THE GINGRICH WHO STOLE FREE SPEECH. Gene Healy has an elegant, and important, takedown of Newt Gingrich's craziness, which is too often forgotten these days. It's sort of a problem: Democrats and media types are so happy to see a conservative who's serious about policy that they appear willing to overlook the fact that he's a nutball loon. Healy, helpfully, reminds. --Ezra Klein
