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Former House Speaker Gingrich sets Ohio town hall

Former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich has scheduled the first of a planned series of town halls on jobs for Cincinnati next week.

Topless club owner: Gingrich group rescinded award

Newt Gingrich's conservative group gave — and then rescinded — a business award to a popular topless club in Texas, the proprietor said Thursday.

Gingrich: Hard to tell how Sotomayor will vote

Former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich said Friday it's difficult to tell what kind of justice U.S. Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor would become, calling her testimony this week "dramatically more moderate" than some of her recent remarks.

Gingrich sees no harm in Palin's use of his words

Newt Gingrich takes no issue with Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin for using his words in a speech she gave last week. In fact, he'd be happy if more Republicans espoused his ideas, a spokesman for the former House speaker said Monday.

Palin's lawyer says proper credit given in speech

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has been accused of paraphrasing at length from an article co-written by Newt Gingrich when she gave a speech, but her lawyer says proper credit was given to the former House speaker.

Gingrich: A president alone can't make big change

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich says it will take more than a president alone to achieve the change needed for the U.S. to compete with China and India.

Clarification: Gingrich v Gore story

In a story April 25, The Associated Press reported that former Vice President Al Gore compared Rep. Joe Barton, R-Texas, and convicted swindler Bernard Madoff during a Capitol Hill hearing on global warming legislation.

Gore-Gingrich: Two longtime rivals face off again

Al Gore paused during his descent from atop the Capitol steps on his way to spar with an old rival, Newt Gingrich. Grinning as he glided toward a former aide he had spotted, Gore joked, "Just like old times."

Gingrich raps Obama on Chavez summit greeting

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich charged Monday that President Barack Obama's cordial greeting with Venezuela's Hugo Chavez sends a poor message to enemies of America.

Gingrich: Iowa ruling shows `judicial arrogance'

Former Republican House Speaker Newt Gingrich said Tuesday that a recent Iowa Supreme Court decision to legalize gay marriage was "outrageously wrong," but called a legislative override that made it legal in Vermont "healthier."

Gingrich: `Not particularly' want to run in 2012

A new president is not yet two months into his term and already there's talk about who might run for the job in 2012.

Gingrich raps Obama for 'big-government' budget

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich is labeling President Barack Obama's $3.6 trillion budget plan a "higher-tax, weaker-economy, fewer-jobs" blueprint that should trigger the most crucial policy debate since 1980.

Gingrich Says No to White House Bid

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich will not run for president in 2008 after determining he could not legally explore a bid and remain as head of his tax-exempt political organization, a spokesman said Saturday.

Gingrich: Skipping Black Forum a Mistake

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said Tuesday that top tier Republican presidential candidates are making a mistake by skipping a forum focused on issues of importance to black voters.

Gingrich Wants $30 Million to Run

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich says he still might run for president if supporters will pledge $30 million by November.

Gingrich Forecasts GOP Losses in 2008

Republican Newt Gingrich, in a jab at President Bush, warned on Friday that the GOP will lose the White House and Congress in 2008 if the nominee is perceived as a continuation of the Bush presidency.

Gingrich: 4-1 Odds Against GOP Bid

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich gives himself 4-to-1 odds against running for president, an assessment that conflicts with his recent pronouncements about seeking the Republican nomination.

Gingrich Slams Current Election Politics

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich says the 2008 White House candidates are "demeaning the presidency" by focusing on the race rather than ideas.

Kerry, Gingrich Debate Global Warming

Climate change is heating the earth and also warming relations between Democrat John Kerry and Republican Newt Gingrich.

Gingrich Seeks Candidate With Solutions

Newt Gingrich wants somebody running for president — maybe himself — to embrace his solutions to the nation's problems.

Gingrich Clarifies 'Ghetto' Word Choice

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, who is mulling a presidential bid, said his "word choice was poor" when he equated bilingual education with "the language of living in a ghetto."

Gingrich Decries Bilingual Education

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich equated bilingual education Saturday with "the language of living in a ghetto" and mocked requirements that ballots be printed in multiple languages.

Falwell Invites Gingrich to Give Address

Newt Gingrich's admission of an extramarital affair as he pursued President Clinton's impeachment in the Monica Lewinsky scandal has won praise from another conservative Christian leader: the Rev. Jerry Falwell.

Gingrich Admits to Extramarital Affair

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich acknowledged he was having an extramarital affair even as he led the charge against President Clinton over the Monica Lewinsky affair, he acknowledged in an interview with a conservative Christian group.

Gingrich: Dems' Sex Scandals Are Worse

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said Wednesday that Democratic sex scandals have been far worse than the suggestive Internet messages sent to teenage congressional pages by former Rep. Mark Foley.

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US Foreign Policy: Obama's Nice Guy Act Gets Him Nowhere on the World Stage - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - International
Source: SPIEGEL ONLINE

Obama's advisors fear a comparison with former Democratic President Jimmy Carter, even more than with Bush. Prominent Republicans have already tried to liken Obama to the humanitarian from Georgia, who lost in his bid to win a second term, because voters felt that he was too soft.

Newt Gingrich wants to have cake and eat it too !

Today's ticker brought an interesting story across, Quote "Some consider President Obama's refusal to attend the commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall in Germany next week an outrage, I consider it a tragedy." Considering that only a month ago Repub …

The Anti-Reason Conservatives
Source: RightWing NutHouse

What is it that possesses certain conservatives to fool themselves so spectacularly into believing that they can create a majority out of a minority?

NY: GOP Falls to the Ultra-con Fundamentalist National Arm of the Paliban – Breaking News
Source: The New York Times

Dede Scozzafava, a moderate Republican candidate for an open Congressional seat in upstate New York, unexpectedly withdrew from the race on Saturday — just days before the election. Ms.

Morning Fix: NY-23 as 2012 litmus test?
Source: The Washington Post

The Iowa caucuses may be more than two years from now but a series of moves by potential Republican presidential contenders has turned a special election in New York's 23rd district into an early test of conservative bona fides.

Newt Gingrich Says He May Run for President in 2012
Source: Politics Daily

C-SPAN: "If you were to run, what factors would you take into account? What would lead you to think about running?"

Media conservatives baselessly declare poll finding majority support for public option "fraudulent," "rigged"
Source: Media Matters for America

" Numerous conservative media figures have attacked a recently released ABC News/Washington Post poll that found that 57 percent of respondents supported "having the government create a new health insurance plan to compete with private health insurance plans," "

Religion and Patriotism: America's Political Prostitutes

Religion and patriotism are without a doubt two of the most fiercely debated and defended topics in this country.

Stupidity and Hypocrisy Bedevil our Politics
Source: BuzzFlash.org - Progressive News and Commentary with an Attitude | Fight Ignorance: Read BuzzFlash

At some point during the trickle-down years portions of the electorate, preoccupied with abortion and gay marriage, seemingly failed to grasp the fact of stagnant wages and the huge transfer of wealth and control of capital that had become concentrated in fewer and fewer hands.

Look Who's Mr. Bilingual
Source: Political Animal

Two articles: Look Who's Mr. Bilingual Newt Gingrich apparently assumes Latino communities have very short memories.

Ironic, no?

STAT OF THE DAY: From an NPR report by Peter Overby: 'And of the 100 congressional districts with the highest uninsured rates, 53 are represented either by Republican lawmakers - who are fighting the Obama administration's attempt to overhaul the health care system - or by Blue D …

Inside the Beltway - Washington Times
Source: The Washington Times

Do darn early for a 2012 presidential poll? No way, says the GOP.

Newsmax Magazine: Obama Is Becoming America's 'Controller in Chief'
Source: NewsMax

An advertisement, but interesting: Newt Gingrich tells Newsmax that President Obama's policies comprise an "amazing level of intervention" by a sitting U.S. president.

GOP once embraced what it now condemns
Source: Atlanta Journal-Constitution

One might dispute placing this in the "odd news" category since it seems a purely political opinion piece. GA GOP legislators championed health care legislation for GA that included components they decry in the Democratic proposals now being discussed at the national level.

Democrats Are Not The Real Threat To Medicare
Source: The New Republic

Republicans have a message for America's senior citizens: President Barack Obama and the Democrats want to take away your health care. And if the polls are right, America's seniors believe it.

Obama's big scary education speech, and other fairy tales: President ends up with bipartisan praise for back-to-school address
Source: The L.A. Times

Two articles: President Obama and the big scary education speech - and other fairy tales How about that Marxist/socialist/fascist/radical/mind-control speech President Obama delivered to those defenseless schoolkids, huh?

Three Reasons Why Government Can't Run Health Care
Source: mynewt.org

Facta, non verba. For those of you who have forgotten your Latin, it means "deeds, not words."

History's first draft: Newt Gingrich but no liberals
Source: The Houston Chronicle

Texas high school students would learn about such significant individuals and milestones of conservative politics as Newt Gingrich and the rise of the Moral Majority — but nothing about liberals — under the first draft of new standards for public school history textbooks.

Gringrich finds Healthcare Proposals Imposing
Source: The L.A. Times

The former Congressman presents the case that the current health care reform proposals in congress impose on the American Citizen at an unacceptable level. [see Stanford Medical School Dean response]

Poll shows that 63% of all Americans with a favorable opinion of Sarah Palin are birthers.
Source: Public Policy Polling

We decided to break down the birthers by their opinions of Barack Obama and the various leading 2012 contenders. Here's what we found: -Not surprisingly only 16% of them approve of Obama's job performance while 75% disapprove.

Texas to revise history textbooks: liberals out, Limbaugh and Gingrich in.
Source: Think Progress

excerpt: ""The Texas State Board of Education review committee is preparing to vote on a draft of proposed standards for history textbooks. Noting that the draft has "nothing about liberals," the Houston Chronicle reported. ""

GOP frontrunners, anyone?

I would ask that you vote, and justify your position. Observe the Code of Honor, and remain civil.

Health Care Rx: Across the Country, Some Systems Are Getting It Right - Newt Gingrich
Source: The Washington Post

Newt.... He was for a "Death Panel" before he was against them.

Newt Gingrich Offers Irrefutable Proof That Health Care Reform Will Lead to Euthanasia
Source: Firedoglake

Newt proves that health care reform is out to kill all us old farts.

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