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First Principles: We Know That Equality of Individual Ability Has Never Existed and Never Will, But We Do Insist That Equality of Opportunity Still Must Be Sought
“We know that equality of individual ability has never existed and never will, but we do insist that equality of opportunity still must be sought.” – Franklin Delano Roosevelt Kamala Harris has made a great deal out about “equity”. That … Continue reading
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Tagged Absurdity, Aware, Decline, Equal Outcome, Equality, Equality of Opportunity, Equity, Essential, Exist, First Principles, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Harmful, Illogic, Incentive, Individual Ability, Insist, Kamala Harris, Natoin, Pathological Destruction, Reward, Sloth, Society, Sought, Superior Talent, Well-Being
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To Keep Growing
To Keep Growingby Michael DoyleIn the first end, we objectifyWhat we were once taught to deify But being nothing but the average manWe still seek to do the best we canWe get so very much wrongTrying to model ourselves and … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Average Man, Belong, Best We Can, Better Sort of Man, Bias, Brother, Change Our Ways, Deify, Desperate, Do and Say, Each Step, Equality, Error, Father, Feeling, Find, First End, Foothold, Forward, Get It Right, Greater Truths, Growing, Imprinted Ways, In the End, Keep, Keep Growing, Knowing, Learning, Life Lived Well, Long Way, Longing, Love, Lover, Meaning, Misunderstand, Model, Nothing, Objectify, Poetry and Poems, Rearrange, Repent, See, Seek, Shame, Sins, Standing, Strong, Taught, Toward, True Society, Wrong
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Thought For the Day: The Law, In Its Majestic Equality, Forbids the Rich As Well As the Poor To Sleep Under Bridges, To Beg In the Streets, and To Steal Bread
“The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.” -Anatole France, novelist, essayist, Nobel laureate (16 Apr 1844-1924)
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Tagged Anatole Frace, Beg, Bread, Bridges, Equality, Forbid, Majestic, Sleep, Steal, Street, The Law, The Poor, The Rich, Thought For the Day
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Social Justice Fallacies
Social Justice Fallaciesby Michael DoyleThere is something to be saidThough I have a given explanationIt’s been rolling around in my headAnd must be spoken for the good of this nationThere is no sense in pursuing ‘equity’It only serves to put … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Ability, Adapt, Best Society, Born, Brother, Cultivated Ability, Deilitating, Elude, Equal, Equality, Equity, Explanation, Face-To-Face, Factual Matter, Fairness, Fallacies, Forgot, Games, Genetic Determinism, Good, Good and Bad, Head, Ignore, Illusory, Increase, Legal, Live, Loss, Louse, Love, Maple, Me and You, Measure, Merit, Million Other Ways, Mind, Nation, Oak, Opportunity, Optimism, Overall Good, Overcome, Poetry and Poems, Possibility, Potentiality, Poverty, Proved, Rolling Around, Room, Rule, Said, Serves, Shot, Social Justice, Society, Some, Spoken, Steadily Pursue, Trick, Truth, Utmost, Workday
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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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First Principles: Democracy and Socialism Have Nothing In Common But One Word: equality. But Notice the Difference… Socialism Seeks… Restraint and Servitude
“Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word: equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.” – Alexis de Tocqueville
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Tagged Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy, Difference, Equality, First Principles, Liberty, Nothing In Common, Notice, One Word, Restraint, Servitude, Socialism
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Pick Up Stix
Pick Up Stixby Michael DoyleYou can pick up sticksYou can play a thousand licksBut you can’t save a soulWithout saving your ownYou can make up tricksThat mesmerize slickers and hicksBut when you walk the walk of JesusYou’re never aloneSaid the … Continue reading
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Tagged Brief, Dignity, Each of Us, Equality, From the Heart, God's Family, Irish Homily, Jesus, Knew, Lifting Up, Love For One Another, Make Up, Mesmerize, Never Alone, Pick Up Stix, Play Our Part, Poetry and Poems, President, Restores, Rock Star, Save A Soul, Save Your Own, Slickers and Hicks, Straits of Poverty, Thousand Licks, Tricks, Walk the Walk, What He Meant
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Thought For the Day: The Use of Force To Achieve Equality Will Destroy Freedom, and the Force, Introduced For Good Purposes, Will End Up In the Hands of People Who Use It To Promote Their Own Interest
“The use of force to achieve equality will destroy freedom, and the force, introduced for good purposes, will end up in the hands of people who use it to promote their own interest.” – Milton Friedman (1912-2006)
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Tagged Destroy, End Up, Equality, Freedom, Good Purposes, In the Hands, Milton Friedman, People, Promote, Their Own Interest, Thought For the Day, Use of Force
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