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Gingrich walks back civil rights comments

By | 03.22.10 | 11:41 am

The Washington Post’s Dan Balz yesterday quoted Newt Gingrich, the former Republican House Speaker from Georgia, warning that Obama’s support for sweeping health care reform would plague Democrats for decades, much as Lyndon Johnson’s signing of the Civil…

Stewart Udall, pioneering champion of U.S. wild spaces, dies at 90

By | 03.20.10 | 1:20 pm

Speaking Friday night at the annual Colorado Trout Unlimited gala at the Arvada Center, a $100 a head sit-down dinner, Colorado U.S. Senator Mark Udall compared the outdoor sporting opportunities in DC to those in Colorado and sounded like a…