Abraham Lincoln

ABOARD USS ABRAHAM LINCOLN -The largest warship in the world, now sitting in the Persian Gulf, is a nuclear-powered floating city and a moving microcosm of the U.S. Navy's efforts to increase diversity in its ranks. With roughly 5,200 people on board, a broad cultural and ethnic mix might be considered a given. But sailors here with more than 20 years of service say they remember when the typical carrier crew was overwhelmingly white and male. Because of a major push for equal opportunity in the 1980s, the mix began to change.

WASHINGTON -- Sen. Paul S. Sarbanes captured public attention last week with his eloquent challenge to President Bush's Gulf policy, disputing the administration's conclusion that sanctions against Iraq weren't working and its apparent preparation for war without congressional sanction.But some of the eloquence wasn't his own.One passage was derived from a statement given the day before to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee by historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr.In his Dec. 4 statement, Dr. Schlesinger said:"I notice that the president, in his moving remarks last Friday about the anguish of sending young kids to war, said, 'It's only the president that should be asked to make the decision.

WASHINGTON - In the last hours of his life, just before going to Ford's Theater on April 14, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln reviewed the court-martial of Pvt. Patrick Murphy, who had been characterized as "idiotic and insane." Lincoln decided that the soldier should be pardoned and released from the military.Evidence of that compassionate act has been uncovered by Dr. Thomas Lowry and his wife, Beverly Lowry, amateur historians who found the decision among 570 documents with Lincoln's signature and comments.

A 21-year-old Navy photographer from Ellicott City survived the crash of a helicopter ferrying help for tsunami victims from the USS Abraham Lincoln to the Banda Aceh airport in Indonesia yesterday without serious injury. Petty Officer 3rd Class Jacob J. Kirk, whose photography and compassion for tsunami victims were featured in an article in The Sun yesterday, called his father early yesterday after the accident on Sumatra that injured two servicemen. "He just feels really banged up. He said he just feels like Mean Joe Greene got hold of him," John Kirk said, referring to the former Pittsburgh Steelers lineman known for his ferocity.

NEWS ITEM: "In a hush-hush experiment that succeeded beyond scientists' wildest dreams, doctors administered an amazing new drug to the corpse of Abraham Lincoln -- and brought the former President back to life."This experiment, reported the Weekly World News, took place a few weeks ago at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington.Doctors were testing an experimental drug Revivitol. "The doctors were expecting to start up the heart and perhaps see some brain waves -- but they weren't expecting Lincoln to revive to complete consciousness," the newspaper reported.

Lincoln's Cottage Where:: Upshur Street at Rock Creek Church Road Northwest, Washington When:: Daily 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Mondays-Saturdays and noon-4 p.m. Sundays What:: Celebrate the coming 200th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's birthday (and beat the inauguration crowds) with a visit to this historic site. Recently renovated, Lincoln's Cottage offers guided tours of Lincoln's country home and workplace, where he spent a quarter of his presidency. "Historical voices" and images illuminate the compelling stories of Lincoln as a father, husband and commander-in-chief.

If Barack Obama is a cool combination of Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King, Jr., andJohn F. Kennedy, it is because he is extremely intelligent and well read. Whereas Republican candidates haven't read the Bible they pound. While President Obama seems to be a faithful Christian, it will not help him politically. This is because Christian leaders use their myth to control people and want government to "back off. " We must continue to resist the barbarism of the faithful. Careful analysis by biblical scholars shows that Paul never intended Jesus to be a real person.

This is the 52nd presidential election.The 19th was held in 1860. The Republicans had replaced the Whigs as the principal opponents of the Democrats and two new parties arose, as the emotional debate of slavery could no longer be contained in a two-party system.The Democrats nominated Sen. Stephen Douglas of Illinois, who thought his ambiguous stand on slavery would hold the South. But Southerners walked out of the party and nominated the incumbent Democratic vice president, John Breckenridge of Kentucky.

To mark the birthday of Abraham Lincoln , our 16th president, the Enoch Pratt Free Library is offering a look at a bit of history today. The Pratt will have a presidential appointment signed by Lincoln on display in the main hall of the Central Library downtown from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. The document is the appointment of Walter Graham of New Jersey as Consul of the United States of America at Cape Town, January 19, 1863, the Pratt said....

CHICAGO -- If people here have a high tolerance for political corruption, it is not because they admire evil or think the powers of goodness are weak.It is because their political heroes often have been men who have had a foot in both worlds.Abraham Lincoln Marovitz is 88 now and still a federal judge on senior status in Chicago.His office contains not only hundreds of photographs drawings, paintings, and busts of Abraham Lincoln, but autographed pictures from John Kennedy, Frank Sinatra, Lyndon Johnson, Hubert Humphrey, Harry Truman, Gerald Ford, Bob Newhart, Joey Bishop, Bob Hope, Jimmy Durante, and my personal favorite: "To Abraham Lincoln Marovitz with respect and loving regards, Carl Sandburg."