"I don’t think we should talk about Lincoln’s underwear..."

"It’s not appropriate for someone so iconic. Even in the bedroom, Lincoln is never shown in his pajamas. He’s in his shirt and pants....

"I successfully edited Wikipedia!"

Meade exclaims. It's his first time. It was over there in the page on The Gettysburg Address (which I linked to earlier today, as perha...

Obama seems amenable to the NRA idea of armed guards in schools.

On today's "Meet the Press" : David Gregory asked him what he thought of having "armed guards at every school in the coun...

"150 years ago, on December 26, 1862, 38 Dakota men were hung in Mankato, Minnesota."

"It was the largest mass execution in U.S. history. The men were hung after being convicted by a U.S. military commission for participa...

The monster in Peggy Noonan's childhood closet was... Abraham Lincoln!

Writing about childhood fears (post-Newtown), she reveals : One night when the moon was bright and the wind was moving the trees, I looked f...

"I find it difficult to believe that Lincoln was banging anybody."

Tony Kushner explains why his "Lincoln" screenplay doesn't include any material about his possible nonheterosexuality. Moreov...

"Back there America was put on the cross, died and was resurrected."

"The godawful truth of that would be the all-encompassing template behind everything that I would write." Bob Dylan, quoted at Lan...

Daniel Day-Lewis voices Lincoln with "a high-pitched, wavering tone that has been likened to both a 14-year-old boy and Mr Burns."

People are complaining... but they're complaining about historical accuracy! Harold Holzer, a Lincoln scholar, told CBS News: “Lincoln d...

The NYT illustrates its endorsement of Obama with a photo of Abe Lincoln.

There's something so tragically lame about this: To be fair, it clicks through to a gallery of past endorsements that makes it glaringl...

At the Cautiously Spontaneous Café...

... it's an open thread for all your reflections. (The photo is from Fargo.)

Dressing like Abe Lincoln and kissing a baby — it's Scott Walker's challenger for the Republican slot in the recall election.

It's Arthur Kohl-Riggs, whom we encountered at yesterday's Tax Day rally: You may recognize him from many of the videos Meade and I ...

"John Wilkes Booth Bobbleheads Pulled From Gettysburg Giftshop."

"The $20 dolls come in boxes depicting the inside of Washington D.C.’s Ford's Theatre, where confederate sympathizer Booth shot and...

"Oh, it's Presidents Day. Some people have the day off."

My outburst, on glancing at my Twitter feed this morning. Excuse me for not sufficiently valuing the generic President of the United States,...

"Die, Penny, Die!"

(Via Instapundit .)

Daniel Day-Lewis as Lincoln.

Perfect!

LIFE's sexiest photographs.

A nice collection. My favorite as a photograph is Jayne Mansfield. The sexiest, in my personal opinion, is "Clint Eastwood... bare-che...

President Bush, reading Lincoln's letter at the 9/11 ceremony in NYC.

"I feel how weak and fruitless must be any words of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming. ...

"Palin knew Revere better than Obama knew Lincoln."

"It’s even worse, because Palin’s (accurate) comments were made in an on-the-fly interview whereas Obama’s were in a prepared speech....

The Freedom From Religion Foundation lacks standing to challenge the President's proclamation of a "national day of prayer."

And so, probably, does everyone else, says the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals (PDF). A "feeling of exclusion" or "alienation...

Daniel Day-Lewis will play Lincoln in a Spielberg movie.

Great choice! ADDED: From the article (as noted in the comments by John): Spielberg just committed to Robopocalypse , but it looks like Linc...