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Thirty years after the Civil War ended, former Colonel Alexander K. McClure began compiling sayings of the man he believed was a great national healer, Abraham Lincoln. His book, “Lincoln’s Yarns and Stories,” first published in 1901, has been in print as recently as 1976, and listener Roger Kluck was kind enough to help me discover it.

One of the most interesting stories in the book, isn’t about a folksy saying of Lincoln’s, but about how his career-long battle with Stephen A. Douglas ended.

• Guest: Dick Patten. The Estate Tax and Joe The Plumber.


• Economic meltdown rant.


• Guest: "Advertiser of the week": Gary Ptak, Gary Ptak, LLC - fine jewelry manufacturing and custom design.


• Guest: Brad Friedman, BradBlog. Electile Dysfunction.


• Guest: David Horowitz. McCain can still win. Diid critics of the war go too far?


• Guest: Christy Harvey, Director of Strategic Communications at the Center for American Progress.

Topics, guests, upcoming events, quotes, links to articles, audio clips, books & bumper music.

Quote: Restlessness and discontent are the first necessities of progress. - Thomas A. Edison

Hour One - Why would anyone ever join the Republican party?

Guest: Rachel Maddow, MSNBC and The Rachel Maddow Show www.airamerica.com

Guest: Dan Pfeiffer Obama Campaign Communications Director: www.barackobama.com

Hour Two - Ron Reagan The Ron Reagan Show, Air America Radio www.airamerica.com Topic: What will be the big issues in the next 4 years

Hour Three - Larisa Alexandrovna www.rawstory.com Topic: Documents reveal Ohio routed votes in 2004

Guest: "Labor Segment" Thea Lee www.aflcio.org Topic: election issues

Guest: Rep. Dennis Kucinich www.kucinich.house.gov Topic: How do we develop a progressive governing coalition?

Guest: Jeff Merkley www.jeffmerkley.com Topic: Home stretch in the fight to take Republican Gordon Smith's senate seat in Oregon