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First Principles: Minorities Have A Right To Appeal To the Constitution As A Shield Against Such Oppression

“By the theory of our Government majorities rule, but this right is not an arbitrary or unlimited one. It is a right to be exercised in subordination to the Constitution and in conformity to it. One great object of the … Continue reading

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Thought For the Day: Should You Shield the Canyons From the Windstorms You Would Never See the True Beauty of Their Carvings

“Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings.” – Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

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Thought For the Day: Should You Shield the Canyons From the Windstorms You Would Never See the True Beauty of Their Carvings

“Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings.”- Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

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Thought For the Day: Censorship Is the Tool of Those Who Have the Need To Hide Actualities From Themselves and From Others. Their Fear Is Only Their Inability To Face What Is Real

“Censorship is the tool of those who have the need to hide actualities from themselves and from others. Their fear is only their inability to face what is real, and I can’t vent any anger against them. I only feel this … Continue reading

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Always Worthy of Praise

Always Worthy of Praiseby Michael DoyleThe faith of the Church savesUplifting us from our gravesLet those who see plainly singAbout God’s victory over everythingSatan has come to know his defeatGained, for us, as Jesus took His seatWe were given the … Continue reading

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Floodgate

Floodgateby Michael DoyleI know that my place is reservedBy grace, Heaven is now deservedFor a sinner who once did wrongI have changed, and now I belongWhile it is that all aroundThis wicked world is shakingI cling to the grace I’ve … Continue reading

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Thought For the Day: Life Is Composed of Lights and Shadows, and We Would Be Untruthful, Insincere, and Saccharine If We Tried To Pretend There Were No Shadows

“I don’t believe in playing down to children, either in life or in motion pictures. I didn’t treat my own youngsters like fragile flowers, and I think no parent should. Children are people, and they should have to reach to … Continue reading

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Fairness of Trials Had

Fairness of Trials Hadby Michael DoyleIn this free land of dignity and rightThe Bill of Rights shines into the nightAmended to our Constitution, our governmentHolds these rights as something self-evidentThe fairness of trials in the Sixth AmendmentMay not seem as … Continue reading

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Road Tripping

Road Trippingby Michael DoyleIn a long history of driving placesFilled with love and smiling facesWe took it up to a whole new levelWhere boredom was the only DevilIt’s all in about that sort of journeyOn our way to the edges … Continue reading

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First Principles: America’s Glory Is Not Dominion But Liberty

“[America’s] glory is not dominion, but liberty. Her march is the march of the mind. She has a spear and a shield: but the motto upon her shield is Freedom, Independence, Peace. This has been her declaration: this has been, … Continue reading

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