Thanks for the ping, but I really don't know if I have the stomach for all this.
Ping me again when they get around to what Lincoln did to Paula Jones' great great grandmother.
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Why we care about Lies told against Lincoln
Feb. 23rd, 2002
Your President and Academic Fellow, David Quackenbush, have been on the internet and at this site as a kind of truth squad this week. Lies, and malicious half-truths, told by a certain Professor DiLorenzo, of Loyola College in MD have aroused our concern ... not to say our ire ... and you all deserve a straightforward reason why we feel and act as we do.
It's very simple.
Lincoln, more than any other American statesman, understood himself to be acting from Declaration Principles.
This Foundation is about acting from Declaration Principles.
Your Chairman, Ambassador Alan Keyes, and your President are on record numerous times as holding that Lincoln did exemplify those principles. It becomes our duty, then to correct falsehoods and sneers against the chief exemplar of our mission. Uncorrected, those lies will be retold and believed, by some, to the detriment of this Foundation and the Republic it seeks to serve.
There is an even more fundamental reason we are speaking out.
The American Republic is, as Federalist I put it, a test of whether men could be governed by "reflection and choice." That means by reason. The medium of reason is speech. Lies undermine the power and credibility of speech. Lies about the great and lies about justice undermine political piety and the labors of those who love justice.
These lies cannot, then, be tolerated. And yet, the power of law may not, and should not, be used against them. What is to be done? Good men must expose, refute, and denounce such falsehood and its purveyors.
This we have done, and this we will continue to do.
Liberty and Union, Now and Forever!
Dr. Richard Ferrier
President, Declaration Roundation
Cheers,
Richard F.