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First Principles: Sometimes It Is Said That Man Cannot Be Trusted With Government of Himself. Can He, Then, Be Trusted With the Government of Others?
“Sometimes it is said that man can not be trusted with government of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others?” – Thomas Jefferson (1801)
Thought For the Day: The Most Effective Way To Destroy A People Is To Deny and Obliterate Their Own Understanding of Their History
“The most effective way to destroy a people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.” – George Orwell
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Tagged Deny, Destroy, Effective Way, George Orwell, History, Obliterate, People, Thought For the Day, Understanding
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The New Intolerance
The New Intoleranceby Michael DoyleCritical race theoryHas a death grip on America’s legacyTurning politics into identityAnd causing division to loom in our historyBig Tech pushes its aggressionMarking each day with a new transgressionNeutering language to shape theoryThat offers nothing good … Continue reading
In the Sweetness of Money
In the Sweetness of Moneyby Michael DoyleThe band leader says, “One, two..”And the band knows what to doEspecially slick with his brand new shoesFilled as he is with his particular viewsStepping it up to make it betterIn the harmony of … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Back Luck, Band, Band Leader, Better, Can't Tell A Fool Nothing, Chart, Crooked Smile, Dance, Desire, Devil, Face, Found, From the Heart, Funny, Harmony, Headlines, Heritage, History, Leftovers, Level, Leverage, Ma Rainey, Misonstrue, Money, Moves, Nailing, New Shoes, Particular, Patent Leather, Piper's Price, Poetry and Poems, Reverent, Right, Sake, Selling Souls, Selling Voice, Set On Fire, Simple, Solid Choice, Something, Sound, Stew, Stomp, Strung Up, Sweetness, Sweetness of Money, Temple, Tight, Whispered Tales, Wicked Ways
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Walking With the Giants
Walking With the Giantsby Michael DoyleWalking with the giantsWe stand in our defianceCalling out the holy namesKnown with the mark of God’s fameWalking in the faith that’s knownConfidence that has grownThough the future remains unseenIn this assurance, we find new … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Anger, Assurance, Base, Belief, Believe, Clouds, Commendation, Conception, Concern, Confidence, Control, Deception, Defiance, Depth, Difficult Seasons, Entangles, Evidence, Faith, Foundation, Frover, Future, Generation, Giants, God, God's Glory, Goodness, Heart, History, Holy Names, Improbable, In God, Jealousy, Joseph, Juggle, Keep True, Light, Living Love, Mangels, Mystery, New Meaning, Night, Passing, Path, Perserverance, Poetry and Poems, Protect, Shape, Sin, Soul, Spiritual Connection, Start, Story, Struggle, Told, Truth, Two Pillars, Unfold, Unseen, Walking
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Lessons From A Foggy Eve
Lessons From A Foggy Eveby Michael DoyleI.Up at the old North PoleThere’s an awful lot of snowThere’s something to this time of yearA time of hope and peace and good cheerThat is except for that yearOf the big snow that … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Believe In Your Dreams, Best Day, Big Snow, Clarisse, Conform, Dash, Day, Dentist, Difference, Don't Quit, Father, Find, Fit In, Foggy, For Us, Glows, Gossip, Grand, Happiness, Hermie, Heroes, History, Hope and Peace, Lessons, Love, Love Us, Magnificient, Misft, Names, No Way To Win, North, North Pole, Poetry and Poems, Preference, Reindeer, Room, Rudolph, Say, Shiny Nose, Sleigh, Smallness, Snow, Special Way, Suppose, Time of Year, Tomorrow, Toy Making, Understand
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For Bill of Rights Day
For Bill of Rights Dayby Michael DoyleTo embark on teaching history of the pastEngages us with the things that lastThe best way of doing this of courseIs to teach things right from the sourceBefore going further, let me just sayHappy … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Assert, Assertion, Beacon, Bill of Rights Day, Candid, Civic, Civic Virtue, Civil, Dark Night, Debate, Design, Education, Engage, Enlighten, Faith and Family, Fundamental, Great Nation, History, Ignorance, Join Together, Last, Lessons, Liberty, Light, Limited Government, Marvel, Mystery, Participation, Photograph, Pillars, Poetry and Poems, Policy, Polite, Public Square, Reason, Rule of Law, Say and Do, Source, Stand, Teach, Treason, Truth and Light, Tyranny, Viewpoints, World
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Making A Difference In Possible End Days Blues
Making A Difference In Possible End Days Bluesby Michael DoyleDetermined that I am going to make a differenceHolding my head up high but still in reverenceAs I am making way through 2020’s day to daySpending my soul’s debt down, giving … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged 2020, Belief, Believers, Birth Pains, Blessed, Blink, Ceaseless Rhymes, Confident, Confusion, Day To Day, Debt, Descend, Determined, Difference, Doom, Ears, End Days, Faith, Fears, Filters, Forgives, Giving Love Away, Giving My Heart, God, God's Good Truth, God's Holy Breath, Good Deed, Grace, Graced, His Love, History, Holy Word, House, Illusions, Jesus, Keeping It Real, Lessons, Light, Linking Arms, Lord's Ways, Lost Up, Love, Love It Right, Make, May Yet Live, Means To Me, Miracles, Misfortune, Mystery, Needs, No Harm, Opening Eyes, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Pouring Rains, Prayerfully Learned, Prayers, Promises, Prophesy, Put to Death, Quietly, Reasons, Redeem, Reliance, Remind, Return, Revealed, Reverence, Sacred Rooms, Salvation, Season, Signs of Our Times, Silently Repeat, Sinner's Prayer, Solid Foundation, Soul, Steady, Thanking God, These Days, Time We Have Left, Turning My Troubles Over, Two Minutes to Midnight, Wait, World, You
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A Most Holy Compact
The Mayflower Compact serves as the rudimentary model for the governance of the United States of America. As a document, it also served as a model for both the Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution itself. This year … Continue reading
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Tagged Accepted, America, American Nation, Basis, Beginning, Belief, Christian, Circumstance, Class, Common Society, Commonwealth, Community, Compact, Conformed, Cooperation, Covenant, Declaration, Depart, Divine Authority, Divinity, Equality, Family, Follow, Formed, Frame, Given Right, God, God's Divine Light, God's Name, Governance, Government Given, Grow, Happenstance, History, Holy, Inspiration, Jamestown, Journey, Liberties, Liberty, Lord's Name, Love, Matters of Worship, Mayflower Compact, Model, Mystery, Nation, Not Coercion, One Another, One's Own Conscience, Our Nation, Parsing, Passenger, Photograph, Pilgrim, Plurality, Plymouth, Plymouth Colony, Poem, Poetry, Political Society, Pressure, Purity, Quest, Relief, Rights, Rough Strangers, Sacred, Sailing Ship, Seek, Social Compact Theory, Stand Together, Study, Thanksgiving, Theology, Toleration, United States of America, Walk
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