Newt Gingrich

There has been a long struggle to enable Americans to know what they are really paying for in healthcare — and what their options are in quality and price of service.

Watching the parallel television coverage of the American celebration of our 250th anniversary and the funeral of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei gave me a deep sense of contrast.

Why, asked ‘the Maestro,’ should anyone have to pay taxes on fake appreciation driven by a declining currency rather than a real gain?

The next 250 years will not write themselves. They will be written by citizens who still believe, as our founders did, that self-government is worth the trouble.

It will require a lot more patience and tolerance than is normal for the American people, the Congress, or the news media.

If he decides to legitimize the radicals, he will put every Democratic candidate in the country on the line.

The emerging socialist, anti-American wing of the Democratic Party will make this issue even more important.

In Washington, there is a remarkable new statue exhibit which helps bring this history alive.

British Independence could have triggered a turnaround, but it is hard now to see how Britain’s leaders can work their way out of the current cycle of decay.

Shouldn’t 80 percent Americans have their values respected by their elected officials?