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Newt and Callista participate in a sea safari in Bodo, Norway. Newt and Callista participate in a sea safari in Bodo, Norway. Newt Gingrich and his beautiful Callista sent the following report from their vacation in Norway and he has addressed the energy crisis plaguing the United States and the solution to end the high price of gasoline. He tells us why there is scarcity of gasoline America, but not in Norway. This is a must read . ~ Ekenyerengozi Michael Chima The Publisher and Editor of Nigerian Times International Online Media Network Report From Norway: Why They Don't Have an Energy Crisis and We Do by Newt Gingrich (more by this author) Posted 06/10/2008 ETUpdated 06/10/2008 ET I am writing to you this week from Norway, where Callista and I have witnessed extraordinary natural beauty - and some things America could learn about creating a more sensible balance between protecting the environment and finding more domestic sources of energy. You see, Norway, unlike the United St...

Days of Infamy: Active History and the Teaching of History by Newt Gingrich (more by this author) Posted 04/29/2008 ETUpdated 04/29/2008 ET This week our new novel, Days of Infamy , is being published by St. Martin's Press. Days of Infamy is the sequel to Pearl Harbor , (just released in paperback) and carries on the story of "what might have been" if a different, more aggressive commander -- Admiral Yamamoto -- had led the Japanese Fleet in their surprise attack at Pearl Harbor in December, 1941. The Wrong Admiral for the Wrong Job In real history, the Japanese high command assigned their Pearl Harbor strike force of six aircraft carriers to Admiral Chuichi Nagumo. If ever there was an assignment of the wrong man for the wrong job, it was this one. From the beginning of his forty-year career, Nagumo had been trained in surface warfare, especially the use of destroyers and cruisers as "hit and run" weapons. Thinking like a destroyer commander, he always saw th...

A Visit of Faith and Reason by Newt Gingrich (more by this author) Posted 04/15/2008 ET Updated 04/15/2008 ET Benedict XVI 's first visit to America as Pope this week is an exciting and joyous event for the nation's millions of Catholics. But his visit carries a message of hope and reconciliation for all Americans, regardless of faith. The Pope is both a deeply faithful and a deeply learned man. He has been called "a voice of faith and a voice of reason in our time." Balancing faith and reason can be a difficult task, even for a country like the United States, a nation Pope Benedict loves. One of the reasons the Pope is so fond of America is because we are, unlike Europe, "a nation which values the role of religious belief in ensuring a vibrant and ethically sound democratic order." Benedict's Message: Embrace Both Faith and Reason Pope Benedict teaches us that healthy, free societies must embrace both religious faith and secular reason. At a time when r...

A Big Win for Judicial Supremacy, a Big Loss for Government Language Lawyers and Another Example of Real Change by Newt Gingrich (more by this author) Posted 03/25/2008 ETUpdated 03/25/2008 ET Parents "do not have a constitutional right to homeschool their children." So wrote a California judge in a case that has ominous potential for the estimated one million-plus American families who have opted out of the public education monopoly and choose to educate their children at home. Although the ruling is being appealed to the California Supreme Court, as it now stands, the 166,000 California children who are home schooled are truant, and their parents are criminals. Welcome, as the Wall Street Journal editorialized , to a "strange new chapter" in the "annals of judicial imperialism." No Teaching Credentials? No Home Schooling. For background, you should know that although California's compulsory education law requires that all children between the ages o...

Accept the Obama Invitation by Newt Gingrich Posted: 03/20/2008 Print This Forward Feedback Digg This! Illinois Democratic Sen. Barack Obama gave one speech in Philadelphia this week, but he made two different presentations. The first was an apology and attempted explanation for his 20-year relationship with a preacher, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, who is viciously anti-American, racist and anti-Semitic and for his membership in a church which had honored Louis Farrakhan. The second presentation was an eloquent but fundamentally inadequate speech about racism and poverty in America. It was an invitation to a national dialogue that conservatives and all Americans should accept. A Failure of Judgment? Or a Failure of Honesty and Courage? Sen. Obama's first presentation was very troubling. It offers two possibilities for judging his character, both of which are unsettling. The first possibility is that Sen. Obama did not notice the racism, anti-Americanism and anti-Semitism coming from t...

Time for Real Change on the Economy and Taxes by Newt Gingrich (more by this author) Posted 03/18/2008 ETUpdated 03/18/2008 ET The news on the economy this week is increasingly unsettling. Gas prices continue to rise, with inflationary ripple effects throughout the economy. And the bust of the subprime mortgage market has now spread throughout the credit markets to such a degree that Bear Stearns, the fifth largest American investment bank, was sold last weekend in a firesale. Worse still, Wall Street's banks have essentially stopped lending. The appetite for any type of risk has come to a screeching stop. The problem is that a modern economy can't grow, let alone be sustained, for very long when banks stop lending. Companies use loans to finance operations, new equipment, and new acquisitions. That means if companies can't borrow, many will ultimately go out of business and thousands of people will lose their jobs. First Step: Immediate Action Needed to Stabilize the Hous...

One Man Can Change History by Newt Gingrich (more by this author) Posted 03/11/2008 ETUpdated 03/11/2008 ET On Wednesday, March 12, I am delivering a lecture at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington based on a simple proposition: "What if Reagan had not run for President and the Soviet Union still existed?" As you know, I write active history in which we change key decisions to see how they would have affected actual history. ( Pearl Harbor and the soon-to-be-released Days of Infamy are novels I coauthored with William Forstchen about the Second World War that use this approach.) And because this month marks the 25th anniversary of some of the most consequential speeches that led to the end of the former Soviet Union, I thought it would be interesting to apply this technique to the Cold War. The Only Leader Who Understood the Change Needed Was Ronald Reagan In 1980, the United States was losing the Cold War. Under President Jimmy Carter, the American economy had ...

Newt Gingrich A Conservative Declaration of Independence and the Democrats' Dilemma 'If We Want to Get Competitive, We Had Better Change, and We Had Better Change Now' The Coming Democratic Train Wreck Compounding the Democrats' Dilemma: The Super (Politician) Delegates The Answer: Hold New Primaries in Michigan and Florida For Those Who Still Doubt: The Director of National Intelligence Speaks A Success Story of Real Change House Republicans Seize the Moment of Change E-mail Your Friends About Real Change This weekend, I had the opportunity to address CPAC -- the Conservative Political Action Conference. This is the same group to which Ronald Reagan delivered his historic " bold colors, not pale pastels " speech in 1975, sparking a new center-right coalition that would become the ground troops of the Reagan Revolution. In my speech, I called for a conservative "declaration of independenc...