Ann Coulter

I haven't come across Ann Coulter for a long time. I suppose the mainstream media has done a pretty good job of ignoring her, as with Pat Robertson and such right-wing flame-throwers. I always kind of liked grabbing some of their more colorful statements, but I am not interested enough in them to actively go and look them up. Anyway, I did come across a piece today that sort of catches us up on her biography.

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Abraham Lincoln

Michael Burlingame concludes his two-thousand-page biography of Lincoln with a quotation from the famous Tolstoy tribute to the man.

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“Of all the great national heroes and statesmen of history Lincoln is the only real giant. Alexander, Frederick the Great, Caesar, Napoleon, Gladstone and even Washington stand in greatness of character, in depth of feeling and in a certain moral power far behind Lincoln. Lincoln was a man of whom a nation has a right to be proud; he was a Christ in miniature, a saint of humanity, whose name will live thousands of years in the legends of future generations. We are still too near to his greatness, and so can hardly appreciate his divine power; but after a few centuries more our posterity will find him considerably bigger than we do. His genius is still too strong and too powerful for the common understanding, just as the sun is too hot when its light beams directly on us.

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Lincoln lived and died a hero, and as a great character he will live as long as the world lives. May his life long bless humanity!”

-- Leo Tolstoy (1909)

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