• That Hottness | Boston Lifestyle Blog » Cambridge Unitarians Ruin Christmas For Garrison Keillor
  Hmm. So Keillor is a "Don't try to take away our CHRISTmas!" guys.

  'What Keillor doesn’t explain to his readers, however, is that the Unitarians weren’t trying to shoehorn a non-denominational song into the event. It was organized by Cambridge Forum, not the church, and Keillor was the one who asked the audience to sing Silent Night at the end. And Keillor, a fundamentalist Lutheran, had already led the crowd in two Christian spirituals, which they sang unadulterated.'

  (tags: celebrity surprising religion holiday right.wing)
• PT Appeals to History | Talking Points Memo
  'Like President Obama, President Lincoln was seen by many of his supporters as something of a disappointment once in office. This was largely due to the number and types of compromises he needed to make, most notably with the institution of slavery.' The Emancipation Proclamation was also derided as wishy washy and overly compromised.
  (tags: history war obama lincoln observation surprising government)

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