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Mean Streaks and Misgivings
Mean Streaks and Misgivingsby Michael DoyleWhen the Colt has turned to rustAnd all that’s left is to swallow the dustThe desert plays tricks on a man’s mindAs he looks over his shoulder at what’s left behindWar is war and won’t … Continue reading
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Tagged Amend, At Last, Blind, Blindness, Body, Bury, Carry, Catch Up, Cost, Cure, Desert, Dust, Ease, Eke Away, Endure, Eye For An Eye, Find, Forget, Gun Hand, Heart, Labyrinth, Left Behind, Living Days, Mean Streak, Memories, Mental Maze, Mind, Misgiving, More, Our Ways, Past, Persistence, Poetry and Poems, Pray, Price, Regret, Resistance, Revenge, Ripped Free, Rust, Settle, Shaken, Shoulder, Soul, Soul's Rot, Start, Sun, Taken, The Days, Things Done, Tricks, Tricks of Mind, Truce, Truth, Turns Out, War, Whiskey, Wounded, Wounds
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First Principles: It Must Be Known, That We Are At All Times Ready For War
“If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known that we are at all times ready … Continue reading
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Tagged All Times, Avoid, Desire, First Principles, George Washington, Insult, Known, Peace, Powerful Instrument, Prosperity, Ready, Repel, War
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First Principle: Agriculture, the Only Honest Way, Wherein A Man Receives A Real Increase of the Seed Thrown Into the Ground, In A Kind of Continual Miracle
“There seem to be but three ways for a nation to acquire wealth. The first is by war, as the Romans did, in plundering their conquered neighbors. This is robbery. The second by commerce, which is generally cheating. The third … Continue reading
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Tagged Agriculture, Benjamin Franklin, Cheat, Commerce, Continual Miracle, First Principles, Ground, Hand of God, Honest, Increase, Innocent Life, Nation, Plunder, Reward, Robbery, Roman, Seed, Three Ways, Virtuous Industry, War, Wealth
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Ways of Life Previously Chosen
Ways of Life Previously Chosenby Michael DoyleEating smoked salmon and in contemplationAbout what will be the fate of my nationI will let no untruths be varnished or toldBut insist on telling how history did unfoldI have watched the destruction of … Continue reading
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Tagged 13th Through 15th Amendments, 1860s, 1960s, 40 Acres and A Mule, ACA, Actual History, America, America's Legacy, American Power, American Soul, Aspiration, Assimilation, Bells and Lights, Bill of Goods, Bill of Rights, Black, Blight, Blood and Tears, Brooks, Bureaucracy, Calhoun, Choose, Chosen, Civil Rights, Civil Rights Act, Civil Rights Movement, Civil War, Common Man, Complicit, Contemplation, Credit, Creed, Crockett, Cross Road, Cruelty, Darker Brothers, Deep State, Deliberate Illusion, Delivered, Democratic Republcian, Democratic Standard, Destruction, DNC, Doubling Debt, Douglas, Dredging Up the Truth, Dysfunction, Economical, Election Day, Election Year, End Slavery, Ensure, Equal Opportunity, Equal Rights, Equality, Equity, Equivalency, Extorionate, Fable, Fact, Fair Life, False Flag, Fate, Filibustered, Focus, Freedom, Frelinghuysen, Fringe, Gang, Greenlight, History, Inconvenient, Indian Removal Act, Instill Fear, Islamic Militancy, Jackson, Jefferson, Kleptocracy, Knee, Lands, Lash, Legacy, Liberty, Lies of Equity, Lincoln, Love For the People, Merit, Military, Modern Democrats, Modern History, Nation, Native American, North and South, Not So Distant Past, Obama, Open Opportunity, Opposing Listeners, Pathway, Permanent, Poetry and Poems, Politics, Price Paid, Priority, Profit, Promises, Racism, Real Fight, Real History, Recalled, Republican, Restore, Right To Vote, Rule of Law, Sexual Plunder, Shackled, Shivered, Slavery, Sleight of Hand, Smoked Salmon, Social Justice, Stand Up In the Front, Steeple, Stumble, Suffragettes, Supreme Court, Sword, Tainted Legacy, Taught, The Hermitage, Theft, Tocquieveille, Told, Trading Lives, Trail of Tears, Understood, Unfold, Untruth, Varnish, Vehement, Votes Are Cast, War, Ways of Life, Whip, White, White House, Women, Worth
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First Principles: Be At War With Your Vices, At Peace With Your Neighbors, and Let Every New Year Find You A Better Man
“Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.“ – Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard’s Almanac (1775)
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Tagged Benjamin Franklin, Better, Every, First Principles, Man, Neighbors, New Year, Peace, Person, Poor Richard's Almanac (1775), Vices, War
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Truth of War
Truth of Warby Michael DoyleMost of the world’s problems start with warIt’s a noteworthy thing that it takes moreThen dreamy words offering a shallow victoryTo come out on the winning side of historyMany a fool has believed themselves betterWhen cooler … Continue reading
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Tagged Arms, Begun, Breath, Brilliance, Choose, Cooler Head, Creep Up, Depths, Done, Dream, Equally Sad, Fight, Fight Hard, Fool, Fought, Hell, History, Journey, Legacy, Lesson, Lessons Learned, Lose, Luck, Mirror, No One Wins, Poetry and Poems, Price, Problem, Reflection, Reliance, Review, Roulette Wheel, Rush of Exuberance, Shallow Victory, Sin, Slow Drag of Death, Struggle, Tragic, Truth, Truth of War, Victory, Wages of War, War, Well-Earned, Winning Side, Won, World, Wounded
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First Principles: Of All the Enemies To Public Liberty War Is, Perhaps, the Most To Be Dreaded, Because It Comprises and Develops the Germ of Every Other
“Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes; and armies, and … Continue reading
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Tagged Comprise, Continual Warfare, Develop, Dread, Enemies, First Principles, Freedom, Germs, James Madison, No Nation, Public Liberty, War
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Other Side of Hell
Other Side of Hellby Michael DoyleThis isn’t meant to discourageBut sometimes, true courageIs found on the other side of HellWhen your eyes have seen enough to dispelAny notion that peace can be foundThrough the taking of lives in warAnd when … Continue reading
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Tagged Act, Affliction, Answer, Any, Bleed, Chase, Cuts Deep, Discordant Chords, Discourage, Dispel, Do Not Fight, Dread, Every Drop, Expense, Eyes, Fact, False Bravado, Form, Found, Hands, Heart, Hell, Ignore, Know, Life, Lives, Lonesome Trail, Multiple Choice, Notion, One Bullet, Other Side, Others, Peace, Plant, Play, Poetry and Poems, Power, Reflection, Repeated, Rest, Reveal, Road, Scared Cause, Seeds, Seen, Shadows, Sickened, Sorrow, Soul, Stand, Story, Sudden, Swords, Test, Test of First Light, Told, Tomorrow, Too Many, True Courage, Truth, Veteran, War, Windows
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Thought For the Day: The Ongoing War In the Middle East Has Raised the Threat of An Attack Against Americans In the United States To A Whole Other Level
“The ongoing war in the Middle East has raised the threat of an attack against Americans in the United States to a whole other level.” “We assess that the actions of Hamas and its allies will serve as an inspiration, … Continue reading
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