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Newt Gingrich’s Message is Anything But Political By Norma Zager “If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.” Albert Einstein. 
 Some women and men never learn. When a relationship is in trouble and one of the parties has told the other to take a hike, they continue pursuit. What part of “drop dead” do they not understand? What part of “the Palestinians want to destroy Israel” does the world not understand? Newt Gingrich is the messenger everyone wants to shoot for stating the truth. No one likes the truth if it interferes with a...

NAIROBI, Kenya - Ethiopia is prepared to invade neighboring Somalia to defend its U.N.-backed government against what appeared to be an imminent attack by Islamic militiamen, a government spokesman said Wednesday. The militiamen, who hold most of southern Somalia, deployed hundreds of fighters outside the town where the largely powerless government is based and said they planned to seize it. "We have the responsibility to defend the border and the Somali government. We will crush them," Ethiopia's Minister of Information, Berhan Hailu, told The Associated Press. Seizing the town of Baidoa would give the Islamic militia — which the United...