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Thought For the Day: Missing Context Is the Fact-Checker Euphemism for ‘This Claim Is Correct but We Don’t Want Anyone Screencapping This As Ammo
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First Principles: Our Constitution Was Made Only For A Moral and Religious People
“Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people.” – John Adams
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Off Ramp
Off Ramp
by Michael Doyle
From dodge ball to full glory
We live the Christmas story
Bridged by that cross
On which God took our loss
Unknown is the time and season
But what is known is the reason
That healing of eternal rift
If only we will receive this gift
I believe what the good book has said
And that my savior was raised from the dead
We are, each of us, chosen in love
If only we might accept the gift from above
Holy priests risen as a righteous nation
Elected and selected to enjoy our salvation
Bearing fruit that will ever last
As each of us walks away from our past
Life given through a single death
Let this hallelujah be our last breath
The freeway of life that chains us to real death
Is relieved in taking the last best choice left
(c) September 18, 2021 Michael Doyle
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Thought For the Day: Individual Liberty Rapidly Decays Into Corruption and Anarchy Without A Meaningful Commitment To Personal Responsibility
“Individual liberty rapidly decays into corruption and anarchy without a meaningful commitment to personal responsibility based on our nation’s Judeo-Christian heritage. Traditional beliefs and values must therefore continue to serve as our touchstone and compass.” – Mark Alexander
First Principles: Honor, Justice, and Humanity, Forbid Us Tamely To Surrender That Freedom Which We Received From Our Gallant Ancestors
“Honor, justice, and humanity, forbid us tamely to surrender that freedom which we received from our gallant ancestors, and which our innocent posterity have a right to receive from us. We cannot endure the infamy and guilt of resigning succeeding generations to that wretchedness which inevitably awaits them if we basely entail hereditary bondage on them.” – Thomas Jefferson (1775)
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First Principles: Honesty Will Be Found On Every Experiment, To Be the Best and Only True Policy; Let Us Then As A Nation Be Just
“Honesty will be found on every experiment, to be the best and only true policy; let us then as a Nation be just.” – George Washington (1783)
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Thought For the Day: What Power Has Love But Forgiveness?
“What power has love but forgiveness?” – William Carlos Williams, poet (17 Sep 1883-1963)
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Thought For the Day: Evil Is Powerless If the Good Are Unafraid
“Evil is powerless if the good are unafraid.” – Ronald Reagan
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First Principles: Without Justice Being Freely, Fully, and Impartially Administered, Neither Our Persons, Nor Our Rights, Nor Our Property, Can Be Protected
“Without justice being freely, fully, and impartially administered, neither our persons, nor our rights, nor our property, can be protected. And if these, or either of them, are regulated by no certain laws, and are subject to no certain principles, and are held by no certain tenure, and are redressed, when violated, by no certain remedies, society fails of all its value; and men may as well return to a state of savage and barbarous independence.” – Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution, 1833
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Pierce the Charade
Pierce the Charade
by Michael Doyle
One thing I've discovered recently
Is that I am capable of acting decently
But if the world could see my inspiration
Maybe there'd be cause to doubt my motivation
Still it is that I struggle for my best
And my failings, I utterly detest
Yet, these too are a bit of me
And are often the taint against which I write poetry
True love it seems is the rarest beauty
So often steeped in the ways of duty
Perhaps, there should be no better way
Then the truths that keep us anchored today
I knew an angel once that I offered friendship
Who spoke to me as if in idle worship
The crimes are guilty as the wages of sin
Explored deeply as these are by women and men
I whispered that though I might know my mind
It is the traces of my heart that I search to find
Accustomed as I am to the Hatter's masquerade
It would be a pity if I never pierced the charade
(c) September 15, 2021 Michael Doyle
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