Newt, Child Labor, And A Permanent Underclass

by Stuart Shapiro

The Internet is buzzing with criticism of Newt Gingrich’s statement supporting child labor.

Core policies of protecting unionization and bureaucratization against children in the poorest neighborhoods, crippling them by putting them in schools that fail has done more to create income inequality in the United States than any other single policy. It is tragic what we do in the poorest neighborhoods, entrapping children in, first of all, child laws, which are truly stupid.

Much of the criticism has justifiably focused on the physical dangers to children of working in McDonalds or worse.  But Newt says he is …

In New Trump Book The Donald Bashes Obama, Says He Still May Run

In Donald Trump’s new book, in which his assesses his net worth to be $7 billion, the mogul bashes Obama and threatens to finance an independent run against him if he doesn’t like the Republican nominee.

In the book, due out next month, Mr. Trump holds nothing back in blaming Mr. Obama for all that ails the economy. He claims Mr. Obama has spent much of his time traveling “around the world apologizing for the country” and “playing nice with China.”

Trump aide Michael Cohen is preparing for a possible run.

Meanwhile, Mr. Cohen claims he is doing all …

On Tuesday’s Radio Show…

• GOP Debate: Alan analyzes all the key moments in tonight’s war of words over national security.

• Democratic strategist Doug Schoen explains why he’s calling on President Obama to abandon his candidacy for re-election.

• Flip-Flopper’s Whopper: Alan exposes the Romney campaign’s blatant disregard for the truth.…

Uh Oh! Get Ready For Climategate 2011

Climategate 2009 was a bust, and at seems another wrongdoer has leaked emails on purpose just before another UN summit. They may be from the same batch as the 2009 leak at the University of East Anglia (UEA), which issued a statement saying:

“This appears to be a carefully-timed attempt to reignite controversy over the science behind climate change when that science has been vindicated by three separate independent inquiries and number of studies – including, most recently, the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature group.”

A text file included with the batch, apparently written by someone involved in the release and …

NH Senator Kelly Ayotte Wants To Legalize Torture

New Hampshire Senator Kelly Ayotte has proposed an amendment to the defense bill that would make torture legal.

The amendment, which purports to authorize “lawful interrogation methods,” actually rescinds Obama’s 2009 executive order banning torture. It directs the secretary of defense, attorney general and director of national intelligence to adopt a “classified annex” to the Army Field Manual, complete with a list of interrogation methods that could be used by the inter-agency High Value Interrogation Group (HIG). A coalition of civil liberties and human rights groups has called on the Senate to reject the amendment, stating it would “revive …

Romney Ad “Intentionally” Misquotes Obama

A new Mitt Romney ad has the president saying, “If we keep talking about the economy we’re going to lose.” This purposely ignores and misstates what the president said.

…when Mr. Obama made that statement, he was actually quoting an aide to John McCain, his 2008 rival for the presidency. “Senator McCain’s campaign actually said, and I quote, if we keep talking about the economy, we’re going to lose,” Mr. Obama said.

In an email to Politico, the Romney camp said it used the out-of-context quote “intentionally.”

“We used that quote intentionally to show that President Obama is doing exactly …

More Than 100,000 Signatures For Recall Of WI Governor Scott Walker

United Wisconsin says that after four days, they’ve gathered 105,000 signatures to recall Governor Scott Walker. They have 60 days to get 540,208.

There are, of course, two important caveats: First, after months of build-up to the recall campaign, it is natural that there would be an initial rush to sign in the first few days. Second, the Dems will have to gather even more than 540,208 signatures in real terms — for a buffer that campaigns routinely collect in order to protect against signatures being disqualified over one imperfection or another.…

Rick Perry Signs Controversial Family Leader Marriage Pledge

Family Leader already has signed pledges from Michele Bachmann and Rick Santorum. Add Rick Perry.

According to the pledge’s text, signers “solemnly vow to honor and cherish, to defend and uphold the institution of marriage as only between one man and one woman.”

Signers also vow to: remain faithful to their spouses, oppose any “redefinition” of marriage, such as that between same-sex couples; and embrace a federal marriage amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

Language in the original document, put out in July, sparked some controversy.

Its preamble asserted that African-American children, who were born into slavery, were better off …

Romney: Triggered Defense Cuts “Like Holding A Gun To Your Own Head”

Mitt Romney is critical of the defense cuts triggered by the failure of the deficit reduction committee.

With the world that’s a dangerous place, we’re going to put the military on the chopping block. It’s like holding a gun to your own head. I can’t imagine the circumstance that ever makes any sense at all.”…

Pregnant Woman Says She Miscarried After Being Peppersprayed At Occupy Seattle

Jennifer Fox, 19, says she was three months pregnant when she joined an Occupy Seattle march last Tuesday. but being hit in the stomach caused her to miscarry.

“I was standing in the middle of the crowd when the police started moving in,” she says. “I was screaming, ‘I am pregnant, I am pregnant. Let me through. I am trying to get out.’” At that point, Fox continues, a Seattle police officer lifted his foot and it hit her in the stomach, and another officer pushed his bicycle into the crowd, again hitting Fox in the stomach. “Right before …

Newtwatch: Calls Congressional Budget Office “A Reactionary Socialist Institution”

It’s getting to be fun now (h/t Political Wire).

The former Speaker of the House labeled the Congressional Budget Office a “reactionary socialist institution” during a speech on Social Security reform in New Hampshire on Monday…

“The Congressional Budget Office is a reactionary socialist institution which does not believe in economic growth, does not believe in innovation and does not believe in data that it has not internally generated,” Gingrich said.

Exactly what is Gingrich labeling a “reactionary socialist institution?”

The CBO’s mission is to provide Congress with information on budgets and the impact that legislation will have on …