Here is a link to a good article by George Will.
A snippet:
“Look,”wrote Lois Lerner, echoing Horace Greeley,
“my view is that Lincoln was our worst president not our best. He should [have]
let the [S]outh go. We really do seem to have 2 totally different mindsets.”
Greeley, editor of the New York Tribune, was referring to Southern secessionist
states when he urged President-elect Lincoln to “let the
erring sisters go in peace.”
Greeley favored separating the nation from certain
mind-sets; Lerner favors suppressing certain mind-sets. At the Internal Revenue
Service, she participated in delaying for up to five years — effectively
denying — tax-exempt status for, and hence restricting political activity by,
groups with conservative mind-sets. She retired after refusing to testify to
congressional committees, invoking Fifth Amendment protection against
self-incrimination.
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