Glenn Beck and Lincoln

I know we all have mixed feelings on Glenn Beck here, but I couldn't help myself when I came across an informative article at LewRockwell.com the other day by Thomas DiLorenzo, the guy who writes all the taboo-smashing books about Lincoln, and found his outlook on Glenn Beck interesting.  For one, he seemed to agree with Beck's usual chalkboard analyses of Obama's friends and friends' friend's and friends' friends' friends. I really don't care too much for those things:  I think they're just a type of fear mongering that doesn't really accomplish anything; knowing that Obama's staff is full of socialist sympathizers doesn't explain why socialism is bad and not compatible with freedom, it just says Obama likes socialism...duh.  He should, instead, stick to the Founding Fathers episodes, libertarian-based roots of America stuff, maybe plug another Hayek book or two, etc.

However, as DiLorenzo goes into the problems he has with Beck, I can't help but be in total agreement, not just about Beck, but about the Republican party -- if not the majority of contemporary America.  I speak, of course, of the idolatry of Lincoln in America.  Lincoln was the original neocon, and his "preservation of the union" and "freeing of the slaves" (regardless of Lincoln's expressed defense of the Corwin Amendment, that would have put slavery as irrevecobal in the Constitution) allows his historical character to be untarnishable.

Baseball Tournament Cancelled in Protest of S.C. Confederate Flag

The South Carolina Capitol with Conferederate Flag.	The Abraham Lincoln Memorial in Washingto D.C

The Atlantic Coast Conference of Baseball, yesterday, stated it wanted to move three of its future baseball tournaments out of South Carolina in protest of the Confederate Flag which has stood at the State Capitol for ten years.

According to First Coast News, opponents of the flag say it's a symbol of racism and hatred, while flag supporters say it honors heritage through traditional American principles of State Sovereignty.

The belief that the Confederacy stands for hate comes from the lessons of the Civil War, with Abraham Lincoln leading the way to end slavery. In fact, the Lincoln Memorial in D.C. pays tribute to the former President by stating "For whom he saved the Union" during the Civil War when the southern states refused to unionize.

Read the rest of the Atlantic Coast Conference article here.