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The most interesting, and important, dynamic in American politics today is the existential struggle going on in the Republican Party between the establishment and the insurgents-or to be more accurate, between the hard-line bedrock conservatives and the radicals.

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich warned Republicans against running solely against President Obama in this year's midterm elections, saying the party needs a positive agenda.

One of the hallmarks of the 2012 Republican Presidential field was the way it seemed to attract what can only be called fringe candidates to an even greater extent than in previous election cycles.

Argentina 's last captive polar bear , Arturo, is going nowhere. Despite the fact that close to a million people - including a few celebrities like Cher and Newt Gingrich- signed on online petition begging Argentina to deport Arturo to a proper climate, the "world's saddest polar bear" is going to remain in his less-than-ideal enclosures.

A lucrative TV broadside portraying him as a non-politician and a major turnout of supporters in Atlanta and its surrounding suburbs were the key last night to businessman David Perdue's unexpected win of the Republican U.S. Senate nomination in Georgia.

Newt Gingrich has blasted the Bushes for being too nice and getting chummy with the Clintons, blaming the family's friendliness for Hillary Clinton's likely presidency.

"over and over and over again Lamar Alexander has shown a willingness to work with the other side instead of standing with our side" Think about that.

" If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.

It has been more than two years since former House speaker Newt Gingrich -- once viewed as Mitt Romney's top competition in the 2012 GOP primary -- ended his campaign.

IT'S TOUGH being Hillary Clinton. Her book's a flop, she's angered ordinary Americans with crass remarks about money and now her husband's sex life is a New York musical.

In January 2012, Newt Gingrich made headlines by calling President Obama the "food stamp president."

Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz told a cheering crowd of conservatives Saturday night that the next U.S. president should shutter the much-maligned Internal Revenue Service and turn the agency's 110,000 employees loose to police the U.S.-Mexico border.

Every anniversary of the first moon landing of Apollo 11 brings with it a lot of navel gazing and soul searching about what we have not been beyond low Earth orbit for several decades.

SAN FRANCISCO Libertarian and conservative technology types huddled this weekend on Nancy Pelosi's home turf making big promises about what they can do to help Republicans win more elections - but also lamenting how their ideas could still get lost in the shuffle.

Has 45 years really passed since man first stepped on the moon? I remember well that hot July Sunday night in 1969 my eyes locked on the black and white television screen after church.

Congratulations on your nomination to lead the Department of Veterans Affairs. As a good citizen you have agreed to take on one of the most demanding and important jobs in Washington.

Worrying that "the Democratic contest looks like it will be a foggy, repetitive march toward Hillary Clinton" and that there needs to be a primary challenger from Hillary Clinton's left to "energize the Democratic Party's liberal base," CBS political director John Dickerson pounded out a July 17 piece at Slate.com urging the Bay State's senior ... (more)

An online campaign to have an elderly polar bear in Argentina sent to Winnipeg's zoo is gaining momentum with former U.S. House speaker Newt Gingrich joining the call to save Arturo.

Editor's note: Newt Gingrich is a co-host of CNN's "Crossfire," which airs at 6:30 p.m. ET weekdays, and author of a new book, "Breakout: Pioneers of the Future, Prison Guards of the Past, and the Epic Battle That Will Decide America's Fate."

President Obama 's yearning to become a peacetime president continues to be frustrated by the reality on the ground in the Middle East, and by Republicans ' zeal to capitalize on it politically at home.