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A cancer diagnosis can strain any relationship. But when a woman gets news of a life-threatening illness, her husband is six times more likely to leave her than if the tables were turned and the man got the bad news, according to new research. The study included diagnoses of both cancer and multiple sclerosis and found an overall divorce rate of nearly 12 percent, which is similar to that found in the normal population. But when the researchers looked at gender differences, they found the rate was nearly 21 percent when women were the patients compared with about 3 percent...

Here is video of Newt Gingrich on Sean Hannity's show "explaining" why he endorsed Scozzafava and saying that he "deeply regrets" she was chosen by the 11 local county chairs. When asked what he would say to Conservatives that are angry at him Newt answered "they have every right to be angry, I don't blame them," he went on to say "I think she was the wrong nominee and I think it was a terrible position." (Video)

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Republican Dede Scozzafava endorsed her former Democratic opponent Sunday in the race for an upstate New York congressional seat, one day after Scozzafava dropped out of the contest. Scozzafava dropped out after Conservative Party candidate Dough Hoffman experienced a late-in-the-game surge. But on Sunday, Scozzafava backed Democrat Bill Owens -- the announcement was made in a statement send out by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. "I am supporting Bill Owens for Congress and urge you to do the same," she said. "In Bill Owens, I see a sense of duty and integrity that will guide him beyond political partisanship. He...

Sarah Palin, the only person with the clout to be able to address the entire nation via a Facebook entry, has done so again. Palin wants our nation to unite.

Return to the Article November 01, 2009Sarah Palin and Newt Gingrich: The Visionary and the HackBy Claude Sandroff Two weeks after Sarah Palin's unique exit from public office, Newt Gingrich offered up some unsolicited counsel for the former governor in an interview with POLITICO. Apparently, Newt was certain that Palin's reputation needed serious burnishing, and he was all too ready to provide it by offering substantial details on the range and style of speeches that would be most appropriate for Palin to deliver to various audiences in order to sustain a public revival.  Exactly why he felt she needed...

National Right to Work President Mark Mix is calling on Newt Gingrich to rescind his endorsement of Dede Scozzafava, the liberal candidate chosen by New York's GOP powermen for the special election for the 23rd District Congressional seat. The reason? Scozzafava is a supporter of the Employee Free Choice Act and Newt has said he isn't. Liberal Republican Scozzafava has announced her support of the EFCA and its card check feature, a bill that will give unions a free hand to intimidate workers during the election period for voting on union representation. On the other hand, Newt Gingrich is in...

WASHINGTON (CNN)– Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, who came under fire from some conservatives for endorsing Dede Scozzafava in next week's special Congressional election in New York, is now backing Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman.

ALBANY—Former House speaker Newt Gingrich never mentioned Doug Hoffman's name during a radio appearance this morning, but had a clear message for Republicans in the 23rd Congressional District: "The vote you're going to cast for a third-party candidate is going to guarantee the election of a Democrat. If you think that adding another vote to Nancy Pelosi's majority is a good idea, that keeping Nancy Pelosi as speaker is a good idea, then it's fine. But don't kid yourself.""John McHugh is a moderate Republican, he's held the seat for a very long time, I think 20 years," Gingrich, who has...

I like Newt. I think he has played a vital role in the advancement of Conservatism, and continues to be a voice in the Republican Party and Conservative movement. I also am not upset that he sided with Dede Scozzafava in the election. We as Conservatives have to realize that there are differences of opinion on occasion at the best approach to the end result of achieving limited government. I think Newt is being short-sighted in this matter, as he does not see the buildup of frustration among Conservatives at the way the GOP has treated Conservatives. Had the NRSC...

Join us Wednesday, October 28th at 7:30 p.m. as Southeast Missouri State University and KMOX welcome Newt Gingrich and Governor Howard Dean for a discussion about health care today. Tickets are on sale now and are $8 for the general public. Tickets can be purchased at the Show Me Center Box Office and Ticketmaster outlets. Click here to purchase tickets online at Ticketmaster.com. Admission is free for university students, staff and faculty with Redhawks ID. NEWT GINGRICH is well-known as the architect of the “Contract with America” that led the Republican Party to a majority in the U.S. House for...

For her part in what has become a national race, and a referendum on not only Barack Obama, but the direction of the GOP, DeDe Scozzafava couldn’t be less of a sympathetic figure. To call Scozzafava a RINO, Republican In Name Only,.is to insult other RINOs. DeDe is so far to the left, that she has been endorsed by the ultra-leftist group, the Daily Kos, over the democrat in the race! Scozzafava is a darling of ACORN, supports card check, ObamaCare, all of the spending, and is married to a union leader. According to one ratings group, Scozzafava, a state...

We’ve written about the hotly contested Congressional race in New York’s 23rd district, in which many high-profile Republicans are endorsing the third party candidate over the Republican choice. The most high-profile Republican endorsing the GOP choice, Dede Scozzafava, is Newt Gingrich, and he defended his decision On the Record with Greta Van Susteren last night. Here’s how Van Susteren introduced the issue on Fox News last night: “You’re getting heat from Glenn Beck and others because you have endorsed the Republican candidate,” she said, before moving away from colleagues and citing Sarah Palin, Gov. Tim Pawlenty and other political figures....

Last night on Fox News, Greta Van Susteren interviewed Newt Gingrich regarding his support of Dede Scozzafava over Doug Hoffman in the NY-23 congressional race. Defending party over principles, Newt proclaimed his continued support of pro-abortion, pro-Stimulus, Daily Kos candidate Scozzafava. He also scolded national conservatives and attacked conservative independent candidate Doug Hoffman. Video: Newt Gingrich Defends Voting Party of Principles

There are times when one must recognize that a special situation has appeared, and your instincts and the rules-of-thumb you usually follow must be thrown out the window. That is the situation confronting me with regard to the special election in upstate New York to elect a new Congressman. I favor conservative candidates, but I have always felt that once the primary is over, a Republican should support the Party’s candidate. That’s what Democrats do, and it is a major factor in their successes. This is why I supported Sen. John McCain in the last election even though I had...

Chris Cillizza at the Washington Post has written a story in his Morning Fix political news analysis that is sure to cause conniption fits over at the Daily Kos which endorsed "Republican" Dede Scozzafava in the New York 23rd CD race that has now grabbed the attention of the political world. The political news that Cillizza has reported looks great for Conservative Doug Hoffman, bad for Scozzafava, and very depressing for the Daily Kos (and Newt Gingrich): The Iowa caucuses may be more than two years from now but a series of moves by potential Republican presidential contenders has turned...

Beware Rinos, Says Sarah Palin GOP Comes Unglued in New York bythelastcrusade.org “If you want to have a conservative majority in Washington, part of that majority's going to make you uncomfortable." So says former House Speaker Newt Gingrich defending his decision to endorse an ultra liberal Republican candidate in the special election for New York's 23rd Congressional District even though she is a Margaret Sanger Award winner, who supports same-sex marriage, abortion-on-demand, and the Obama stimulus programs. Republican candidate DeDe Scozzafava has received not only the backing of Planned Parenthood and The Daily Kos, but her campaign has also...

Conservatives have been a little concerned behind the scenes about 2012. There are many stars on the right wanting to run, but many of them were going to be overshadowed by Newt Gingrich. He has, deservedly or not, taken the mantle of conservative thinker and run with it. Today though, Gingrich decided to give up the mantle of conservative thinker and pick up the mantle of political opportunist. Those of us who already had a sick feeling as we thought about his personal baggage being trotted out by the left no longer have to worry. Today Newt Gingrich endorses Dede...

Newt Gingrich came to town yesterday. In the morning, he spoke to a breakfast gathering in Boston hosted by Catholic Citizenship; in the evening, he was at Harvard to speak at the Kennedy School. Gingrich, of course, is an interesting figure for a lot of reasons; I wanted to talk with him about his recent conversion to Catholicism, and the film he is now making about Pope John Paul II's 1979 visit to Poland. The interview was pretty limited -- I had seven minutes with him at the venerable Union Club on Beacon Hill -- but here's what he had...

Here is video of Sean Hannity talking with former House Speaker Newt Gingrich tonight about the reported anger President Obama's White House has toward Gen. Stanley McChrystal. McChrystal made remarks in London last week that made it clear he does not agree with Vice-President Biden's suggested Afghanistan strategy that would focus on hunting Al-Qaeda and reducing U.S. presence in the country, essentially leaving Afghanistan to the Taliban. It was after those remarks by McChrystal that he was summoned to meet with Obama in Copenhagen last Friday. Gingrich also talked with Hannity about the Health Care Bill, which Gingrich says in...

“Using the budget reconciliation process to pass health reform and climate change legislation…would violate the intent and spirit of the budget process, and do serious injury to the constitutional role of the Senate.” These are not the words of a Republican or a conservative activist. This is a warning issued on April 2 of this year from the former Democratic Majority Leader in the Senate, Robert C. Byrd (D-W.Va.). He was referring to a dangerous assault on American freedom as it is protected by the constitutional balance of power -- an assault that is being considered by the Obama Administration...

Here is video of former House Speaker Newt Gingrich talking with Bill O'Reilly about the amazing double-standard that exists in the media about what is "rude" in political discourse. Gingrich pointed out that when Democrats booed President Bush in 2005, the media did not think that was "rude." When former Democrat House Speaker Tip O'Neill called President Ronald Reagan "cold," with "ice water in his veins," no one in the media was outraged. But the mantra right now in the media is about how "rude" and "hateful" conservatives are because they oppose the policies of President Obama. Newt is right...

Here is video of former House Speaker Newt Gingrich on with Sean Hannity tonight, where he blasted former President Jimmy Carter for saying in an interview today that most opposition to President Obama is because "he is a black man." Gingrich said it is "destructive for America to suggest you cannot criticize the President without it being a racial act." Gingrich made an outstanding point by saying liberals can't believe anyone honestly disagrees with you - it's a sort of a "secular religion" - so you assume there is some kind of deeper motivation. They just won't accept that there...

While the Obama-loving media jumped all over Rep. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.) for shouting "You lie" during the President's healthcare address Wednesday, few so-called journalists bothered to report what made the Congressman and others present so angry. On Sunday's "Meet the Press," former House Speaker Newt Gingrich did. After host David Gregory asked Gingrich whether Obama was acting like a president or a partisan Wednesday evening, the Speaker marvelously responded (video embedded below the fold, relevant section at 1:00): I can go through the president's speech and find a lot of things that I like. Then I go to the House...

Here is video of Newt Gingrich on Meet the Press today talking about President Obama's pledge not to add one dime to the deficit with his Health Care legislation. Gingrich said Obama is going to take $200 billion away from Medicare Advantage in order to try and pay for his plan. But Gingrich said American know instinctively that you cannot undertake a massive Government Program like Obama is suggesting without ballooning the deficit, or without "massive tax increases," which would further deepen the recession. Gingrich is right on the mark here. Republicans need to keep hammering on how Obama can...

Speaker Gingrich provides us with an excellent litmus test to see how well Obama has been listening to the American people. Check it out: Grading The Big Health Care Speech 84rules September 9, 2009

President of the John Birch Society, John. F. McManus gives a damning presentation in 1996 on the real Newt Gingrich, who at the time was Speaker of Congress. Here's an excerpt: 'In addition to Gingrich's disdain for the constitution he has managed to acquire a reputation as a brash, unfeeling and arrogant know it all. His negative rating among the American peoeple is higher than Bill Clinton's. Democratic candidates from coast to coast are looking forward to tying their Republican opponents to the controversy surrounding the Speaker, controversy that has been created by the speaker himself. A very astute observer...

Staying on Budget by: Brittany Fortier, August 24, 2009 Many Americans are expressing concerns about deficit spending in Washington, and the call for the government to reform its wasteful ways is being heard at town halls all over the nation. Newt Gingrich, Former Speaker of the House and author of the book Real Change, discussed his “new model” for America’s budgetary process at the American Enterprise Institute on August 13, 2009. Gingrich disagrees with politicians who think our budgetary problems are merely “transitory.” “I think 2009 is different,” Gingrich said. “I think we have entered into a different world. I...

Visitors to the Basilica of the National Shrine in northeast Washington often do a double take when they see Newt Gingrich and his familiar shock of white hair slip into a pew for the noon Mass on Sundays. The former Speaker of the House is known for many things, but religious zeal is not one of them. In fact, the social conservatives who fueled his Republican revolution in 1994 often complained about Gingrich's lack of interest in issues like abortion or school prayer. This past spring, however, after several decades as a nominal Southern Baptist, Gingrich converted to Catholicism. With...

There is a political energy in America now, reminiscent of the 2007 immigration debate that Republicans could capture and turn to their advantage next year. It could become a revival of the “Reagan Democrats” -- moderate Democrats and independents who vote for Republicans when they believe they are being betrayed by liberal Democrats. In 2007, Americans were told that there was a crisis in illegal immigration. There was, and still is. But they spoke out in huge numbers against the McCain-Bush-Kennedy “comprehensive” immigration amnesty bill because it did too much, most of it wrong. The sheer number of those vehemently...

When Sarah Palin said that the emerging healthcare reform legislation would lead to "death panels" and government rationing of care, her language was explosive, but her premise about rationing was not.

In interview with Politico, by Jeanne Cummins, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich offers Governor Palin 6 Steps to keeping her presidential options open: 1. Write a book. Palin is already set to do that, which Gingrich applauds. A book, he said, helps a politician lay out his or her philosophy and experiences in their own unhurried words. It also helps score TV time, which in turn helps sell books, he added. 2. Land a regular commentator slot on television. It’s a sure way for an outsider to stay inside the national dialogue and in touch with the incumbents, activists and...

If Sarah Palin wants to make a 2012 political comeback, she’ll need three types of speeches, some serious television face time, a credible organization and a bucket load of sheer determination. ...SNIP... That’s some of the advice former House Speaker Newt Gingrich offered when POLITICO asked him what Palin needs to do to keep her presidential options open. ..SNIP.. 1. Write a book. Palin is already set to do that, which Gingrich applauds. A book, he said, helps a politician lay out his or her philosophy and experiences in their own unhurried words. It also helps score TV time, which...

Here is video of former House Speaker Newt Gingrich last night talking with Bill O'Reilly about the state of the Obama Administration right now and how the Republican Party is dealing with the current political situation. Gingrich says he thinks the Obama Administration will probably try to "ram through" his Government Health Care Bill, unless the Democrats in Congress come back from the recess and simply tell him they cannot win. Gingrich says the Republicans should be ready to offer a "bold alternative" to the Democrats' plan when they come back from the recess. He thinks Mike Enzi could be...

ABC News: Newt Gingrich and Howard Dean went at it on health care this morning on This Week. Especially over Sarah Palin's claim that Obama's health care plan will create "death panels" that would encourage euthanasia. “Communal standards historically is a very dangerous concept,” Gingrich told me. “You are asking us to trust turning power over to the government, when there are clearly people in American who believe in establishing euthanasia, including selective standards.”

America Needs a Take-Home Pay Raise by Newt Gingrich (more by this author) Posted 07/29/2009 ET It’s a frustration I hear all the time. With the mainstream media, Washington insiders and the so-called “experts” in elite universities all singing off the same leftwing song sheet, there is a desperate need for the facts and the arguments that support time honored American values and principles that lead to safety, prosperity and freedom. The Left can rely on the mainstream media to put out the spin it needs. Meanwhile, Americans are exposed to far fewer voices that explain why America has been...

Here is video of former House Speaker Newt Gingrich commenting today on President Obama's remarks that police in Cambridge, Massachusetts "acted stupidly" in arresting Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. He first answered a question about Reparations - saying it will never happen. He then said President Obama should never have commented on the local police matter. . . . . . (Watch Video)

Newt Gingrich weighs in on the controversy surrounding President Barack Obama commenting on the arrest of Harvard professor Henry Gates.

Government leaders are not adequately protecting America and are setting the country on a course toward catastrophe if national security policy is not dramatically changed, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said Monday. In a speech full of dire scenarios and gloomy predictions, the former House speaker argued that no price is too high for the federal government to pay when it comes to shoring up national security. "We are living at the edge of catastrophe," Gingrich said while laying out the flaws of the current governmental approach to security as well as his own framework for policy change. Gingrich said...

In a speech full of dire scenarios and gloomy predictions, the former House speaker argued that no price is too high for the federal government to pay when it comes to shoring up national security. "We are living at the edge of catastrophe," Gingrich said while laying out the flaws of the current governmental approach to security as well as his own framework for policy change.

A brief video points up major fallacies in the proposed health care legislation which Gingrich believes cannot pass. Video at link.Of interest also, a petition " Tell Congress to Take a Dose of Their Own Medicine" "If They Vote for Government-Run Healthcare, They Enroll in Government-Run Healthcare" http://healthtransformation.net/

She pulls at the heartstrings of the Republican base, but in addition to all the peculiar problems of her own design, Sarah Palin has one obstacle she cannot overcome. Republicans like to choose the next in line—and she isn't. Sarah Palin is the bright red thread in the dull, grey fabric of the Republican Party. She is charismatic, quirky, melodramatic, and fervently anti-choice, anti-gay, and anti-Obama. But there's one thing she'll never be—the GOP nominee for President in 2012. Palin has the most intense grassroots base of any potential candidate, in the true-believing core of the party. And that's worth...

Here is video in two parts of former House Speaker Newt Gingrich tonight talking with Greta Van Susteren about the abject failure of the Democrats' Stimulus policy. Gingrich explains with great clarity that President Obama and his team were so full of themselves (my way of saying it) that they thought they could do whatever they wanted. Gingrich believes the first stimulus was actually a huge Democrat payoff to state and local governments so they would not have to make hard decisions. So, in actuality, the $787 Billion Stimulus Package was no stimulus at all. But now their approach is...

A giddy, gleeful Ed Schultz delights in Mark Sanford's shame . . . Boasting "I have no mercy here," the MSNBC host opened his show this evening with a five-minute dance on what he presumes to be Sanford's political grave. View video here. Excerpts from Schultz's unseemly display: View video here.

Last week, I had the pleasure of addressing the Senate-House Annual Republican Dinner. The MC for the evening was actor Jon Voight. Before he spoke, a video tribute for Voight was shown, including clips of him playing Franklin Delano Roosevelt in a movie. In one scene, Roosevelt is being told by his generals and advisors all the reasons why achieving victory in World War II was too hard. In response, Voight -- playing Roosevelt, who, remember, was confined to a wheelchair due to polio -- dramatically lifts himself up using the table and stabilizes himself on his non-functioning legs. He...

I don’t know how you feel about Newt Gingrich, but every time he is on, I’m drawn to watch him. He always has a different angle, always has something substantive to say. And that, more than anything else, explains why, with all of the turmoil and embarrassments in his personal life, a party filled with conservative people still want to hear him. It was no small tribute to him then that even out of office he was selected to give the keynote address on June 9 to the major fund-raising dinner for the Republicans in the Senate and the House....

ONE DAY after President Obama nominated federal judge Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court, former House speaker Newt Gingrich labeled her a racist. "Imagine a judicial nominee said 'my experience as a white man makes me better than a Latina woman' new racism is no better than old racism," he wrote on Twitter, referring to Sotomayor's now infamous statement that a Latina woman is likely to make a better judge than a white man. "White man racist nominee would be forced to withdraw. Latina woman racist should also withdraw." It was a wretched thing to say, and Gingrich wasn't the...

Great speech by Newt. I am convinced he will be the next President of the United States. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1XaQ7tz8uM

Mark Levin criticized former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich as a "pseudo-conservative." This was part of a nearly half-an-hour rant on the nationally syndicated "Mark Levin Show." Colin Powell did not escape criticism from Levin, either. Levin castigated him for voting for Obama. "Powell not only voted for him," Levin said, "he announced it on a liberal news outlet." In doing so, "he held off until the last minute to do the maximum damage he could," said Levin. "It was an utter lack of disloyalty and dishonor," Levin added. (Video at link) Video

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin will attend Monday night's Republican congressional fundraising dinner, according to GOP sources. Not only will she be there, Palin's husband, "First Dude" Todd Palin, will sit with National Republican Senatorial Committee Chairman John Cornyn, R-Texas, and his wife at Cornyn's table, one of the sources said. Sarah Palin, the 2008 vice presidential nominee, will sit at the head table. She will be recognized but will not have a formal speaking role, the sources said. Palin's decision to attend brings to an end an embarrassing public back-and-forth between Republican congressional campaign committee leaders and Palin, whose attendance...