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How Lincoln Used Words To Get His Way

Posted 05.18.2012

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Excerpted with permission from Words Like Loaded Pistols: Rhetoric from Aristotle to Obama by Sam Leith (Basic Books, $26.99). Available from Basic Bo...

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Common Core, What Is It Good For?

Alan Singer | Posted 04.19.2012

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Alan Singer

An article in Newsday reports on Long Island, New York schools trying to implement common core standards. But as you read the article, more questions arise about the "common core" than are answered.

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WATCH: Man Sets World Record For Eyebrow Raises

HuffPost Weird News | Posted 03.28.2012

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To be fair, many world records raise eyebrows, but Harmon Leon of San Francisco has just set a record for actually raising his eyebrows -- 185 times t...

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Patriotism vs. Nationalism in a Post 9/11 World

Grant Lyon | Posted 11.08.2011

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Grant Lyon

If you believe in freedom of religion but don't understand the irony behind your anger at a mosque being built near ground zero, then you are the number one culprit of dumb nationalism in 2011.

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Should Government Be of the People, by the People and for the People?

Robbie Gennet | Posted 05.25.2011

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Robbie Gennet

In President Abraham Lincoln's famous "Gettysburg Address" in November of 1863, he wound up his short speech by exclaiming that the living be dedicate...

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Presidents Day? Not Really!

Kenneth C. Davis | Posted 11.17.2011

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Kenneth C. Davis

Created under the Uniform Holiday Act of 1968, which gave us three-day weekend Monday holidays, the federal holiday on the third Monday in February is technically still Washington's Birthday.

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Echoes From Gettysburg: Restoring Civility With Love

Richard T. Hughes | Posted 05.25.2011

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Richard T. Hughes

We never "find" hope at all. Rather, we create hope, and we do so through love, empathy, and compassion. We create hope through the care we bring to any situation.

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Echoes From Gettysburg: How We Can Save Our Country

Richard T. Hughes | Posted 05.25.2011

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Richard T. Hughes

To put it bluntly, by placing their individual interests ahead of the common good, the American people have betrayed the American dream.

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Power to the People

Iris Erlingsdottir | Posted 05.25.2011

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Iris Erlingsdottir

The financial crisis that hit Iceland in 2008 revealed many weaknesses inherent in the country's system of governance. One fortunate consequence of this most unfortunate revelation has been a movement to draft a new Constitution.

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Glenn Beck, Gai Avek

Harvey Gotliffe, Ph.D. | Posted 05.25.2011

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Harvey Gotliffe, Ph.D.

In the United States, Yiddish -- that once vulnerable foreign language -- has become a venerable part of our daily idiom with a continual boost from Beck's much-despised mass media.

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My Whole Street Is a Mosque

Mira Schor | Posted 05.25.2011

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Mira Schor

Several times a day, small groups of Muslims pull out prayers mats, kneel towards the East and pray, 14 blocks from Ground Zero, on ground they've spontaneously "hallowed."

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Keep The Filet-O-Fish And Give Us Back Our Government

Morris Davis | Posted 05.25.2011

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Morris Davis

The exact time of death is uncertain, but sometime between Lincoln's Gettysburg Address in 1863 and today, "government of the people, by the people, a...

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Memorial Day Tribute: A Hero For Our Time

Rob Diamond | Posted 05.25.2011

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Rob Diamond

Memorial Day, by definition, is a long weekend celebrated towards the end of May that is meant to mark the beginning of the summer season with visits ...

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Remembering A Divided Nation

Stephen Herrington | Posted 05.25.2011

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Stephen Herrington

America is as divided as it has been at any time since the Civil War. The rift is not as obvious as the subjugation of persons based on color. But do not doubt it is about conduct.

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Three Words I Wish Washington Would Learn

Dr. Jim Taylor | Posted 05.25.2011

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Dr. Jim Taylor

Recent surveys have shown that the trust and regard that Americans hold for their elected officials in Washington is at a historic low. And those government officials wonder why they aren't popular.

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Thanksgiving(?) Again

Paula Gordon | Posted 05.25.2011

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Paula Gordon

I was attacked for an earlier post as un-American for acknowledging Canada's Thanksgiving celebration and for not celebrating America's. Rest assured! I fully intend to celebrate next month as well.

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To Tweet or Not To Tweet: That is the Question

Maggie Van Ostrand | Posted 05.25.2011

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Maggie Van Ostrand

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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Conservatives (Re)acting Badly

Mike Lux | Posted 05.25.2011

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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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Abraham Lincoln's Vegetarian Address

Dave Astor | Posted 05.25.2011

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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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The Eloquent Presidency

James Moeller | Posted 05.25.2011

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James Moeller

Does eloquence ensure a successful presidency? Will Obama's outsized communications abilities allow him to succeed in leading the country back to prosperity? Only time will tell.

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Attempt At Gettysburg Address World Record Falls Short

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) -- An attempt to honor Abraham Lincoln by setting a new world record for the most people reading aloud fell short of the goal -...

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Lincoln's Birthday Celebrations: Obama's Springfield Trip Highlights National Festivities

AP | JOHN O'CONNOR | Posted 05.25.2011

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Watch excerpts from Obama's Lincoln remarks in Springfield: SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Folksy, melancholy Abraham Lincoln would have been dumbfound...

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What We Will Remember from Obama's 2009 Inaugural Address

Aaron Zelinsky | Posted 05.25.2011

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Aaron Zelinsky

Obama's inaugural address was a good speech, but not truly canonical. Nevertheless, the inaugural address contained many passages that will enter into the mystic chords of memory.

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Obama: Follow the Philosophical Footsteps of Abraham

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 05.25.2011

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Leo W. Gerard

Lincoln's preservation of the union would not have been possible without his economic reform. It is the philosophy at the base of those achievements that must be the prototype for change in America now.

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We Hold Which Truths to be Self-Evident?

Dennis Whittle | Posted 05.25.2011

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Dennis Whittle

Though all men were declared equal in 1776, a terrible political compromise meant people of certain racial heritages were not considered full men.

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