Free Republic

The theme music from Harrison Ford's movie 'Air Force One' blared over loudspeakers in a rural Tennessee airport hangar, and minutes later a less presidential noise wafted over a hot mic. 'Get in the plane and go home. It's over there. Go home.' That was Donald Trump, the Republican presidential front-runner, telling his newest endorser Chris Christie in front of 12,000 people exactly where to go and how to get there. Christie had just sung The Donald's praises following the dramatic entrance of his plane in a stunt the campaign invented a month ago in Dubuque, Iowa. And more importantly,...

NEW YORK (AP) — Veteran ABC News reporter and "20/20" anchor Elizabeth Vargas is in treatment for alcohol dependency, the network said Wednesday. Vargas, who is 51 and married to singer-songwriter Marc Cohn, last appeared on ABC in October. The network confirmed a New York Daily News story that said she has been in a treatment facility for a few weeks and has a few weeks more to complete the program.

It was, at first, just a weird feeling. "An abstraction," Marc Cohn called it. "There was a sense of danger. Something was unstable where we were." Cohn, the Grammy-award winning musician, was heading back to the Monaco Hotel on 16th Street after he and his band had performed at the Denver Botanic Gardens on Aug. 7. It wasn't even midnight; far too early for things to feel so creepy. Then Cohn heard the footsteps, sprinting, coming on fast. Almost as soon as he'd registered the guy, Cohn saw the gun in his hand, and nothing was abstract anymore. Not the...

DENVER (Reuters) - Grammy-winning singer Marc Cohn was shot in the head during an attempted carjacking after a concert in Denver but survived with only minor injuries, police said on Monday. Cohn had just finished a performance on Sunday night when a man fleeing on foot from police tried to commandeer the van Cohn was riding in, Denver police spokesman Sonny Jackson said. When the van driver refused to stop, the suspect fired into the vehicle, striking Cohn in the head, although the bullet did not penetrate his skull. "The bullet hit Mr. Cohn flush in the temple," Jackson said....