by Erik Kain on February 28, 2012
So in light of Romney winning in Arizona and Michigan, I just remembered that I’d never published this piece. I wish I had, since I was right. Oh well. If wishes were bagels. I’m a…
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by Erik Kain on December 13, 2011
Jon Huntsman’s path to the nomination is built on the front-runners in the race tearing each other to pieces. Will it work? Daniel Larison calls the recent one-on-one foreign policy debate between Jon Huntsman and Newt Gingrich a self-congratulatory failure barely worthy of the term ‘debate:’ To the extent that Huntsman has helped lend valuable credibility [...]
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by Erik Kain on December 10, 2011
is not a fan of Newt Gingrich, and he’s not shy about it either. On the Judge Nepalitano show on Fox, Beck said of the former Speaker, “If you have a big government progressive, or a big government progressive in Obama… ask yourself this, Tea Party: is it about Obama’s race? Because that’s what it appears [...]
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by Erik Kain on December 10, 2011
In the ABC Iowa debate, Newt Gingrich claimed that he never lobbied for when he was on their payroll and that all the money he earned was for work done in the private sector. Tim Carney of the Examiner begs to differ: Newt Gingrich may not have meant it as a laugh line when he [...]
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by Erik Kain on December 10, 2011
In the ABC Iowa debate Saturday night, Ron Paul contradicted former House speaker Newt Gingrich’s claim that the Palestinians are an ‘invented people.’ Earlier in the week, Gingrich made the controversial remark, saying that he believes that “the Jewish people have the right to a state … Remember, there was no Palestine as a state. [...]
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by Erik Kain on November 23, 2011
Newt Gingrich won Tuesday’s CNN foreign policy debate. But will his stance on immigration sink his campaign? It’s probably bad news for Newt Gingrich that I thought he did well in last night’s debate. Taking a more moderate stance on a number of issues, the former House speaker risks losing his front-runner status in recent [...]
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E.D. Kain is a blogger and freelance writer. Currently he serves as Editor-in-Chief of The League of Ordinary Gentlemen and writes a policy blog at Forbes. He can be found occasionally composing 140 character cultural analysis on Twitter. His writing has appeared in The Atlantic, The National Review, The Washington Examiner, and the now-defunct True/Slant.