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Covid and the Constitution

Posted on September 18, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Covid and the Constitutionby Michael DoyleVoices arrayed together against an institutionOut of control of the reining in by the ConstitutionChecks and balances swept away along with our rightsStill, we ride forward like beleaguered knightsStay at home orders meant for communicable … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged 14th Amendment, Abeyance, Abuse of Authority, Adversity, Aghast, America, Array, Ask, Beautiful, Beleaguered Knights, Best Practices, Blight, Bureaucrats, Case, Casinos, Chains, Checks and Balances, Churches, Closed Down, Constitution, Contrarian, Conversation, Cost of Silence, Course, Covid, Crown, Current Crisis, Death or Liberty, Decision, Deliberation, Desperate Situation, Dictate, Draconian Regulation, Economy, Effective, Embrace, Emergency Police Powers, Enforcement Issues, Executive Branch, Executive Dictate, Exercise, Face, Fail, Federal, Feduce, Force, Forgiving, Fray, Free, Freedom, Freedoms, Functionalism, Good Citizens, Governance, Government, Great, Health, History, Hour, Institution, Interpretation, Irritation, Jeopardy, Laboring Oar, Legal, Legislation, Legislature, Libertarian, Liberty, Limitation, Lives Lived, Looking Out, Loss of Our Liberty, Lost Liberty, Machination, Make A Living, Mankind, Mask, Money, Nation, Natural Law, Nature, New Normal, Noble, Open, Others Will Take, Out of Control, Overbearing, Partisan Warfare, Peaceful Assembly, Permanent Emergency, Perspective, Philosophy, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Point, Political Landscape, Pretending, Price, Protected Right, Pushback, Question, Quiet, Rationalism, Recall, Rein In, Restrain, Right, Rights, Rigor, Rule of Law, Safety, Samuel Adams, Sealed Fate, Security, Seize, Separation of Powers, Soul of Our Nation, States, Stay At Home Orders, Steps, Strangle, Stripping Away, Strong Enough, Surrender, Suspension, Swept Away, Technocrats, The Courts, The People, Today, True Representation, Ugly, Unending, Unfair, Urgency, Virtue Signaling, Virus, Vocal, Voices, We The People, Welfare, Withstand, Worse | Leave a comment

First Principles: I Place Economy Among the First and Most Important Virtues and Public Debt As the Greatest Dangers To Be Feared

Posted on August 13, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

“I place economy among the first and most important virtues and public debt as the greatest dangers to be feared.” – Thomas Jefferson

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Economy, Feared, First, First Principles, Greatest Dangers, Most Important, Public Debt, Thomas Jefferson, Virtues | Leave a comment

First Principles: We Must Make Our Election Between Economy and Liberty or Between Profusion and Servitude

Posted on August 12, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

“We must make our election between economy and Liberty, or profusion and servitude.” – Thomas Jefferson (1816)

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Between, Economy, Elect, First Principles, Liberty, Profusion, Servitude, Thomas Jefferson, We | Leave a comment

First Principles: I Place Economy Among the First and Most Important Virtues and Public Debt As the Greatest Dangers To Be Feared

Posted on July 12, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

“I place economy among the first and most important virtues and public debt as the greatest dangers to be feared.” – Thomas Jefferson

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Dangers, Economy, Fear, First, First Principles, Greatest, Most Important, Public Debt, Republican Virtue, Thomas Jefferson | Leave a comment

Build Up, Don’t Tear Down

Posted on June 26, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Why is destruction and all that so popular as the way to express grievances that do need to be addressed? Build Up, Don’t Tear Down by Michael Doyle We should be building up All for a drink from the winner’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Address, Appropirately, Attempt, Believe, Build Up, Burn Down, Complexity, Construction, Destroy, Destruction, Drink, Economy, Elevate, Embark, End, Equal, Fallen Ground, Feelings, Found, Good Weather, Grievances, Hate, History, Issues, Living, Love, Misery, Mystery, Neighborhood, Path, Photograph, Plain, Poem, Poetry, Pure, Record, Rise, Rougher, Sing For Our Supper, Society, Solid Wall, Sound, Speak Truth, Stand, Statues, Storm, Suffer, Tear Down, Times, Together, Tough, Turn Down, Understood, Wait, Winner's Cup, Worse | Leave a comment

Facing Fear Toward Tomorrow

Posted on June 18, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

A review of race history in America is a mix of hope and of fear; rights and wrongs; in short and in truth a mixed story. Today, we confront that which was wrong. Still, we should do so not in … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged 13th Amendment, 25%, 5%, Alleged, America, American Blacks, Art, Avoidance, Border, Broad Based, Brothers and Sisters, Burning Crosses, Choices, Civil War, Commentary, Confront, Contain, Convicts, Cried, Criminality, Culture of Fear, Death, Delayed, Democratic Convention, Denied, Descent, Done, Economic Devastation, Economy, Emancipation, Emmett Till, Envision, Equal, Exactitude, Exception, Explode, Exploit, Face, Fear, Fragmentary, Freedom, God's Family, Great Nation, Grow, Harm, Home, Hope, Indignity, Innocent, Jim Crow, Justice, Klansmen, Learn, Liberty, Loom, Mix, Nation, Neighbors, Not Allowed To Stand, Not Alone, One, People, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Predicament, Prison, Prison Boom, Punitive, Race History, Relegate, Remedy, Resistance, Right, Righteous Kill, Righteous Nation, Second Class, Seek, Segregation, Servitude, Shackles, Shadow, Shatter, Slavery, Survivors, Tattered, The Birth of A Nation, The Other, The South, Thousand Points of Light, Tomorrow, Toward, Tried, Truth, Understood, Unity, Width, Wise, World Population, Wrong, Wrong Answer | Leave a comment

On the Articles of Confederation

Posted on April 29, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

In these down times, I am taking a moment to reexamine and better understand the Constitution. The following is a look at the deficiencies of the Articles of Confederation under which America arose as a nation. On the Articles … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged America, Anarchy, Anchor, Articles of Confederation, Bane, Cede, Central, Change, Citizen, Consent, Constitution, Debt, Different, Dignity, Discovery, Doubt, Economy, Extreme, God, Government, History, Inflated, Instability, Just, Legislative, Liberty, Life, Light, Majority, Meant, Paper Money, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Power, Problems, Protection, Purpose, Pursuit, Recovery, Religous Minorities, Resolution, Responsive, Revolution, Rights, Secure, Sovereignty, States, Supremacy, Tyranny, United States, Value, War | Leave a comment

Disinfected Press Briefing

Posted on April 27, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

The 27th day of NaPoWriMo/GloPoWriMo 2020, has the optional prompt of writing a poetic review of something not often reviewed. Disinfected Press Briefing by Michael Doyle Even though there by sincere invitation Very few of them had whatsoever any … Continue reading →

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Retroactive Kaleidoscope

Posted on April 17, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

The optional objective for Day 17 of Na/GloPoWriMo 2020 is to write a poem incorporating a ‘forgotten’ technology. Well, my choice is not so much as forgotten but once a has been yet now a collectible among some. Retroactive … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged 2020, 45s, Angst, Artisanal, Aural, Bad, Bake, Believe, Brilliance, Bulge, Burrow, Capability, Capacity, Cave, Childhood, Days, Digital, Drive By, Economy, Fail, Favorite, Fear, Feet, Fix, Forgotten, Fulfill, Ghost, Good, Grasp, Ground, Hipster, Hope, Indulge, Kaleidscope, Last, Luddite, Millennial, Mind, Mistake, Na/GloPoWriMo, Need, Nostalgia, Past, Permanence, Phototgraph, Planned Obsolescence, Poem, Poetry, Portable Console, Reason, Reilience, Remade, Remember, Retroactive, Sage, Save, Savor, Silicon Valley, Sister, Soul, Sound, Sound Track, Sun Stroke, Technology, Time, Vinyl, Wallet, World, Zen | Leave a comment

Dealing With the New Deal

Posted on April 6, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

American history continues into the 1930s and the Great Depression. Dealing With the New Deal by Michael Doyle Had Coolidge been in power for Wall Street’s fall The safe bet is he would have done little or nothing at all … Continue reading →

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Covid and the Constitution

First Principles: I Place Economy Among the First and Most Important Virtues and Public Debt As the Greatest Dangers To Be Feared

First Principles: We Must Make Our Election Between Economy and Liberty or Between Profusion and Servitude

First Principles: I Place Economy Among the First and Most Important Virtues and Public Debt As the Greatest Dangers To Be Feared

Build Up, Don’t Tear Down

Facing Fear Toward Tomorrow

Disinfected Press Briefing

Retroactive Kaleidoscope

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