Is The Five a fucking rerun today? 'Cause I thought that Trump won the election like six weeks ago, and she lost.
Just stop talking about her already. It's over. We won, they lost.
Congratulations to @MrsS and @wilbner. Your questions were chosen for tonight’s Ask Greg and the Panelists.
MrsS: Name a guilty pleasure of yours.
Wilbner: What motivated you to get into your chosen profession?
Congratulations to @steve-allen. Two of three of your questions were chosen for tonight’s Ask Greg and the Panelists. This is a first!
Whats the most regrettable purchase do you ever remember making ?
What movie scene in what movie shocked you the most?
From: America 250 OTD ·
June 22, 1776 — Self-Evident Truths
As the Declaration of Independence took shape in June 1776, Thomas Jefferson penned some of the most enduring words in American history. But Benjamin Franklin, with a quiet edit, helped sharpen the philosophical foundation of the American cause.
Jefferson’s original draft declared:
“We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable, that all men are created equal…”
When Jefferson shared the draft with Franklin and John Adams, Franklin crossed out “sacred and undeniable” and wrote “self-evident.”
The change mattered.
Franklin did not remove the Declaration’s grounding in a Creator. The final text still declared that all people “are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights.” In this view, the existence of both natural rights and their source—the Creator—were self-evident, discoverable through reason as well as affirmed by faith.
Rights were not gifts from Parliament, the King, or any government. They ...
