[SkyDancer]

Ex-Freddie Mac official said Newt Gingrich paid $1.5 million for consulting

Better headline should have had received instead of paid. It reads like Gingrich paid Freddie Mac to be a consultant.

(yeah, I know, everybody's a grammarian)

[Mr. Lucky]

...everybody's a grammarian.

Really? You write English as if it were your native language.