Wednesday Open Thread: Lincoln Edition
Today, in 1860, Abraham Lincoln won the GOP nomination for President.
Today, in 1860, Abraham Lincoln won the GOP nomination for President.
Today, in 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down state education segregation in the landmark Brown v. Board of Education. The unanimous decision overturned Plessy v. Ferguson and was a giant step towards greater liberty.
From the Associated Press: Two leading makers of lighting products are showcasing LED bulbs that are bright enough to replace energy-guzzling 100-watt light bulbs set to disappear from stores in January. Their demonstrations at the LightFair trade show in Philadelphia
Presidential aspirant Newt Gingrich was on Meet the Press yesterday. When asked about Rep. Paul Ryan’s proposal to reform Medicare, Gingrich called it “right wing social engineering.” Interesting positioning for a GOP primary race.
From CNN: Real estate mogul Donald Trump will not run for the Republican presidential nomination, he said in a statement released Monday. Full release here.
From KMSP Minneapolis: Your home is supposed to be your castle. That is, until the government needs to buy it for a road project. So, what’s the fair price for your property when it comes to eminent domain? Maybe less
From the Associated Press: Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner is telling Congress that he will halt investments in two big government pension plans Monday to allow the government to continue borrowing money for the next few months. Geithner says the government
How genuine can the President’s claims of transparency be when they won’t even discuss the most basic aspects of the people and process involved with the drafting of their Executive Order on transparency?
The Middle East is erupting in protest. Eventually, we hope, they will move out of the 16th Century.
From the Associated Press: Allegations of sexual assault in a New York hotel have torn France’s presidential race asunder and savaged the reputation of the suave and self-assured Dominique Strauss-Kahn, chief of the International Monetary Fund. The 62-year-old Strauss-Kahn has
From AFP: A German man scooped the title of world’s best beard on Sunday after impressing competition hosts in Norway with his facial hair featuring a moose and a Norwegian flag. Hairdresser Elmar Weisser, 47, beat 160 hopefuls from 15
From the Associated Press: Deputies warned people Sunday to get out as Mississippi River water gushing from a floodgate for the first time in four decades crept ever closer to communities in Louisiana Cajun country, slowly filling a river basin
Mike Huckabee is not running for the GOP nomination for President.
A Facebook posting from Illinois State Senator Sam McCann: I am at my desk here on the floor of the IL Senate. We are in the midst of voting on FY2012 Budget Bills. You may ask yourselves how I have
Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels is considering a run for President. Will he or won’t he?
From WMAR: “People are agreeing with what I’ve been saying for the past thirty years.”
Potential Presidential candidate Mitt Romney was in his home state of Michigan yesterday and gave a much-anticipated address on the health care plan he implemented while Governor of Massachusetts. “RomneyCare” has been cited as one of the models for much
Yesterday, the House voted to end the Obama Administration’s ban on off-shore drilling. Unfortunate that Senate Democrats won’t go along with this, because this would be a really good time to increase the supply of oil.
Today, in 1949, the Soviet Union lifted its blockade of Berlin.
The geniuses at Media Matters have come up with a new conspiracy theory: that James O’Keefe is secretly behind the revelation of communist indoctrination at two University of Missouri campuses. Ned Resnikoff dons his tin-foil hat and tries to connect
From the Associated Press: The Postal Service is continuing to hemorrhage money, reporting a loss Tuesday of more than $2 billion over the first three months of the year and warning it could be forced to default on federal payments.
Today, in 1997, IBM supercomputer Deep Blue defeated Chess Master Gary Kasparov. It was the first time a computer had defeated a human chess-master. Shudder.
From the Associated Press: Delving anew into an explosive issue, President Barack Obama stood near the border with Mexico on Tuesday and declared it more secure than ever, trying to build pressure on Republicans to take on a comprehensive immigration
Today, in 1940, Winston Churchill was appointed Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. It was the beginning of the end of the Nazis.
The University of Missouri-Saint Louis (UMSL) has released the following statement about its review of lecture videos from the “Introduction to Labor Studies” course taught at UMSL and at the University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC). Today, BigGovernment.com will publish the
