Abraham Lincoln

Obama's Lincolnesque Nobel Peace Prize

William Bradley | Posted 12.11.2009 | World

Read More: Iran, Al Qaeda, Pakistan, Cairo, George W. Bush, Abraham Lincoln, Taliban, Iraq, Nobel Peace Prize, Afghanistan, Barack Obama, Dick Cheney, 9/11, Emancipation Proclamation, Civil War, World News

Lincoln is Obama's professed ideal. We remember Lincoln today from civics lessons and the monument in Washington, but the historical reality is that he was both soaring idealist and ruthless pragmatist.

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Abraham Lincoln As Vampire Hunter And Other Publishing News

USA Today | Bob Minzesheimer, Mary Cadden, Craig Wilson and Carol Memmott | Posted 12.03.2009 | Books

Read More: Books, Going Rogue, Publishing, New Moon, Going Rouge, Lincoln, Sarah Palin Going Rogue, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, My Life, Sarah Palin, Abraham Lincoln, Push, Publishing News, Twilight, Stephanie Meyer, Books News

Our greatest vampire hunter? Thousands of books have been written about Abraham Lincoln, but none, until now, has dealt with his skills as a vampire h...

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Thanksgiving Day: A Perspective For Gratitude

Jim Thomas | Posted 11.25.2009 | Denver

Read More: Abraham Lincoln, Legal Holidays, Franklin Roosevelt, George Washington, Gratitude, Presidential Proclamations, Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving Commentary, Denver News

America pauses today, if but for a moment, in collective recognition that despite our differences and our problems, we have many reasons to be grateful. Law, thankfully, has little to do with Thanksgiving.

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The Real Thanksgiving Day -- Our Presidents Explain

Dr. Peter Breggin | Posted 11.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Holidays, Peter Breggin, Thanksgiving Day, George Washington, Franklin Dr. Roosevelt, U. S. Presidents, Abraham Lincoln, Native Americans, God, Gratitude, Politics News

By looking at what our most revered presidents have said about the meaning of Thanksgiving, we can get a better idea of the purpose of our national holiday.

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"Lincoln, Life-Size": Abraham Lincoln's Fascinating Face (PHOTOS)

Huffington Post | Jessie Kunhardt | Posted 11.19.2009 | Books

Read More: Slideshow, Lincoln, Looking for Lincoln, Lincoln Photos, Lincoln Pictures, Photography, Abraham Lincoln, Books, Photos, Lincoln Life-Size, Kunhardt, Presidents, Reading-Faces, Abraham Lincoln Pictures, Abe Lincoln, Books News

Abraham Lincoln has fascinated people ever since his presidency, and is one of the most visually recognizable presidents in U.S. history. In a new boo...

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Give Thanks and Please Pass the Drumstick

Patricia Draznin | Posted 11.16.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Thanksgiving History, Thanksgiving, Plymouth, Abraham Lincoln, Pilgrims, Wampanoag, Turkey Thanksgiving Commentary, The New World, Comedy News

As we approach the 2009 holiday season we pause to give thanks for the blessings of good friends, organic eggnog, and unemployment compensation.

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China To Obama: Dalai Lama Was A Slave Master In Tibet

AP | ALEXA OLESEN | Posted 11.15.2009 | Home

Read More: Serfs, White House, Han Chinese, Serfdom, Dalai Lama, Tibet, Beijing, Obama, China, Free Tibet, Slavery, Abraham Lincoln, Black, Asian, Buddhism, Home News

BEIJING — The conviction was clear but the message befuddling: China's Foreign Ministry spokesman was equating serfdom in Tibet to slavery in th...

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"Therapy" for Obama and His Demoralization by the Insurance Industry

Bruce E. Levine | Posted 11.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Insurance Industry, Marcia Angell, Abraham Lincoln, Health Care Reform, Medicare for All, Obama, Single Payer, Health Care, Barack Obama, Politics News

Obama is trapped in the same kind of thinking that initially demoralized his hero Abraham Lincoln, who ultimately rejected that kind of thinking, regained his morale, and fought against what was morally wrong.

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In Search of Men of Principle

Louise Mirrer | Posted 11.09.2009 | New York

Read More: Civil War, New York Draft Riots, Terrorism, Abraham Lincoln, Nazism, Neil Simon, Brighton Beach Memoirs, John Brown, Great Depression, Triumph, New York News

Had Eugene and Stanley of Brighton Beach Memoirs been living in New York during the Civil War years, they might not have thought so highly of Abraham Lincoln's principles.

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Barack's Not Honest Abe -- But Neither Was Abraham Lincoln

Lowell Thompson | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Abraham Lincoln, Honest Abe, New York Draft Riots, Honest Barack, Fat Lady Sings, The Token President, Buy the Cover, Buythecover, Barack Obama, Obama Administration, Politics News

We like to look back on past presidents and precedents to compare to current leaders. But when you actually know something about the real history, it seldom compares with our pop version.

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Lincoln and New York at the New York Historical Society

Thane Rosenbaum | Posted 11.04.2009 | New York

Read More: Mathew Brady, Lincoln's Funeral Procession in New York City, Lincoln's Cooper Union Speech, Abraham Lincoln, Horace Greeley, Sam Waterston, Draft Riots, Lincoln and New York City, New York News

Illinois is the Land of Lincoln, but Manhattan may ultimately have been more important in creating the legend of Lincoln. It was on this island where Lincoln's presidency was truly launched.

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Too Soon To Tell? Judging A President's Progress

The New York Review of Books | Posted 11.20.2009 | Books

The New York Review of Books Huffington Post: At the anniversary of the election of Barack Obama, we're taking a close look at how he's done and what...

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A Life in Books

Jessie Kunhardt | Posted 10.30.2009 | Books

Read More: Kunhardt, Authors, Pat the Bunny, Lincoln Photography, Publishing, Huffpost Books, Lincoln, Books, Writing, Abraham Lincoln, Lincoln Life-Size, Family, Books News

I've never really been able to imagine myself in a job that didn't have something to do with books, which is how I ended up as the HuffPost Books Intern.

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Stage Struck

David Dean Bottrell | Posted 10.26.2009 | Home

Read More: Theatre, Entertainment, Parts and Labor, Show Business, Abraham Lincoln, David Dean Bottrell, Better Angels, Boston Legal, Los Angeles, Colony Theatre, Home News

Theatre in L.A. is sort of a strange beast. When I first arrived here to seek my fortune as a screenwriter, I was floored by the number of small theat...

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Boo! Abigail Adams, Abraham Lincoln Rumored To Haunt The White House

Washington Post | Moira E. McLaughlin | Posted 10.19.2009 | Style

Read More: White House Ghosts, White House, White House Haunted, Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Jackson, Abigail Adams, Style News

The White House wasn't finished when she moved in, so she used the still-under-construction East Room to dry her clean sheets. Her ghost is said to wa...

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Palindroning; or the Fine Art of Quitting

Mark Axelrod | Posted 10.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Abraham Lincoln, Alaska, White House, Sarah Palin College Record, Sarah Palin, Rush Limbaugh, Sarah Palin Quits, Thomas Jefferson, Politics News

Sarah Palin's knack for quitting didn't start with quitting as governor of Alaska, but began a long time ago.

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President Obama's Maine Chance to Make the Case

Evan Wolfson | Posted 10.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bill Clinton, Gay Rights, Respect for Marriage Act, Doma, Evan Wolfson, Freedom to Marry, President Obama, Abraham Lincoln, Human Rights Campaign, Gay Marriage, Maine, Same-Sex Marriage, Big Gay Speech, Obama Big Gay Speech, Politics News

On Saturday, Obama has the opportunity -- and I believe the obligation -- to speak in moral as well as concrete terms about non-gay people's stake in ending the exclusion and discrimination gay people endure.

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UPDATED APOLOGY FROM CONGRESSMAN--HAVE WE NO SHAME? DEBASING THE HOLOCAUST FOR ANOTHER TEN SECONDS OF MEDIA COVERAGE

Rabbi Abraham Cooper | Posted 10.07.2009 | Politics

Read More: Iran Ahmadinejad, Shoah, Nazi, Holocaust, Barack Obama, Palin, Mccarthy, Abraham Lincoln, Winston Churchill, George W. Bush, Health Care, George Orwell, Dick Cheney, Alan Grayson, Politics News

Everyone knows that genocide means mass murder and that the Holocaust should be restricted to the mass murder of 6 million Jews during World War II. Abuse of these terms is inexcusable.

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Recession Over? You Gotta Be Kidding!

Dan Dorfman | Posted 11.24.2009 | Business

Read More: Abraham Lincoln, Ben Bernanke, Food Emporium, Joseph Stiglitz, Gristede's, New York City, Recession, Barack Obama, Business News

President Obama is hardly alone in claiming that things are now stable, although numerous skeptics suggest such cheerful tidings should be taken with a heavy grain of salt.

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To Tweet or Not To Tweet: That is the Question

Maggie Van Ostrand | Posted 11.21.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Abraham Lincoln, Classics, Twitter, Hamlet, Tweet, Texting, Gettysburg Address, Comedy News

We've prepared a time-saver for those hipsters, geeks, and Twitteristas who haven't the time to reduce the classics to Twitter's required 140 characters, counting spaces.

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Obama to Join the Republican Party?

Dave Astor | Posted 11.09.2009 | Comedy

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Barack Obama has tried to make the GOP happy. He appointed Republicans to high posts, expanded the U.S. presence in Afghanistan and never pushed for a single-payer health plan

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Calling Mr. Smith, Not Mr. Rogers

Dan Siegel | Posted 10.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Change We Can Believe In, Rahm Emanuel, Joint Session of Congress, Abraham Lincoln, Health Care Reform, Fdr, Lbj, Bipartisanship, Bipartisan, Health Care, Teddy Roosevelt, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Barack Obama, Healthcare, Bill Moyers, Politics News

We are starved for a leader who can express righteous indignation against the corrupt forces who have emptied the public purse while bidding for the powers that be.

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Which Kennedy Was Moses? John or Ted?

Bruce Feiler | Posted 10.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: John F. Kennedy, George Washington, Martin Luther King, Abraham Lincoln, Moses, Barack Obama, Ted Kennedy, Healthcare, Politics News

Ted Kennedy was called the Moses of Health Care. This analogy was also used frequently on the death of other great American figures.

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UBS Whistleblower Sentenced to 40-Month Prison Term Puts Chill on Whistleblowing

Gary S. Chafetz | Posted 09.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Gold Banc, Fraud, Ubs, Whistleblowers, Irs, False Claims Act, Fca, Swiss Bank Accounts, Bradley Birkenfeld, Farmers, Abraham Lincoln, Swiss Numbered Bank Accounts, National Whistleblowers Center, U. S. Treasury, Qui Tam, Politics News

Bradley Birkenfeld may be one of the most effective whistleblowers in the nation's history. His reward? A 40-month prison sentence.

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P3s: Let's Not Party Like It's 1929

Michael Likosky | Posted 09.19.2009 | Business

We must take the public interest more seriously when we talk about P3s.

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