Quote of the Post

"It has always been the fate of republics to be destroyed by faction."
Abraham Lincoln

We managed to squeak one by in Abe's day. Let's hope our luck still holds.

Auld Lang Syne

April sixteenth marked 151 years since the death of Abraham Lincoln. It occurs to me that his party lasted about a hundred years after his death. Barry Goldwater's ascendance and Nixon's 'Southern Strategy' pretty much did the trick. Everything since then has been the writhing of a mortally wounded beast.