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First Principles: Equal Laws Protecting Equal Rights; the Best Guarantee of Loyalty and Love of Country
“Equal laws protecting equal rights; the best guarantee of loyalty and love of country.” – James Madison (1820)
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Tagged Country, Equal Laws, Equal Rights, First Principles, Guarantee, James Madison, Love, Loyalty, Protect
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Sucker Punch
Sucker Punchby Michael DoyleYou’re never fully dressedWithout a smileBut it’s hard to wear oneWhen you feel that you’re on trialDon’t put it downAs a matter of happenstanceWhen you’re watchingA wrong conviction buried in circumstanceFacing a false accusationIsn’t a pleasant feelingWhen … Continue reading
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Tagged Bury, Cannot Be Trusted, Care, Circumstance, Compelling, Dare, Dime, Disappeared, Dove, Face, False Accusation, Feared, Feeling, Fully Dressed, Happenstance, Hard, Harsh Ability, Know, Loyalty, Openly, People, Poetry and Poem, Pushed Too Far, Put It Down, Question, Smile, Sucker Punch, Trial, Vulnerability, Watching, Wear, Wrong Conviction, You To Me
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Modern Russian Violence
Modern Russian Violenceby Michael DoyleAs time moves forward, leaving the 19th century behindOne still needs to understand a measure of the Russian mindThe war crimes in Ukraine will never be the finest hourThe Russian people have experienced as Putin growls … Continue reading
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Tagged 19th Century, Authority, Blame, Broken Dreams, Broken Promises, Brutality, Capacity, Complicit, Contempt, Death March, Destruction, Dystopian, Empire, Identity Politics, Insight, Languish, Loyalty, Merciless Anger, Modern, Nation's Soul, Nightmare, Platonov's Chevengur, Poetry and Poems, Putin, Revolution, Russian, Russian Mind, Same, Soviet History, Tolstoy or Dostoyevsky, Total Despair, Ukraine, Unending Violence, Unholy Beast, Unleased, Utopia, Violence, Vision, War Crimes, Woe
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Rewarming Miracles On the Street
Rewarming Miracles On the Streetby Michael DoyleI don’t want to seem to be too contraryOr an old-fashioned grump who is orneryBut does it seem creativity is stuck on repeatIs anyone questioning the miracle of any streetHollywood’s latest contributions seem derivative … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Abusive, Acceptance, Angst, Believe, Blessings, Burst, Capable, Care, Charm, Christmas, Conceive, Conservaive, Contest, Contrary, Creativity, Crumbs, Deceive, Derivative, Destroy, Discern, Dissastisfaction, Dream, Embrace, Epidemic, Face, Fairy Tales, Fantasy, Festival, Forget, Formula, Good, Grump, Hallmark, Harm, Heart, Heartbreak, Hollywood, Immense, Joy, Jurassic, Kindness, Kris Kringle, Layers of Complexity, Learn, Lessons, Life, Lost, Love, Loyalty, Magic, Masks, Miracles, Money, Music, Ornery, Parade, People, Pessimism, Pleasure, Poetry and Poems, Possibility, Question, Regret, Repeat, Repentance, Rewarm, Season, Secret, Share, Story, Streets, Stuffed Away, Teach, Toys, Trace, Trade, Tragic, Treasure, Treat, Truth, Understood, Yesterday
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First Principles: Equal Laws Protecting Equal Rights; the Best Guarantee of Loyalty and Love of Country
“Equal laws protecting equal rights; the best guarantee of loyalty and love of country.” – James Madison (1820)
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Tagged Best Guarantee, Country, Equal Laws, Equal Rights, First Principles, James Madison, Love, Loyalty, Protect
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Thought For the Day: For A Guy Who Preaches Loyalty, Trump Is Shockingly Disloyal To Those Who Were Most Loyal To Him
“For a guy who preaches loyalty, Trump is shockingly disloyal to those who were most loyal to him.” – Piers Morgan While I will hold my nose and vote for him should Trump win the Republican nomination, I have always … Continue reading
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Tagged Disloyal, Guy, Loyal, Loyalty, Piers Morgan, Preach, Shock, Thought For the Day, Trump
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Thought For the Day: I Will Remember That What Has Brought Us Up From Savagery Is A Loyalty To Truth, and Truth Cannot Emerge Unless It is Subjected To the Utmost Scrutiny
“I will remember that what has brought us up from savagery is a loyalty to truth, and truth cannot emerge unless it is subjected to the utmost scrutiny — will you not agree that a society which has lost sight … Continue reading
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Tagged Brought, Emerge, Learned Hand, Loyalty, Remember, Savagery, Scrutiny, Subject, Thought For the Day, Truth, Up
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Thought For the Day: When I Took the Oath of Office, I Pledged Loyalty To Only One Special Interest Group – ‘We the People’
“When I took the oath of office, I pledged loyalty to only one special interest group – ‘we the people’.” – Ronald Reagan
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Tagged Loyalty, Pledged, Ronald Reagan, Special Interest Group, Thought For the Day, We The People
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Thought For the Day: Base Yourself In Loyalty and Trust
“Base yourself in loyalty and trust. Don’t be companion with those who are not your moral equal. When you make a mistake, don’t hesitate to correct it.” – Confucius
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Tagged Base, Confucius, Correct, Don't Be A Companion, Don't Hesitate, Loyalty, Make Mistake, Moral Equal, Self, Thought For the Day, Trust
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