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Inconvenient History: Lincoln and the GOP Wed Feb 27

Fred Lucas

Before Michelle Obama announced the Best Picture to a large group of Democrats at the Oscars Sunday, Daniel Day Lewis’s triumph as Best Actor for his portrayal of Abraham Lincoln was as close as the gathered crowd came to cheering anything that remotely resembled a Republican. ... more
Better Late than Never: Mississippi Ratifies 13th Amendment Fri Feb 22

Michelle Mohr
Abraham Lincoln Wed Feb 20

Walter E. Williams

Steven Spielberg's "Lincoln" has been a box-office hit and nominated for 12 Academy Awards, including best picture, best director and best actor for Daniel Day-Lewis, who portrayed our 16th president. ... more
Emancipation: January 1, 1863 Tue Jan 1

Ken Blackwell

President Abraham Lincoln had been warned by Gen. George B. McClellan <i>not </i>to interfere with the institution of slavery. McClellan was a “War Democrat,” willing to fight to preserve the Union, but unwilling to do anything about the root cause of the rebellion that threatened the life of the nation. ... more
Politics With a Purpose Mon Nov 26

Michael Gerson

It is Steven Spielberg's singular achievement to have made a heroic movie about compromise and petty corruption. In "Lincoln," he pans away from a field of corpses 130 miles down the road in Petersburg and puts a tight frame on the Cabinet meetings, legislative debates and backroom confrontations where the final, decisive battles of the Civil War were fought. Combat determined the outcome of the War Between the States. Politics determined its meaning, culminating in passage of the 13th Amendment to the Constitution. ... more
What You Can't Say Wed Oct 24

Walter E. Williams

Jon Hubbard, a Republican member of the Arkansas House of Representatives, has a book, titled "Letters to the Editor: Confessions of a Frustrated Conservative." Among its statements for which Hubbard has been criticized and disavowed by the Republican Party is, "The institution of slavery that the black race has long believed to be an abomination upon its people may actually have been a blessing in disguise. The blacks who could endure those conditions and circumstances would someday be rewarded with citizenship in the greatest nation ever established upon the face of the Earth." ... more
The Diversity Fetish Fri Oct 12

Mark Davis

There is an uplifting American feel about a university, a workplace or a neighborhood brimming with people of different races. It is the product of a nation assembled of people from everywhere else. From many places, one people. ... more
Liberals Can't Break 200-Year Racism Habit Wed Sep 26

Ann Coulter

Democrats spent the first century of this country's existence refusing to treat black people like human beings, and the second refusing to treat them like adults. ... more
Obama's Dreams Tue Sep 4

Thomas Sowell

After reading Barack Obama's book "Dreams from My Father," it became painfully clear that he has not been searching for the truth, because he assumed from an early age that he had already found the truth -- and now it was just a question of filling in the details and deciding how to change things. ... more
Obama's 'Cynicism' on Gay Marriage Sun May 13

Steve Chapman

President Barack Obama's critics have a point in criticizing his handling of the gay marriage issue as evasive, politically devious and lacking in principle. I hate to say it, but it's bad enough to qualify as Lincolnesque. ... more
The Ghastly Hellhole of Camp 14 Wed May 9

Jeff Jacoby

SHIN DONG-HYUK grew up in North Korea's Camp 14, one of the monstrous slave-labor prison complexes in which the world's most tyrannical regime has crushed hundreds of thousands of its citizens, working them to death in conditions of excruciating brutality and degradation. Though the North Korean concentration camps have lasted far longer than their Soviet or Nazi counterparts did, Shin is the first person born and raised in one of them to have successfully escaped abroad. ... more
Dan Savage Savages the Bible, Christianity, and the Pope (Part II) Fri May 4

Michael Brown

If the Bible is “a radically pro-slavery document” (Dan Savage), how is it that Christians who successfully fought for the abolition of slavery in the 18th and 19th centuries based their opposition to slavery on that very same Bible? The answer is simple: The Bible is actually not “a radically pro-slavery document.” ... more
Debt-ridden Va. Slavery Museum to present plan Wed Feb 29

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The Lincoln-Douglass Debates Wed Feb 29

Robert Morrison

No, there is no misspelling in the title. We all remember the Lincoln-Douglas Debates from school. They were a series of face-to-face encounters all over Illinois in 1858. Abraham Lincoln challenged Sen. Stephen A. Douglas to debate on the burning issue of the day – the extension of slavery into the territories. ... more
IRS revokes US Slavery Museum's tax-exempt status Thu Feb 23

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Lincoln's Cottage in DC tackles modern slavery Fri Feb 17

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US Slavery Museum seeks more time on tax returns Thu Feb 2

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New exhibit explores Jefferson's slave ownership Wed Jan 25

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Ex-US teacher apologizes for slavery math lesson Thu Jan 19

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Ga. teacher resigns over slavery math lesson Wed Jan 18

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Ga. district investigates math homework on slavery Mon Jan 9

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Google donates $11.5 million to fight modern slavery Wed Dec 14

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Google donating $11.5M to fight modern slavery Wed Dec 14

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Brains, guts, glitz are honored at Glamour fest Tue Nov 8

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This Week in the Civil War Fri Nov 4

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