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Shuttered by COVID-19 infections, the Republican-led Senate is refusing to delay confirmation of President Donald Trump’s pick for the Supreme Court. They are even willing to make special arrangements so sick senators can vote for Judge Amy Coney Barrett, and Democrats appear powerless to stop them. Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., said Monday that he’ll go to the Capitol “in a moon suit” to vote if he’s still testing positive for the coronavirus, which has killed more than 209,000 Americans and infected millions. The push to put conservative Judge Amy Coney Barrett on the high court before Nov. 3 is like...

CANADA: Gee…who could possibly hate dogs so much that they would scatter broken glass all over a dog park ? JULY 22, 2019 BY BARENAKEDISLAM Dog walkers say someone appears to be intentionally placing thousands of pieces of broken glass in the ground all around Dave Bartlett Park, an off-leash dog park in Manotick. CTV News via VladTepesBlog Dog walkers fear someone is deliberately trying to harm their dogs. “Nobody thinks this is an accident,” said Dana McPhail. “There was 50, 60 people here yesterday everybody was upset and everybody was saying somebody doesn’t want this dog park here; somebody...

There’s no denying the first half of 2017 would have been very different had Hillary Clinton defeated Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election. In her current St. Louis gallery exhibition, artist Bunny Burson remembers the future that very nearly was, creating an artwork using the iridescent confetti that was primed to go off on election night this past November 8, had the country elected its first woman president. A longtime Clinton devotee, Burson was the executive director of the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities under President Bill Clinton’s administration. In the aftermath of the 2016 election,...

Michael Barone, a senior political analyst for the Washington Examiner and co-author of the Almanac of American Politics, goes out on a limb and predicts victory for Mitt Romney – by a margin of nearly 100 electoral votes. Fundamentals usually prevail in American elections. That's bad news for Barack Obama. True, Americans want to think well of their presidents and many think it would be bad if Americans were perceived as rejecting the first black president.But it's also true that most voters oppose Obama's major policies and consider unsatisfactory the very sluggish economic recovery -- Friday's jobs report showed...

Back in October of 2000, in my first post on Free Republic, I coined the term "Broken Glass Republican" as an indication of my determination to vote against the Democrats for their mishandling of the USS Cole incident. The term was picked up by Byron York who got it from his sister, a FReeper, over dinner and published in National Review. Peggy Noonan then used it in her article The Meaning of the Vote Democracy is a blessing--especially for "Broken Glass Republicans". It was also used repeatedly by Rush on the air. Attaching "Broken Glass" to some group name has...

Where politics and politicians are concerned, I believe that cynicism should always be the order of the day. Politics is the world of the possible, not the best possible world. The way I see it, whoever runs against Hillary Clinton deserves to win. So far as I'm concerned, those Republicans who threaten to stay home on Election Day in 2008 if their personal favorite isn't the nominee, just so they can self-righteously claim they didn't violate their principles, are beneath contempt. Cutting off your nose to spite America is not commendable. It's my conviction that anyone who permits this country...

To still the siren of the heart and defer to the head is to seldom be wrongly led. So many wrong things feel so right. "You know, I really told my mother-in-law off the other day and, boy, did it feel good." Of course, what has changed? Your mother-in-law is still the nag she always was. One change, though, is that now your family politics has descended into the abyss. This occurs to me when I hear my political soul mates talk of sitting on their hands this election cycle. I hear pundits and plebeians both make pronouncements about how...

Dear Media Outlets, Democrat Party, Code Pink and other Assorted Bastions of Liberal Nonsense, Just for your information: You can parade out any number of accusations against Republicans, Conservatives and/or Christians; you can lie about the War in Iraq; you can put your crappy, empty-headed “experts” on the News shows; you can bring out Michael J. Fox and try to make me feel sorry for him; you can pretend that John “Carry” actually has a brain in his arrogant, wussified, traitorous head, you can send a blizzard to the Midwest, you can accuse MY President of all sorts missteps, BUT...

I almost hate to write this and tip them off, all those media pundits and democrat sympathizers who preach how bad America is under W and how the GOP is going to loose both houses, etc., etc., etc., like the king saysThere are million of folks just like me: turned off by the screaming head shows, all BS all the time media news, newspapers, etal.....who are going to show up and vote the GOP party lineWe don't like liars, we don't like movies about killing our President, and we don't like former presidents who can't keep their pants on or...

Michael Kinsley exists in a liberal echo-chamber. He was unaware of the following meme- Bush has led us to liberate Iraq because democratizing Iraq will change the culture of the middle-east- and that is necessary in order to end Islamist fascism- and that is necessary in order to end Islamist terrorism against the U.S. -until Bush spelled it out for him in his 2/2/05 SOTU speech. Whether one agrees with that meme or not, Kinsley has no excuse for not being aware of it. It was common in conservative circles, and it was used almost every time a liberal told...

Debbie Dupeire was so intent on helping to re-elect the president Tuesday that she shucked her Bush-Cheney T-shirt and voted in her bra after being told that state election law prohibits displaying a candidate's name in a polling place.

It's the Party, stupid! Pundits are twisting themselves into knots trying to explain this election. Apparently, Karl Rove's Darth Vaderness convinced millions of evangelical Christians to vote against the gays. Humbug! Balderdash! Tommyrot! Poppycock! This election was the year of the Yellow Dog Republican. I'm a Yellow Dog Republican. If the Republicans put up a mangy yellow dog for president, I'd vote for it. In fact, I'd prefer a dog to a human being because Congressional Republicans would have more control over the dog. There are now tens of millions of voters like me. Don't believe it? Consider the beating...

Way to go broken glass republicans... We surprised everyone by exceeding the democrat GOTV effort! This is a major story to be covered by media for weeks I believe.

When George Bush makes his last speech at his last rally today, there will be nothing left for him to do but go home to Texas and hand over the final task in the effort to get him re-elected to a brigade of passionate enthusiasts like Dorothy Niklos. Ms Niklos is a Bush lieutenant in the campaign's ground war - the election-day struggle to turn out the vote. And in an evenly-split state like Pennsylvania, where just about everyone has seen all the political advertising they can stand, and all but the pathologically indecisive have made up their minds long...

Freepers...Can anyone tell me who originated the term "Broken Glass Republicans"? Was it coined by a single person of repute? or was it the type of line that just grew one day on the political talk shows? This is a serious question, and I could'nt think of a better place to ask. A refrence would be helpful (link to source) When you "google" this, you get over 30,000 hits. A long night is in store for me, unless... Thanks folks!

A would-be burglar died early today after breaking into a Sandy Springs house by jumping head-first through a front window."This is a weird one, I must admit," said a puzzled Fulton County police major, Wenda Phifer. "Jumping through glass to get into, not out of some place...I don't know."The mortally injured suspect attempted to struggle with officers, who dragged him out from under a bed before he collapsed from loss of blood, Phifer said. The 35-year-old man, more than 6 feet tall and 250 pounds, with brown hair and green eyes, died at Northside Hospital."He must have cut a main...

Time to play: Dress Up Janeane Garofalo! Suggest a t-shirt for Janeane to wear out on the town tonight! (That's right, these are only my suggestions! I'm looking for yours!)