Speaker Gingrich
* Newtyism (noot-ee-ism) n.: A reasoning dysfunction manifesting in the selective distortion of a sequence of facts or events in order to support an interpretation wholly at odds with objective reality.
CLIFF MARTIN
Los Angeles
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