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an essay that could plausibly be read to liken Abraham Lincoln to Hitler. In the spring of 1981, Ronald Reagan was trying to persuade a balky Congress simultaneously to enact a giant tax cut and to authorize a huge defense buildup; to slow inflation, end fuel shortages, and halt Soviet aggression, from Afghanistan to Angola. It was not, in other words, a good moment to refight the Civil War.

This issue is Lew Rockwell's hobbyhorse. Though all libertarians fault Lincoln for using force to keep seceding states in the Union, thereby giving the nation a push toward centralization and away from states' rights, Rockwell became obsessed with this point. His blog has become a secular version of the Phelps church, cheering on al Qaeda and providing a gathering place for young conspiracy theorists and washed-up old anti-Semites.

"-- Bradford came to the government hiring window with certain disadvantages: He had worked on the George Wallace campaign in 1968, and he had published an essay that could plausibly be read to liken Abraham Lincoln to Hitler.
In the spring of 1981, Ronald Reagan was trying to persuade a balky Congress simultaneously to enact a giant tax cut and to authorize a huge defense buildup; to slow inflation, end fuel shortages, and halt Soviet aggression, from Afghanistan to Angola.
It was not, in other words, a good moment to refight the Civil War.
Bradford could never accept that it was his own writings that had doomed him. --"

This issue is Lew Rockwell's hobbyhorse.
Though all libertarians fault Lincoln for using force to keep seceding states in the Union, thereby giving the nation a push toward centralization and away from states' rights, Rockwell became obsessed with this point.

Fine, Rockwell is obsessed; -- this hardly means that "-- all libertarians fault Lincoln for using force -- thereby giving the nation a push toward centralization and away from states' rights. --"

Rational libertarians see both paleo & neo socalled republicans as fringer rinos. -- Real libertarians support the Constitution [as should real republicans].
Rinos, -- and most middle road republicans, support both state & federal infringements as part of our political realty.

His blog has become a secular version of the Phelps church, cheering on al Qaeda and providing a gathering place for young conspiracy theorists and washed-up old anti-Semites.

What else is new? Most of these internecine political 'wars' are a major part of the main problem this country has.. -- We're all to busy badmouthing each other to tend to the business of killing our enemies.

His blog has become a secular version of the Phelps church, cheering on al Qaeda and providing a gathering place for young conspiracy theorists and washed-up old anti-Semites.

Yes, of course anyone who reads LRC on a regular basis knows this to be false but hell let's get a slur in while the iron's hot eh? And on this thread by all means. LRC has multiple columnists, some of who I agree with, and some who I disagree with. Better just get the big paint brush out just in case

"His blog has become a secular version of the Phelps church"

Wow, you really pegged it.

If Phelps comes to my town, I'm going to make a response sign that says
"GOD HATES EXTREMISTS"