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Newt Was Freddie Mac Cheerleader

More details about Gingrich's relationship with Freddie Mac have come out.

Presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich worked as a consultant and high-level booster for beleaguered home loan group Freddie Mac, records now show.

The newly-released details of Gingrich’s US$35,000-a-year job for the organization show he gave a rallying speech to dozens Continued…

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Is Hugo Chavez Really Dying From Cancer?

Hugo Chavez

Newly-published reports claim Venezuelan socialist dictator Hugo Chavez has not beaten cancer and has only nine months left to live.

Citing Spanish newspaper ABC, CNN reports that the cancer Chavez says he defeated last October has actually spread to his colon, spine, and bones.

CNN notes that the Spanish newspaper did not divulge its sources, only to say they were taken from medical records taken after December 30, and provided to the publication by “intelligence sources.”

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Jeb Bush Will Not Endorse

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Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush has surprised many by announcing that he will not endorse any of the candidates running in his state’s Republican presidential primary, scheduled to be held on January 31.

Three of the Republican candidates – Newt Gingrich, Mitt Romney, and Rick Santorum, had courted his endorsement, the former governor told Bloomberg News. But, he decided not to give anyone his blessing, instead warning them to leave the “circular firing squad” of their debates behind and start appealing to a broader audience. Continued…

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Giffords To Resign From Congress

Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, who remarkably survived a shooting to the head during an assassination attempt last year, has announced she will resign from Congress this week.

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Newt Using “Racial Code Words”: Shelia Jackson Lee

Shelia Jackson Lee

US presidential candidate Newt Gingrich is using “racial code words” to pander to White Republicans, claims militant Black congresswoman Shelia Jackson Lee.

There are “underlying suggestions” when Gingrich calls President Obama the “food stamp president” and wants poor children to work as janitors in public schools, Congresswoman Lee said on Martin Bashir’s MSNBC program.

“These are code words. It’s inappropriate,” she said. “Let me say that the code words, as far as I’m concerned words that generate and signify race.”

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