No 30 mill for Newt

It's a sad day for lunatics everywhere. Newt Gingrich won't run.

The New York Times accepts his spin about legal requirements preventing him from exploring a run. The truth is that he could no longer retain a tax exemption if he were pursuing partisan politics. The fact that the odious Newt could be regarded in any activity as non-partisan and therefore deserving of a tax exemption is just further evidence, as if it were needed, of the Republicans' ability to subvert the spirit of any law that restricts their behavior.