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If Not Us, Who?   is David Frisk's excellent new biography of William Rusher, the longtime publisher of National Review .  It explains h...

Useful Census graphs on the demographics of voting and registration. The antecedents of Santorum's "Rombo" ad. How postal ...

The little remembered Gore-Gingrich bill, which would have established the Office of Critical Trends Analysis . A 1980 letter in which Gin...

Previous posts ( here ,  here , here ) contained links to information and documents about Newt Gingrich.  Here are some additional items: ...

In his 1988 book , Ron Paul did not just disagree with Ronald Reagan, he repudiated the whole administration. A former aide criticizes ...

The next time you watch a Newt Gingrich speech or debate performance, try Gingrich Bingo , a game deriving from the former speaker's fav...

He once supported a value-added tax. He once attacked House GOP conservatives as "the perfectionist caucus."

Newt's use of language. A 1992 episode suggesting a pragmatic view of religion. Newt's fascination with science fiction. New survey ...

On CBS, Scott Pelley screws up a key fact about Super PACs A misquotation on homelessness goes viral Newt Gingrich makes some historical mis...

In MSNBC ads this year, Rachel Maddow has been making the public-goods case for government. It is not surprising that she would offer such a...

As a freshman House member, Newt Gingrich embraced the responsible party school, sounding a lot more like Woodrow Wilson than James Madison....

With Gingrich's continue rise in the polls, some may want to see recent items: Gingrich would abolish the Congressional Budget Office --...

The fake Tocqueville quotation has crossed the Pacific , with the leader of the Australian opposition saying that America is great because A...

The public administration folks must be having a good laugh at current debates. Six Sigma is not a new idea . Neither is zero-based budgetin...

Now that Newt Gingrich seems to be surging in the polls, there is renewed interest in his background. This eclectic collection of items may...

Romney's religion could still be a problem for him . The latest Pew survey details generation gaps on key political issues . Gallup re...

San Francisco is perhaps the most prominent jurisdiction to use ranked-choice (or instant-runoff) voting. Articles here and here describ...

Rick Perry misuses the word literally with amusing results . Perry channels John McCain and Barack Obama on energy and regulation . Newt Gi...

Political scientists weigh in on the electoral college: Why Colorado could be pivotal in 2012 ; An argument against a proposed district syst...

"Kick-a-puppy syndrome" -- the belief that one's opponents are so mean that they would ... well, kick a puppy. More here.