Human Events
December 28, 2011
Newt Gingrich

New York City is home to more than 220,000 children living in poverty. Many live in households with at least one parent who is not employed--and as I wrote recently, two-thirds of those in extremely poor households don't have even one parent who works. Hope and opportunity, for many of these children, must seem a distant promise.

For generations, America has entrusted our schools with the futures of our children. Education, we have rightly told our kids, can help them get ahead. Yet for the thousands of poor young New Yorkers who make their way to school each morning, this, too, must seem hollow. More than one-third of their schools are classified as "failing." Students pass through the years despite struggling with basic skills like reading and writing. Fewer than one in four is ready for college by the time they finish high school.

Human Events
December 21, 2011
Newt and Callista Gingrich

We want to take this opportunity to wish you and yours a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

This is a wonderful time of the year, as we celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ.

During this blessed season, we hope you will have the opportunity to spend time with family and friends, as well as to relax and reflect upon this true joy of the holiday.

We also hope you will join us in saying a prayer for those men and women around the world who will spend this Christmas away from loved ones, as they continue to protect our country and our freedoms.

Christmas is a season of generosity and giving. In this spirit, we hope you will share with those who through illness, poverty, or other challenges, are in need.

MSNBC
December 17, 2011
Andrew Rafferty

The front runner for the Republican presidential nomination accompanied his wife and a mascot elephant at a book signing Saturday on the grounds of George Washington's famous estate.

Newt Gingrich made a surprise appearance with his wife, Callista, at Mount Vernon. The event was originally billed as a solo appearance by Callista Gingrich to sign copies of her children's book "Sweet Land of Liberty." According to campaign spokesman RC Hammond, organizers at Mount Vernon did not want Newt's appearance to be advertised over concerns about crowd size and the perception that a lasting symbol of the country's first president was getting politically active in the 2012 race.

The New York Times
December 17, 2011
Laurie Goodstein

Newt Gingrich sat beneath the soaring dome in the largest Roman Catholic church in North America, the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, and listened as a choir that included his wife sang at an evening vespers service for Pope Benedict XVI and 300 American bishops.

That is the moment, three years ago, that Mr. Gingrich says he decided to become a Roman Catholic, after having been born a Lutheran and joining the Southern Baptist Church in college. In 2009, Mr. Gingrich was baptized in the same Catholic parish church on Capitol Hill where Senator Robert F. Kennedy once attended noonday Mass and sometimes assisted the priest as an altar server.

Variety
December 17, 2011
Ted Johnson

At the recent ABC News-Yahoo debate, when the Lazarus-like Newt Gingrich sought to show his empathy for the hardship of small business owners in a brutal economy, he cited one of his ventures, run by wife Callista, called Newt Gingrich Productions.

"It's a very small company; does basically movies and books and things like that," the candidate said.

The Gingriches have $500,000 to $1 million in assets in the for-profit company -- small by major studio standards, but actually rather prolific when it comes to making a splash in the growing cottage industry of conservative filmmaking, enough for the National Review to dub him "Hollywood Gingrich."

The Washington Post
December 15, 2011
Katherine Boyle

During a routine evening rehearsal, the choir doesn’t pay attention to its misfit.

A petite woman, slightly right of center in the front row, bears the signs of a choreographed life. The gleaming flaxen bob. The burgundy pantsuit and pearls. An oddity beside singers in denim and Eastman sweatshirts.

The eye might think she does not blend well, but the ear disagrees. When singing Eric Whitacre’s “Lux Aurumque,” a contemporary hymn composed of tight harmonies, Callista Gingrich’s is just one of 26
voices blending to form a ripe sound that rings through the basilica’s apse.

Human Events
December 14, 2011
Newt Gingrich

In her 2004 book Hello Laziness: Why Hard Work Doesn’t Pay, author Corrine Maier offered her fellow French citizens a how-to guide for avoiding work, arguing that “doing the least possible” is the true key to success.

But Maier did carve out one exception for her rule: America. When asked whether she thought Americans were insane for their work habits, Maier replied, “No, because Americans, I think, believe more in the future than French people. We French people, right now, don’t believe that the future will be better than now. We think that the future will be worse than now, so we don’t have any reason to work.”

Send2Press Wire
December 9, 2011

The Gingrich Foundation is proud to honor the Marine Toys for Tots Foundation as its December Charity of the Month. Toys for Tots distributes millions of gifts each Christmas to brighten the holidays of our nation’s less fortunate children.

Colonel William L. Hendricks, USMCR, founded Toys for Tots as a pilot program in 1947. The Marine Corps expanded his project just one year later into a national effort and called upon Marine Corps Reserve units to conduct Toys for Tots campaigns in their local communities.

Six decades later, Toys for Tots continues to thrive. Today, the program reaches all 50 states, and invites communities without a reserve unit to conduct approved Toys for Tots campaigns.