“Clothed with immense power”

Filed Under: Abraham Lincoln, Emancipation Proclamation, Gettysburg Address, Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address, Statesmanship, Thirteenth Amendment, War Powers

Director Steven Spielberg and screenwriter Tony Kushner’s Lincoln opens with a chaotic battle in a river, black and white soldiers struggling to kill each other in hand-to-hand combat. We then see pairs of black and white soldiers reciting from memory …

Nov 14, 2012

Beware the Categorical Trap

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by Gordon Lloyd / 2 Comments

Filed Under: 2012 Election, Citizenship, Conservatism, Immigration, Limited Government, Statesmanship

Conservatives are disappointed and are searching for reasons for the disappointing electoral outcome. In whom or what are they disappointed? A tempting approach is to adopt the inevitableness of changing demographics framework of the left. The left regularly focus on …