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27 Dec 2019, 3:05 pm
"Ted Kennedy 'a fat slob,' Steve Forbes 'a meanspirited creep,' Dan Rather 'a loony,' Rush Limbaugh 'a drug-addled gas bag.' Many listeners detected the toxins of Lenny Bruce, George Carlin, Mort Sahl or Groucho Marx.... [read post]
19 Dec 2019, 10:28 am by Jeff Kosseff
So were many House members, including then-Speaker Newt Gingrich, who called the bill “clearly a violation of free speech. [read post]
27 Nov 2019, 8:41 am by Daniel Shaviro
I don't know why there was no legislative push - this was before the November 1994 elections swept Gingrich et al into power - but conceivably the politics had something to do with it. [read post]
19 Nov 2019, 12:20 pm by Steve Gottlieb
Congressional Democrats need to take a page out of the Republican playbook to copy Gingrich, fight fire with fire and refuse to pass essential legislation, including the budget, unless it has everything Democrats stand for and need for the welfare of all of us. [read post]
18 Sep 2019, 7:41 am by Second Circuit Civil Rights Blog
While the PLRA was enacted in the 1990s during the Bill Clinton/Newt Gingrich period, courts are still interpreting what the statute means.The case is Escalara v. [read post]
15 Jul 2019, 12:05 am by Paul Caron
Saturday: This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts The Real Story Behind Alabama’s Return Of $26m Gift To Law School Donor Stanford Law Faculty Summer Reading List Death Of Jeff Sherman (Chicago-Kent) Sunday: WSJ: Biden Made 'Aggressive' Use Of Edwards-Gingrich Sub S Loophole To Skirt $500k In Taxes Lawyers... [read post]
14 Jul 2019, 9:30 am by Paul Caron
Wall Street Journal, Joe Biden Used Tax-Code Loophole Obama Tried to Plug: Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden used a tax loophole that the Obama administration tried and failed to close, substantially lowering his tax bill. [read post]
3 Jul 2019, 5:59 am
Policymakers as diverse as Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, John McCain, Newt Gingrich, and even President Donald Trump, have called for shrinking the largest financial firms. [read post]
13 Jun 2019, 1:44 pm
Anybody who was hoping for a clear account of the differences between Sanders’s political ambitions and those of autocratic socialist regimes is a fellow traveler of Richard Nixon, Newt Gingrich, John Boehner, Donald Trump, and the Heritage Foundation....The speech Sanders gave was not serious.It's enough (and it's better) to say "not serious. [read post]
22 Apr 2019, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
Well before Reagan’s 1984 reelection campaign, the Fed eased off, the economy grew, and the myth of Reagan as savior (and the supposedly miraculous effects of tax cuts for upper-income people) was born.In the decades since then, Newt Gingrich’s radical revolution moved the Republicans even further to the right, followed by the Tea Party movement in the early Obama years, and now they have all joined the cult of Trump. [read post]
14 Mar 2019, 1:00 am by CAFE
A comment from Manafort’s lawyer, Kevin Downing, suggesting his client was selectively prosecuted An indictment of Paul Manafort by the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office; plus an article from the NYT on the DA’s charges College Admissions Scandal Listener question from Still Paul The college admissions scandal indictment, and a report from NPR about the scandal  The Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) statute, plus an article from the NYT about RICO… [read post]
13 Mar 2019, 7:31 am by Jim Baker
In turn, Gingrich has rejected Carr’s critique of his proposal. [read post]
20 Feb 2019, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
After all, these are people who are truly conservative in almost all dimensions, not having abandoned the Republicans even while it was lurching further and further to the right over the years when Newt Gingrich and Dick Cheney defined the party’s march to previously unknown extremes.It is to the NeverTrumpers’ credit that they did finally walk away when they saw an openly autocratic demagogue take over their party. [read post]
18 Feb 2019, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
From trying to claim that she is not truly of modest means to claiming that she mishandles her personal finances, Republicans have targeted Ocasio-Cortez with a ferocity rarely seen in politics.Democrats have in the past used Newt Gingrich as the (unappealing) face of their op [read post]
11 Jan 2019, 7:15 pm by Tom Smith
KUSI offered our own Dan Plante, who has reported dozens of times on the border, including one story from 2016 that was retweeted by former Speaker of the House, Newt Gingrich, and posted on DrudgeReport.com. [read post]
29 Oct 2018, 5:06 am
What would stop them from launching the full-scale assault on the welfare state that Newt Gingrich and Paul Ryan never mustered the courage to fully enact? [read post]
17 Sep 2018, 3:06 am by Tom Smith
Three decades of remorseless ideological and cultural combat—over Robert Bork, over Clarence Thomas and Anita Hill, over Bill Clinton and Newt Gingrich, over Bush v. [read post]
9 Aug 2018, 8:45 am by Steve Slick
To wit: “Ostrich” (early Barry Goldwater) “Cheerleader” (Newt Gingrich)  “Lemon Sucker” (Daniel Moynihan) “Guardian” (Lee Hamilton) “Spy Watching” fills these out with a rich supply of examples. [read post]