Tag Archives: Exception

Life Lived Artfully (Without Deceit)

Life Lived Artfully (Without Deceit)by Michael DoyleImagine, if you might, your life in a circumstanceHanded over to art, but only from a tragic distanceIt would be a malaise that knew its exceptionBecause your life is the art that doesn’t know … Continue reading

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Thought For the Day: In America, You Can Go As High As Your Character, Your Talent, & Your Grit Will Take You

“The radical Left thinks the only way to be successful in this country as a child of color is to be the ‘exception.’ Yesterday’s exception is today’s RULE. In America, you can go as high as your character, your talent, … Continue reading

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In Great Expectation

In Great Expectationby Michael DoyleJoy is conceived in every seasonGod’s miracles rise without reasonGiving birth of great expectationWe must rejoice without exceptionMeant as an ask fully requestingWe want to know what we’re expectingThough at times it feels we’re driftingWe keep … Continue reading

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Thought For the Day: Schools Are Quick To Blame Everyone and Everything But Themselves For the Failures of American Education. To Them, Every Bad Teacher Is the Exception and Every Bad Parent the Rule

“Schools are quick to blame everyone and everything but themselves for the failures of American education. To them, every bad teacher is the exception and every bad parent is the rule.” – Thomas Sowell

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Lessons From Tristan and Isolde

Lessons From Tristan and Isoldeby Michael DoyleLove has been the subject of great mysteryThroughout all of mankind’s fabled historySometimes life’s lessons have become legendaryFrom Shakespeare to the Athenian tragedyIt’s true what a thing it is, this fine messThat mortals confess … Continue reading

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Thought For the Day: With the Exception Only of the Period of the Gold Standard, Practically All Governments of History Have Used Their Exclusive Power To Issue Money To Defraud and Plunder the People

“With the exception only of the period of the gold standard, practically all governments of history have used their exclusive power to issue money to defraud and plunder the people.” – Friedrich August von Hayek (1899-1992)

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Thought For the Day: Women Belong In All Places Where Decisions Are Being Made. It Shouldn’t Be That Women Are the Exception

“Women belong in all places where decisions are being made. It shouldn’t be that women are the exception.”  – Ruth Bader Ginsburg I strongly believe that President Trump should name a conservative, rule of law woman. Let’s see if he … Continue reading

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Facing Fear Toward Tomorrow

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

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First Principles: The Militia Consists of the Whole People

“I ask you sir, who are the militia? They consist now of the whole people.” – George Mason    

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