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Of War and Valor
Of War and Valorby Michael DoyleThe things of this world come in complexity.What some face causes others frayed anxiety.When we versify in earnest, we find the truth.It can be as frustrating as an elder as it was in youth.It was … Continue reading
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Tagged Anxiety, Brutality, Citizen Soldiers, Complexity, Confront, Counter-Oopinions, Desparate, Divided Nation, Duty, Earnest, Ends, Explanation, Fight, Friends, Frustrateion, Hike, Humanity, Idealism, Libht, Poetry and Poams, Sacrifice, See, Truth, Valor, War, World
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First Principles: Stepping Up In Opposition
Stepping up in opposition to the gravitational suck of those who attempt to redefine what freedom and liberty mean: A fundamental difference between the allegedly progressive and true classical liberal idealists, now called conservatives, is in how freedom and … Continue reading
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Tagged Aesop, All Citizens, Arrogant Kings and Greedy Elites, Bleed, Civil Rights, Classical Liberal, Coercive Influence, Conservative, Constitution, Constrain, Controversy, Critical Race Theory, Duty, Earn, Emancipatory Element, Equality of Opportunity, First Principles, Found, Founding Principles, Freedom and Liberty, Fundamental Difference, General Welfare, Government Encroachment, Grasp, Historical Oppression, History, Idealism, Illusory Shadows, Law, Mandate, Marcuse, Marx, Mercy Warren, Misinformation, Opposition, Philosophies, Political, Politics, Principles, Private Citizens, Private Individuals, Progressive, Propaganda, Property Rights, Pursuit of Happiness, Regressive, Sacred Obligation, Services and Goods, Stepping Up, The Declaration of Independence, The Founders, The Republic of the United States of America, Trample, Tryanny
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In A Time of Flux
In A Time of Fluxby Michael DoyleTheory and practice belong togetherIf international relations are to be betterThese are pivotal times to seeFilled with dread and promise for you and meThose who talked of an end to historyWere blinded to the … Continue reading
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Tagged Aggression, Alternative, Attacks, Balance, Brutality, Claws, Conflict, Conversation, Decide, Declarative, Democratic Nations, Discern, Divide, Dread and Promise, Dynamics, Elements, End To History, Existence, Failure, Full Change, Idealism, Integrity, International Relations, Multipolar, Narrative, National Sovereignty, Nations, Neighbors, Optimism, Order, Persistence, Perspective, Pivotal Times, Place, Poetry and Poems, Political Mystery, Power, Power Vacuum, Renegotiation, Rule of Law, Russia, Ruthless Regression, Sovereignty, Spheres of Interest, Stand Together, The United Nations, The World, Theory and Practice, Threaten, Time of Flux, Trace, Tyrants, Ukraine, Value Space, Velvet Gloves, Western Civilization, Western Ways, World War II, Yalta
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Thought For the Day: The President Is …the President of the Whole People. He Must Guide His Conduct By the Idealism of Our People.
“The President is not only the leader of a party, he is the President of the whole people. He must interpret the conscience of America. He must guide his conduct by the idealism of our people.” – Herbert Hoover, 31st … Continue reading
Swing Around the Circle
Civil War ends and an attempt at racial justice was attempted. How did things get so completely flawed? Swing Around the Circle by Michael Doyle A country brought to ruin sought salvation From a barren wasteland in need of transformation … Continue reading
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Tagged 15th Amendment, America, Andrew Johnson, Anguish, Assassination, Black America, Bloody Shirt, Bureau of Reconstruction, Carpetbagger, Citizen, Civil Rights, Civil War, Congress, Contentment, Corruption, Country, Derringer, Destruction, Elite, Eloquence, Executive Power, Forty Acres and A Mule, Freedmen, Freedmen's Bureau, Freedom, Golden Spike, Hayes, History, Idealism, Impeachment, Inclination, Incorporation, Inequality, John Wilkes Booth, Justice, Kept, Lincoln, Loyalty, Marginalize, Military District, Nation, Noose, North, Obligation, Our American Cousin, Peonage, Photograph, Plantation, Planter, Poem, Poetry, Promontory, Prosperity, Racial Justice, Radical Republicans, Ratification, Reconstrution, Reincorporation, Relation, Resentment, Restitution, Ruin, Salvation, Scalawag, Sharecropper, Slavery, South, Stanton, Swing and Circle, Tennessee, Transform, Treason, Tyrant, Ulysses S Grant, Vote, Wept, Yeomanry
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Antebellum Blues
It’s true that there’s a lot more to the Southern side of the story than I’ll cover in this poem. But, with respect to American history, I would be amiss if I failed to cover this. Antebellum Blues by Michael … Continue reading
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Tagged 1830s, African, Agrarian, America, American History, Antebellum, Beauty, Bi-Racial, Bitter, Black, Blessed, Blues, Brutality, Canadaa, Cash, Character, Climate, Collision Course, Contrast, Control, Cotton Gin, Cruel, Cry, Dark Clouds, Dash, Disdain, Divide, Division, Domination, Eli Whitney, Enthusiasm, Error, Exodus, Export, Fall, Fear, Fertility, Field Hand, Fundamental, Gather, Ground, Haiti, Hired Hand, History, Horror, Idealism, Industry, Ineqquality, Integrity, Kick of the Can, King Cotton, Lash, Lower South, Master, McHugh, Misery, Moral, Motherless child, Nat Turner, Nation, Nature, Noble, Pecking Order, Peculiar Institution, Perpetuation, Perpetuity, Photograph, Piety, Plantation, Poem, Poetry, Polarization, Poverty, Pride, Promised Land, Punditry, Puritan, Puzzle, Racism, Rebellion, Recall, Road, Role, Ruin, Sad, Seal, Sensibility, Slave, Slave Religion, Sobriety, Socialism, Society, Solace, South, Split, System, Terror, Textile, Truth, Ugly, Understand, Upper South, Virginia, Wage Slavery, War, White
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On Idealism and Its Defeat
https://flic.kr/p/vTtV13 On Idealism and Its Defeat by Michael Romani Too often the rebuke of idealism Can seem like only so much tribalism Each convinced of an abstraction of right Though differently seen in its perspective of light Lives of practical … Continue reading
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Tagged Boldness, Civility, Depth, Dreams, Emotions, Idealism, Ideology, Ignorance, Logic, Loss, On Idealism and Its Defeat, Perspective, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Shallow, Tribalism
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Time Spent With the Harvard Classics – The Prince – Niccolo Machiavelli
“He who neglects what is done for what ought to be done, sooner effects his ruin than his preservation.” The 16th century political theorist Niccolo Machiavelli wrote the treatise, The Prince. It was then published with the permission of one of … Continue reading
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Tagged Harvard Classics, Idealism, Medici, Niccolo Machiavelli, Pope Clement VII, Realism, The Prince, Treatise
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Thought For the Day: The World Is Malleable
“The world is more malleable than you think and it’s waiting for you to hammer it into shape.” – Bono, Musician and Social Activist I remember watching U2 play at the US Festival a lifetime ago and telling my friends … Continue reading
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Tagged Action, Bono, Determination, Dreams, Hard Work, Idealism, Malleable, Obstacles, Perserverance, Thought of the Day, U2, US Festival, Yoda
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