Free Republic

When Hillary Clinton issued a sweeping call for expanding and protecting voting rights, and called out Wisconsin and other states for passing discriminatory laws, Governor Scott Walker responded by blasting her views as “extreme” and “far outside the mainstream.” He defended his own record of cutting early voting days and implementing a strict voter ID law, saying these changes “make it easier to vote and harder to cheat.” But at a workshop held in Milwaukee in early June, state government employees struggled to explain the byzantine voting restrictions to a crowd of poll workers and community activists. Under Wisconsin’s voter...

O.J. Simpson's former sister-in-law, Denise Brown, has accused News Corp. of trying to buy the silence of her family and that of Ronald Goldman with "hush money" before Simpson's book and TV deal fell through this week. "They wanted to offer us millions of dollars. Millions of dollars for, like, 'Oh, I'm sorry' money. But they were still going to air the show," Brown told NBC's Today show on Tuesday. "We just thought, 'Oh my god.' What they're trying to do is trying to keep us quiet, trying to make this like hush money, trying to go around the civil...

DENISE "Danny" Brown had an edge of anger in her voice. "I'm fighting for these kids, you have to understand," she said on the telephone from the California house owned by her father, Lou Brown. I had only caught the angry tone previously when she talked about O.J. Simpson, who everyone in this world believes was the man who almost beheaded her sister Nicole and slashed her friend Ronald Goldman to death. But she was angry with me now because she thought I was trying to dig up something on her niece, Sydney Simpson. Nothing could be further from...