During an interview with US News reporter Dan Gligoff published June 3, 2009, Mitt Romney offered the following bizarre observation about the living Islamic institution of jihad, ostensibly to "clarify" remarks made during an earlier speech at the Heritage Foundation: I spoke about three major threats America faces on a long term basis. Jihadism is one of them, and that is not Islam.Romney -- despite this distressingly ridiculous pronouncement -- is still considered a major, even the front running contender for the Republican Presidential nomination.Yesterday (3/3/11) former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich launched a website to promote his own potential candidacy for President. Gingrich, in stark contrast to the muddled and craven nonsense uttered by Romney on jihad during his US News interview, delivered an astute and courageous address this past July 29, 2010, which provided an irrefragably accurate, if blunt characterization of the existential threat posed by Islam's...(Read Full Post)