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...just able to get to the hole, and that is his game. When he can take over, he does, and he did a great job with that stretch right there.” Even when the Tigers finally broke that run with a basket by guard Lincoln Gunn, Housman was not finished. He once again beat his man off the dribble and laid the ball off the glass for another bucket. “I felt in the beginning of the game that I would be able to get to the basket,” Housman said...
...made the announcement of his presidential bid earlier this month in Springfield, Illinois, in front of the Old State Capitol, the very same place where, in Obama’s words, “[Abraham] Lincoln once called on a house divided to stand together.” You can bet that this will not be the last time that Obama frames himself as Lincoln 2.0; the marketing opportunity is just too good to miss...
...Illinois legislature, and both spent only a few years in the U.S. Senate before running for President. Furthermore, as Obama’s campaign whispers slyly to us, the parallels between the two go beyond mere coincidence into the two men’s core creeds. You see, Lincoln wanted peace and harmony in a divided America, and now Obama, against all odds, also wants peace and harmony...
Compelling though this logic is, there’s one small place where the analogy falters: Lincoln was one of the most divisive and opinionated candidates ever elected. He had a rock-solid stance against slavery, and when he called on mending the “house divided,” he did not propose to do so with flowering rhetoric and vague promises of cooperation, but rather by ending the spread of slavery. Consensus builder? Half of the country seceded when the man was elected. This was a leader who knew that the only way to truly mend...
Former welfare mother and self-proclaimed “conservative crusader” Star Parker blasted U.S. welfare policy and advocated a market-based approach to alleviating poverty at the Harvard Republican Club’s (HRC) fifth annual Lincoln Day Dinner last night. “We’ve got to remove the barriers of ‘Uncle Sam’: let’s allow freedom. Let’s force them into responsibility,” Parker said of welfare recipients. Instead, Parker advocated an emboldened work ethic, reforms in education, and encouraging charity...