Point Austin: Primarily Texas

Musings on the day after a frozen vote

"...vs. Evil" strategy inaugurated in the Nineties by Newt Gingrich, and henceforth installed as the permanent ideological position of..."

March 7, 2014 News Column by Michael King

The AggreGAYtor: November 20

What happened today in gay? Here’s your QILTBAG recap of queer news.

"...The Cheney meltdown is just another echo of the Gingrich meltdown. Even when it’s family, some people can’t accomodate..."

Nov. 20, 2013 Qmmunity Post

Abbott: More Twitter Troubles

Gubernatorial candidate makes another social media gaffe

"...presidential nomination campaigns in 2012 – Perry and Newt Gingrich – and has now brought extra media scrutiny on..."

Sept. 20, 2013 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

The Hightower Report: Fruitcake of the Year for 2012

Iowa Supreme Court out-crazies NRA, Santorum, et al.

"...Donald Trump, Rick Santorum, and Newt Gingrich instantly come to mind, but they're pros at the..."

Jan. 11, 2013 News Column by Jim Hightower

Point Austin: Can This Really Be the End?

A look forward, a look back

"...presidential run, together with his feckless endorsement of Newt Gingrich ("Shameless," Jan. 27). "On the Gingrich demagoguery scale, Perry..."

Dec. 28, 2012 News Column by Michael King

Hightower Report: Eau de Lobby

D.C.'s K-Street cleanup smells fishy

"...so soiled and stinky that even the odious Newt Gingrich couldn't stand it, claiming in his hapless presidential run..."

June 1, 2012 News Column by Jim Hightower

Cain: 6,324 ... Perry: 2,494

Rick Perry's campaign fell hard and fast in 2012

"...of a campaign, announcing that he was endorsing Newt Gingrich and heading back to Texas. We chronicled our favorite..."

Jan. 27, 2012 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Tuesday News Gay for Jan. 10

Daniel is awash in Santorum sauce

"...you the suspense –it'll be Mitt Romney – Newt Gingrich's entire campaign is based on attacking Romney, Ron Paul..."

Jan. 10, 2012 Qmmunity Post by Daniel Villareal

The Hightower Report

Name the GOP circus and win 'The Hightower Lowdown'

"...It includes the likes of Newt Gingrich, Mitt Romney, Ron Paul, Rick "Oops" Perry, Michele Bachmann,..."

Dec. 16, 2011 News Column by Jim Hightower

Tuesday News Gay: Dec. 6

Queerty editor teams up with Gay Place for new weekly feature

"...adulterer and hypocritical anti-gay marriage GOP Presidential candidate Newt Gingrich...."

Dec. 6, 2011 Qmmunity Post by Daniel Villareal

Perry's Poll Dance

Our governor's free fall is almost too painful to watch

"...Rob Johnson were applauded for jumping ship from Newt Gingrich's ailing presidential nomination campaign and signing back on with..."

Nov. 18, 2011 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Bill of the Week

House Bill 911

"...that true?" Similar allegations have been made by Newt Gingrich and other right-wing commentators, but the Press & Guide..."

May 20, 2011 News Column by Lee Nichols

Point Austin: What Molly Wrote

Ivins and her kind

"...favorites: a thorough dismemberment of former House Speaker Newt Gingrich. She recounts Gingrich saying in 1992 that Woody Allen's..."

Feb. 9, 2007 News Column by Dave Denison

The Hightower Report

Cleaning Up Congressional Corruption; and The Blockhead in Charge of Whistle-blower Protection

"...You might remember a decade ago when Newt Gingrich put forth his "Contract with America," pledging that if..."

Oct. 20, 2006 News Column by Jim Hightower

The Hightower Report

It's not easy being a CEO; and touch a football or feast on fried shrimp, and go to hell

"...Curiously, this holy crusade includes Rush Limbaugh and Newt Gingrich, two serial divorcers and enthusiastic practitioners of extramarital sex...."

June 24, 2005 News Column by Jim Hightower

The Hightower Report

Norquist disowns stinky pal; and forget about a living wage

"...years with the Bush White House, Tom DeLay, Newt Gingrich ... and with his old college buddy Grover Norquist...."

June 10, 2005 News Column by Jim Hightower

The Hightower Report

Newt Gingrich is back ... hooray! And, job numbers are up – but wages aren't.

"...it's true. Please tell me that Newt "The Newt" Gingrich really is mounting a political comeback and is planning..."

Jan. 28, 2005 News Column by Jim Hightower

The Hightower Report

No need for a babysitter, Big Brother will do it; and Britain has moral scolds just like America

"...swell to be lectured on family values by Newt Gingrich, who's now on his third marriage ... or is..."

Dec. 10, 2004 News Column by Jim Hightower

The Hunting of the President

This Friend-of-Bill doc recounts the hard-right campaign to cut short the Clinton presidency.

"...personally. But it wasn’t only GOP operatives like Newt Gingrich or Ann Coulter who refused to sit for interviews..."

Sept. 17, 2004 Movie Review by Michael King

Page Two

The manufactured debate over Kerry's war record, in light of Bush's privileged nonparticipation, is testament to Republican strategists' sound-bite brilliance

"...Perle, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, Newt Gingrich, Rush Limbaugh, Gov. Jeb Bush, Bill O'Reilly, and U.S...."

May 21, 2004 Column by Louis Black

The Hightower Lowdown

Why do we pay to watch ads in theatres? And, Newt Gingrich argues that the White House should lie to us more.

"...What fun to have Newt Gingrich back in our lives! He has a way of..."

Aug. 15, 2003 News Column by Jim Hightower

The Lizards of Aus

'Never an Adult Moment' With Austin's Veteran Bluegrass Pranksters

"...Immigrant Welfare Mothers on Drugs," followed by their own "Gingrich the Newt." Not only did this maneuver downplay the..."

Sept. 22, 2000 Music Feature by Ken Lieck

Marvin's Metamorphosis

From Communism to Conservatism, Olasky Comes Full Circle

"...has drawn rave reviews from the likes of Newt Gingrich and other right-wingers eager to show that conservatives really..."

Dec. 19, 1997 News Column by Lee Nichols

Human-Headed Flies

Drastic Space III:

"...map it's called "The United Free Markets of Hillary Gingrich."..."

June 20, 1997 Column by Michael Ventura

Naked City

Off the Desk:

"...Two weeks ago, Newt Gingrich announced that he is borrowing $300,000 from former Gov...."

May 2, 1997 News Feature

Portrait of the Artist as a Road Comic

Long Drives, Low Pay, and Drunks -- What a Life!

"..."By the way, folks, say hello to Newt Gingrich up at the bar there."..."

March 28, 1997 Arts Feature by J. C. Shakespeare

The Evil of Two Lessers

"...work. The situation was, in short, exactly what the Gingrich congress and William Jefferson Clinton are now calling "welfare..."

Oct. 11, 1996 Column by Michael Ventura

Art Top Ten

Hanging the Best of 1995

"...2. Painting: Peter Saul's acrylic "Newt Gingrich Versus Little Orphan Annie" (The University of Texas Faculty..."

Jan. 5, 1996 Arts Feature

Naked City

"...THE NEWTERING OF PUBLIC RADIO: Newt Gingrich's big plan to cut off federal funding to public..."

Sept. 22, 1995 News Feature

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

"...Former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich still has a boatload of campaign debt. According to..."

Feb. 10, 2023 Column by Mr. Smarty Pants

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