Newt Gingrich News

Newt Gingrich is fighting back against conservative critics who attacked the former Speaker of the House and co-host of CNN's "Crossfire" for his praise of Nelson Mandela.

CNN's Jake Tapper issued a correction for a segment that misleadingly took comments by Vice President Joe Biden out of context.

One resolution U.S. Rep. Frank LoBiondo has for the new year is to avoid another "mule kick" as the seemingly endless fight over the federal budget and national debt heads toward another perilous deadline.

Newt Ginrich argues that we are at the dawn of an age of great breakthroughs in technology, medicine, transportation, and other fields, but warns that this new age may not be reached if we allow the government and other gatekeepers to get in the way.

I was scrolling through the various commentaries on offer at TownHall.com yesterday when I spied one written by Newt Gingrich's daughter Jackie Gingrich Cushman titled "Are We Sick of Him Yet?" Being all too familiar with the anti-liberal, anti-progressive and rabidly anti-Obama venue that TownHall has devolved into I wasn't the least bit surprised ... (more)

Newt Gingrich would be so proud. NASA is planning to put a garden on the moon by late 2015.

Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, former U.S. Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich , U.S. Representative Ron Paul , U.S. Representative Michele Bachmann , and former Utah Governor Jon Huntsman pose before the Republican Party presidential candidates debate in Sioux City, Iowa, on December 15, 2011.

The world is celebrating Nelson Mandela as a selfless visionary who led his country out of the grips of apartheid into democracy and freedom.

To prevent another Healthcare.gov, Washington could use a digital brain trust. Too bad Newt Gingrich killed the one it had.

The Affordable Care Act is not on par with the Watergate scandal during Richard Nixon's presidency, despite former House Speaker Newt Gingrich's assertions they are, says Remi Spencer, criminal defense attorney and Fox News commentator.

Republican Gov. Phil Bryant, center, flanked by Dan DiMicco, executive chairman of Nucor Corporation, left, and U.S. Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., listen as former presidential candidate and current television commentator Newt Gingrich discusses the role of home grown energy meeting this country's needs for strength, security and being sustainable ... (more)

"I don't know if you'd call it a recruitment tour or not -- some people are still interested in finding out where he is on some issues," said Brad Sherman, pastor at Solid Rock Christian Church in Coralville, who is one of the Iowans in the delegation.

AS AN ADULT. THEY'RE STILL INVESTIGATING WHAT MOTIVATED HIM TO SHOOT. THERE WAS A BIG TURN OUT AT THE JACKSON CONVENTION CENTER THIS AFTERNOON FOR AN ENERGY SUMMIT -- AND FORMER HOUSE SPEAKER NEWT GINGRICH WAS A KEY NOTE SPEAKER.

Pols ranging from Bill Clinton to Eliot Spitzer to Anthony Wiene r and even Newt Gingrich have all managed feats of political resurrection or career resuscitation that have landed them back on the campaign trail or on the rubber chicken circuit.

RNC Chairman Reince Priebus says he probably won't support another government shutdown in January, but he also thinks it is unlikely party leadership will propose one.

Newt Ginrich argues that we are at the dawn of an age of great breakthroughs in technology, medicine, transportation, and other fields, but warns that this new age may not be reached if we allow the government and other gatekeepers to get in the way.

Bob Smith, who served two terms as a U.S. senator from New Hampshire, said he has his eyes on his old job again and is gearing up to challenge Sen. Jeanne Shaheen next year.

With just a handful of days left on the legislative calendar in 2013, Congress is on track to have its least productive year ever.

BRADENTON, Fla., Jan. 9, 2011 -- On the eve of the New Hampshire primary, Mitt Romney stuck his foot in his mouth so deep that the sole may have irritated his lower intestine.

What sound like fights between capitalism and socialism or between "religious traditionalism and secular cosmopolitanism," turn out to be battles between "progressive liberalism" and "conservative liberalism," echoes of the more than 200-year-old dispute between Thomas Paine and Edmund Burke.