February 2009 
Hot Rod Lincoln(43)
He knew that he was destined for greatness. The son of uneducated manual laborers, immigrants to Illinois, he was never much of a student, but he would become a successful lawyer. From a young age, though, his sights were set on political power. Through his political connections, he got himself elected to the Illinois House of Representatives and, later, to the U.S. Congress from Illinois.
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Marriage in America—March 2009
PERSPECTIVE Self-Evident Lies by Thomas Fleming VIEWS Mainline Marital Mélange by William Murchison When the culture preaches to the church. Immigration and Marriage in America by R. Cort Kirkwood Beyond definitions. Moonstruck Morality Versus the Cosmos by Hugh Barbour, O.Praem. Romancing the self.
Patriarch Aleksy, R.I.P.
While routinely accused in the West of excessively close links to the secular authorities, Patriarch Aleksy took pains to define what is permissible and what is not in the relationship between Church and state. He rejected any absolutization of governmental authority and insisted that the temporal powers of the state should be recognized as imperative only to the degree that they are used to support good and limit evil.
Rendering Unto Lincoln
The hallmark of the Lincoln regime was not the war crimes perpetrated by Sherman, Grant, and Sheridan (among so many other gallant officers who made war on civilians) but Treasury Secretary Salmon Chase’s decision to impose paper money as legal tender and to print the words “in god we trust” on coins. What a world of hypocrisy and idolatry lies in that single act and that little phrase.
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- The Treasury of Counterfeit Virtue
- Obama as Lincoln: Mask and Mirror
- Lincoln and God
- Shattering Lincoln’s Dream
- Lincolnism Today: The Long Marriage of Centralized Power and Concentrated Wealth
- THE LEGACY OF LINCOLN—February 2009