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First Principles: This Republic Would Be Unfaithful To Itself Were We To Allow Partiality To Infect Our Elections
“We should be unfaithful to ourselves if we should ever lose sight of the danger to our liberties if anything partial or extraneous should infect the purity of our free, fair, virtuous, and independent elections.” – John Adams (1797) That’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Citizens, Danger, Extraneous, First Principles, Independent Election, Infect, John Adams, Liberty, Partial, Pure, Unfaithful
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First Principles: Justice Is the End of Government and Civil Society Ever Pursued Until Liberty Is Lost
“Justice is the end of government. It is the end of civil society. It ever has been and ever will be pursued until it be obtained, or until liberty be lost in the pursuit.” – James Madison (1788) … Continue reading
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Tagged Civil Society, First Principles, Government, James Madison, Justice, Liberty, Lost, Obtain, Pursue
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An Elegy To Common Sense
Poem A Day #11 is to be an elegy. The word prompt is ‘black hole’. Milkwood’s definition of elegy is limited to the following. I would argue that the person who wrote the notecard needs to revisit this. I have … Continue reading
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Tagged America First, American, Attitude, Black Hole, Blindman's Bluff, Border Fence, Borders, Build, Cardinal Rule, Common Sense, Conservative, Country, Death, Defend, Dense, Despotism, Destination, Discrimination, Domestic, Drug Lords, Elegy, Elite, Enemy, Exist, Followers, Foreign, Globalist, Heath, History, Immoral, Legal Immigration, Liberty, Live or Die, Milkwood, MS 13, Nation, National Defense, Oath, Old Hat, Patriot, Patriotic, Platitude, Poem A Day, Poor, Porous Border, Pretense, Primary, Principle, Progressive, Protect, Rule of Law, Secure, Servants, Statesmen, Support, Surrender, Sworn, Terrorist, Thirst, Victimless Crimes
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First Principles: American Colonies Had Long Been Stopped From Abolishing Slavery Or Even Limiting It By Great Britain
“…. (A) disposition to abolish slavery prevails in North America, that many of Pennsylvanians have set their slaves at liberty, and that even the Virginia Assembly have petitioned the King for permission to make a law for preventing the importation … Continue reading
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Tagged Abolish, Benjamin Franklin, Disposition, First Principles, King, Law, Liberty, North America, Pennsylvania, Petition, Repeal, Slavery, Slaves, Virginia
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First Principles: It Is Unlawful To Take Away the Liberty of Others Simply Through Superior Power
“[I]t is certainly unlawful to make inroads upon others . . . and take away their liberty by no better means than superior power.“ – John Witherspoon, Signer of the Declaration of Independence
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Tagged Deprive, First Principles, Inroads, John Witherspoon, Liberty, Means, Others, Superior Power, Unlawful
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Ladies In White
It always astounds me when national leaders get something so entirely wrong. In this example, we see a group of women in Congress with so little understanding of the history of our nation that while they intended to mock President … Continue reading
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Tagged 1920, Blame, Brinksmanship, Congress, Democratic Record, Dressed, Equal, Equal Wages for Equal Work, Freshman Class, History, History Buff, Immaturity, Ladies, Lady Sufferagettes, Learned, Lesson, Liberty, Olive Branch, Photograph, Photographic Evidence, Poem, Poetry, Politcal Game, President Trump, Republican, Republican Record, Seneca Falls, State of the Union, Symbol, Vote, White, Women's Rights, Woodrow Wilson
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The Dissolution of Liberal Democracy
Not so long ago, it was announced with great fanfare that history had ended and Liberal Democracy had won. The globalists believed there was no most struggle and that it made little difference with we made microchips or potato chips. … Continue reading
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Tagged 20th Century, Algorithm, Brexit, Che Guevara, Civilization, Classical Liberalism, Communism, Confidence, Confluence, Elite, Evidence, Exploit, Extraordinary, Fascism, Franz Ferdinand, Global Mantra, Globalism, Great War, Gulag, History, Imperialism, Influence, Internet, Irrelevance, Issue, Liberal Democracy, Liberty, Manipulate, Mankind, Moral Courage, Ordinary, Photograph, Plug, Poem, Poetry, Politics, Price, Providence, Reality, Regressive, Repulican Values, Struggle, Supermarket, Technology, TED Talk, The People, Tissue, Transform, Trump, United States, Virtue, Wisdom
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You Can’t Own (A Child of God)
As we stand perched on the edge of a new month, this poem is dedicated to the brave souls who fought together as brothers and sisters in Jones County, Mississippi, dedicated to the proposition that each person is equal before … Continue reading
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Tagged Amen, Brave, Child of God, Complicit, Die, Duplicity, Echo, Equal Before God, Fight, Free, Freedom, God, Head, Heart, History, Jones County, Legacy, Legend, Liberty, Light, Linger, Living History, Mississippi, Odd, Own, Past, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Precious, Right, Sacred, Simple, Soul, Tear, Trust, Truth, Try, Twenty First Century
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First Principles: Let Us Never Forget That America’s Inheritance Rests On A History of Heroes Struggling For Our Future Generations
“Let the American youth never forget, that they possess a noble inheritance, bought by the toils, and sufferings, and blood of their ancestors; and capacity, if wisely improved, and faithfully guarded, of transmitting to their latest posterity all the substantial … Continue reading
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Tagged American Youth, Ancestors, Blessings of Life, Blood, First Principles, Guard, Independence, Joseph Story, Liberty, Never Forget, Noble Inheritance, Peace, Posterity, Property, Religion, Toil, Transmit
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First Principles: It Is Essential To Preserve Liberty That All People Possess Arms and Be Taught How To Use Them
“Whereas, to preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them; nor does it follow from this, that all promiscuously must go into … Continue reading
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Tagged Anti-Republican Principle, Arms, Federal Farmer, First Principles, Guard, Liberty, Possess, Preserve, Richard Henry Lee, Select Milita, Taught, The People, Use
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ALOHA PROMISES FOREVER 