Tag: Abraham Lincoln
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Twelve Score and Ten Years Ago
by Jerry Newcombe, New American Prophet, ©2026 (Jul. 5, 2026) — Twelve score and ten years ago, “our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.” When our 16th president, Abraham Lincoln, delivered his famous speech on the Gettysburg battlefield on November 19,…
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Sad for Today’s Students
9 October 2025 Dear Editor, So very, very sadly for today’s school and university students, ringing out so very truly are the so very sage words of Abraham Lincoln: “The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of the government in the next.” Yours, Howard HutchinsVictoria, Australia
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The Trump Monument
by Thomas Reiner, Quartz Mountain Commentary, ©2025 (May 12, 2025) — In 2047, the biggest, most beautiful monument in Washington, DC began construction. It was dedicated to the third of the many Presidents who had saved the Union from collapse. The first one was a man of exceptional courage who possessed the unworldly tenacity to…
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Life Is Not a ‘State’ Issue
by Family Research Council, New American Prophet, ©2024 (Aug. 4, 2024) — Regarding the Atlantic slave trade, from approximately 1526 to 1867, it has been estimated that some 12.5 million captured men, women, and children were put on ships in Africa, and that approximately 10.7 million arrived in the United States of America. At this time, the…
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Lincoln and Darwin
by ProfDave, ©2021 (Feb. 11, 2021) — Today we celebrate the birthday of Abraham Lincoln. It used to be a national holiday, but has now been swallowed up by Presidents’ Day. The guy in the tall hat sells cars, doesn’t he? I’ve also been made aware that People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA)…
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A Great Civil War Is Raging
“THE GREAT TASK REMAINING BEFORE US” by John Porter, ©2020 (Oct. 21, 2020) — On November 19, 1863 America’s first Republican president said, “Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth, on this continent, a new nation, CONCEIVED IN LIBERTY, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are…
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Justice Under The Bus
“INTELLECTUAL TERMITES” by Joseph DeMaio, ©2020 (Oct. 11, 2020) — Virtually every time you turn around these days, some Democrat politician is yapping hypocritically about the importance of “transparency” in government. This claim is usually coughed up as a prelude to an immediate slap at President Trump for his purported lack of transparency on everything…
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Would Abraham Lincoln Suggest Joe “Fess Up” Just a Bit?
VICE VS. VIRTUE September 29, 2020 Dear Editor, “It’s ever been my experience with folks having no vices having very few virtues” opined America’s great US Civil-War-period President Abraham Lincoln. Perhaps Joe “Clean-slate/blank-sheet” Biden will now show great virtue by “fessing up” to just a few of the things he has been accused of in…
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A Leaderless Revolt of Know-Nothings is Breaking My Heart
“TO PRESERVE OUR LIBERTY” June 25, 2020 Dear Friends and Colleagues: The events of the past several weeks make me worry for our great nation. A remarkable and near-unique American quality has been our ability over the years to abide and engage in harsh self-criticism. From our beginning, we had folks who spoke out, telling…
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Jefferson or Hitler: Whose Plan Are We Following?
A “NATIONAL” GOVERNMENT CAN OBLITERATE STATES’ AND INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS by Michael Gaddy, ©2017 (Feb. 21, 2017) — When James Madison left New York for Philadelphia on May 2nd, 1787 he carried with him not the proposed amendments to the Articles of Confederation which was the mandate of the convention but an entirely new idea for…
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Republican Presidents and War Crimes, Nothing New Here
“HORRIBLE ACTS” by Michael Gaddy, ©2017, blogging at The Rebel Madman (Jan. 7, 2017) — On April 28, 2004, decent Americans were shocked to see pictures of American soldiers torturing prisoners in a military prison in Iraq known as Abu Ghraib. While there were many who saw nothing wrong with such atrocities, many more were…
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The South, Real Diversity, and the War of Northern Aggression
“A MILITARY DESPOTISM” by Michael Gaddy, ©2016, blogging at The Rebel Madman (Nov. 3, 2016) — Author’s Note* Somehow revisionist historians would have us believe Abraham Lincoln perpetrated an unconstitutional war on the people of the North and the South to free an oppressed people of color. Considering Lincoln’s open war on the American Indian…
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Missouri and our Second War for Independence
“REVOLUTIONARY IN ITS OBJECT” by Michael Gaddy, ©2016, blogging at The Rebel Madman (Nov. 1, 2016) — “In Northern Missouri the irregularities of the soldiers—such as taking poultry, pigs, milk, butter, preserves, potatoes, horses, and in fact everything they want; entering and searching houses, and stealing in many cases; committing rapes on the negroes and…
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Did Secession Hasten the End of Slavery?
“ANOTHER POLITICAL MANEUVER” by Michael Gaddy, ©2016, blogging at The Rebel Madman (Oct. 31, 2016) — *Author’s note: There is a question which deserves much more attention than it receives: Considering Lincoln was willing to make slavery perpetual and to remove it from even congressional action with the Corwin Amendment in order to “preserve the…
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What Will You Do When It’s Over?
DOES A “NEW PRESIDENT” MEAN CHANGE, OR MORE OF THE SAME? by Michael Gaddy, ©2016. blogging at The Rebel Madman (Oct. 21, 2016) — Well, it is almost over; presidential campaigns began well over one year ago. There were 17 candidates from the Republican side when it started and just three viable Democrats. But, sometime…
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The Species Ignoramus Americanus
“OPTING FOR TYRANNY” by Michael Gaddy, ©2016 (Oct. 17, 2016) — “The evil that is in this world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.” ~ Albert Camus For quite some time now I have referred to the majority of Americans, especially those who…
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Rebels Versus Tyrants: A Perpetual Fight for Liberty
EMBRACING OR LIMITING GOVERNMENT by Michael Gaddy, ©2016 (Oct. 13, 2016) — “Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worse state, an intolerable one.” ~ Thomas Paine Down through the pages of time, governments have done that which they do best; they transform from necessary evil to intolerable evil. Our…
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Is Walter Reed Guilty of Kidnapping?
“WHO IS OVERSEEING THE MILITARY?” by Sharon Rondeau (Oct. 6, 2016) — Reported strange, vulgar and harassing phone calls; stalking; telephone and computer hacking totaling thousands of dollars in damages, and at least one death threat against family and close friends have culminated in what is believed to be the forced hospitalization of a medically-…
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The Battered State Syndrome
“FREE, SOVEREIGN AND INDEPENDENT” by Michael Gaddy, ©2016, blogging at The Rebel Madman (Aug. 8, 2016) — Any semi-conscious individual with a modicum of intelligence would advise anyone caught up in an abusive relationship of any kind to sever all ties to the opprobrious partner. Yet, almost to a person, these same people would readily…
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When Our Government Became a Completely Criminal Enterprise
“CLEAR BATTLE LINES HAVE BEEN DRAWN” by Michael Gaddy, ©2016, blogging at The Rebel Madman (Jul. 18, 2016) — By legal definition, the government of this country has been a criminal enterprise since April of 1865. When the Confederate States capitulated, “Just” government as defined in our Declaration of Independence ceased to exist in this…