Much ado has been made about a fake Lincoln quote that some righwing bozo (but I repeat myself) put in the pages of the fradulent Moonie Times (damn, there I did it again). Your challenge for today: is the following a real Lincoln quote or not? You too can be a historian. I'll put the answer below the "Read More" button so as to avoid undignified fisticuffs over who won, not to mention the bother of having to award prizes and get people's mailing addresses and all. Here goes:

Allow the President to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so, whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such purpose---and you allow him to make war at pleasure. Study to see if you can fix any limit to his power in this respect, after you have given him so much as you propose. If, to-day, he should choose to say he thinks it necessary to invade Canada, to prevent the British from invading us, how could you stop him? You may say to him,
``I see no probability of the British invading us'' but he will say to you ``be silent; I see it, if you dont.'' Read more…