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“Without any immediately scheduled Congressional debates on social-issue legislation to energize its base, the Christian right has adopted President Bush’s messianic ‘struggle for civilization’ as a central feature of its culture war rhetoric going into the midterm elections. [Family Research Council president Tony Perkins] framed the issue by linking liberal evildoers with Islamic extremists, warning that ‘we are facing threats from within and from without.’ [Former FRC president Gary Bauer] described how the passengers of United Flight 93 heroically ran toward the cockpit on (more…)

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The author may lack spelling skills, but the point is not lost:

Matt Knowles

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Gary, Gary, Gary… You’re so transparent. You’re really pushing this after the Blacks-v.-Gays fourberie has already been exposed all over the world? Either you’re not very smart, or you are very smart, and know exactly what kind of idiots buy into this garbage.

Granted, NOM is still trying this tired old gambit, even though everybody knows it has nothing to do with race, and everything to do with religion. Bad religion. (more…)

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Oh, yes, we remember now.

Towleroad’s title (with video) tells all:

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Let’s see: Newtie is almost 69 years old now, and will be 73 in 2016… Could this be the last time we’ll have to listen to the big crybaby quite so often (at least, until he makes another hate-the-gays TV ad)? If we were the praying sort, we’d say: “Let us pray.”

Linda Ocasio at the Star-Ledger delivers the good news in a headline practically oozing with relief: “Newt Gingrich drops out of race, at long last”

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“…Santorum says giving Mitt Romney the nomination would be the same mistake as the GOP made in 1976 when Gerald Ford took the ticket instead of Ronald Reagan. You see, Ford was a moderate (aka, closet liberal), while Reagan was a God-fearing conservative of which Santorum says he is a mirror image.

“But is Santorum talking about THE President Ronald Reagan? That Reagan raised taxes, was divorced and remarried, liberalized immigration laws, (more…)

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“The other big news in GOP politics today was the continuing unfolding reaction to Sen. John McCain repudiating the Republican ‘war on women’ Sunday on ‘Meet the Press.’ Excuse me if I’m not fully grateful for McCain’s allegedly brave stance. The man professed to believe that women have the right to their own decisions on contraception, but didn’t mention that he voted for the Blunt Amendment, which would have given employers the right to deny contraception coverage if they didn’t approve of it — in fact, to deny coverage of any treatment they personally disdained. What hypocrisy.”

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Gee, it seemed like only yesterday we were telling you (thanks to CNS) that Newt Gingrich’s think tank, The Gingrich Group, a.k.a. Center for Health Transformation, went belly-up… Oh, wait, it was yesterday.

Today, Newtie’s “campaign” (air quotes because he has about as much chance of winning the Repub nom for the presidency as, well, as we do) wrote a check to the state of Utah for a ballot (more…)

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With the kind permission of Courthouse News Service:

ATLANTA (CN) —Newt Gingrich’s think tank, The Gingrich Group dba Center for Health Transformation, filed for bankruptcy Wednesday, listing 59 to 99 creditors, $50,000 to $100,000 in assets and $1 million to $10 million in debts.

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Video after the jump.

Joy Behar: “Newt Gingrich doesn’t like it. He’s said a few things about it… good Christian husband that he is.”

Annie Potts: “I did feel that it was especially rich coming from him, that he called our (more…)

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“When Newt and Rick speak for their church’s tender conscience on not being forced to insure women’s health, they are speaking for a church body run by old men who have presided over 50 years of covering up child abuse, sexual molestation and the codling of fascist regimes from Franco to Mussolini. …

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(CN) – A federal judge granted summary judgment to a journalist who sought a 37-year-old FBI document the reporter believes will shed light on Ronald Reagan’s work as an FBI informant, and “about the FBI’s operations with respect to aiding Reagan’s political career.” (more…)

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If Newt Gingrich would stop being such a hypocritical putz… Oh, silly us — what are we thinking? At this rate, Newtie qualifies for the Conservative Babylon Hypocrite of Both This Century and the Last One. (more…)

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The gist: The former Republican Speaker of the Puerto Rico House of Representatives — who sexually molested his own stepdaughter and a friend of hers for some eight years from the time the girls were nine years old (and later molested another teen girl), landing him a 13-year prison sentence (on top of a six-year sentence he was already serving for corruption) — says he’s writing a book “to tell his version of corrupt offenses and lewd acts” that occur inside el Centro de Tratamiento de Humacao (the Humacao Treatment Center), where he is incarcerated. (more…)

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Good news, at least for West Palm Beach, and at least for the moment:

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A press release from the American Jewish Committee tells us nothing (or at least not much) we didn’t know already about Richard Nixon — but the anti-Semitic remark attributed to Henry “Butcher of Cambodia” Kissinger (who’s Jewish himself) knocked us on our butts: (more…)

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Dallas. Cancer.

Details: USA Today, May 23, 2010

See also main ConBab entry: Donald “Buz” Lukens (R-Ohio)

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Didja hear…? Last month, Newt Gingrich’s PAC, American Solutions for Winning the Future, announced it was going to give its Entrepreneur of the Year Award to Allison Vivas… (more…)

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September 18, 2009

Hope you can read Spanish.

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It took six years, but we knew we’d hear of Karl Brabenec again. As we wrote about one of our charter inductees into the Conservative Babylon Hall of Shame in 2003: (more…)

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