Yet another reason to oppose Ron Paul.

Think what you will about conservative politics, libertarian politics, and liberty, Ron Paul has too many wrong ideas about history.

Here is yet another reason I cannot take the man seriously: He completely sidesteps the academic consensus on the Civil War and is apparently ignorant of Lincoln's failed attempts to push for compensated emancipation.

And shouldn't defenders of Liberty(TM) be ardently opposed to slavery? I think freedom for millions of slaves is one of the few things a defender of Liberty(TM) should be willing to go to war for. After all, Liberty(TM)!