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Newt Gingrich, the first candidate to campaign in Delaware, came here Monday night pushing his $2.50-per-gallon-of-gas energy plan and jabbing President Obama about comments caught on an open microphone with outgoing Russian President Dmitri Medvedev. Gingrich said that Obama’s suggestion that he would have more flexibility to negotiate on nuclear arms after winning the 2012 election, was “destructive of American interests.” “This is a president who is amazingly destructive of American interests, something by the way of which we were reminded of today, when he didn’t know there was an open microphone,” he said to meeting of local Republican groups....

Republican 2012 presidential candidate Newt Gingrich held a town hall meeting four days before the South Carolina primary. He talked about winning South Carolina's primary and sealing the nomination.

This is a long video (90 minutes) of a Newt speech and question and answer. Merely post it for those who would be interested. Video at site **************** Thursday, January 5, 2012 Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich holds a town hall meeting in Meredith, New Hampshire with local tea party backers. It's his fourth event of the day, following town halls in Littleton, Plymouth, and Lancaster.

IMHO, A MUST SEE 15 minute video describing why Newt is "so angry" !!!

Wealth: A World Bank economist is trying to shame the U.S. for being home to one half of the world's richest people, the so-called 1%. In reality, it's the world that should be red-faced for not creating wealth as America does. Bank chief economist Branko Milanovic has come out with a book called "The Haves and the Have Nots," whose purpose seems to be to argue there's something wrong about America having an outsized concentration of the world's wealth. Implied in the argument is that America's wealth comes at someone else's expense, and the solution is to have a bureaucracy...