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Newt Gingrich

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Newt Gingrich, a Republican, served as House speaker from 1995 to 1999 and ran as a presidential candidate in 2012. He is an adviser to the Center for Union Facts.

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Democrats Jon Ossoff (left) and Raphael Warnock had campaign ads "to communicate warm, caring personalities" writes former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, where Sens. David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler had "almost entirely negative ads." (Associated Press)

The Georgia GOP Disaster

As a Republican who began his volunteer activities in Georgia in the 1960 Richard Nixon-Henry Lodge campaign, I think it is necessary to have the courage to face the depth and scale of yesterday's disaster in Georgia.

January 6, 2021

The Iranian people will eliminate the dictatorship

Let me say for the years we've been together, the times we have met both here and in America, it is a particularly great honor to have the opportunity to follow Prince Turki bin Faisal Al Saud, who being here sends such a powerful signal that everyone who is opposed to the dictatorship is coming together to end the regime and bring freedom back to Iran.

July 13, 2016
FBI Director James Comey testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, July 7, 2016, before the House Oversight Committee to explain his agency's recommendation to not prosecute Hillary Clinton, now the Democratic presidential candidate, over her private email setup during her time as secretary of state, . (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

What about the Clinton corruption investigation?

Since FBI Director James Comey delivered a blistering indictment of Hillary Clinton's email practices on Tuesday, and then outrageously declared that no "reasonable" prosecutor would bring charges, it seems that many in the press view the matter as closed. But there was one big thing Comey didn't mention in his statement, and which the media seems to have forgotten also: Clinton's email practices are potentially only the tip of the iceberg of her illegal activities.

July 7, 2016
Declaration of Independence (The Washington Times) ** FILE **

The meaning of Independence Day

On Independence Day, we remember the remarkable event, 240 years ago this week, that marked a rare turning point in human history -- the founding of a nation on the principle of human freedom.

July 5, 2016
The presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump poses with a bagpiper as he arrives at his revamped Trump Turnberry golf course in Turnberry Scotland Friday June 24, 2016. Trump saluting the United Kingdom's vote to leave the European Union, saying "they took back their country, it's a great thing." Trump arrived at his Turnberry golf course in Scotland a day after the so-called Brexit vote. (Andrew Milligan/PA via AP) UNITED KINGDOM OUT NO SALES NO ARCHIVE

Trump, Brexit, Iceland, Turin and Rome

There has been a lot of commentary about the British decision to leave the European Union and its implications for Donald Trump and the American presidential race.

June 28, 2016

Americans reject elites on national security

In a stunning new survey, Matt Towery Jr., head of Opinion Savvy, discovered that a majority of the American people oppose the national security policies of the elites.

June 24, 2016
President Barack Obama pauses while speaking at the Treasury Department in Washington, Tuesday, June 14, 2016, following a meeting with his National Security Council to get updates on the investigation into the attack in Orlando, Florida and review efforts to degrade and destroy ISIL. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Why President Obama is wrong

In the past few days, we have seen two horrific attacks on Western civilization. The first, in an Orlando nightclub, left 49 innocent people dead and dozens more injured. The second, in Paris, live-streamed the slaughter of a French policeman and his wife in their home, as their three-year-old son watched.

June 14, 2016
President Lyndon Johnson and his wife, Lady Bird, center left, leave the home in Inez, Ky., of Tom Fletcher, a father of eight who told Johnson he'd been out of work for nearly two years, in this April 24, 1964, photo. The president visited the Appalachian area in Eastern Kentucky to see conditions firsthand and announce his War on Poverty from the Fletcher porch. (AP Photo/FILE)

Paul Ryan’s Better Way to Fight Poverty

It has been more than half a century since President Lyndon Johnson announced the War on Poverty, a vast expansion of the welfare state aimed at lifting up America's poor.

June 9, 2016
Then-Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton checks her Blackberry from a desk inside a C-17 military plane upon her departure from Malta, in the Mediterranean Sea, bound for Tripoli, Libya, on Oct. 18, 2011. (AP Photo/Kevin Lamarque, Pool, File) ** FILE **

NEWT GINGRICH: Hillary’s email report: The worst thing

It's difficult to choose the most disturbing aspect of the State Department Inspector General's report this week on Hillary Clinton's email practices, but near the top of the list must surely be this: Virtually everything Clinton has said about her email has been a lie, and she knew it all the time.

May 26, 2016
This undated photo provided by Heritage Auctions shows a 1776 broadside printing of the Declaration of Independence. The broadside printing, to be auctioned April 5 in New York, was ordered on July 17, 1776, by the Massachusetts Bay Council and read by the Rev. Levi Frisbie to his congregation in Ipswich, north of Boston. (Heritage Auctions via AP)

NEWT GINGRICH: A revolutionary year in America

This election year has been defined by candidates in both parties who are promising a political revolution. A majority of the American people are calling out for real change -- for dethroning a comfortable and overbearing elite and replacing it with a more accountable government.

May 19, 2016