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Ways of Life Previously Chosen
Ways of Life Previously Chosenby Michael DoyleEating smoked salmon and in contemplationAbout what will be the fate of my nationI will let no untruths be varnished or toldBut insist on telling how history did unfoldI have watched the destruction of … Continue reading
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Tagged 13th Through 15th Amendments, 1860s, 1960s, 40 Acres and A Mule, ACA, Actual History, America, America's Legacy, American Power, American Soul, Aspiration, Assimilation, Bells and Lights, Bill of Goods, Bill of Rights, Black, Blight, Blood and Tears, Brooks, Bureaucracy, Calhoun, Choose, Chosen, Civil Rights, Civil Rights Act, Civil Rights Movement, Civil War, Common Man, Complicit, Contemplation, Credit, Creed, Crockett, Cross Road, Cruelty, Darker Brothers, Deep State, Deliberate Illusion, Delivered, Democratic Republcian, Democratic Standard, Destruction, DNC, Doubling Debt, Douglas, Dredging Up the Truth, Dysfunction, Economical, Election Day, Election Year, End Slavery, Ensure, Equal Opportunity, Equal Rights, Equality, Equity, Equivalency, Extorionate, Fable, Fact, Fair Life, False Flag, Fate, Filibustered, Focus, Freedom, Frelinghuysen, Fringe, Gang, Greenlight, History, Inconvenient, Indian Removal Act, Instill Fear, Islamic Militancy, Jackson, Jefferson, Kleptocracy, Knee, Lands, Lash, Legacy, Liberty, Lies of Equity, Lincoln, Love For the People, Merit, Military, Modern Democrats, Modern History, Nation, Native American, North and South, Not So Distant Past, Obama, Open Opportunity, Opposing Listeners, Pathway, Permanent, Poetry and Poems, Politics, Price Paid, Priority, Profit, Promises, Racism, Real Fight, Real History, Recalled, Republican, Restore, Right To Vote, Rule of Law, Sexual Plunder, Shackled, Shivered, Slavery, Sleight of Hand, Smoked Salmon, Social Justice, Stand Up In the Front, Steeple, Stumble, Suffragettes, Supreme Court, Sword, Tainted Legacy, Taught, The Hermitage, Theft, Tocquieveille, Told, Trading Lives, Trail of Tears, Understood, Unfold, Untruth, Varnish, Vehement, Votes Are Cast, War, Ways of Life, Whip, White, White House, Women, Worth
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Lessons of Sadie Hawkins
Life in its myriad of dances has it’s meaning sometimes coming in multiples of delusion… Lessons of Sadie Hawkins by Michael Doyle Sock hop memories wake the school Where twists in plot are the rule All of life is filtered … Continue reading
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Tagged Above, All of Life, Astray, Attraction, Awake, Bread, Changing Seasons, Common Man, Connection, Costs, Dances, Days, Daze, Derision, Desperation, Directions, Distraction, Dread, Dream, Ease, Effort, Empty Rage, Eyes, Fadeaway, Feel, Filter, Growth, Ideas, Implausible, Impossible, Last, Laughter, Lessons, Life, Life Lived, Life Unfolds, Long Division, Lost Love, Memories, Morbid, Myriad, One By One, Pain, Pass Out, Passing Through, Persevere, Photograph, Phrase, Poem, Poetry, Reach, Reason, Roman Circuses, Rule, Sadie Hawkins, Sarcastic, School, Screens, Shake, Sides, Sock Hop, Song Titles, Spent, Spin, Split, Stuff Away, Subject, Symptom, Television, Themes, Time, To Live By, Try, Turn of Page, Turns, Twists In Plot, Wonder
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The Turbulence Begins
American history continues: The Turbulence Begins by Michael Doyle As the post-war alliance fell apart, the United Nations started The start of Cold War began and sustained as peace departed Confrontations began and nuclear weapons were on both sides’ hands … Continue reading
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Tagged Abuse of Power, Accommodation, Address, Ailment, Alliance, America, American History, Arab Conflict, Ascendency, Balance, Begin, Bi-Partisan, Border, Champion, China, Citizens, Civil War, Cold War, Command, Common Man, Communists, Confrontation, Consolidation, Containment, Continent, Crystal Ball, Cuba, Danger, Dangers, Deep State Government, Defense, Devastation, Eisenshower, Empire, Expansionism, Fidel Castro, Fiscal Conservatism, Foreign, Forgot, Forward, Free, Free People, Freedom, George Kennan, Global Challenges, Government, Grow, Guard, Hard Times, Harry S Truman, Heritage, History, Hitler, Hostility, Hour, I Like Ike, Ill-Informed, Imperatives, Impulsiveness, Inchon, International Relations, Iron Curtain, Isreal, Issues, Korean Peninsula, Korean War, Legend, Liberty, MacArthur, Mao, Middle East, Military, Military-Industrial Complex, Misplaced Power, Moral Conscience, Mortal Man, Mortgage, New Deal, No Subtitution For Victory, Non-Partisan, Normalization, North, Nuclear, Occupy, Pass, Peace, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Police Action, Policy, Politics, Post-War, Presidency, Radical Challenges, Rank, Rectification, Reunification, Russian, Salvation, Security, Self Determination, Sentiment, Settle, Sino, Society, Sorrow, South, Soviet, Stabilize, Stalemate, Stalin, Statesmanship, Stettin, Subjugation, Suez Canal, Technocratic State, Tension, Territory, The People, Tomorrow, Trieste, Truman Doctrine, Turbulence, United Nations, Veteran, Vietnam, Vigilance, Vote, Vulnerable Nations, Warn
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An Expectancy of Government
A continuing look at American history: An Expectancy of Government by Michael Doyle Approaches as it had been in hesitancy No gave the Constitution great expectancy As a blue print for what had been built To house a people in … Continue reading
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Tagged 1800, Agrarian, Alien and Sedition Act, American History, Americas, Andrew Jackson, Battle of New Orleans, Blue Print, British, Clause, Commerical Power, Common Man, Consolidation, Constitution, Country, Debt, Destruction, Dire, Division, Double, Ear, Economy, Election, Enumerated Powers, Era, Expectancy, Fair Trade, Farewell Address, Farm, Federalist, Federalist Party, Foreign Entanglement, Foreign Policy, French Revolution, Global, Golden Goose, Government, Great Plan, Hamilton, Harbinger, Ideology, Indispensable Man, James Madison, Jefferson, John Adams, Judiciary, Knell, Libel, Liberty, Light, Loose, Louisiana Purchase, Madison v. Marbury, Marshall, Maturation, Misery, Missouri, Missouri Compromise, Monarch, Monroe Doctrine, Mount Vernon, Nation, National Bank, Necessary, Neutrality, New Jersey, Nullifcation, Photograph, Pirate, Plow, Poem, Poetry, Politics, Potential, Power, Preservation, Primacy, Proper, Prosperity, Railroad, Republic, Resolution, Responsibility, Review, Right, Risk, Safety, Shoulder, Slander, Slavery, Strict Construction, Tariff, Teach, Territory, The Star Spangled Banner, Virginia, War of 1812, Washington, Washington D.C., Wolf
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Played Like The Boss
The relevance of rock-n-roll is how something so irreverently off the cuff could change the world into the mainly the Key of E. E for emotion, excitement, energy, enjoyment and evolving us into a whole new paradigm. Many watching wanted … Continue reading
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Tagged Action, Applause, Boss, Change, Chin, Chord, Common Man, Constant, Dark, Doubt, Explosion, Glory, Guitar, Home, Jaded Past, Key of E, Light, Motorcycle, Photograph, Play, Poem, Poetry, Revolution, Rock N Roll, Satisfaction, Six String, Society, Songs, Stage Lights, Story, Television, Truth, World, Young Boy
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