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First Principles: The Person Who Deserves Most Pity Is A Lonesome One On A Rainy Day Who Doesn’t Know How To Read
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Born To Praise
Born To Praise
by Michael Doyle
Throughout all of my days
I was born to praise
When I'm looking for peace, I find it
In all the hidden bits
Every moment, I'm grateful
Always knowing the Lord is faithful
Through this, I'm righteously able
To do my part as I'm capable
There's nothings hidden in creation
Your Word remains my inspiration
I listen for my edification
Knowing the source of my dedication
The heavens speak their glory
As I patiently listen to the story
Of how God walked this world in love
Teaching us about Heaven above
I am reminded in this hour
Of all of God's love and power
How it is understood of the good
We can practice these ways if we would
(c) March 18, 2025 Michael Doyle
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Thought For the Day: If We Don’t Believe In Free Expression For People We Despise, We Don’t Believe In It At All
“If we don’t believe in free expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.” – Noam Chomsky
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First Principles: America Will Never Be Destroyed From the Outside. If We Falter And Lose Our Freedoms, It will Because We Destroyed Ourselves
“America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.’ – Abraham Lincoln
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Too Many Miles, Too Many Tears
Too Many Miles, Too Many Tears
by Michael Doyle
Looking back on all the miles I've driven
Over lands other believed they were given
I find a lot is needed to be forgiven
Were it not for being too busy living
I remember coming to Indiana at my ex's request
Feeling as though it was maybe some sort of test
I learned that it was once Indian territory
Finding few around made me curious of the story
After all, there was a hint or two in my lineage
That made me proud of this part of my heritage
Curious to learn I thought I'd look and photograph
I found as many tears as paradoxical reasons to laugh
One of my idols, Thomas Jefferson sought expansion
Looking out on the horizon from his Monticello mansion
He thought it was honorable to wipe a people out
From my 21st century perspective, I have my doubts
At Prophetstown, I learned of Tenskwatawa's decision
To a attempt a protective circle united in his vision
It was a last stand for unity and cultural revival
At stake was the essence of Native American survival
Trail of Tears, Trail of death
A native people scream to their last breath
Fighting for their way of life against fracture
For harmony and against brutal erasure
The betrayal of broken promises led to dispossession
As acre by forced acre, native land faced aggression
Called callous savages by those seeking their portrayal
To be one of honor instead of stark naked betrayal
Despair played its savage hand with brutality's assistance
A flood wave of 'civilization' stole despite resistance
Sacred rivers, forests, and prairies were desecrated
By civilized, troubled brothers who wished to be segregated
There would be no attempt at sharing this magnificent land
As long as there were flint locks and armies to command
Unlike the wider trail blazed by the oppressed Cherokee
The Trail of Death was through wetlands for the Potawatomi
Despite many attempts to silence the outcry of oral history
As treaties were broken and people crushed in living memory
Time traveled on and Pow Wows taught me of my people's resilience
As they struggle in sacred defiance for our renaissance
The drumbeats faded in the distance as the dying cried out
But quiet adaptation is the way of the warrior without doubt
And in this modern day, ghostly children remind of broken circles
A disrupted community revives and is reborn in our sacred cycle
(c) March 17, 2025 Michael Doyle
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First Principles: Religion, In Its Purity, Is…Obedience To God In Improvement of Self and Benevolence To Men
“Religion, in its purity, is not so much a pursuit as a temper; or rather it is a temper, leading to the pursuit of all that is high and holy. Its foundation is faith; its action, works; its temper, holiness; its aim, obedience to God in improvement of self, and benevolence to men.” – Jonathan Edwards
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Thought For the Day: Through All the World There Goes One Long Cry From the Heart of the Artist: Give Me A Chance To Do My Best
“Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist: Give me a chance to do my best.” – Isak Dinesen
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On American Prosperity
On American Prosperity
by Michael Doyle
Chronicling the rise of American exceptionalism
Rides on the back of rugged individualism
A laissez-faire approach, not excessive regulation
Freedom and ingenuity are what built this nation
Yet others claim that Hamilton inspired activism
Has been the leading spur of financial optimism
I would make the case that it's only in the haze
Looking back, we sloppily forget the passing days
By doing this, we lose our way, becoming sentimental
And forget that, for the most part, tariffs are detrimental
America's takeoff began in the 1840s as tariffs went down
Consumers could buy more when the free market wore the crown
The argument for high tariffs is pure Keynesian at best
Such interventionism has often failed history's test
This isn't just a matter of half-baked ideology
The evidence rests on the chronology of financial history
Practical wisdom empirically evidences the foundation
That built the spectacular greatness of our nation
Obama's ignorant claims that the government built this
Is nothing but folly that the lemmings assuredly miss
Flying over the cliff, we find too much for too little value
Wall Street finds that manufacturing tends to devalue
The easy money of speculation is hard and fast, not concrete
Perhaps a little or a lot of both is needed to be complete
It's not an either/or proposition where either prevails
And the example of Japan proves the monumental fail
To the contrary, when China allowed private property
For that period, the economy became financial history
It seems that each of these work hand in hand
And it doesn't seem hard or problematic to understand
That the push and pull of government and private society
Are a combination that must be worked for our prosperity
(c) April 16, 2025 Michael Doyle
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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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