This time it’s James Taranto of the War Street Journal, responding to the memo. (Say, do these guys get Green Stamps or what?) Ron Paul can’t be a real libertarian, you see, because he knows that Lincoln invaded the South not to abolish slavery, but to enhance federal hegemony and taxes, which he certainly did. See his his first inaugural address, the one never mentioned. And see the work of Thomas DiLorenzo, the great underminer of the Lincoln cult so beloved of the neocons.