Newt.org
July 22, 2010

Newt.org
July 21, 2010

There should be no mosque near Ground Zero in New York so long as there are no churches or synagogues in Saudi Arabia. The time for double standards that allow Islamists to behave aggressively toward us while they demand our weakness and submission is over.

The proposed "Cordoba House" overlooking the World Trade Center site – where a group of jihadists killed over 3000 Americans and destroyed one of our most famous landmarks - is a test of the timidity, passivity and historic ignorance of American elites. For example, most of them don’t understand that “Cordoba House” is a deliberately insulting term. It refers to Cordoba, Spain – the capital of Muslim conquerors who symbolized their victory over the Christian Spaniards by transforming a church there into the world’s third-largest mosque complex.

California Catholic Daily
July 16, 2010

The San Diego chapter of the Knights of Columbus is sponsoring the “Mother of Life Conference” at San Diego State University’s Viejas Arena on Saturday, Aug. 14. The event will feature notable luminaries of the pro-life movement, as well as former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and his wife, Callista.

The event is scheduled to run from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., and is billed by the Knights as "the Largest Pro-Life Conference in Southern California," with the goal of “supporting Life from Conception to Natural Death.”

Washington Post
July 9, 2010
Newt Gingrich

The July 3 front-page article on Thomas Jefferson's editing of the Declaration of Independence ["With the stroke of a pen, 'subjects' no more"] asserted that the change from "subjects" to "citizens" means that "No longer subjects to the crown, the colonists became something different: a people whose allegiance was to one another, not to a faraway monarch."

That is actually a fundamental misunderstanding of the Declaration of Independence.

Legatus Magazine
July 1, 2010
Sabrina Arena Ferrisi

A cross in the middle of California’s blistering Mojave Desert — seen by more rattlesnakes than people — has become a lightning rod in the debate about religion in the public square.

“The cross is in the middle of nowhere,” said Alan Sears, a member of Legatus’ Phoenix Chapter and president of the Alliance Defense Fund (ADF), a legal alliance defending religious liberty. “It’s literally on thousands of acres of barren land.”

Ironically, the cross stood as a memorial to fallen World War I soldiers for seven decades before anyone complained. Then in 2001, a retired Park Service employee decided the cross offended him. He sued the government for trying to “establish religion” because the monument stood on federal land.

Movieguide
June 2010

Nine Days that Changed the World is a very timely, must-see, well-made, emotional documentary focused around Pope John Paul II’s historic nine-day pilgrimage to Poland in June 1979. Since a generation has forgotten how atheistic international socialism aka Marxism aka Communism had turned Eastern Europe, especially the entire country of Poland, into a repressive, economically devastated prison camp, it is very important to see the impact of the Pope’s calling down God’s Holy Spirit to transform the nation of Poland.

The leaders of the Soviet Union in the Kremlin had told Poland not to let the Pope visit, but it became clear that this would be impossible since he was the first Polish pope and the first Non-Italian pope in many years. The people had suffered greatly. They wanted their Pope.

Newsmax Magazine
June 2010
Callista Gingrich

Music is a vital part of a complete education. Today, unfortunately, many school districts are threatening to cut or eliminate entire music programs.

Music education has many benefits. It teaches discipline, character, teamwork, and self-expression. Many studies suggest a strong connection between music and academic achievement. In fact, early music education helps develop areas of the brain involved in language and mathematics.

Most people know that President Ronald Reagan put an end to the Cold War by bankrupting the Soviet Union. But most people do not know that the spark that led to the collapse of communism ignited 12 years earlier, when Pope John Paul II paid his first visit to his native Poland after ascending to the papacy.

Now a new documentary hosted by Newt and Callista Gingrich, Nine Days that Changed the World, recounts, in stirring detail, that visit and its profound effects.

Sixteen months after the Pope’s visit, Poles formed a union called Solidarity, allowing them to organize free from state control. Ultimately a chain of events unfolded that led to the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and Mikhail Gorbachev’s acquiescence to the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. Nine Days tells this story. The Gingriches narrate the 94-minute film, but they played a greater role, helping produce the documentary through their company, Gingrich Productions, and providing concepts, introductions, and backing.