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JUNE 13: Republican candidates former U.S. senator. Rick Santorum , U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann , former House speaker Newt Gingrich, former governor Mitt Romney , U.S. Rep. Ron Paul , former governor Tim Pawlenty , and businessman Herman Cain prepare for their debate June 13, 2011, at Saint Anselm College in Manchester, N.H. It was this week two ... (more)

As usual, Al Sharpton has an answer. How is it possible, I ask him, that he carries so much tainted baggage from the past, yet still enjoys enormous pull with the political class? "It's because I have access to some of the voters they're trying to reach," he tells me matter-of-factly.

Raising money for Republicans must be a scam artist's dream, whether you're talking about Newt Gingrich getting millions from Sheldon Adelson to wage a hopeless presidential campaign or you're talking about Karl Rove's exceptional talent at convincing wealthy GOP donors to part with their cash.

Great letter, Mr. Columbo. I refer to your "You may be part of the Problem." In it you state that "It is you, the apathetic majority of Americans" who are to blame for America's ills.

The campaign tells the Federal Election Commission that its debt on April 1, 2014, was just $14,507 less than the amount owed on May 31, 2012 - the month Gingrich officially suspended his White House bid.

Something strange happened last weekend. At a recent conservative confab that attracted many top Republicans, no one railed against same-sex marriage.

Newt Gingrich has never been one to be the wilting flower. He had heavy criticism for former Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and her disastrous management of the Obamacare roll out last fall, in his Saturday remarks in Manchester, N.H. Gingrich, the former House speaker and Republican presidential candidate called Sebelius and ... (more)

In the pantheon of recent former Presidents, George Herbert Walker Bush hasn't always ranked very highly.

Indeed, his 2012 magnum opus, But the political theorist overstates the ability of even the most skillful defense of bourgeois social norms to help a party that, in the post-Reagan era, has delivered few economic benefits to Middle America, the very segment of the population where social-conservative ideals have the most traction.

BRADENTON, Fla., March 6, 202012 -- If you could really scrape below the surface of objective reality and peer into the unconscious minds of Republicans who will vote today in 10 states for their choice of presidential nominees, which of the key issues in the campaigns of Mitt Romney, Ron Paul, Newt Gingrich and Rick Sanctorum would really be ... (more)

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These are brief... Five high school students and three chaperones have been confirmed dead or are unaccounted for after a charter bus heading to Humboldt State University was struck by a FedEx tractor-trailer in Northern California.

Former House Speaker and Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich speaks at a GOP Freedom Summit, Saturday, April 12, 2014 in Manchester, N.H. Several potential Republican White House contenders _ among them Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul, Sen. Ted Cruz, and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee _ headline a conference Saturday in New Hampshire, ... (more)

Newt Gingrich isn't holding back in his criticism of the Cabinet secretary and others behind the troubled rollout of the health care law.

Bachmann addresses career colleagues at Monticello swan song on sctimes.com: http://www.sctimes.com/story/news/politics/2014/04/11/bachmann-addresses-career-colleagues-monticello-swan-song/7624981/ U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann wipes her eye while watching people pay tribute to her during Friday's 6th Congressional District event at Monticello High ... (more)

If Ohio's Republican governor John Kasich wins reelection in November, expect the chatter about a possible White House run to increase.

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."

Jamila Michener, assistant professor of government, specializes in the field of American politics.

BRADENTON, Fla., Feb. 22, 2012 Updated 7:30pm ET -- The stage is set tonight in Mesa, Ariz., for mistakes that make political history.

Host Alec Baldwin speaks during the NFL Honors award show in New Orleans, Louisiana February 2, 2013.