Word: lincoln
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...Beltway effectively enough to get U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Wednesday to suspend the Gomez family's deportation proceedings, and release them from detention, for 45 days. That's long enough, their supporters hope, to get Congress to consider private legislation introduced this week by U.S. Representative Lincoln Diaz-Balart of Miami that would allow the brothers to remain in the U.S. at least until the current Congress ends in January...
...tell us the branch of government to which he belongs. The President then commutes the sentence of a convicted felon who just happens to be the Vice President's former chief of staff. It is stunning to me that almost 144 years later, the words uttered by Abraham Lincoln in the Gettysburg Address have been trampled and disregarded so callously by the four branches (now including Cheney's hybrid branch) of our government. Indeed, it would appear that government of the people, by the people and for the people has now perished, if not from this earth, at least from...
...When Abraham Lincoln suspended habeas during the Civil War and Franklin Roosevelt ordered Japanese-Americans rounded up after Pearl Harbor, Congress quickly debated, and then blessed, the actions retroactively. As a result, Americans were "reassured that the President's unilateral action would stand only with the approval of their congressional representatives, as the founding fathers intended," Greenberger explained in Legal Affairs magazine...
Democrats have simply lived by Abraham Lincoln's creed that one's religion is a personal matter and not an indicator of political capability. Our nation's faithful have never been ignored. They just didn't realize it because no one ever used their religion as a litmus test to get elected...
Rock stars, too, like their swimming pools: Brian Jones of the Rolling Stones was found dead in one, Keith Moon of the Who claimed to have driven a Lincoln into one, and Joe Perry of Aerosmith--among many others--has one shaped like a guitar. Bono has lampooned the average activist rocker as a guy "with a swimming pool shaped like his own head." Paul McCartney said he and John Lennon used to sit down to compose saying "Let's write us a swimming pool...