Today we celebrate the birthdays to two men born on the same day of the same year, February 12, 1809: Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln.
400-408 – Larry Arnn has been the president of Hillsdale College (hillsdale.edu) since May of 2000. Among his many accomplishments: director of research for the official biographer of Winston Churchill Sir Martin Gilbert of Oxford University, a Ph.D. in Government from the Claremont Graduate School under the world's foremost Lincoln scholar Harry Jaffa (1985), and the wonderfully successful president of The Claremont Institute (claremont.org) from 1985-2000.
Larry Arnn is responsible for creating more American patriots, more conservative statesmen, and for molding more wonderful individuals than any man I know. He gets the blame, or the credit, for challenging this evangelical Christian to study government and political philosophy, and for introducing me to both the books and the men that have so deeply impacted and enriched my life – I owe him a great deal.
• Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (2/11/09) Was Lincoln a Racist? The Great Emancipator was far more complicated than the mythical hero we have come to revere. Selected quotes:
• To prove his point, Du Bois included this quote from a speech Lincoln delivered in 1858 [5] in Charleston, Ill.: "I will say, then, that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races—that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people; and I will say in addition to this, that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will forever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality. And inasmuch as they cannot so live, while they do remain together there must be the position of superior and inferior, and I, as much as any other man, am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race."
• But the truth is that until very late in his presidency, Lincoln was deeply conflicted about whether to liberate the slaves, how to liberate the slaves and what to do with them once they had been liberated. Whereas abolition was a central aspect of Lincoln's moral compass, racial equality was not. In fact, Lincoln wrestled with three distinct but sometimes overlapping discourses related to race: slavery, equality and colonization. Isolating these three—like the three strands of a braid of hair—helps us to understand how conflicted the man was about African Americans and their place in this country.
• Lincoln despised slavery as an institution, an economic institution that discriminated against white men who couldn't afford to own slaves and, thus, could not profit from the advantage in the marketplace that slaves provided. At the same time, however, he was deeply ambivalent about the status of black people vis-à-vis white people, having fundamental doubts about their innate intelligence and their capacity to fight nobly with guns against white men in the initial years of the Civil War.
• And just one month before the Emancipation became the law of the land, in his Annual Message to Congress on Dec. 1, 1862 [11], Lincoln proposed a constitutional amendment that would "appropriate money, and otherwise provide, for colonizing free colored persons with their own consent, at any place or places without the United States."
• Two things dramatically changed Lincoln's attitudes toward black people. First, in the early years, the North was losing the Civil War, and Lincoln quickly realized that the margin of difference between a Southern victory and a Northern victory would be black men. So, despite severe reservations that he had expressed about the courage of black troops ("If we were to arm them, I fear that in a few weeks the arms would be in the hands of the rebels…"), Lincoln included in the Emancipation Proclamation a provision authorizing black men to fight for the Union.
• Three days before he was shot, Lincoln stood on the second floor of the White House and made a speech to a crowd assembled outside celebrating the recent Union victory over the Confederacy. With his troops and Frederick Douglass very much in mind, Lincoln told the cheering crowd, which had demanded that he come to the window to address them, that he had decided to recommend that his 200,000 black troops and "the very intelligent Negroes" be given the right to vote.
Standing in the crowd was John Wilkes Booth. Hearing those words, Booth turned to a man next to him and said [13], "That means nigger citizenship. Now, by God! I'll put him through. That is the last speech he will ever make." Three days later, during the third act of Our American Cousin [14], Booth followed through with his promise.
413-423 – Larry Arnn
• Harry Jaffa, A New Birth of Freedom.
• William J. Bennett & John Cribb (2/12/09) Lincoln Kept Pegging Away: Good advice on how to save a nation.
• Richard Brookhiser (NYP, 2/12/09) Lincoln At 200.
428-437 – Larry Arnn
443-452 – Albert from Noble Jewelers in Monrovia at 668 W. Huntington Dr. just north of the 210, with a special offer for our KKLA listeners! Call him right now at (626) 357-9357. (thenoblejewelers.com)
458-508 – (:47) BP&TH Fairness Doctrine. Today, 2/11/09, Radio host Bill Press talked with Sen. Tom Harkin (D-IA) about the fairness doctrine.
(:07) BP&TH short 1. Bill Press talks lies about how they're shutting down progressive talk
(:07) BP&TH short 2. Bill Press and Tom Harkin talk about how they're not going to take conservatives off the air.
Ann Coulter, (anncoulter.com) syndicated columnist and author of 6 NYT bestsellers including her latest Guilty: Liberal "Victims" And Their Assault On America. She's doing a book-signing tonight at the Barnes & Noble at Fashion Island in Newport Beach, starting at 7:00pm.
• Ann Coulter (2/11/09) Goodbye, America! It Was Fun While It Lasted.
512-523 – Ann Coulter
• NRO Editors (2/12/09) Ending Welfare Reform as We Knew It.
TH 524 – [2:00] Don Rohde (818) 262-2092. For the past 36 years, Don has been a sales manager at Galpin, the #1 volume Ford dealer in the world for the past 18 consecutive years. Galpin has been family-owned and operated for the past 59 years, and 90% of their business is repeat or referral. Galpin offers Ford, Lincoln-Mercury, Honda, Mazda, Saturn, Volvo, Jaguar, and Aston Martin. Located in the heart of the San Fernando Valley at Roscoe and the 405.
528-538 – Bill Dembski, research professor in philosophy at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, with seven degrees, two of which are Ph.D.s, one in philosophy and one in mathematics, is the author of a dozen books, including his latest How To Be An Intellectually Fulfilled Atheist (Or Not), on the impact of Charles Darwin (designinference.com).
• Olivia Judson (NYT, 2/12/09) The Origin of Darwin.
539 – [1:30] Robert Micone/Bill O'Connor aka "The Money Guys" at Applied Financial, 866-SEEK-COUNSEL, and online at appliedfinancialplanning.com.
544-554 – Bill Dembski
558-608 – Tom Krannawitter is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Hillsdale College, and the author of Vindicating Lincoln: Defending the Politics of Our Greatest President. Tom is a Senior Fellow at the Claremont Institute, and he's taught at both Claremont McKenna College and Azusa Pacific College. He earned his Ph.D. in political science from the Claremont Graduate University.
• Tom Krannawitter (IBD, 2/12/09) Lincoln's Defense Of Constitution Is Moral For Today's Republicans.
612-623 – Tom Krannawitter
• Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (2/11/09) Was Lincoln a Racist? The Great Emancipator was far more complicated than the mythical hero we have come to revere. Selected quotes:
• To prove his point, Du Bois included this quote from a speech Lincoln delivered in 1858 [5] in Charleston, Ill.: "I will say, then, that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races—that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people; and I will say in addition to this, that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will forever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality. And inasmuch as they cannot so live, while they do remain together there must be the position of superior and inferior, and I, as much as any other man, am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race."
628-638 – Tom Krannawitter
644-655 – Our American Idol update with Assistant Nate
• Frank Pastore (2/12/09) The Stimulus Bill: A Nation of Nadya Sulemans?
• Breitbart (2/12/09) Economic stimulus package on track for final votes.
• Victor Davis Hanson (2/12/09) Hardly the Best and Brightest: The institutions run by our elites aren't trustworthy, so why should we put any faith in them?
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