Human Events
May 9, 2012
Newt Gingrich

In the past few weeks, a number of elections in Europe have offered telling signs for American politics about the effect of the current pain on voters.

Two consistent patterns are emerging in virtually every European country where citizens have the opportunity to make their voices heard.

First, incumbent parties are being punished without regard to ideology. Whichever side is in power, the right or the left, it is being punished for failure.

Second, centrist parties everywhere are losing ground to anti-establishment parties.

Human Events
May 2, 2012
Newt and Callista Gingrich

The Gingrich Foundation is proud to announce the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation is its May Charity of the Month, in honor of its heroic work to advance the search for a cure. For more than five decades, the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation has dedicated itself to fighting this tragic disease.

Cystic fibrosis is a chronic condition affecting the lungs and other organs, often resulting in respiratory infections or even necessitating lung transplants. Once fatal during infancy or early childhood, many suffering from the illness today survive decades with proper treatment. These incredible medical strides give us hope that someday the disease will be cured.

We owe much of this progress to the work of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, which has provided crucial support for research since its founding in 1955. With funding from the CF Foundation, scientific and medical researchers have invented dozens of new drugs for treatment, and learned much about the genetic roots of this hereditary disease. In fact, in 1989, a project supported by the CF Foundation was able to identify the gene that causes cystic fibrosis.

Human Events
May 2, 2012
Newt Gingrich

The Obama administration may have adopted a formula that will come back to haunt it.

In an effort to appease religious elements in Afghanistan it has established a standard that could become a major defeat for secular extremists here in America.

In response to Afghan outrage over the inadvertent Koran burnings by the U.S. Military in February, the Obama Defense Department created a mandatory training for military service members in the region. It is entitled, "Proper handling and disposal of Islamic Religious Materials: Service Members/Civilian Training."

You can read the 11 slides in the briefing here.

Human Events
April 25, 2012
Newt Gingrich

Big Labor asserts that workers have rights to a workweek capped at 40 hours, a certain amount of paid vacation, and unsustainable pension programs. Rights, in fact, to lots of things--but not to leave the union or to stop funding their political activities. The Employee Rights Act, introduced last year by Sen. Orrin Hatch and Rep. Tim Scott, seeks to change that.

We all know the feeling of quiet resentment upon opening a paycheck, only to find that a quarter of what we've earned has been hijacked by a federal government everyone knows is extravagantly wasteful. But, however much of our income we may suspect is going to finance public employees' "planning" excursions to Las Vegas, at least we know that much of our money does go to important purposes.

Human Events
April 18, 2012
Newt Gingrich

At the United Nations, the governments (and the dictatorships) of the world are conspiring to deny their people a means to defend their families and their liberty.

The Small Arms Treaty and the U.N.’s project on International Small Arms Control Standards seek to impose global restrictions on gun ownership that would apply to Americans and the citizens of every country that ratified the agreements. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has pledged to support the treaty, an excuse for governments everywhere to empower themselves and limit their citizens instead of the other way around.

As long as we’re limited to fighting over the Left’s gun control agenda we’re debating on their terms. We have to go on offense.

Human Events
April 11, 2012
Newt Gingrich

Under the Obama Energy Department, a lot of people are winning big by losing the taxpayers' money. In the government-sponsored green energy industry, working Americans have effectively handed millions in salaries and bonuses to executives of companies on the road to bankruptcy.

At the most famous failed solar company, Solyndra--to which the Obama administration gave a $530 million loan guarantee--several executives were making nearly half a million dollars a year, including large bonuses taken in the months before the company filed for bankruptcy. For them, the failed endeavor was extremely lucrative.

Solyndra was hardly the only taxpayer-backed firm that paid big bonuses while stumbling to bankruptcy, however. As ABC News and the Center for Public Integrity recently uncovered in a report, Beacon Power, which received a $43 million loan guarantee, paid bonuses of about $260,000 to three individuals before going bankrupt last year. Another company, Ener1, the recipient of a grant worth $118 million, paid its CEO a $450,000 bonus. In January, it, too, filed for bankruptcy.

Human Events
April 10, 2012
Newt and Callista Gingrich

The Gingrich Foundation is proud to announce that Easter Seals is its April Charity of the Month for its important services to aid Americans with a variety special needs.

Easter Seals has worked to improve the lives of those with disabilities for more than 90 years. It was founded by Ohio Businessman Edgar Allen, who established a hospital after the death of his son in a streetcar accident. His work there brought him face to face with the lack of support for children with disabilities. In 1919, Allen founded the National Society for Crippled Children to help address their unique challenges.

Fifteen years later, the society launched an Easter fundraising campaign in which donors purchased “seals” featuring a lily for letters and envelopes. The initiative took off, sparking a tide of awareness across the country about Americans with disabilities. With this increased attention, the organization expanded its mission nationwide, and its “seal” campaign was so identified with these efforts that in 1967, it officially changed its name to “Easter Seals.”

Human Events
April 4, 2012
Newt Gingrich

Last week, I wrote to you about an alternative fuel -- natural gas -- which in a welcome contrast with the President’s greenback energy experiments is being adopted freely by American truckers. This week, I want to highlight the promise the natural gas revolution holds for consumer automobiles—but not in the way you might expect. While the collapse in natural gas prices is likely to induce demand for natural gas cars, it also might finally make it feasible to bring a space-age technology to our cars: hydrogen fuel cells.

Fuel cells are a completely different way of thinking about powering our cars. Instead of an engine which has many moving parts, a fuel cell is a power generation device that is solid-state. It’s just two plates of metal or composite with a membrane in the middle in which gasses mix—air along with some other fuel. When the fuel passes between the two plates, a chemical reaction produces electricity. Because fuel cells do not combust fuel, they are far more effective use of energy than a standard combustion engine—and they emit no pollutants to create smog or reduce air quality.