Last night, former V.P. Dick Chen*y spoke with CNN’s Erin Burnett about Newt Gingrich: . . . former Vice President Dick Cheney said he knew Gingrich well and had positive reviews of his political...
Newt’s claim a few days ago that “Palestinians are an invented people” has caused a bit of a furor, on all sides. The Perfesser was attacked roundly for it by Mitt Romney at last...
Paul Ryan has lately taken to defending his plan to, for all intents and purposes, end Medicare. (The article link explains it well.) Last night, Rachel Maddow discussed this in some detail. I agree with...
Newt’s marital high jinx have long fascinated us. Not the divorces as divorces, marriage is complicated, divorce is common. Common as well is the way in which Newt went about those divorces via consistent and...
The news yesterday from the Republican Jewish Coalition’s D.C. forum centered on the GOP’s presidential front runner, Newt Gingrich. Aside from all the candidates’ craven posturing and promising things they know they could not or...
MSNBC just reported: Update, 1:30 p.m. ET: Judge sentences ousted Ill. Gov. Rod Blagojevich to 14 years in prison for corruption. And here’s one of the many reasons why from the time he was...
Yesterday, President Obama delivered a major speech in Kansas, in the same city, Osawatomie, where, on August 31, 1910, “Colonel” Teddy Roosevelt gave his now immortal New Nationalism speech as part of the dedication of the John...
CNN headlined President Obama’s speech from Osawatomie, Kansas Obama channels Roosevelt’s ‘New Nationalism’, referring to “Colonel” Teddy Roosevelt’s 1910 speech, also delivered in Osawatomie, during the opening ceremonies for the John Brown Memorial Park which...
Senator John Kyl (R-AZ), who adamantly opposes tax hikes, has found one he really wants to help inflate. How? By not extending the 2011 payroll tax holiday, he – and the GOP – would raise the...
