Word: lincolnisms
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Sitting behind the wheel of his Lincoln, wearing wraparound shades and a deep melanoma scar on his face, John McCain looks like a B-movie hitman. As a matter of fact, he is trying to kill something: Washington's seamy money culture. The Arizona Senator has just finished an event with a 1,500-lb. pig named Rootie, his accomplice in an annual unveiling of the pork hidden in the federal budget. Now he is tearing the wrong way up a one-way drive into the Capitol for a press conference with conservative Blue Dog Democrats supporting his effort...
...your book tour usually takes to cities along the East and West Coast, where Navy bases are located. But twice I've stopped in Nebraska, which is about as far as you can get in this country from a U.S. Navy ship or any ocean. I was shuttling between Lincoln and Omaha last week for good reason, however. My book, "Big Red," is about the USS Nebraska Trident submarine, and much to the astonishment of my publisher, it's selling briskly in Nebraska. "Big Red" is the nickname of the USS Nebraska, which the sub adopted from the nickname...
Among the prizes up for grabs are four behind-the-plate tickets to a Boston Red Sox game, a weekend stay at the Kennedy Suite (the preserved senior dorm room of John F. Kennedy '40 in Winthrop House), and two tickets to the Lincoln Center premier of HBO's "Sex in the City...
...truth about the Abraham Lincoln Brigade and its record in Spain has been intentionally distorted in this country for six decades. True, they were leftists, many of them members of the Communist Party who participated in organizing unions during the Depression years. True, they violated the U.S. policy of neutrality to fight in Spain. True, the Communist party paid for their fare to Spain, organized them into a military unit and provided them with uniforms and guns dating from the First World War, which stood no chance against the modern German artillery...
...aside from these facts, the Lincoln Brigade did not fight for a communist revolution. It combated fascism in Spain to preserve a legally elected democracy "of the people, by the people, for the people," as its namesake had proclaimed at Gettysburg. Many of them were blacks weary of lynchings in the South and day-to-day mistreatment by whites. Others were Jews who feared for their fellow Jews in Hitler's Germany. They fought fascism in Spain to strike back at the American fascist elements of racism, police violence against organized workers and inequality of opportunity for Jews, blacks...