Worth Hearing: Newt on the economy, the culture, terrorism, religious liberty and the judicial branch
A lot I don’t like about Newt, but what do you disagree with here? “We need to crush the secular socialists.” Older piece. ~Bob
Gingrich May Have Inside Track on Palin’s Endorsement
Excerpt: While Palin has characteristically kept her cards close to her chest, advisers suggest that the 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee is likely to endorse before someone emerges as the inevitable nominee — and that Newt Gingrich appears to be best-positioned to secure her support. “They speak very favorably of Newt and what they see as his credentials as compared to Perry and Romney,” one member of Palin’s inner circle said of the former Alaska governor and her husband, Todd, who has long served as her unofficial chief adviser. (Well, Palin is, I assume, a RINO. At least, I and everyone else are RINOs if all the e-mail I get from various people who are the authority of GOP orthodoxy are true. ~Bob.)
Worth Reading: The chutes and ladders of The Chicago Way: While Obama climbs high, his onetime pal Rezko is slip-slidin' away by John Kass
Excerpt: The federal sentencing hearing for convicted influence peddler Antoin "Tony" Rezko — once a friend and personal real estate fairy to President Barack Obama— had just begun in Chicago. (If the media had any courage, someone would ask Obama at his next press conference, “Will you promise if re-elected in 2012 that you will not, under any circumstances, pardon Tony Rezko?” But they don’t. ~Bob.
