Newt Gingrich: “We are in the middle of a cultural civil war”
Clint Eastwood: “How many felony arrests have you made?”
Thank you Richard and TL.
Category Archives: Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich answers a few questions
I hope Newt runs for the White House at some point.
Newt Gingrich: “…frankly just killing them”
Newt Gingrich: (Prepare to experience deep joy and relief)
The Guarantee Clause: Congress’ Duty to Oppose Theocracy in the United States
It would seem Newt Gingrich is taking the Islamic threat to Western values much more seriously than he used to.
From Bill warner’s excellent website:
by Robert M. Petrusak
[Editor’s note: New Gingrich has called for a Federal ban on Sharia law in America.]
Theocracy is inherently oppressive and contrary to America’s core values. It regards God as the sovereign and source of law. It therefore places the coercive power of the state–including interpretation and enforcement of law–in the hands of believers. It excludes non-believers from the body politic and brings them suffering. In total contrast, the Declaration of Independence regards God not as a source of coercive power, but as a guarantor of inalienable rights including liberty and equality. The Declaration states that government derives its sovereign authority or “just powers” not from God, but “from the consent of the governed.” This concept of popular sovereignty is reflected not only in the preamble of the Constitution, but also in the “Guarantee Clause” of Article IV, Section 4 which obligates the federal government to preserve a republican form of government in every state. The Constitution also precludes theocracy through the First Amendment’s ban on laws respecting establishments of religion or prohibiting “free exercise” of religious beliefs.
Political Islam or “Islamism” is theocratic. It may be defined as a belief that Islam should control society and politics, not simply personal religious life. Accordingly to the eminent scholar Bernard Lewis, the ideal Islamic polity recognizes God as sole sovereign and law-giver and assigns believers the task of spreading His revelation until the entire world accepts it. This is to be achieved by extending the authority and membership of the community that follows God’s law, the Shariah, which deals with the acquisition and exercise of power and the duties of ruler and subject. [1] Accordingly, Shariah is not simply a prescription for exercising personal belief through activity such as prayer and diet. It is a system of laws that affects the conduct of both believers and non- believers in Islamic theocracies. More ominously, expansion of the community that regards God as sovereign suggests contraction and disempowerment of the community which does not.
This is a good moment by Newt
Newt Gingrich makes his position on the Middle East perfectly clear.
Refreshing? To say the least.
Michael Coren on Newt Gingrich remarks on Palestinians as an invented people.
Melanie Phillips on Newt Gingrich and his statement on invented ‘Palestinians’
This is a partial article from Melanie Phillips. The rest can be read
here:
US presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich (whose Lazarus-like trajectory to the Republican nomination I flagged up here a month ago) has recently demonstrated yet again Melanie’s First Rule of Modern Political Discourse – the more obvious the truth that you utter, the more explosive and abusive the reaction.
For Gingrich said the Palestinian Arabs were ‘an invented people’ – and the world promptly started hurling execrations at him, as if such a statement proved beyond doubt that Gingrich was indeed a dangerously extreme individual who, when it came to political positioning, was just off the graph altogether.
So just what did he say? This:
Newt speaks plainly about Israel and regional geopolitics
Newt Gingrich speech with much worth thinking about.
There is a lot of great thinking about Obama’s policy of abandoning Iraq at this time. Mr. Gingrich touches on that along with other things.
Newt answers some questions on the more subtle jihad
Newt Gingrich on Immigration
Very clever and workable ideas this guy has.
Newt Gingrich at CPAC – The War With No Name
Newt Gingrich speaks on Islam and the danger America faces today.
Yes I know lots of you do not have time to watch all the videos I post on this site and to be fair, it would take up a large part of one’s day to do so. But please, watch this one. Newt is fantastic and calls it like it is. He makes me want to make a T shirt saying: “2+2=4? RACIST! My little objection to the dialectic scam. In any case please do watch this superb video of Newt G. Really, it is worth your time.
Below, I did a 9 minute sort of highlights of his speech as a teaser: