Word: lincolnisms
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...been said Abraham Lincoln would have never been elected to the Senate today. Many of those who would have made otherwise made excellent Senators, Representatives or even presidents have been shoved aside by the big boys playing big-boy politics. The Founding Fathers' vision of a fair and representative political system has been lost in a haze of fund-raisers, White House coffees and backroom deals...
...SPEECH] Likens own pro-life views to Lincoln's politics...
SPEECH Likens own "compassionate conservatism" to Lincoln's politics...
...families may want to pack a picnic, rent a canoe at South Bridge and paddle the Sudbury and Concord rivers to North Bridge, tinderbox of the American Revolution and the setting of Emerson's Concord Hymn, which celebrated the "shot heard round the world"; or rent bicycles in Lincoln and ride the Revolution's Battle Road trail. Half an hour west by car is Fruitlands, the apple-studded farm where in 1843 Bronson Alcott cultivated the utopian community satirized by Louisa in her book Transcendental Wild Oats...
DEAD MEN SPRINTING Illinois' death row has been a busy place lately. But not for the executioner. Last month two men were acquitted of all charges and released. The Land of Lincoln has now freed 11 wrongfully condemned prisoners in the past 21 years--the same number it has put to death. Incidents of wrongful condemnation are also on the rise in other states. The leaders...