From the team at CFACT ~

The following is the full text of President Abraham Lincoln’s Address at The Soldier’s National Cemetery, now known as the Gettysburg National Cemetery, In Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.

Fourscore 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 cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate—we cannot hallow—this ground. The brave men, living…

By Tim Graham ~

Matt Vespa at Townhall penned an article on “Why the White House Correspondents’ Association Ripped Into Joe Biden This Weekend.” Naturally, it was Team Biden keeping the president away from a microphone despite urgent debt-limit talks, lest he say something that might make him look past his prime….as if hiding him doesn’t leave that impression.

Nick Sortor tweeted out the full statement from WHCA president (and NPR reporter) Tamara Keith late Friday:

The WHCA board pushed hard for the White House to hold a briefing on Friday or potentially over the weekend given intense interest in the high stakes debt ceiling negotiations and the risk that the US economy could go over a cliff.

The White House was not persuaded by our argument that the public deserves to see them answer questions. Monday is a federal holiday, which means there could be four days in the…