Newt Gingrich was on the show last week to talk about his new novel, To Try Men's Souls. There's your link to find out more about it.

Newt Gingrich was on the show last week to talk about his movie Rediscovering God In America II: Our Heritage. Click on through for more information.

We have a rare guest on the show today. Newt Gingrich will be on at 11am ET to discuss his new movie Rediscovering God in America II: Our Heritage.

Newt Gingrich was on the show earlier today and urged you all to go sign the petition to stop the energy tax. It might help the cause if we gave you a link to that. Consider it done.

Yesterday I asked the question, how do you think Obama handled this North Korean missile launch. And with the exception of one candyass moonbat who exhibited an intense hatred of the U.S. military, most of you agreed that he failed the test.

Newt Gingrich compared Obama's weak response to that of the Carter years. He says, "This is beginning to resemble the Carter administration's weakness in foreign policy."

So who does look Newt to? Ronald Reagan. He says, "Reagan ... would have been much more skeptical about a plan in an age of North Korean, Iranian and Pakistani nuclear developments. How do you apply his slogan of 'trust but verify' in dictatorships you can't trust and can't verify? ... Reagan felt that keeping a defensive shield alive was more important than a paper deal. The Obama administration is rapidly undermining our missile defense system while describing a fantasy world of trust and cooperation."

Speaking of responses. Newt Gingrich had his say on what he would have done to handle this situation had he been in the White House. He would have disabled the darn thing before North Korea had the chance to launch it. Clearly, Newt is not living in a fantasy world, built on a fantasy foreign policy based on a world without nuclear weapons. (That would be Barack Obama's world.) Newt recognizes the issues at stake and the pieces of the puzzle that are moving into action: North Korea, Venezuela, Iran, Russia.

Barack Obama's response? Call for a Global Summit on Nuclear Security. Obama actually thinks that we can achieve a world without nuclear weapons. Please tell me this man is not that naïve. This can never be. Instead of living with this completely unrealistic pipe dream, we need to create a world where rogue nations and Islamic terrorist groups know that to seek one of these weapons is to guarantee their own destruction.

Here's how Newt would have handled things: "There are three or four techniques that could have been used, from unconventional forces to standoff capabilities, to say: 'We're not going to tolerate a North Korean missile launch, period.' I mean, the world's either got to decide that North Korea is utterly dangerous ... I'd recommend, look at electromagnetic pulse, which changes every ... equation about how risky these weapons are."

Here's the bottom line. Somewhere on this globe some nation or some organization is going to be more powerful than all of the others. Who is going to carry the big stick? Right now the choices seem to be between the United States, Russia, China or the United Nations. Go ahead ... chose one. One of these four entities will be the world's most powerful ... who do you want it to be? Today both Russia and China are making excuses for North Korea's actions. Neither seems willing to do much about it. We know the United Nations isn't going to act. We have to wait for Israel to attack Hamas for the U.N. to get into gear. That leaves - at least among the world's truly powerful nations - the United States. What are we doing? We're asking the U.N. to do something, we're talking about talking, and we're promoting some fantasy about a world free of nuclear weapons.

Newt Gingrich is waving the warning sign for the Republican Party. He believes that more and more conservatives will be leaving the GOP in the 2012 elections for a third party.

Newt said at a speech at the College of the Ozarks in Missouri, "If the Republicans can't break out of being the right wing party of big government, then I think you would see a third party movement in 2012 ... If you're going to talk about big spending, the mistakes of the Bush administration last year are fully as bad as the mistakes of Obama's first two, three months."

So where are they going to go? The likely choice would be the Libertarian Party .. if conservatives truly want to return to a political party based on freedom, liberty and limited government. Trouble is, the Libertarian party can't seem to recognize international threats against America, and our need to realistic address those threats. Bob Barr, the last Libertarian presidential candidate, called our troops in Iraq "occupiers." He adamantly refused to use the word "liberators." I couldn't vote for him on that basis alone.

Back to Newt: He also points out, "During the period I was speaker, the U.S. government - for four years - total growth was 2 percent a year. Under Bush, it was 6.1 percent. ... This year, I think it will be 36 percent in one year." Can you even wrap your brain around that, folks? Our government is growing at a rate that is absolutely unsustainable. And who is going to rein it in? Certainly not Barack Obama and the Democrats. And clearly, the Republicans haven't proven themselves to be able to do so either. So who is going to stand up a lead us back to a nation governed by freedom rather than government dependence?

Just a thought.

By the way .. if the Republican Party is going to split ... let's leave those who are completely obsessed over the issue of abortion standing on the side of the road. (Oh man, wait until you see the comments on THIS one?)

Looks like there's a little squabble going on between a couple of our favorite people. In a knock down, drag out, which one would you put your money on?

At 10:35am ET, we'll have a special segment with Washington Correspondent Jamie Dupree for in depth coverage of the stimulus bill. Make sure you're following his blog for the latest information.

Also, Newt Gingrich will join us at 11:05am ET for a chat.Go by and visit his site americansolutions.com.

The 111th Congress convenes today. Oh joy. It will be a Congress led by Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid. Nancy Pelosi, by the way, is trying to re-write the House rules, reversing Newt Gingrich's "Contract with America." The purpose behind the new rules promulgated by the aging hollow eyed hippie from Haight-Ashbury is to completely emasculate the Republicans - somehow I think she has a lot of experience along these lines. The new rules say no alternative bills from GOP members, no amendments to Democrat bills and no guarantee of open debate. This will be the Congress that will allow funnyman Al Franken to take a seat but deny entry to Roland Burris. The fact that Al Franken has been declared the winner is, by the way, an atrocity. You remember, I hope, the details of that "recount" in Minnesota I shared with you yesterday. Anyway .. the game is on. BOHICA.