Negative Space: Abraham Lincoln
- Abraham Lincoln’s conservative principles
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Reading Lincoln, it seems that both conservative thought and anti-conservative thought really hasn’t changed much in a century and a half. Though less racist for his time, he was still racist. But his adherence to conservative principles enabled him to overcome his prejudices while his contemporaries who were not conservative sank deeper into racism.
- Better for being ridden: the eternal lie of the anointed
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Whenever there’s a crisis, politicians and the media always tell us that if we do what they say, we’ll be all right. This is always a lie. And however often they fail and however many die from their ministrations, their wabbling fingers always return to the mire.
- The cyclic transmogrification of the Republican Party
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From Lincoln on, Democrats have accused Republicans of their own failings: hate speech, violence, madness. And the more the left recycles the same serpent’s lies they used against President Lincoln, the more the left turns Trump into the new Lincoln.
- The First Face of V: A Crucible of Fire
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V is a creature of man, born of fire and perverted science. He is the savior of man, giving his life to usher in a new world of freedom and individual liberty. Including the liberty to die.
- Illinois Nazis and Lincoln’s Democrats
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An anecdote about other people’s money and other people’s time that I’ve had sitting around for a while.
- The last time an actor assassinated a president?
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When, asks Johnny Depp, was the last time an actor assassinated a president? The only reasonable explanation for this question is that Depp is a secret conservative.
- The Life and Writings of Abraham Lincoln
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As the founding president of the Republican Party and the man who guided the United States through the incredible sacrifices of the Civil War and the abolition of slavery, Abraham Lincoln deserves more than adulation. He deserves to be read.
- The Life of Stephen A. Douglas
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Where Abraham Lincoln’s conservative principles made a flawed man better, Stephen A. Douglas’s belief in the responsibility of government elites for managing lesser men made him far worse.
- Memorial Day—Thank you
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“The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here; while it can never forget what they did here.”
- Reagan’s Lincolnian Revolution
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Reagan provided an alternative to the assumption held by both parties that bureaucracy was superior to individual freedom.
- Senator Kamala Harris calls for slavery reparations
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California Senator and 2020 presidential candidate Kamala Harris calls on Democrats to support reparations to descendants of former slaves, and to descendants of Union soldiers who died freeing them.
- White Supremacy: The Reincarnation of Stephen Douglas
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The modern Democratic Party, and the left in general, seems to be reincarnating Stephen Douglas and other early Democrat defenders of slavery and white supremacy. “That’s mighty white of you,” they say, when blacks show independence and reason.
More Information
- A New Birth of Freedom• (hardcover)
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Brilliant. (Harry V. Jaffa)
- Flight 93 Memorial Speech, September 10, 2011
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“One of the lessons of 9-11 is that evil is real, and so is courage… Individual choices make a difference. The passengers of Flight 93 set an example that inspires us all.”
- The Life and Writings of Abraham Lincoln• (hardcover)
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“Stern’s ‘Life of Abraham Lincoln’ is a full biography of the man and includes a detailed chronology. Stern has collected all the essential texts of Lincoln’s public life, from his first public address—a stump speech in New Salem, Illinois, in 1832 for an election he went on to lose—to his last piece of public writing, a pass to a congressman who was to visit the president the day after Lincoln went to Ford’s Theater on April 14, 1865.” (Philip Van Doren Stern)
