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Fox News’ interview with former President Donald Trump on Monday became tense after host Bret Baier told Trump, “But you lost the 2020 election.” After Trump was asked how would win back the independent, suburban women voters who were a “hard no” in supporting him despite disapproving of President Joe Biden, Trump said, “First of all, I won in 2020 by a lot, ok? Let’s get that straight. I won in 2020.” “That’s not what the votes show,” Baier shot back. Trump insisted, “You take a look at Truth the Vote, where they have people stuffing the ballot boxes on...

Failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton continued questioning the result of the 2016 election, voicing her concerns in an interview with the Atlantic published on Friday. “No, there was a widespread understanding that this election [in 2016] was not on the level,” she said in an interview with Edward Issac-Dovere about her spectacular loss to President Donald Trump. “We still don’t know what really happened. I mean, there’s just a lot that I think will be revealed. History will discover.”

That didn't take long. A former Obama adviser set the stage for a potentially nasty confirmation fight in the Senate next year within an hour of the Supreme Court announcing Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg recently completed three weeks of radiation treatment after doctors found a localized cancerous tumor on her pancreas. * * * Ginsburg, who is 86, has battled various illnesses over the last 20 years. The Supreme Court said in a statement Friday that she “tolerated the treatment well" and concluded that there is no evidence of disease elsewhere in her body.

When it comes to presidential obstruction, at least Watergate started with a crime. A stupid crime, but a crime. After 675 days, more than 2,800 subpoenas, nearly 500 search warrants, $30 million spent, endless jaw-jaw on cable and countless whiny Trump tweets, we have come down to one fundamental truth. And it’s the same truth that has been terrorising us all along: Donald Trump’s dirtbag machinations are driven by insane vanity. The First Narcissist’s all-consuming blend of braggadocio and insecurity has turned Washington and its rickety institutions into a dystopian outpost of his id. President Trump obstructed on nearly every...

President Trump’s joke about Michael Dukakis tanked with the former Democratic presidential nominee. Dukakis, who ran against George H.W. Bush, wasn’t happy about Trump mocking him for donning a helmet and riding in a tank during the 1988 campaign. “I want to get into them but then I remember when a man named Dukakis got into a tank,” Trump said to laughter Wednesday during a visit to a tank factory in Lima, Ohio. “The helmet was bigger than he was. That was not good.”

Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer pleaded with Republican Senators on Monday to defeat President Trump’s nominee to a North Carolina judgeship, saying Thomas Alvin Farr has shown he doesn’t respect black voters’ rights. Mr. Schumer said all 49 Democrats will vote against Mr. Farr, as will one Republican, Sen. Jeff Flake. If they can sway another GOP senator, they could defeat the nomination, dealing a blow to Mr. Trump. “This is a man who stands for disenfranchisement of voters, particularly minority voters, that is what he stands for. You can try to parse it any way you want, but that...

Christine Braley Ford is already pushing for removal of the one-week time limit senators agreed to Friday on a new FBI investigation of her allegation that Judge Brett Kavanaugh sexually molested her 36 years ago at a high school party. Ford “welcomes this step in the process,” her attorney, Debra Katz, said in a statement. Katz added that Ford “no artificial limits as to time or scope should be imposed on this investigation.” If Ford refuses to change her position, it could blow up an informal deal worked out between Republicans and Democrats on the Senate Committee on the Judiciary...

Failed Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore is raising money to pay legal bills stemming from a lawsuit by a woman who accused him of sexual misconduct. The Moore campaign sent a fundraising email to supporters Wednesday asking for donations to pay his legal expenses related to a suit filed earlier this month by Leigh Corfman.

Over the last few months, celebrations for Abraham Lincoln's 200th birthday have drawn attention to the Kentucky native's life and his legacy as president. But the 200-year anniversary of another Kentucky president's birth, Confederate President Jefferson Davis, is receiving mixed reviews. "I'll say it this way - winners write history," said Ron Bryant, a Lexington historian writing a book on Davis. "We need heroes, we need villains. Lincoln became a hero and Davis a villain." Davis was born in what is now Todd County, Ky., in 1808, one year before Lincoln. Davis served as the only president of the 11...

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Copperhead Chronicle Al Benson, Jr. Articles Guess What Folks--Secesson Wasn't Treason by Al Benson Jr. More and more of late I have been reading articles dealing with certain black racist groups that claim to have the best interests of average black folks at heart (they really don't). It seems these organizations can't take time to address the problems of black crime in the black community or of single-parent families in the black community in any meaningful way. It's much more lucrative for them (and it gets more press coverage) if they spend their time and resources attacking Confederate...

Dems should be attacking this left, right, and any other direction....Blackwell should be forced to step down immediately before he rigs his own victory http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/06/30/opinion/main1769295.shtml http://toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060616/NEWS09/606160338 http://toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060606/NEWS09/606060378 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4604904 = good audio on NPR on Voting Rights Act Side Note: Why does this have to be renewed? Shouldn't this be permanent by now?

A continuation of the former thread that shows the reaction being put into the Comments by individuals to the Tax Panel. The former thread is here: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1501413/posts?page=1 ... and you can see that the more recent comments just continue the unrelenting complaints to the Panel as well as the grassreoots swelling voice for the FairTax. Once more these comments have been neither selected nor edited. This is America speaking and it's going to continue ...

Enough is Enough    The Beginning      As the years go by and the costs rise, it becomes evident that the "American System" has failed. For 80 years America operated by a system of checks and balances the most powerful of these were the American people. A people who knew that government was at their service, they were the masters not the other way around. The a war happend, a war so terrible that nearly a million American died, The War of Northern Agression. In this war government took its first stab at controling liberties and citisens by force...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - In most museums, Abraham Lincoln is discussed in hushed voices and illustrated with sepia-toned photos and marble statues that give him a saintly air. The new Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum doesn't buy into that reverence — it brings Lincoln to life with booming cannons, holographic ghosts and latex statues so lifelike the arms have freckles. It shakes visitors up and shows them all sides of the former president. The Lincoln presented here is not the one-dimensional man most museumgoers know from the materials at the National Park Service, the National Archives or the Smithsonian Institution....

January 12, 2005 Petition to Recall Sam Reed, Washington State Secretary of State In accordance with RCW 29A.56.110, Initiating proceedings -- Statement -- Contents -- Verification - Definitions, the undersigned legal registered voters of the state of Washington demand the recall and discharge of Sam Reed, Washington State Secretary of State, under the provisions of sections 33 and 34 of Article 1 of the Constitution. We, the undersigned citizens and registered voters in the state of Washington charge Sam Reed, of the herein stated acts of malfeasance, and acts of misfeasance while in office, and violating his oath of office,...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. -- From a renamed "Confederate Boulevard" in Arkansas to the shrunken "Heart of Dixie" on Alabama's license plates, some in the South are erasing memories of their Civil War pasts with the hope of enticing investment. "Business people and tourists don't know what to think about slavery, elitism, the Civil War," says Ted Ownby of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi. "So one way is to give them an easy out. We'll change the name of this building, this street, change this display." Over the last few years, more and...

Outside the usual blessings of family and friends, Dino Rossi and Christine Gregoire have less to be thankful for today than they may have hoped. Rossi came out on top in Wednesday's recount by 42 votes. It was a victory, but clearly too thin to dissuade Democrats from demanding -- and paying for -- a hand recount. The voters deserve the most decisive determination possible. Considering all the irregularities associated with the election, 42 votes are not enough to settle this yet. Democrats may well call not for a hand recount statewide, but only for select counties, those in which...

The Hunley Burial This site does not engage in rebel flag waving nor does it have any intention of refighting the Civil War. That being said, we have the utmost respect for the men, women (yes, there were) and children who stood up for their right to freely exit a union they freely entered. This past weekend, the crew members of The Hunley, the first submarine to ever successfully sink an enemy ship were laid to rest in Charleston, SC. Fourteen governers from the south were invited to attend. A grand total of zero showed up. While some cited scheduling...