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The Black Book Blues
The Black Book Bluesby Michael DoyleA father’s handClutches his son’s bloodMired in the sandClotting in the mudCorruption is as corruption doesSome things never changeIt’s as bad as it ever wasSome things simply rearrangeAn honest man can’t always be niceNot when … Continue reading
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Tagged Bad As It Ever Was, Battles, Black Book, Blues, Broken, Brutal, Burn, Change, Clot, Clown, Corruption, Cost, Danger, Evil, Father's Hand, Good, Grief, Heart, Heartbreak, Hide, Honest Man, Incendiary, Integrity, Lesson, Light, Look, Memories, Mercies, Mercy, Mistake, Mud, None, Nowhere, Pain, Poetry and Poems, Price, Relief, Right, Run, Sand, Shown, Sight, Snare, Son's Blood, Spare, Stranger, Token, Tossed, Truth, Understood, Wink and Nudge, Youth
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First Principles: Nothing Was More To Be Desired Than That Every Practicable Obstacle Should Be Opposed To Cabal, Intrigue, and Corruption
“Nothing was more to be desired than that every practicable obstacle should be opposed to cabal, intrigue, and corruption. These most deadly adversaries of republican government might naturally have been expected to make their approaches from more than one querter, … Continue reading
Keeping Faith Through Storms
Keeping Faith Through Stormsby Michael DoyleWalking righteous amidst life’s corruptionThe faithful holds true without disruptionLike Noah and his ark saving our humanityThe chaos of new frontiers heals with peace, not vanityToo often, we live in coffins of our own makingWhile … Continue reading
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Tagged Ark, Buoyant, Coffins, Compare, Condemnation, Corruption, Dedication, Deluge, Demand, Desire, Disruption, Dominate, Drought, Faith, Faithful, Fault Finders, Frontier, God, God's Reasoning, Grumblers, Heart Breaking, Humanity, Keep, Make, New Day, Noah, Patient, Peace, Poetry and Poems, Prepare, Reasons, Rest, Righteous, Shining Light, Storm, Tears, Treasure, Understood, Unlikely, Vain, Vanity, Waters
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Inside A Glass Onion
Inside A Glass Onionby Michael DoyleIt’s a dangerous thingTo speak without thinkingIt’s what the red pill bringsThat leaves us drunker than drinkingBringing the system down and brokenBy being violently visible and outspokenWilling to stab a friend in the faceFor the … Continue reading
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Tagged Broken, Charade, Corruption, Danger, Disruption, Drink, Fifteen Minutes, Glass Onion, Golf Clap, Masquerade, Outspoken, Poetry and Poems, Red Pill, Stab, System, Think
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First Principles: The Time To Guard Against Corruption and Tyranny, Is Before They Have Gotten Hold On Us
“The time to guard against corruption and tyranny, is before they shall have gotten hold on us. It is better to keep the wolf out of the fold, than to trust to drawing his teeth and talons after he shall … Continue reading
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Tagged Corruption, Enter, First Principles, Fold, Guard, Hold, Talons, Teeth, Thomas Jefferson, Time, Tyranny, Wolf
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First Principles: Nothing Is More Certain Than That A General Profligacy and Corruption of Manners Make A People Ripe For Destruction
“Nothing is more certain than that a general profligacy and corruption of manners make a people ripe for destruction. A good form of government may hold the rotten materials together for some time, but beyond a certain pitch, even the … Continue reading
Dropping the Wrong Attitude
Dropping the Wrong Attitudeby Michael DoyleTaking a deep breath with communityA moment to bring this to realityEvery day lived in our true measureLiving dignified even under pressureCrossing the valley of well-renown despairApproaching Gethsemane, the place of whereBeauty and brokenness are … Continue reading
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Tagged Address, Attitude, Beauty and Brokenness, Believers, Better, Catalyst, Come, Community, Corruption, Cup, Deep Breath, Deity, Despair, Destiny, Dignified, Drop, Every Day, Face-To-Face, Fearless Moment, Fully God, Fully Man, Gethsemane, God, Grace, I Am, Jesus, Judas, Kingdom, Moment, Poetry and Poems, Prayer, Pressure, Purity, Reality, Recognize, Reconcile, Sacred Journey, Sacrifice, Save, Sinners' Hands, Sleeping, Standards, Straight In the Eyes, Surrender, Test of Time, True Measure, Understand, Understood, Viability, Victory, Weeping
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Reflections On Dorian Gray, Pt VIII: Reality’s Seams
Reflections On Dorian Gray, Pt VIII: Reality’s Seamsby Michael DoyleThere on that snow fallen black of nightIn an alley filled with guilt’s blightDorian fears the tell of tongue wagged taleThat pursues him to the gates of HellThere are dreadful things … Continue reading
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Tagged Alley, Ancient Danger, Attic Door, Begin Again, Begun, Black of Night, Blight, Burning Fire, Chain, Change, Closeness, Confession, Conspire, Corruption, Creep, Daughter, Dead Rat, Death, Deceptive, Decrepit, Delusion, Demand, Desire, Done, Dorian Gray, Dreadful Things, Dream, Edge of Death, End, Evil, Father, Final Breath, Final Price, Final Say, Fire, Forlorn, Gates of Hell, Ghastly, Hope, Innocence, Innocent Man, Intoxication, Intrusion, Kiss Away Moment, Locked Away, London, Mortal Sin, Only Friend, Paid, Penny, Poetry and Poems, Priest, Purity, Putrify, Real, Reality's Seams, Reflections, Secret Key, See, Sin, Snow, Strange, Stranger, Subway, Tarnished History, Tongue Wag, Train, Traps, Truth, Tunnel, Wake, Whisper, Wind
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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: Nothing Is More Certain Than That A General Profligacy and Corruption of Manners Make A People Ripe For Destruction
“Nothing is more certain than that a general profligacy and corruption of manners make a people ripe for destruction. A good form of government may hold the rotten materials together for some time, but beyond a certain pitch, even the … Continue reading
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Tagged Best Constitution, Beyond, Certain Pitch, Corruption, Destruction, Ensue, First Principles, General Profligacy, Good Form of Government, Ineffectual, John Witherspoon, manners, More Certain, Nothing, Ripe, Rotten Materials, Slavery, The People, Together
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