Word: newt
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...ironic that the so-called Religious Freedom Amendment proposed by House Speaker Newt Gingrich takes away the one liberty it promises. Gingrich's House Republicans promised in their last campaign to amend the Constitution to include a moment of silence for prayer in public school by July 1995. We can be thankful that he has missed this deadline and hope that such a move will not come soon. While Gingrich claims that prayer in school would not only preserve America from ruin, but return the country to some glorious past, he misunderstands what America has always been about...
However, aggressive lobbyists for the Baby Bells soon persuaded leading Republicans like Newt Gingrich to "stay true to their deregulatory roots" and vote for immediate, total deregulation. As more and more government decisions get decided by the highest bidder, the Baby Bells look to turn their current advantages into total domination of the information market...
...room for one more? Livelier than the Review, less bratty than the Spectator, the Standard is modeled most obviously on the New Republic, but with a more narrow focus on politics. And a more consistent tilt to the right, though with a few surprises. Among several admiring pieces about Newt Gingrich is one by Charles Krauthammer that spurns the House Speaker's chipper vision of a techno-Utopia. Technology makes many problems worse, Krauthammer warns, leaving politics to clean up the mess; besides, conservatives shouldn't promise Utopia. If the Standard can shake up its friends in every issue...
House Minority leader Dick Gephardt is challenging Speaker Newt Gingrich to a debate on Medicare. Gephardt blasted Republicans for releasing sparse details about their plan to overhaul the health program, and for scheduling only one day of hearings on changes in the plan. Gingrich did not immediately respond to Gephardt's challenge. Although broad details of the Gingrich plan have been made public, congressional correspondent Karen Tumulty reports that no detailed numbers have been provided to show just how the proposal would save $270 billion over the next seven years. "Gingrich's office says they haven't released the specifics...
...Newt Gingrich was an upstart minority whip in the House of Representatives. O.J. Simpson was best known as a Hall of Fame running back. Nobody had ever heard of Forrest Gump. And the Kennedy School began its search for a new dean...