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September 4, 2008

The big news in the fight over Califiornia's gay marriage November ballot proposition is Newt Gingrich, who supports a "yes" vote, or the elimination of same-sex marriage. He wants you to vote yes on Prop 8 to "protect marriage," but like the San Francisco Bay Guardian said, he's a "three-times-divorced defender of family values." He has married and divorced three times over, twice dumping women after they were diagnosed with cancer or multiple sclerosis. Gingrich's......

Continue Reading "Newt Gingrich Joins Prop 8 Battle"

April 4, 2007

When the former Speaker of the House, Newt Gingrich, said that bi-lingual education taught "the language of living in a ghetto" and not the language of prosperity, many were outraged. Since Los Angeles is the second largest Spanish-speaking city in the world, the offense couldn't have felt stronger in the US than here. Then Newt said that he meant ghetto in a Jew way... because they're not prosperous? Preposterous! We're sure LA's chosen people......

Continue Reading "Newt Apologizes to Latinos en Espanol"

March 9, 2007

Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness. --Matthew 23:27 (KJV) Former Georgia congressman Newt Gingrich has admitted he was having an extramarital affair the whole time he led the charge against President Clinton over the Monica Lewinsky affair. But he says in an interview with James Dobson, founder of conservative......

Continue Reading "Somebody Buy Newt Gingrich a Dictionary!"

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