Newt Gingrich: Visiting An ISIS Or Al Qaeda Website Should Be A Felony

“Anybody who goes on a website favoring ISIS, or Al Qaeda, or other terrorist groups,that should be a felony and they should go to jail.”

Tech Dirt
By Tech Dirt
Newt Gingrich

Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich is making some news today for some silly remarks he made on Fox News last night in response to the attack last night in Nice, France. It comes right at the beginning of this video: https://youtu.be/SNtGGFJOmYs All of the press -- for good reason -- is focusing on the first part of what he said, about

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Newt Gingrich Calls For American Muslim ‘Deportation Test’

“Western civilization is in a war. We should frankly test every person here who is of a Muslim background and if they believe in sharia they should be deported,”

Media Matters
By Media Matters
Newt Gingrich, one of the final candidates vying to become Donald Trump’s running mate, called for testing “every person who is of a Muslim background” to determine whether they “believe in sharia."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEyDGHAIHg8 (HOST): I don't want to really tie this into politics, but every issue America is now dealing with, every issue that we have discussed in recent months and years about the Islamization of Europe, about refugees, about immigration, about open borders -- it seems to come together, and also political

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What Does Newt Gingrich Really Think Of Donald Trump

Gingrich characterized Donald Trump as “an American nationalist” who uses a deliberately unpredictable mix of hostility against “stupidity,” liberals and political correctness.

Robert Faturechi
By Robert Faturechi
Newt Gingrich is reportedly one of the short-listed candidates for ticketmate with the GOP’s presumptive presidential nominee, Donald Trump.

Newt Gingrich, a leading candidate to be Donald Trump's running mate, told Republicans at a closed-door meeting earlier this year that Trump is not a conservative, speaks to voters "at the lowest level of any candidate in either party," and could lose in a landslide if he didn't significantly change his approach to campaigning. Gingrich

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Newt Gingrich Calls For McCarthyesque ‘Un-American Activities’ Committee

The Committee was infamously used against the so-called communist threat during the Cold War.

teleSUR
By teleSUR
Newt Gingrich

Former house speaker and Donald Trump supporter Newt Gingrich called for the creation of a new House Un-American Activities Committee Monday as a method of combating U.S. citizens who plan to commit terrorist attacks in the country. “We originally created the House Un-American Activities Committee to go after Nazis. We passed several laws in

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Scholarship For Undocumented Students Gets Bipartisan Praise

While it’s unfair to categorize TheDream.us as a convenient distraction for the CIA issue, the timing, have it be coincidential or intentional, is remarkable.

Frederick Reese
By Frederick Reese

Former Washington Post CEO Don Graham announced on Tuesday the creation of a $25 million college scholarship fund for undocumented youth -- or “dreamers” -- as a token effort toward making college an affordable possibility for many, as Congress debates reforming the nation’s immigration laws. With the Congress deadlocked over if immigration reform

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Georgia Congressman: Make Poor Kids Sweep Floors For School Lunch

“Why don’t you have the kids pay a dime, pay a nickel to instill in them that there is, in fact, no such thing as a free lunch?”

Les Neuhaus
By Les Neuhaus

Taking a page from Newt Gingrich, Rep. Jack Kingston of Georgia said on Saturday that he thought it was high time underprivileged children in this country begin to learn the value of money better by being forced to pick up a broom and sweep floors in exchange for their federally-subsidized school lunches. During the Republican primaries, Gingrich

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