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...trustees issue a report every year, and never before has any leading politician, Republican or Democrat, expressed so much panic. This year's report actually showed an improvement over last year's, which projected that the trust fund would go bust in 2001. Yet House Speaker Newt Gingrich and other Republicans suddenly declared with one voice that immediate steps were necessary to "save Medicare...
...costs money. Ample and inviting public parks cost money. And it costs money to create good public schools--which by diverting enrollment from private schools offer the large communal virtue of making a child's neighborhood peers and schoolyard friends one and the same. Yikes: taxes! Taxes, as Newt Gingrich and others have patiently explained, slow economic growth. True enough. But if economic growth places such a strain on community to begin with--a fact that Gingrich seems to grasp--what's so bad about a marginally subdued rate of growth...
...congressman's troubles aren't over yet. Although House Speaker Newt Gingrich said today he would not push for Reynolds' resignation, Reynolds still faces investigation by the House ethics commission, which could recommend expulsion. Reynolds also faces a federal probe into allegations that he diverted campaign funds toward personal...
...Trash" and "tabloid psychobabble" was the response from Speaker Newt Gingrich's office to a scorching article in the latest issue of Vanity Fair magazine alleging that the family-values-flogging politician engaged in a series of affairs during his first marriage...
Although Speaker Newt Gingrich doesn't smoke, his press secretary Tony Blankley's cigarette habit is such that Blankley has been known to light up using the tiny flames under chafing dishes at early-morning press breakfasts. For Blankley, the relaxed smoking rules signify not a smelly sort of revenge, as Democrats view it, but a return to a more civilized era, redolent of Edwardian velvet jackets. "I'm hopeful that as a society we are returning to the habits of an earlier day when good manners ruled rather than dogma," he says. Antismoking rules are unnecessary, he believes...