by Bill Scher | Dec 15, 2011 | Blog
It has come to this. The Republican primary race has become so sad that even Newt Gingrich gets a turn at playing frontrunner. He has long conned much of conservative movement and the Washington media into treating him as some sort of intellectual giant, when his...
by Jeff Bryant | Dec 15, 2011 | Blog, Education, Minimum Wage
When you call yourself a "historian," you create the implication that you can speak authoritatively about, well, history. But last Friday, Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich defied that common sense. Speaking at one of America's top institutions of...
by Bill Scher | Dec 15, 2011 | Blog
Presidential candidate Newt Gingrich received $600,000 from Freddie Mac in two years preceding the 2008 financial crisis. Former Freddie Mac officials say, according to Bloomberg, he was paid "to build bridges to Capitol Hill Republicans" who were "seeking to...
