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Thought For the Day: When Confidence In the Election Process Disappears, Confidence In the Legitimacy of Government Disappears With It
“The reason our democratic republic has functioned as well as it has for the past 231 years is because of our trust in the electoral process. When confidence in the election process disappears, confidence in the legitimacy of government disappears … Continue reading
First Principles: The Judiciary, From the Nature of Its Functions, Will Always Be the Least Dangerous To the Political Rights of the Constitution
“Whoever attentively considers the different departments of power must perceive, that, in a government in which they are separated from each other, the judiciary, from the nature of its functions, will always be the least dangerous to the political rights … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexander Hamilton, Always, Constitution, Dangerous, Federalist Papers, First Principles, Function, Judiciary, Least, Nature, Political Rights
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Owed To A Non-Living Killer
An attempt at both blank verse which I never quite understand and a virus that apparently isn’t going away so it might be wise to understand, right? Owed To A Non-Living Killer by Michael Doyle A world cast into lockdown … Continue reading
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Tagged Address, Alsohol, Ambition, Antibodies, Blank Verse, Block, Coronavirus Disease 2019, COVID-19, Deadly, December, Distress, DNA, Enemies, Family, Flu, Frown, Frustration, Function, Genetic, Growth, Hand Sanitizer, Infection, Inhibition, Insertion, Killer, Life, Living, Living Cells, Lockdown, Lungs, Madness, Math, Mean, Medicine, MERS, Messenger RNA, Method, Morphogenesis, Mutation, Parasite, Particles, Photograph, Plasma, Poem, Poetry, Protease, Reproduction, Right Path, RNA Vaccination, SARS, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, Soap and Water, Spike Crowns, Steal, Structure, Treatment, Viral, Wuhan
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A New Nation Born Pt II
The American story series continues… A New Nation Born Pt II by Michael Doyle In the haphazard wake of 1776 There were so many constructs to fix The ancients had always taught Only a smallish sized republic should be sought … Continue reading
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An Indictment of the 20th Century
We have lived through the bloodiest and cruelest century of mankind’s history. God surely must be crying. An Indictment of the 20th Century by Michael Doyle Einstein insisted God did not play with dice While other insisted God needed no … Continue reading
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Tagged 20th Century, Advice, Blood, Breakdown, Breath, Calamity, Certainty, Change, Civility, Claim, Clash, Communism, Cruel, Cry, Culture, Destruction, Diametric, Dice, Dim, Disorder, Einstein, Face, Fascism, Function, Genocide, God, Good, History, Homocide, Humanity, Indictment, Legacy, Level, Litany, Lives, Mankind, Mayhem, Modernity, Morality, Need, New, Old, Opposition, Outrage, Pandemic, Pessimism, Photograph, Pillars, Poem, Poetry, Prospect, Revolutionaries, Sense, Sensibility, Socialism, Society, Souls, Tearful, Travesty, Twin, World War Two
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Thought of the Day: We Laugh At Honor and Are Shocked To Find Traitors In our Midst
“We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honour and are shocked to find traitors in our midst.” – C.S. Lewis
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Tagged C.S. Lewis, Castrate, Chest, Enterprrise, Fruitful, Function, Geldings, Honor, Organ, Thought For the Day, Traitor, Virtue
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Thought For the Day: The Role of the Prosecutor Is To Vindicate the Rights of the People and Give A Fair Trial
“The function of the prosecutor under the federal Constitution is not to tack as many skins of victims as possible against the wall. His function is to vindicate the rights of the people as expressed in the laws and give … Continue reading
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Tagged Accused, Constitution, Fair Trial, Function, Justice William O Douglas, Law, Prosecutor, Rights, The People, Thought For the Day, Victims, Vindication
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Thought For the Day: Citizens Must Keep Government From Error
“It is not the function of the government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error.” —Justice Robert H. Jackson (1892-1954) If nothing else this … Continue reading
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