Name In Vain 
Hope Arkansas’s Second Son Mike Huckabee graced the stage at the Republican convention’s Wednesday session, offering up democrat and  god fearin’.
Sadly the Arkansas Augustus has been caught out making up a Lincoln quote, the gist of which is to make Old Abe an enemy of big government. It’s been attributed to much […]

Invisible Men

Thanks to civilwarmemory for pointing to a recent post by John David Hoptak, a writer and Park Ranger at the Antietam National Battlefield.

Hoptak’s Antietam presentations on the battle and the contemporaneous drafting of the Emancipation Proclamation have stirred a vicious reaction from many Park visitors, […]

Bye: The Hype
The apotheosis of Tim Russert has found it’s fitting climax in a Presidential Library [and Museum!]. Russert narrates the Lincoln Library’s “Campaign 1860″ exhibit, and Springfield’s State Journal-Register is leading calls to preserve it as a memorial within the memorial.

“Setting viewers straight on the views of candidates Lincoln, Stephen […]

It Ain’t Fitting
Via the abrahamlincolnblog comes word of an Oregon Lincoln statue decapitation, now headless for the 5th time.
Ashland Oregon is the scene for this repeat crime, the latest of a string dating back to the 1950s.

Craggy!
South Dakota’s favorite sons look down on an aspirant.