All humans are descended from just TWO people and a catastrophic event almost wiped out ALL species 100,000 years ago, scientists claim

Hot Air: As Predicted, GOP Tax Cuts Prompt Record Tax Revenues

On this day in 1963, 55 years ago, during the Packers game broadcast,

Jack Ruby Shoots/Kills 

Lee Harvey Oswald on Live TV 

On this day in 1903,

CO Gov Sends Militia to Cripple Creek 

after Strikers Kill 13

Wikipedia article

On this day in 1936,

First Issue of Life Magazine Published

Review Brah's Report of the Week:

The Starbucks Thanksgiving Holiday Turkey and Stuffing Panini

Victor Davis Hanson,

For Better or Worse - The 60's Won the Culture War

On this day 55 years ago in 1963,

President Kennedy Assassinated in Dallas

Incredible stabilized video from Gizmodo - viewer discretion

NYT video

On this day in 1783,

John Hanson, 

first "president" of the United States, 

dies

German Think Tank: Trump Winning in Trade War with China

On this day in 1928,

Mickey Mouse debuts in Walt Disney's "Steamboat Willie"

On this day in 1945,

The Nuremberg Trials Begin

Bloomberg: China Is Paying for Most of Trump's Trade War, Research Says

Victor Davis Hanson: We're at an 1861 moment

WaPo: Ukraine Has Removed All Statues of Lenin

Gov. Jerry Brown Quietly Admits Trump Was Right, Eases California Logging Rules

Years of Mismanagement Led to California Fires

On this day in 1863,

Lincoln Delivers Gettysburg Address

272 words.  

The speech was so short, the photographer could not take a picture before Lincoln sat down.

Ken Burns' The Civil War: The Gettysburg Address

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate—we can not consecrate—we can not hallow—this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

Sen. Mike Lee: A conservative case for criminal justice reform

40 years ago today,

900 Commit Suicide at Jonestown in Guyana

On this day in 1966,

Sandy Koufax Retires at Age 30 

 After Winning 3rd Cy Young Award