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Thought For the Day: Debate and Divergence of Views Can Only Enrich Our History and Culture

“Debate and divergence of views can only enrich our history and culture.” – Ibrahim Babangida

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To Live In the Law

To Live In the Lawby Michael DoyleWalked into the doctrines of controversyThere is a stiff challenge without heresyDown through God’s good agesThere are debates that readily rageThe dialog should be had with all humilityGracefully admitting a bit of grace and … Continue reading

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A Call For the Nation’s Unity

A Call For the Nation’s Unityby Michael DoyleFor God’s good satisfactionPrayers must be followed by the right actionsThis is true in our way of governmentEspecially if we are seeking after our improvementWe know we care for our familyWe must, therefore, … Continue reading

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Reflections On the Aftertaste

Reflections On the Aftertasteby Michael DoyleIt was just one of those endless nightsI sat feasting on a garden of fried delightsTurning the channel to hear a bit of debateSurreally hoping to help decide the nation’s fateThere on the stage were … Continue reading

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First Principles: On Every Question of Construction Carry Ourselves Back To the Time the Constitution Was Adopted, Recollect the Spirit Manifested In the Debates

“On every question of construction carry ourselves back to the time when the Constitution was adopted, recollect the spirit manifested in the debates and instead of trying what meaning may be squeezed out of the text or invented against it, … Continue reading

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Things Seen In 2023

Things Seen In 2023by Michael DoyleLooking back on what has been 2023There was a lot to know and more to seeAI taught us some about our self-doubtAnd as always, there was a lot to work outEverywhere we looked, there was … Continue reading

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(Questions of Life) However Inspired

(Questions of Life) However Inspiredby Michael DoyleHowever it was inspiredLife came to be firedSparked a billion years agoAnd continued on in its flowThough no man was there Science believes it clearNeurons appeared 400,000 year agoBut who can truly know?From the … Continue reading

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First Principles: Without Debate, Without Criticism, No Administration, and No Country Can Succeed, and No Republic Can Survive

“Without debate, without criticism no administration and no country can succeed and no republic can survive.” – John F. Kennedy

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Witches Brew

Witches Brewby Michael DoyleIn the shroud of fog, we find the doorAnd knock on it, hoping yet to exploreHidden secrets are lost behind smoky eyesBut it’s the kind of secret that is hard to disguiseWhat sort of secrets would it … Continue reading

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Remembering When Kindness Was In Fashion

Remembering When Kindness Was in Fashionby Michael DoyleWe live in a time of self-limited imaginationWhere people cannot dream of outside creationBut mysteriously believe in writing only experienceSuch as found in personal and depraved dalliancesRather than dreaming of the bigger conceptionsToo … Continue reading

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