“Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.” – James Madison (1792)
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First Principles: Where An Excess of Power Prevails, Property of No Sort Is Duly Respected. No Man Is Safe In His Opinions,…Or His Possessions
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Tagged Duly Respected, Excess, Faculties, First Principles, James Madison, Opinions, Person, Possessions, Power, Prevail, Property, Safe
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First Principles: If Congress Can Do Whatever In Their Discretion Can Be Done By Money, and Will Promote the General Welfare, the Government Is No Longer A Limited One
“If Congress can do whatever in their discretion can be done by money, and will promote the General Welfare, the Government is no longer a limited one, possessing enumerated powers, but an indefinite one, subject to particular exceptions.” – James Madison (1792)
Important to recall as the Democrats once again vote for taxing and spending without any thought toward how that drives inflation and how that inflation impacts the cost of living especially among the most vulnerable members of society, the working class poor people of our communities.
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Tagged Congress, Discretion, Enumerated Powers, Exceptions, First Principles, General Welfare, Government, Indefinite, James Madison, Limited, Money, Promote
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Thought For the Day: No One Worth Possessing Can Be Quite Possessed
“No one worth possessing / Can be quite possessed.” -Sara Teasdale, poet (8 Aug 1884-1933)
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Life Out of Balance
Life Out of Balance
by Michael Doyle
The specter of death springs forth with its talons
As we seek to live lives far too far out balance
Certain as we can be with any semblance of certitude
That we are striving to have just the right attitude
Rush upon rush and still life isn't fast enough
The wild card joker plays out the hangman's bluff
Filled with words that feel familiar despite being strange
Maybe it's the truth of tale as life rearranges
Let's consider then what is that provides the seeds
That spurs us on and forward to meet our seeming needs
At the neglect of the real love of God that we understand
As we try to keep up in a life lived out of our hands
We are all over the place in these haunted living years
One moment elated and then instead we find next our tears
The search for the essential seems bleak however necessary
Every moment's breath burns searing lungs to the contrary
Spending our time on bended knee, seeking our sins to discharge
The guilt felt about the time seeking God and hoping for recharge
Factoring in all that is urgent for the balance to keep alive
Hoping to reach our zenith and rise above that we may yet thrive
It's hard for the Godly to survive in the heart of this cold city
Killers take death by gun or hate, without any sense of pity
The penalty is paid with every sigh when at any turn we might die
Seeking our life into balance, we push forward questioning why
Somewhere in the cold ether of the public relations buzz
We come to believe that every sermon is written just for us
Learning the hard way, we find belief is a relationship
And realizing within a moment's too late in our daily worship
That is balance that keeps the wheel of life spinning around
And that to ride without kinked tire we know it must be found
That God requires us to breath in as much as to world turned out
There into the bag of mixed emotions we exhale and yet still doubt
(c) August 8, 2022 Michael Doyle
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Tagged Alive, Bended Knee, Bluff, Certitude, Contrary, Death, Familiar, Hands, Life, Living Years, Love of God, Necessary, Need, Out of Balance, Poetry and Poems, Rearrange, Recharge, Right Attitude, Rush, Seed, Talons, Tears, Thrive, Zenith
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Thought For the Day: The Loss of Liberty In General Would Soon Follow the Suppression of the Liberty of the Press
“The loss of liberty in general would soon follow the suppression of the liberty of the press; for it is an essential branch of liberty, so perhaps it is the best preservative of the whole.” – John Peter Zenger (1697-1746)
First Principles: We Are Either A United People, Or We Are Not
“We are either a United people, or we are not. If the former, let us, in all matters of general concern act as a nation, which have national objects to promote, and a national character to support. If we are not, let us no longer act a farce by pretending to it.” – George Washington (1785)
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Tagged Act, Farce, First Principles, Former, General Concern, George Washington, Nation, National Character, National Objects, Or Not, Pretend, Promote, Support, United People
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To Believe and To Receive
To Believe and To Receive
by Michael Doyle
Having no fear as fishers of men
Walking us back from too much sin
Spiritual truth to wrap ourselves around
Whatever the situations in which we’re found
God waits to make our lives be the best
The price of admission is a simple test
Will you surrender the reins to learn to thrive
As we succeed beyond merely being alive
On this rock the church is as it is built
On the ways of faith beyond what’s felt
In a recognition of what must truly be
In the Bible-based sense of philosophy
Amplified in the message to be heard
In all these things as it has been inferred
Working hard as fast we can work our nets
Weary as we are we must never ever forget
That there is a harvest still yet to be had
Repenting as we do away from the bad
Sinners we are yet seeking to be good
We do our best to follow what’s understood
Jesus is aware we fall short and yet He loves
Preaching the message from heaven above
Covering our transgressions as if blotted out
Keep this faith and with it remove all doubt
(c) July 31, 2022 Michael Doyle
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Tagged Alive, Best, Church, Fishers of Men, God, NoFear, Poetry and Poems, Reins, Rock, Sin, Situations, Spiritual Truth, Test, Walking Us Back
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Thought For the Day: The Budget Should Be Balanced, the Treasury Should Be Refilled, Public Debt Should Be Reduced… Lest Rome Become Bankrupt
“The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance.” – Roman philosopher and statesman Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43
First Principles: The Care of Human Life and Happiness, and Not Their Destruction, Is the First and Only Legitimate Object of Good Government
“The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only legitimate object of good government.” – Thomas Jefferson
Thought For the Day: Our Whole Constitutional Heritage Rebels At the Thought of Giving Government the Power To Control Men’s Minds
“If the First Amendment means anything, it means that a state has no business telling a man, sitting alone in his own house, what books he may read or what films he may watch. Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men’s minds.” – Justice Thurgood Marshall (1908-1993)
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