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Authority!
by Timothy J Taylor

03/31/11

I have a short wake-up call for Mr. Gingrich, and all the other pandering social conservative Republicans on the religious right who yearn for a Christian theocracy in America: I appreciate the values of our founding fathers. I like the Constitution they wrote just the way it is. Get your historical facts straight...

http://authoritycon.blogspot.com/2011/03/fantasy-on-far-right.html



A Reagan conservative against the empire

Campaign For Liberty Campaign For Liberty
by Anthony Gregory

03/31/11

The very notion that America has an empire is most taboo. No matter the party in power, pointing out the reality of U.S. imperialism rarely wins political points. Our country, land of the free, won independence from the British Empire, defeated the Nazi empire, and stared down the Soviet empire. Our public schools present the barbarity of ancient empires as antiquated and alien curiosities...

http://tinyurl.com/4fxc53l



Newt in his own words: 33 years of bomb-throwing

Mother Jones
by Tim Murphy and David Corn

04/07/11

Newt Gingrich, a preseason 2012 Republican contender, likes to present himself as an ideas man. He is a former college professor and the architect of the ideology-driven 1994 Republican Revolution. But for all his references to Camus and Clausewitz, theres another side to the former House speaker - a verbal bomb-thrower whos never met a political crisis he couldnt analogize to the annexation of the Sudetenland...

http://tinyurl.com/6ebh8dt


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Gingrich
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=conservative
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Republican
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=empire
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=imperial
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=theocracy
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=religious+right
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=rightwing
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Constitution
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=founding+fathers
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Timothy+J+Taylor
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Anthony+Gregory
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=David+Corn
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