In the increasingly rough Republican campaign, no candidate has wrapped himself in the mantle of Ronald Reagan more often than Newt Gingrich. “I worked with President Reagan to change things in Washington,” “we helped defeat the Soviet empire,” and “I helped lead the effort to defeat Communism in the Congress” are typical claims by the… (more)
“How long have I been saying it? At least for 15 years, but in private I have been aware of it longer. Newt Gingrich is conservatism’s Bill Clinton, but without the charm. He has acquired wit but he has all the charm of barbed wire. Newt and Bill are 1960s generation narcissists, and they share… (more)
Mitt Romney | January 24, 2012 “Thank you. It’s good to be in the Sunshine State. It breaks my heart to visit plants like this one. In 2008, this plant closed because of the economic downturn. In a normal recovery under strong leadership, it could now be full of workers. Here in Florida, people used… (more)
“Newt Gingrich, who hoped to put his personal past behind him by saying he’d made mistakes, has revived the issue with questionable claims about the details of his first divorce. The Republican presidential candidate insists that it was his then-wife, Jackie Battley Gingrich, who sought a divorce in 1980. After court records showed he filed… (more)
January 24, 2012, 10:32 am Gingrich Threatens to Skip Debates if Audiences Can’t Participate By JEREMY W. PETERS Newt Gingrich insists his fans will not be silenced. Mr. Gingrich, a former House speaker, on Tuesday morning threatened not participate in any future debates with audiences that have been instructed to be silent. That was the… (more)
TSA vs Rand Paul :popcorn: http://dailycaller.com/2012/01/23/report-tsa-detains-sen-rand-paul-in-nashville/
Excerpt from Stansberry & Associates Investment Research. “Take Newt Gingrich. The white, Republican former House speaker was paid $1.6 million for “consulting” by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac during a period of time the two firms were under constant attack by Newt’s fellow Republicans. Were the attacks efforts to truly reform a major threat to… (more)
“Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu advised visiting Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Martin Dempsey Friday, Jan.20 that the time for action against Iran was now, for two reasons: First, the conviction that Iran has passed the point of no return for developing a nuclear weapon; and second, the diminishing prospects for… (more)
Marianne Gingrich has said she could end her ex-husband’s career with a single interview. And it seems she has: http://www.drudgereport.com/flash2.htm
Bolton: “They’ve got, by publicly available information from the International Atomic Energy Agency, enough low-enriched uranium that if enriched up to weapons grade would be enough for four weapons.” “So they’ve got more work to do, but they are already well on their way,” he said. Bolton told Klein that 2012 will be a key… (more)
Debkafile’s military sources report that a third aircraft carrier and strike group, the USS Abraham Lincoln, is also on its way to the Persian Gulf. This massive military buildup indicates that either President Obama rates the odds of an Israel attack as high and is bolstering the defenses of US military assets against Iranian reprisals… (more)
Michael Hastings’ new book, The Operators, jabs at what could be a vulnerable spot for the Obama Administration, the president’s relationship with the troops. The book describes a visit to Baghdad: “After the talk, out of earshot from the soldiers and diplomats, he starts to complain. He starts to act very un-Obamalike, according to a… (more)
According to debkafile’s Iranian sources, Tehran is preparing an underground test of a one-kiloton nuclear device during 2012, much like the test carried out by North Korea in 2006. Underground facilities are under construction in great secrecy behind the noise and fury raised by the start of advanced uranium enrichment at Iran’s fortified, subterranean Fordo… (more)
It was the tea party the Obamas just couldn’t resist. A White House “Alice in Wonderland” costume ball — put on by Johnny Depp and Hollywood director Tim Burton — proved to be a Mad-as-a-Hatter idea that was never made public for fear of a political backlash during hard economic times, according to a new… (more)
DEBKAfile Exclusive Report January 8, 2012, 10:15 AM (GMT+02:00) Tehran media trumpeted the news Sunday, Jan. 8 that Iran’s deep underground uranium enrichment site at Fordo near Qom goes stream soon, thereby crossing another line in its faceoff with the West on its weapons program. The head of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization Fereydoun Abbasi Davani… (more)
DAVENPORT, Iowa — Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney is fending off attacks from national Democrats who are traveling across the state today to blast him outside his own events on the eve of tomorrow’s GOP caucuses. National Democratic Party officials dive-bombed Romney, who is in Davenport for a grassroots rally, setting up a press conference outside… (more)
“Introducing Romney at a breakfast at the The Old Salt in Hampton before the candidate jetted back to Iowa to campaign, former New Hampshire Gov. John Sununu told hundreds of New Hampshire voters to carefully consider their choice. “There are a lot of good people running for president – some of them are my friends,… (more)
Political Predictions for 2012 Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid or both will leave the Democratic leadership by year’s end. By KARL ROVE It get’s even better http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203391104577124880807529116.html?mod=WSJ_hp_MIDDLENexttoWhatsNewsThird#printMode
“ONLY ONE CANDIDATE IS RIGHT ON THE TWO MOST IMPORTANT ISSUES” “2012 is not a year for a wild card. It’s not a year for any candidate who will end up being the issue, instead of making Obama the issue. It’s not a year for one wing of the Republican Party to be making a… (more)
“Middle East sources warn that the repeated threats to close the Strait of Hormuz coming from Tehran this week and the framework of its naval exercise clearly point to the manner in which Iran intends to hit back for the tough new sanctions which the West plans to approve next month. The new round is… (more)
“By Friday night, Dec. 23, Western intelligence sources were attributing the twin suicide car attacks which claimed 53 lives and injured more than 100 outside the Syrian Security Directorate in Damascus earlier in the day to President Bashar Assad himself and his security chiefs. His motive? To keep the Arab League team, just arrived for… (more)
by Matt Patterson “Years from now, historians may regard the 2008 election of Barack Obama as an inscrutable and disturbing phenomenon, a baffling breed of mass hysteria akin perhaps to the witch craze of the Middle Ages. How, they will wonder, did a man so devoid of professional accomplishment beguile so many into thinking he… (more)
In his own words: Asked by anchor Scott Pelley if Iran could have a nuclear weapon in 2012, he answered: “It would probably be about a year before they can do it. Perhaps a little less.” That would depend on their having “a hidden facility somewhere in Iran that may be enriching fuel.” Pelley then… (more)
It was an issue that divided Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., and then-Sen. Barack Obama on the campaign trail during the 2008 general election: the Iraq war. So, with President Obama hailing the U.S. withdrawal from Iraq at Fort Bragg today, his former opponent took to the Senate floor to unleash one last scathing criticism of… (more)
Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak, second from left, now thinks it’s inevitable that Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad will be deposed. He also predicts that Assad’s removal would undermine an alliance of Israel’s enemies. By Joel Greenberg, Updated: Wednesday, December 14, 2:22 PM In a shift, Israeli officials are welcoming the prospect that Syria’s president, Bashar… (more)
DEBKAfileExclusive Report December 13, 2011, 11:18 AM (GMT+02:00) Tags: Syrian army Bashar Assad Jordan US Iraq US 1st Brigade departs Iraq “As the US completes its final withdrawal from Iraq, American special forces troops have been diverted to positions in Jordan opposite a Syrian tank concentration building up across the kingdom’s northern border, debkafile’s… (more)
By Amy Kellogg Published December 09, 2011 Dec. 3, 2011: Satellite image of the Uranium Conversion Facility, Zirconium Production Plant and entrances to a tunnel facility at the Isfahan nuclear site. “The first clear pictures of Iran’s nuclear site near Isfahan have been published and analyzed following an explosion at or near the site… (more)
Iran exhibits US drone undamaged. US and Israeli intelligence shocked DEBKAfileSpecial Report December 8, 2011, 7:25 PM (GMT+02:00) Tags: US-Israel Iran nuclear drones Intelligence covertwar Iran displays captured US RQ-170 drone Iran exhibited the top-secret US stealth drone RQ-170 Sentinel captured on Sunday, Dec. 4. Its almost perfect condition confirmed Tehran’s claim that the UAV… (more)
Republished with permission of STRATFOR. “All eyes were on this covert intelligence war after The New York Times published an article Jan. 15 reporting that the United States and Israel worked together to create and launch Stuxnet against the Iranian nuclear program. The visible events related to the intelligence war maintained a relatively steady pace… (more)
“Darius Long, whose son, Army Pvt. William Andrew Long, was shot and killed at an Arkansas military recruitment center in 2009. A second private was also injured in the Arkansas attack. Both victims had just finished basic training and had not been deployed. They were outside the Arkansas recruitment center when the shooter opened fire… (more)
