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Thought For the Day: Christmas Will Always Be As Long As We Stand Heart To Heart and Hand In Hand
“Christmas will always be as long as we stand heart to heart and hand in hand.” – Dr. Suess
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Tagged Always, Christmas, Dr. Seuss, Hand In Hand, Heart To Heart, Long, Stand, Thought For the Day, We
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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
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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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Thought For the Day: If I Can Do No More, Let My Name Stand Among Those Who Are Willing To Bear Ridicule and Reproach For the Truth’s Sake and So Earn Some Right To Rejoice When the Victory Is Won
“If I can do no more, let my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach for the truth’s sake, and so earn some right to rejoice when the victory is won.” -Louisa May Alcott, writer … Continue reading
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Tagged Bear, Do No More, Earn, Louisa May Alcott, Name, Rejoice, Reproach, Ridicule, Right, Stand, Thought For the Day, Truth's Sake, Victory, Willing, Won
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Thought For the Day: Make Mankind Wise and By That Very Operation You Make Them Free
“Make men wise, and by that very operation you make them free. Civil liberty follows as a consequence of this; no usurped power can stand against the artillery of opinion.” – William Godwin (1756-1836)
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Tagged Artillery, Civil Liberty, Consequence, Free, Mankind, Operation, Opinion, Stand, Thought For the Day, Usurped Power, William Godwin, Wise
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Be Your Own Hero
Be Your Own Heroby Michael DoyleIncurable as a dreaming heroStubborn as a seeming zeroWe play our parts in masqueradeEach day lived within its charadeHiding ourselves behind the music we playCaught up in front of screens all dayBecause we cannot be … Continue reading
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Tagged Able, Abuses, Afraid, Against, Aloone, Answering, Answers, Believe, Born, Breath, Calls, Cancer, Charade, Circumstance, Condone, Convince, Cupidity, Cure, Cuts, Dark, Death, Despite, Dingy, Dirty, Double Edged Sword, Drink, Duplicity, Even, Fabric of Society, Filed Away, Find, Finding Clues, Forgot, Front, Half A Shot, Hero, Heroism, Hidden, Hiding, Hope, Ignore, Incurable, Justification, Lessons, Life, Madness, Make It Right, Malignant, Mask, Masquerade, Music, Night, Others, Pardon, Pause, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Profuse, Pushing Through, Put Aside, Real, Recess, Screens, See, Self, Silence, Speak, Stand, Stronger, Stubborn, Swallowed Pride, Take the Hit, Tasks, Tattered, Think, Torn, True, Truth and Light, Unbreakable, Unspeakable, Vast, Villainy, Violence, Warning, Who We Want to Be, Why, Worse, Your Own
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Thought For the Day: We Stand At the Crossroads of Freedom. One Road Leads To Greater Freedom and Opportunity and the Other Road Leads To Socialism and Decline
“We stand at a crossroads of freedom. Before us lie two paths: One based on the dignity and worth of every individual, and the other on the growing control of the state. One road leads to greater freedom and opportunity, … Continue reading
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Tagged Crossroads, Decline, Dignity, Freedom, Growing Control, Individual, Mike Pence, Opportunity, Other Road, Socialism, Stand, State, Thought For the Day, Two Paths, We, Worth
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Thought For the Day: The Choice We Face Is Whether America Remains America
“We stand at a crossroads of freedom. Before us lie two paths: One based on the dignity and worth of every individual, and the other on the growing control of the state. One road leads to greater freedom and opportunity, … Continue reading
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Tagged America, Choice We Face, Crossroads of Freedom, Dignity and Worth, Every Individual, Greater Freedom and Opportunity, Growing Control, Mike Pence, One Road, Other Road, Remains, Socialism and Decline, Stand, The State, Thought For the Day, Two Paths
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Cancel Culture Must End
I was so heartened to see 100 voices from the Left have finally seen the light so much so that they themselves are now beginning to say what I have said for over 15 years now. This whole cancel culture … Continue reading
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Tagged Anxiety, Any Over Others, Blame, Cancel Culture, Civility, Coercion, Contribution, Cultural Institutions, Demands, Dogma, Each, Encourage, End, Evil, Fascism, Fetish, Force, Force Against Force, Free Exchange of Ideas, Free Society, Free Speech, God, Going Too Far, Harshness, Humility, Intolerance, Justice, Kindness, Letter, Lifeblood of Society, Love, Main Street, Meet, Mess, North Star, Nothing Good, Once Excluded, Open Debate, Openness, Overdue, Persuasion, Photography, Poem, Poetry, President Trump, Protests, Public Shame, Raise, Retribution, Rival, Scars, Stand, Stand Together, The Left, Tolerate, Toleration, Trial, Voice, Voice of Reason, Void
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Prayer For Courage
Poem Number Six in a series on a retelling of a classic werewolf tale: Prayer For Courage by Michael Doyle Look deep – is it a surprise? Do you see the beast in my eyes God knows that I wish … Continue reading
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Tagged Alone, Beast, Bold, Cards, Courage, Desire, Divine, Eyes, Flaws, Forgiveness, Fortunes, God, God Knows, God's Law, Good, Greater Good, Home, Hope, I, Inside, Look Deep, Looking Hard, Mortal Heart, Moves, Pensive, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Pray, Prayer, Prove, Read, Real, Sadness, Savage Beast, Series, Signs, Stand, Start, Stumble, Surge, Surprise, Tale, Times, Told, Understood, Urge, Werewolf, Whisper, With, World
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