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Barack and Michelle: It's a Team Effort to bring 'Winds of Change' (VIDEO)

The brief video emphasizes what the right-wing continues to ignore: it takes a strong... more

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Jon Stewart Deconstructs Newt Gingrich

The best take highlighting the extreme hypocrisy that now dominates the GOP Primary... more

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Two More States - Hawaii and Delaware - Allow Same-Sex Civil Unions

CNN... . Two more states allow same-sex civil unions By Josh Levs, CNN updated... more

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Santorum: ‘Court has gotten it wrong’ that pornography is free speech

By David Edwards Tuesday, December 13, 2011 Republican presidential candidate Rick... more

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Evangelicals Must Pray Early, Pray Often

All voting blocks - left and right - have fallen for the charlatans' siren song... more

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Two Schools of Thought

Looking at the state of the world today we are at a transitional phase. On one hand... more

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Virginity For Sale: Utah Mom Pleads Guilty To Offering 13-Year-Old Daughter To Man

A Utah mom pleaded guilty to sending sexually explicit messages about her 13-year-old... more

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Actress Leisha Hailey Releases Statement on Ejection from Southwest Flight Over Kissing Girlfriend

Hailey and Grey's statement: We have always promoted tolerance, openness and... more

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Rick Santorum has a frothy, dirty problem.

Rick Santorum made an enemy of Dan Savage. That was eight years ago, and Santorum... more

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Michele Bachmann: Evangelical Feminist?

CNN... June 27th, 2011 06:09 PM ET Michele Bachmann, evangelical feminist?... more

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More Republican Family Values

Former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has acknowledged that he fathered a child... more

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Livermore woman pleads no contest to sex with boys

Christine Shreeve Hubbs, 42-year-old married mother of three from Livermore,... more

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Gingrich Reconciles Cheating On His Wife While Harping On Family Values: ‘It Doesn’t Matter What I Do’

In his recently published book and in speaking engagements, former Republican House Speaker Newt Gingrich repeatedly warns that President Obama’s “secular, socialist machine” is threatening to destroy America by undermining the Judeo-Christian “values” upon which the country was built. But while Gingrich chastises the supposed erosion of values on the left, his past is tainted by his own contemptible value judgments, including numerous extra-marital affairs(http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17527506/), and pressuring a divorce from his first wife while she lay stricken with cancer in a hospital bed(http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/03/09/politics/main2551861.shtml).

In a new Esquire profile, Gingrich’s second wife Marianne — whom he cheated on with his current wife, Callista — breaks her twelve year silence(http://www.esquire.com/print-this/newt-gingrich-0910?page=all) on her relationship with Gingrich to reveal a portrait of man who understood the deep hypocrisy of his actions, but simply didn’t care:

He asked her to just tolerate the affair, an offer she refused.

He’d just returned from Erie, Pennsylvania, where he’d given a speech full of high sentiments about compassion and family values.

The next night, they sat talking out on their back patio in Georgia. She said, “How do you give that speech and do what you’re doing?”

“It doesn’t matter what I do,” he answered. “People need to hear what I have to say. There’s no one else who can say what I can say. It doesn’t matter what I live.“

Marianne, who was Gingrich’s “closest advisor”(http://www.esquire.com/print-this/newt-gingrich-0910?page=all) during his reign in the 1990s, went on to say that Gingrich “believes that what he says in public and how he lives don’t have to be connected.”(http://www.esquire.com/print-this/newt-gingrich-0910?page=all) But of course, as Gingrich himself demanded when he led a crusade to impeach President Clinton for personal infidelity, politicians’ private lives are inevitably connected to their public ones. Nonetheless, Gingrich has himself admitted to continuing his illicit affair with Callista — 23 years his junior — while simultaneously(http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17527506/) prosecuting Clinton’s adultery.

Perhaps Gingrich has no qualms about committing the sins he rails against because he doesn’t really believe in what he preaches. Esquire’s John Richardson notes that despite Gingrich’s apocalyptic rhetoric, when encountering radical conservative activists, Gingrich “over and over again…takes the long view and becomes the very soul of probity.” “I wouldn’t be able to describe what his real principles are,” former Republican Rep. Mickey Edwards said of the former speaker. “I never felt that he had any sort of a real compass about what he believed except for the pursuit of power.”(http://www.esquire.com/features/newt-gingrich-0910)In his recently published book and in speaking engagements, former Republican House... more