Word: lincoln
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...bunch of Darwin-worshippers. It’s bad enough that books have just been published with titles like Darwin’s Sacred Cause by Adrian Desmond and James Moore, assessing Darwin’s abolitionist tendencies, or Angels and Ages, by Adam Gopnik, which compares Darwin to Lincoln. Worse, these views are often evangelized in the popular press. Even something as seemingly innocuous as putting a fish on your car with the word “Darwin” written inside it may suggest to the uniformed that Darwin is somehow the Jesus of atheism...
...Then, in a Washington Times interview published Thursday, he said, "We want to convey that the modern-day GOP looks like the conservative party that stands on principles. But we want to apply them to urban-suburban hip-hop settings." It's hard to imagine that the party of Lincoln could somehow include Lil' Wayne and Lil' Kim - and the hip-hop strategy was seen by some as patronizing to the blacks and Latinos, among others, who could be open to a moderated Republican Party. (See pictures of the 2008 Republican National Convention...
Steele was in DuPage to deliver the keynote address at the county Republicans' dinner celebrating the 200th anniversary of the birth of Lincoln, America's first Republican President. It was remarkable, considering that Illinois rarely receives serious attention from national Republicans. George H.W. Bush was the last Republican presidential candidate to carry Illinois, in 1988. In recent years, Illinois' Republican Party has been so neutered that, in 2004, it imported Alan Keyes from Maryland to compete against Barack Obama for a U.S. Senate seat. So Steele's visit demonstrates a key aspect of his strategy for reviving the party: planting...
Steele used the moment to introduce himself to the audience, describing his upbringing by a mother who picked cotton in the South, before moving to Washington, and refusing to take welfare because "she didn't want the government to raise her children." He recalled attending his first Lincoln Day dinner 23 years ago, in Maryland, and how, as a black man, "I didn't get the warmest reception." Friends, he said, had warned: "'They don't like black folks. Republicans, they're mean.' I thought about that, I said, that's not the party of Lincoln. So I decided...
...pictures of Abraham Lincoln...