itself what is the meaning of the constitution in the cases submitted to its action; and especially, where it is to act ultimately and without appeal.” =Thomas Jefferson (1819)

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Thought For the Day: There Is No Normal Life That Is Free of Pain. It’s the Very Wrestling With Our Problems That Can Be the Impetus For Our Growth

“There is no normal life that is free of pain. It’s the very wrestling with our problems that can be the impetus for our growth.” – Fred Rogers

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Learning To Survive

Learning To Survive
by Michael Doyle

She whispered about her dreams
In suitably stifled screams
Twisted sheets and chandeliers
Made everything larger than it appears

Thinking can hurt your chances
In this world of broken romances
You're expected to follow the rules
Learned inside the forbidden schools

Here under the privileged roofs
That propositions given without proofs
Traditional values have a different meaning
Where there is a redefinition of human beings

Habits bring about forced isolation
Across the recast of the nation
Where people become afraid to speak
And the unarmed strong falsely fake they are weak

In corruption, it's a necessity to survive
Spying on each other to stay alive
Praised be what the proclaimed ones reveal
Even if its the real truth that is concealed

Waling in oppression along the river
Wishing for the freedom it might deliver
The struggle becomes its own fragility
Where hedonism as diminished virility

Blessed, it seems, are the meek
Who have become afraid to speak
Afforded now to be seen as extraordinary
The fear felt is now the ordinary

Keeping their heads down low
Eye to eye, the would no longer know
What it is to know and live freedom
There will be no individuality in their kingdom

Praise be for the evil that is done
But surely the feigned purity is not for the Son
For the Bible Tells us truth sets souls free
And in this darkness, that will never be

Please God, let the lingering memory
Be that which remembers love and family
Taught lessons are found in twisted cruelty
Found in the merciless beatings of brutality

(c) April 14, 2025 Michael Doyle
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First Principles: Of the Many Influences That Have Shaped the United States Into A Distinctive Nation and People, None May Be Said To Be More Fundamental and Enduring Than the Bible

“Of the many influences that have shaped the United States into a distinctive nation and people, none may be said to be more fundamental and enduring than the Bible.” – Ronald Reagan

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Thought For the Day: Of the Twenty-Two Civilizations That Have Appeared In History, Nineteen of Them Collapsed When They Reached the Moral State the United Sates Is In Now

“Of the twenty-two civilizations that have appeared in history, nineteen of them collapsed when they reached the moral state the United States is in now.” – Arnold J. Toynbee

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My Heart Grows Heavy (I’m Dipping In)

My Heart Grows Heavy (I'm Dipping In)
by Michael Doyle

My heart grows heavy in the sadness
As I look at this world of madness
And know that love is the needed legacy
As it should be walked as its meant to be

No Matter what the haters say
This is the path that I pray
With the words of the Father on my heart
Imprinted as they have been from the start

Palm Sunday and I'm dipping in
As deep as I can to fight against sin
Our DNA is shown in our giving
Pushed on with hop in our Father's forgiving

Sometimes you have to look back to go forward
That is if you want to keep pushing toward
The "Therefore" in Romans one through seven
We trace the foot prints to find Heaven

All the way back to the garden of good
Eden showed God's will to be understood
Until that is man's feeble will was spoken
And suddenly God's will was broken

From this, were the whispers of the hurting
That put on mankind our harshest burdens
Death and resurrection pointed the way
In our lack of shame, we've learned to pray

Personal theology is often love without condition
God's love is the reason behind our explanations
The truth of the glory is there is no shame
Look around you and know that there is not blame

Radical love is found in the Jesus way
As we mind our words in all we do and say
All of the world isn't a set of rules, but relationship
Practicing love is the truest pattern of worship

The world surrounds us with many choices
As we search for and find our Christian voices
Putting aside the flesh, we put on the spirit
Living Christ's holy way as best that we might hear it

Peace of the spirt is the pace that walks us through
These days of life, our flesh wants us to do as we must do
And instead of our false ways, put on God's holy ways
Until at last, our gifts bring us to our better days

We walk now as God's children and as His family
Heirs as we are to the the solid days of glory
This the deepest meaning passing as our story
Especially, when we do our utmost to live in fidelity

We prepare our hearts in this passing holy week
Listening close as the paster humbly speaks
It all comes down to faith and being nice
In living our lives this translates as the best advice

It's there in the priestly message without hesitation
Listening close we find our life's truest direction
For His is the Kingdom and with it all of the glory
This then is the crux of our Easter story...

(c) April 13, 2025 Michael Doyle
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