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

Michael Likosky | Posted 09.19.2009 | Business

Read More: p3s, New Deal, Railroads, Larry Summers, Granger Movement, Railroad Strikes of 1877, Bailout, Barack Obama, Fdr, Aig, Tennessee Valley Authority Dam Breaks, Money Trust, Robber Barons, Us Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, Public-Private Partnerships, Abraham Lincoln, Homer Plessy, TARP Trust, Brotherhood of Sleepign Car Porters, A. Philip Randolph, Business News
Michael Likosky

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

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Did the Inglorious N.O.P. Bust a Cap in Health Care Reform?

Kimberly Krautter | Posted 09.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Nazi Germany, President Obama, Ronald Reagan, G.O.P., Eisenhower Era, Civil Rights, Evangelicals, Chuck Grassley, Hate Mongering, Abraham Lincoln, Republican Hypocrisy, Hate Speech, Medicare, Republican Party, Caribou Barbie, Right-Wing-Echo-Chamber, Big Tent, Senator Charles Grassley, Rush Limbaugh Republicans, Rush Limbaugh, Chuck Grassley Death Panels, D.W. Griffith, Democrats, Barack Obama, Equal Rights Amendment, The-Birth-of-a-Nation, Soviet Russia, Sarah Palin, Health Care Reform, Iraq War, Glenn Beck, Bush Cheney, Grand Old Party, Barry Goldwater, Jim DeMint Waterloo, Ghw-Bush, Steven Colbert, Jon Stewart, Politics News
Kimberly Krautter

From a branding perspective, is this really how the Republican Party wants to be defined? Hate speech -- true hate speech -- should never be tolerated in any form.

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Bible Story: Obama Awards "Moses" Presidential Medal of Freedom

Bruce Feiler | Posted 09.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: White House, Bill Clinton, Martin Luther King, Joshua Generation, George Washington, Mayflower, Bible, George W. Bush, Abraham Lincoln, Pilgrims, Moses, Harriet Tubman, Barack Obama, Exodus, Politics News
Bruce Feiler

Obama is not the first president to connect the American spirit to the story of Moses: Washington compared the Revolution to the Exodus; Jefferson quoted Moses in his second inaugural.

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The Lincoln Penny Turns 100

TIME | Posted 09.02.2009 | Business

Read More: Abraham Lincoln, Lincoln, Lincoln Penny, Lincoln Penny 100, Business News

Aug. 2, 2009, marks the 100th anniversary of the Lincoln penny, the longest-running U.S. coin still in circulation. ...

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Beer Metaphor Becomes Frosty-Cold Reality

Chris Weigant | Posted 08.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, General Grant, Have a Beer With, Policeman, President Obama, Racial Relations, Stupidly, Teachable Moment, Winston Churchill, Andrew Jackson, Obama, Civil War, Race, Sarah Palin, Bush, Abe Lincoln, Log Cabin, Professor, Grant, Teaching Moment, Harvard, Republican Cloth Coat, Clinton, Abraham Lincoln, Honest Abe, Cop, Acting Stupidly, Dubya, Lincoln, Bill Clinton, George HW Bush, Whiskey, Man of the People, WC Fields, Beer, Cormac O'Brien, Massachusetts, Stupid, Bubba, Ulysses S Grant, Have a Beer, Barack Obama, Jackson, Attitude, Chris Weigant, Secret Lives of the US Presidents, George W Bush, Hillary Clinton, Lyndon Johnson, Nixon, Arrest, Churchill, Politics News
Chris Weigant

Barack Obama is the first president to not just accept the premise of the "having a beer" test, but to embrace it and turn it into reality.

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Conservatives (Re)acting Badly

Mike Lux | Posted 08.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Abraham Lincoln, 4th of July, History, Thomas Paine, Conservatism, Progressive Movement, The Progressive Revolution, Gettysburg Address, Politics News
Mike Lux

What bothers these conservatives so much is the idea that progressive values are at the heart of the American ideal.

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Pleading the Fifth: The Palin Constitution Revolution

Karen Dalton-Beninato | Posted 08.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: New Orleans, 4th of July, Abraham Lincoln, Twitter, Glenn Beck, Sarah Palin, Barack Obama, Illinois, George Bush, Constitution, Tax Day Tea Party, Tea Party, Politics News
Karen Dalton-Beninato

I don't know what to call it but the Convolution Party aired its brand new platform on the steps of a Land of Lincoln courthouse, some in their Glenn Beck Live Free or Die shirts.

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National Archives Gone Missing: Lincoln Civil War Telegraphs, Photos Of The Moon, And More

AP | LARRY MARGASAK | Posted 08.04.2009 | Politics

Read More: Abraham Lincoln, Fdr, Missing From National Archives, Missing, National Archives Missing, National Archives, Politics News

WASHINGTON — National Archives visitors know they'll find the Declaration of Independence, the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights in the m...

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Celebrating Independence Day During Wartime

Luis Carlos Montalván | Posted 08.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: Iraq War, Independence Day, Abraham Lincoln, Fourth of July, Mark Twain, Afghanistan War, Declaration of Independence, War in Iraq, Veterans, Politics News
Luis Carlos Montalván

On the eve of our Grand Celebration of the extraordinary decree that declared us a free republic, we find ourselves chained to the wreckage of a brutally flawed casus belli.

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How Abraham Lincoln's "Hot Letters" Can Keep You From Going All Alice Hoffman

David Quigg | Posted 08.02.2009 | Media

Read More: Publishing, Twitter, Civil War, Boston Globe, Doris Kearns Goodwin, George Meade, Team of Rivals, Roberta Silman, Writing, Books, Abraham Lincoln, E-Mail, Alice Hoffman, Novelists, Critics, Anger Management, Media News
David Quigg

We all have our limits. Abraham Lincoln's limit is that he left behind no wise counsel for the man who finds himself garmentless at 30,000 feet. But he did leave something for the Twitterers.

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Presidential Facial Hair: The Good, The Bad And The Grizzly (SLIDESHOW, POLL)

Huffington Post | Hilary Moss | Posted 07.27.2009 | Style

Read More: Slidepoll, Benjamin Harrison, Chester Alan Arthur, James Garfield, Mustache, Martin Van Buren, Presidents, Theodore Roosevelt, Former Presidents, Rutherford B. Hayes, Abraham Lincoln, William Howard Taft, Mustaches, Ulysses S. Grant, Grover Cleveland, Beard, Style News

The President of the United States has to put his best face forward...and sometimes it's covered in hair. President Obama claims he can't grow a beard...

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Iraq Refugees Look to President's Lincoln and Obama

Luis Carlos Montalván | Posted 07.21.2009 | World

Read More: Iraqi Refugees, Iraq Refugees, Department of Defense, United Nations, President Obama, War in Iraq, Barack Obama, State Department, Iraq War, Iraq Veterans, Iraqi Refugees in Jordan, Middle East, Abraham Lincoln, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, World-Refugee-Day, Iraq, Refugees, Refugee Crisis, Iraqi Refugees in Syria, All for Good, World News
Luis Carlos Montalván

Why is there still no US-formulated "international strategic plan" to deal with the world's largest refugee crisis caused when our nation invaded Iraq over 6 years ago? On World Refugee Day, we can do better.

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Sacrifice Repaid: A Huffington Post Cause?

Mark Goulston, M.D. | Posted 07.13.2009 | Living

Read More: Soldiers, Mark Goulston, Memorial Day, Veterans Day, Veterans, Abraham Lincoln, Doris Kearns Goodwin Team of Rivals, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Living News
Mark Goulston, M.D.

It's not enough to honor servicemen and women with parades. We need to repay their sacrifice with the resources they need and deserve.

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Twittering Through American History

Ben Fractenberg | Posted 07.10.2009 | Comedy

Read More: George Soros, The Alamo, Titanic, George W. Bush, Twitter, Facebook, OJ Simpson, Cold War, Lsd, Tweet, Barack Obama, Andy Warhol, Disco, George Washington, Martin Luther King, Richard Nixon, Joseph McCarthy, American History, General Custer, Abraham Lincoln, Truman Capote, Neil Simon, Jfk, Fatty Arbuckle, Prohabition, Comedy News
Ben Fractenberg

"The British are coming! OMG! Wake up the militia! Sound the church bells! Update your Facebook status!"

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Republican Leaders

Jeff Danziger | Posted 07.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Abraham Lincoln, Republican Leaders, Newt, Rovem Rush, Cartoon, Political Cartoons, Politics News
Jeff Danziger

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Abraham Lincoln's Vegetarian Address

Dave Astor | Posted 07.05.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Supreme Court, Gop, Whole Foods, Veggie Burgers, Vegetarian, Vegan, Healthy Diet, Tofu, Factory Farms, People Magazine, Civil War, Animals, Chowhound, Vegetarianism, Tempeh, Star Trek, Cats, Dennis Kucinich, Salad, Mr. Spock, Abraham Lincoln, Catsup, Faux Meat, Coretta Scott King, Meat-Free, Hormone-Laden Meat, Red Meat, Gettysburg Address, Veganism, Anniversary of Lincoln's Birth, Frank Perdue, Zucchini, Carnivores, Whole Paycheck, Caged Animals, Organic Food, Sonia Sotomayor, Vulcan, Pasta Primavera, Cruelty to Animals, Republicans, Meat, Dogs, Comedy News
Dave Astor

"Four score and seven meals ago my conscience brought forth to the anti-rebel north a new diet conceived in kindness and dedicated to the proposition that all animals are created equal.

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Abolish Supreme Court Confirmation Hearings

Blaise Zerega | Posted 06.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Aspen Institute, Abraham Lincoln, Supreme Court, Politics News, Aspen Ideas Festival, fora.tv, Sandra Day O'Connor, Sonia Sotomayor, Politics News
Blaise Zerega

As the rhetoric escalates over President Obama's nomination of judge Sonia Sotomayor, the confirmation process promises to reveal both the good and ba...

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Omnigamy, anyone?

Jane Minogue | Posted 06.29.2009 | Living

Read More: Omnigamy, Polygamy, Samuel Delaney, Medieval, Human Sexuality, Stephanie Coontz, Polygamists, Bigamy, Marriage, California Gay Marriage, Evan Wolfson, Abraham Lincoln, Animal Sexuality, Bestiality, Love, Gay Marriage, Andrew Cherlin, Charlemagne, Living News
Jane Minogue

Stop debating whether or not gay marriage will open the door to polygamy and bestiality, and understand that marriage is an ever-changing arrangement to meet individual, social, cultural, and religious needs.

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Like Stephen Douglas, Cheney on the Wrong Side of History

Alexi Giannoulias | Posted 06.24.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Abraham Lincoln, Stephen Douglas, Morals, National Security, Barack Obama, Torture, Dick Cheney, Chicago News
Alexi Giannoulias

As an Illinoisan, I was struck by how the side-by-side speeches of Barack Obama and Dick Cheney this past Thursday paralleled those of the famous Lincoln-Douglas debates 150 years ago.

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Memorial Day: A History

Kenneth C. Davis | Posted 06.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Dover Air Force Base, Memorial Day, American History, Mother's Day, Abraham Lincoln, Julia Ward Howe, Civil War, Pacifism, Peace, Politics News
Kenneth C. Davis

'Why don't the mothers of mankind interfere in these matters, to prevent the waste of that human life of which they alone bear and know the cost?'

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The Other Grey Gardens

Charles Lachman | Posted 06.06.2009 | Style

Read More: Abraham Lincoln, Lincoln, Hildene, Robert Lincoln, Peggy Beckwith, Style News
Charles Lachman

The recent HBO movie Grey Gardens has been justly praised for its depiction of the squalid lives of "Big Edie" Beale and her daughter, "Little Edie," ...

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Bachmann Uses Fake George Washington Prayer to Bash Obama

Chris Rodda | Posted 06.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: Video, Historical Revisionism, Michele Bachmann, George Washington, American History, Randy Forbes, Abraham Lincoln, Barack Obama, Politics News
Chris Rodda

Congresswoman Michele Bachmann spit out a few more bits of historical hogwash, including a fake George Washington prayer, to bash the president.

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America: The Bank-Owned State

Ann Pettifor | Posted 05.21.2009 | Business

Read More: Tarp, Goldman Sachs, Labor, State-Owned-Enterprises, Bail Out, Wall Street, Abraham Lincoln, Green New Deal, Ben Bernanke, Timothy Geithner, Business News
Ann Pettifor

The US administration has itself been hijacked, and America is now, effectively, a Bank-Owned State. Democracy has been usurped by what Abraham Lincoln called 'the Money Power'.

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America Did Torture -- Lincoln's Assassins

Robert Schlesinger | Posted 05.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Abraham Lincoln, Lincoln-Assassination, Torture, Guantanamo, Gitmo, Torture Memos, Politics News
Robert Schlesinger

The torture memos are being released today and will undoubtedly appall us. But keep in mind that there is precedent for the U.S. government torturing

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Abe Lincoln, my Historical Boyfriend

Jamie Stiehm | Posted 05.16.2009 | Living

Read More: Abraham Lincoln, Walt Whitman, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Barack Obama, History, Living News
Jamie Stiehm

President Barack Obama isn't the only 40-something Abraham Lincoln admirer in Washington, D.C. We each love his way with words and his prairie populist provenance, but let's just say the 16th president is my historical boyfriend.

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