{"id":254112,"date":"2010-01-31T02:43:59","date_gmt":"2010-01-31T07:43:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.campaignforliberty.com\/blog.php?view=32026"},"modified":"2010-01-31T02:43:59","modified_gmt":"2010-01-31T07:43:59","slug":"lincoln-on-liberty-friend-or-foe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/254112","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Lincoln on Liberty: Friend or Foe?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Matt Hawes<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think that question is too hard to answer, and it is also the name of one of our C4L-sponsored events at CPAC 2010 &#8211; taking place Feb. 18-20 in Washington, D.C. &#8211; that I am really looking forward to.<\/p>\n<p>Featuring Dr. Thomas DiLorenzo, our Thursday, February 18 &#8220;Lincoln on Liberty: Friend or Foe?&#8221; event will directly confront the myths surrounding one of the establishment&#8217;s favorites.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s our promotional information for the lecture:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>In modern times, President Abraham Lincoln is viewed as a secular saint, a figure of legend who receives almost universal reverence.<\/p>\n<p>But does a close examination of the historical record support conventional wisdom?  Or do the facts paint a different picture of our sixteenth president?<\/p>\n<p>Was Lincoln the Great Emancipator?  Or was he a dictator in all but name who destroyed the Founders&#8217; vision of our Republic?<\/p>\n<p>Author and Loyola College economics professor Thomas DiLorenzo explores the Lincoln legacy in this FREE one hour lecture.<\/p>\n<p>The speech will take place in the Delaware Room on Thursday, February 18 at 1:00pm.  A Q&amp;A will follow the presentation.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Volunteers are coming in from all across the country to help us make an impact at CPAC, and discounted tickets and lodging are going fast.&nbsp; &#8220;Lincoln on Liberty&#8221; is just one of many great activities we have planned(including the nonintervention forum mentioned earlier by Jesse, <strong>a live taping of Judge Napolitano&#8217;s <em>Freedom Watch<\/em><\/strong>, a Tom Woods event on nullification, and much, much more.)&nbsp; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.campaignforliberty.com\/cpac2010.php\">Find further CPAC details here<\/a> and reserve your spot today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Matt Hawes I don&#8217;t think that question is too hard to answer, and it is also the name of one of our C4L-sponsored events at CPAC 2010 &#8211; taking place Feb. 18-20 in Washington, D.C. &#8211; that I am really looking forward to. Featuring Dr. Thomas DiLorenzo, our Thursday, February 18 &#8220;Lincoln on Liberty: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3999,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-254112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3999"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}