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First Principles: The Legislative Department Is Everywhere Extending the Sphere of Its Activity and Drawing All Power Into Its Impetuous Vortex
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Thought For the Day: Go, Therefore, To Meet the Foe With Two Objects Before You, Either Victory Or Death
“Go, therefore, to meet the foe with two objects before you, either victory or death. For men animated by such a spirit must always overcome their adversaries, since they go into battle ready to throw away their lives.” – Scipio Africanus
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Trusting Heart To Health
Trusting Heart To Health
by Michael Doyle
In a complete break from understanding,
Far Left critics feel they must keep demanding
All the details down to the minuscule
That will allow common sense to face its ridicule.
The protest is that there is nothing spiritual
That could ever prove even near capable
Of being of any use in trusting our hearts to health.
It's a role reversal that has no need for stealth.
In the Sixties, it was the Left who talked spirituality
As being that something extra with astute ability
To bring healing to the sick and mending into life
But now, out of a headstrong love for constant strife
Now they choose to talk about a salad bar approach.
It's as if they think interconnections might encroach,
That is, at least, if it's in the slightest disagreement
With the Left's unspoken sense of covenant.
Though I, myself, rely on more conventional institutions,
Why do feminists suddenly get rabid about female intuition?
Self-realization and waking divinity are lacking for me,
Who am I or anyone to say there may not be some utility?
It seems to be that most of the Left spoke of wellness,
As if it were something certain and that we could feel this.
I'm unsure of what to make of the Left's new form of pessimism.
To be completely honest, I believe in individualism.
It strikes me as odd to hear the Left speak ill of slowing down,
And God forbid if you listen to heart intelligence, as if a clown.
It seems the pantheon of articles published pooh-pooh all of this.
If it's not mainstream or Trumpian, it's something to dismiss.
It's not for me, but the author that I have just read
Puts down all that she has previously advocated and said.
The reason she cannot deny is that Trump is for it.
With faulty reasoning like that, what can I do but adore it?
(c) January 20, 2026 Michael Doyle
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First Principles: ‘Tis the Business of Little Minds To Shrink; But He Whose Heart Is Firm, and Whose Conscience Approves His Conduct, Will Pursue His Principles Unto Death
“I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.” – Thomas Paine
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Thought For the Day: Quality Is Never An Accident; It Is Always the Result of High Intention, Sincere Effort, Intelligent Direction and Skillful Execution
“Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives, the cumulative experience of many masters of craftsmanship. Quality also marks the search for an ideal after necessity has been satisfied and mere usefulness achieved.” – John Ruskin
To Live the Good Life
To Live the Good Life
by Michael Doyle
Looking out on the Milky Way's tapestry
Makes me wonder about life's mystery.
Who are we and how did we get here?
And what is it about life we should revere?
An unknown God out of nowhere created the universe,
We know this by way of many a repeated Bible verse.
That is what we say among the other ways,
So much was created in the best of only seven days.
Among God's many pauses at creation
Were the land and the sea, and so much of the imagination.
But the crowning achievement was humanity,
So the Bible tells us, or was that just our vanity?
Almost inevitably, we hiccupped into something sad,
When Adam and Eve disappointed their heavenly dad.
Given life in the Garden, they just had to loot,
Everything they wanted, even the forbidden fruit.
The secrets of morality were wrapped in something beautiful.
Beautiful and edible, in a temptation somehow too wonderful,
To pass up and since that bite mankind fell for sin,
As we would over and over again, tempting moments over again.
Moses acted the part of a social influencer by his zealous heart,
Coming down heavy with tablets of commanded laws for our start.
As a forewarning, mankind's lot was not to be one of hedonism,
And from this, we learned that we aren't to fall into any -ism.
So it was that it was set out for all of us human fools.
All we had to do was be faithful and follow a few hundred rules.
If we played this tight, everything was meant to set us right.
The end of life would become a tunnel ending in His holy light...
.. Wait,... that's not it, right?
(c) January 19, 20206 Michael Doyle
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Tagged Adam and Eve, Beautiful, Bible Verse, Crowning Achievement, Forbiden Fruit, Garden of Eden, Good Life, Humanity, Life, Life's Mystery, Live, Milky Way, Moraliy, Poetry and Poems, Revere, Seven Days, Sin, Tapestry, The Bible, Universe, Unknown Go, Vanity
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Thought For the Day: The Ultimate Measure of A Man Is Not Where He Stands In Moments of Comfort and Convenience, But Where He Stands At Times of Challenge and Controversy
“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
Happy Martin Luther King, Jr. Day!
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First Principles: My Life Has Been Devoted To Arms, Yet I Look Upon War At All Times, and Under All Circumstances, As A National Calamity To Be Avoided If Compatible With National Honor
“My life has been devoted to arms, yet I look upon war at all times, and under all circumstances, as a national calamity to be avoided if compatible with national honor.” – Zachary Taylor
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Since the Garden
Since the Garden
by Michael Doyle
In the beginning, the serpent in the garden
Arrive to induce sin without pardon.
The fruit of one tree was clearly seen
But was forbidden to every human being.
The Devil came as man's defiant adversary,
While God speaks truth, Lucifer is contrary.
Setting up mesmerizing traps and snares
To trap man, however much, it feels unfair.
Man was created with full free will.
It's from this that our decisions are kept real.
The bright light of God creates shadow.
It's a matter of our choice, as we know.
Our eyes are open, but we do not see,
Walking on our decisions based on curiosity.
It comes down to the issue of moral authority,
And the evil gained costs human dignity.
Everywhere we look, we find brokenness.
I say this without fear of outspokenness.
The evil that we find, comes as a matter of our choice.
In the absence of God, we find darkness in our voice.
Blame or credit, the fallen one leads the way.
But in the evil, it is we who have the final say.
The pillars of God only shine so far,
If we refuse to follow Bethlehem's star.
Satan sows the subtle seeds of indecision,
And the Devil comes at us with exacting precision.
Instead of trusting in God's trustworthiness,
We choose to do things that lead to our mess.
On the Cross, Jesus dealt with mankind's sin
Putting Lucifer in his place again and again.
Keeping the Biblical ball in its play,
Crucially, we study every word along our way.
The more familiar we are with God's ways,
The better we'll live out our living days.
Keeping in time with God's wise Word,
We'll be more ready when evil has occurred.
The world around us is fractured and broken.
The person in our mirror is simply one token.
We need to steward the truth with humility,
And to treat those around u with love and digniity.
(c) January 18, 2026 Michael Doyle
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Tagged Adam and Eve, Bible, Choice, Christianity, Decisionns, Faith, Free Wll, Frrut, Garden of Eden, God, Good and Evil, Jesus, Know, Knowlege, Light, Lucifer, Poetry and Poem, Real, Satan, Shadow, Siin, The Devil, The Serpent, Traps and Snares, Truth
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Thought For the Day: The Devil Divides the World Between Atheism and Superstition
“The devil divides the world between atheism and superstition.” – George Herbert
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