Talk about ridiculous

Newt Gingrich -- you are one dumb man.

Big Newt decides America, in its effort to sidestep those big, bad terrorists, needs to forego our principles, or at least radically alter them. For serious:

Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich yesterday said the country will be forced to reexamine freedom of speech to meet the threat of terrorism.

Gingrich, speaking at a Manchester awards banquet, said a "different set of rules" may be needed to reduce terrorists' ability to use the Internet and free speech to recruit and get out their message.

"We need to get ahead of the curve before we actually lose a city, which I think could happen in the next decade," said Gingrich, a Republican who helped engineer the GOP's takeover of Congress in 1994.

This is pretty damn ballsy for someone representing the Republican Party, the group of people that likes to paint their rivals as cowards when it comes to American foreign policy and national security. Because from what I'm reading, Mr. Gingrich seems to be a bit scared of our principles.

That GOP has some nerve. If you're going to accuse Democrats of cutting and running, that's one thing. But to do so while cutting and running from one of our core principles? Yeah, I'll say it: unAmerican.