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  • Dance troupe causes scare running through Lincoln Tunnel

    11/19/2010 7:22:10 AM PST · by inflorida · 28 replies
    NY Post ^ | November 19, 2010 | PHILIP MESSING
    A camouflage-clad Florida dance troupe desperate to make it to a live TV talent show set off a rush-hour terror scare when they ditched their cars in merciless Lincoln Tunnel traffic and tried to sprint through the tube.The FBI-NYPD Joint Terrorism Task Force was called in -- and a massive contingent of heavily armed cops surrounded the harmless performers, who stood teary-eyed in their showy costumes as hundreds of angry drivers were stuck in the snarl."They drew their guns on us at first," said Landon Burse, 24, the group's executive director who arranged the appearance on BET's "106 & Park"...
  • Abraham Lincoln: "Don't kneel to me" (Contrast with Today)

    11/16/2010 5:51:25 PM PST · by Colonel Kangaroo · 35 replies
    Grand Old Partisan ^ | 10-31-2020 | Michael Zak
    On April 4, 1865, Abraham Lincoln arrived in the former Confederate capital, Richmond. Overjoyed, dozens of former slaves gathered around the Great Emancipator. An African-American man dropped to his knees before the Republican president. Lincoln said: "No, no. Don’t kneel to me. That is not right. You must kneel to God only, and thank Him for the liberty you will enjoy hereafter." Barack Obama's image as a messiah was key to victory by the Party of Slavery, aka the Democratic Party. And so, it came as no surprise at all that today (10-31) in Chicago an African-American man knelt to...
  • Neil Young warehouse blaze started in hybrid 'LincVolt' car (electric w/biodiesel generator)

    11/16/2010 8:43:47 AM PST · by NormsRevenge · 78 replies
    Mercury News ^ | 11/16/10 | Joshua Melvin
    The three-alarm blaze that caused $1.1 million in damage to a warehouse filled with rock legend Neil Young's music equipment and memorabilia appears to have started in a one-of-a-kind hybrid car stored at the site, a fire official said Monday. Flames began in a 1959 Lincoln Continental dubbed LincVolt, which runs on electric batteries and a biodiesel-powered generator, and then spread to the warehouse at 593 Quarry Road in the early morning of Nov. 9, according to Belmont-San Carlos Fire Marshal Jim Palisi and a website devoted to the car. Young assembled a team of workers in 2008 to convert...
  • 2010 Abraham Lincoln Presidential Dollar Launch Ceremony Planned

    11/08/2010 10:43:38 AM PST · by RayBob · 31 replies · 1+ views
    Coin Update News ^ | October 26th, 2010 | Coin Update Staff
    2010 Abraham Lincoln Presidential Dollar Launch Ceremony Planned By Coin Update Staff on October 26th, 2010 Categories: US Coins, United States Mint Details of the launch ceremony for the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Dollar have been announced by the United States Mint. Launch ceremonies have typically been held on or around the circulation release date for each Presidential Dollar coin, held at a location related to the former President. The Abraham Lincoln Presidential $1 Coin will mark the 16th release of the overall series and the final release for this year. The obverse of the coin features a portrait of Lincoln...
  • Blanche Lincoln may support extending tax cuts for the wealthy in light of 'circumstances'

    10/10/2010 8:13:25 AM PDT · by Libloather · 23 replies
    The Hill ^ | 10/09/10 | Darren Goode
    Lincoln may support extending tax cuts for the wealthy in light of 'circumstances'By Darren Goode - 10/09/10 10:32 AM ET Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.) Friday signaled she is open to extending Bush administration tax cuts beyond the middle-class incentives President Obama and congressional Democratic leaders are seeking. Lincoln – one of the most endangered Democratic incumbents in the Nov. 2 midterm election – said she may support extending tax cuts set to expire at the end of the year for those making as much as $1 million annually. "I don't think we should have to say that we're either going...
  • Joe Sobran, R.I.P. [Joseph Sobran, 1946 - 2010]

    09/30/2010 7:54:18 PM PDT · by Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo · 155 replies
    Our former NR colleague, Joe Sobran, passed away today after a long battle with a variety of ailments. He was relatively young, just 64, and while physically beaten at the end, he also departed spiritually triumphant.   Surely, in short order, there will be ample reflection — much of it critical — on the hyper-talented, hyper-controversial writer. There will be a recounting of his history at NR, the break, the following years, and Joe’s soured relationship with WFB (happily, they rekindled their friendship before Bill passed away). Good, let’s discuss all that, and more. But later. Right now, let us,...
  • Obama says people are impatient but "now's not the time to quit..it took time to free the slaves..

    09/30/2010 7:17:12 PM PDT · by Bigtigermike · 79 replies
    Muckrack ^ | Thursday September 30, 2010 | Mark Knoller CBS NEWS
    Obama says people are impatient but "now's not the time to quit...it took time to free the slaves...ultimately we'll make progress." White House Correspondent, Radio
  • Ark Senate - Boozman vs. Lincoln ( Drudge says - Top healthcare reform senator trails ....

    09/20/2010 5:50:51 PM PDT · by Ernest_at_the_Beach · 10 replies
    Real Clear Politics ^ | Sept 20, 2010
    RCP Average 7/16 - 9/16 -- 56.5 31.3 Boozman +25.2****************************snip***************Thus, Lincoln found herself faced with a strong primary challenge from the left as well as a strong general election challenge from the right. She narrowly survived the primary from Lieutenant Governor Bill Halter but is a much longer shot against Congressman John Boozman (the younger brother of the Republican Lincoln defeated in 1998). Only six incumbent senators have seen their re-elects drop below 40 percent of the two-party vote since we began directly electing senators. Given the polling we’ve seen recently, Lincoln stands a good chance of becoming number...
  • Lincolns to be made in China

    09/19/2010 2:25:27 PM PDT · by Oakeshott · 44 replies
    Ford maybe planning to follow in GM’s footsteps and put the Lincoln luxury brand into production in the Chinese market to take advantage of a booming luxury segment that has so far been untapped by the blue oval. GM put the Cadillac SLS into production with JV partner SAIC in the Chinese market, and also imported other models to fill the Cadillac dealerships. Cadillac has performed well in China with 1624 cars being delivered to consumers in august alone, which is an increase of 178% over the same period a year earlier, and Cadillac have seen sales increase of 157%...
  • Hillsdale College President Larry Arnn @ Washington Times - "Recovering our equilibrium"

    09/16/2010 8:15:38 PM PDT · by hillsdale1 · 8 replies
    The Washington Times ^ | 9/16/10 | Dr. Larry P. Arnn
    In the days of Lincoln, the risks to the Constitution and the chance to save it went hand in hand. The same is true today. On the one hand, we have accumulated a debt, in a time of relative peace and unprecedented prosperity, that rivals the debt incurred to win the largest war in history. That war eventually came to an end, but our deficits have no foreseeable terminus. Despite this, we pass a new entitlement to health care in a midnight vote, no one having the chance to read the bill. It is unreadable anyway. A high official has...
  • Redford digs into Lincoln assassination plot

    09/13/2010 7:25:37 AM PDT · by DFG · 74 replies
    Yahoo ^ | 09/12/10 | Ka Yan Ng
    In his new film "The Conspirator," director Robert Redford digs into a little-known angle of one of the best-known moments in American history: the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln. Instead of dealing with the shooting in the Ford's Theater in Washington, already a movie subject, Redford takes aim at a back story to the 1865 assassination of the U.S. president -- a complex plot that resulted in seven men and one woman being arrested and charged with conspiring to kill the president, the vice president, and the secretary of state.
  • Lincoln And The Death Of The Constitution

    09/07/2010 12:43:35 PM PDT · by gjmerits · 903 replies · 6+ views
    Wolves of Liberty ^ | 9/7/2010 | gjmerits
    The Gettysburg speech was at once the shortest and the most famous oration in American history...the highest emotion reduced to a few poetical phrases. Lincoln himself never even remotely approached it. It is genuinely stupendous. But let us not forget that it is poetry, not logic; beauty, not sense. Think of the argument in it. Put it into the cold words of everyday. The doctrine is simply this: that the Union soldiers who died at Gettysburg sacrificed their lives to the cause of self-determination - that government of the people, by the people, for the people, should not perish from...
  • Outside Groups’ Campaign Expenditures Have Doubled (TPX-FX)

    09/07/2010 8:38:39 AM PDT · by Syncro · 8 replies
    CQPOLITICS ^ | Sept. 5, 2010 – 6:09 p.m. | Alex Knott, CQ-Roll Call
    Outside Groups’ Campaign Expenditures Have Doubled By Alex Knott, CQ-Roll Call Outside organizations have shelled out twice as much on ads and other electioneering activities to affect Congressional races so far during the 2010 election cycle as they did two years ago.Unions, political parties and advocacy groups have spent more than $34.2 million on independent expenditures so far during this election, compared with less than $16.2 million at this time in the 2008 election, according to a CQ MoneyLine study of Federal Election Commission reports. “It’s staggering amounts of money,” said David Vance, spokesman for the Campaign Legal Center. “People...
  • Obama Stopped Using MLK's Oval Office Rug Quote After Notified in 2008 of 'Borrowed' Origin

    09/04/2010 10:50:00 AM PDT · by kristinn · 35 replies · 1+ views
    Saturday, August 4, 2010 | Kristinn
    The news of Barack Obama's new Oval Office rug containing a favorite quote used by Obama that he attributed to Martin Luther King was taken from a sermon by 19th century Unitarian minister Theodore Parker has taken an interesting twist with research by Freeper Enchante (and Hot Air)showing that in 2008 Obama stopped using the quote in stump speeches after his presidential campaign was informed its origin by Unitarian Rev. Matt Tittle:In April, during the presidential primary season, I perked up from the usual din of campaign rhetoric when I heard then-candidate Barack Obama say (referring to Dr. Martin Luther...
  • Dr. Alveda King to Address the Restoring Honor Rally at the Lincoln Memorial August 28

    08/26/2010 11:28:07 AM PDT · by topher · 29 replies
    Priests for Life.org ^ | August 20, 2010
    Dr. Alveda King to Address the Restoring Honor Rally at the Lincoln Memorial August 28Priests for Life FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Date: August 20, 2010 Atlanta, GA – Dr. Alveda King, Director of African American Outreach for Priests for Life, issued the following statement today on her upcoming appearance at the August 28th Restoring Honor Rally on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial organized by commentator Glenn Beck. “Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s legacy, like the Lincoln Memorial itself, belongs to all Americans. I am participating in Glenn Beck’s Restoring Honor Rally not to advance any political agenda, but to advance...
  • There are one million and one “Reagan Republicans“¸ but where are the “Lincoln Republicans“?

    08/25/2010 5:26:17 AM PDT · by JohnnyBibs · 94 replies · 1+ views
    JohnnyBibs ^ | Tuesday, August 24, 2010 in the year of JESUS CHRIST ALMIGHTY! | Daniel Benjamin Orris
    There are one million and one “Reagan Republicans“¸ but where are the “Lincoln Republicans“? 7:21 pm-est, Tuesday, August 24, 2010 in the year of JESUS CHRIST ALMIGHTY! by, Daniel Benjamin Orris of Pennsylvania When I heard a quote this evening of a political candidate calling himself a “Reagan Republican“, I was reminded of that now common phrase used more as political subterfuge or chicanery, rather than containing any genuine meaning. The unfortunate reality is, it seems, many otherwise Conservative voters are being deceived into supporting moderate Republicans who appeal to the Tea Party by using phrases such as “Reagan Republican“...
  • Pro-Obamacare Senator Blanche Lincoln Down 65-27 in Arkansas Senate Race

    08/20/2010 10:18:30 AM PDT · by Justaham · 53 replies · 1+ views
    Gateway Pundit ^ | 8-20-10 | Jim Hoft
    Senator Blanche Lincoln (D-Arkansas) is trailing her Republican opponent John Boozman in Arkansas by 38 points. Rasmussen reported: Support for incumbent Democratic Senator Blanche Lincoln has now fallen to its lowest level yet as Republican John Boozman remains on track to shift Arkansas’ Senate seat to the GOP column. The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Likely Voters in Arkansas shows Boozman capturing 65% of the vote, while Lincoln earns 27% support. Four percent (4%) like some other candidate in the race, and three percent (3%) are not sure. Boozman has been ahead in this race for months. In July,...
  • Election 2010: Arkansas Senate

    08/20/2010 10:12:44 AM PDT · by Signalman · 3 replies
    Rasmussen ^ | 8/20/2010 | Rasmussen
    Support for incumbent Democratic Senator Blanche Lincoln has now fallen to its lowest level yet as Republican John Boozman remains on track to shift Arkansas’ Senate seat to the GOP column. The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Likely Voters in Arkansas shows Boozman capturing 65% of the vote, while Lincoln earns 27% support. Four percent (4%) like some other candidate in the race, and three percent (3%) are not sure. Boozman has been ahead in this race for months. In July, he posted a 60% to 35% lead. In surveys since he won the Republican Primary in May, Boozman...
  • Of Threats and Promises

    08/12/2010 1:02:12 PM PDT · by bsaunders · 3 replies
    Beyond the Cusp ^ | August 12, 2010 | B. Saunders
    When during the campaign the Obama campaign kept repeating his admiration and promises to mold his Presidency around Presidents Lincoln and Franklin Roosevelt, I took this as a threat instead of a simple and admirable promise. My reaction was that as President, Obama would run his Administration in the imperial mold of Lincoln and the economic uncertainty and higher taxes of FDR. Unfortunately, it appears to a large extent, my fears have been validated. A look at the history should cast some light on the threat of President Obama’s campaign promises. First, we will address the abusive use of power...
  • Students at Lincoln Memorial Told to Stop Singing National Anthem

    08/09/2010 6:48:13 PM PDT · by antidemoncrat · 71 replies
    Fox News ^ | 8/9/10 | Todd Starnes
    A group of high school students attending a conservative leadership conference in Washington, D.C. said they were ordered by a security guard to stop singing the national anthem during a June 25 visit to the Lincoln Memorial.