Gingrich gears up for battle, points to Obama jobs gap

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Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich has opened a substantial lead in the race for the GOP presidential nomination, and the challenge for him is to hang onto it.

Gingrich is weathering attacks on all fronts, some from predictable sources like GOP contender Rep. Michele Bachmann who has routinely attacked her fellow candidates,  sparing only former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney. An attack ad was also aired by the Ron Paul campaign, using truncated video and statements Gingrich made while in the private sector rather than in the public sector where his successes are indisputable.

Other criticism has come from various pundits on major networks,  and even Fox News who many Main Street conservatives believe is subtly lobbying for Romney.

Gingrich should be capable of weathering the storm. In a statement on Friday, he refused to attack his fellow Republicans, opting instead to focus on President Barack Obama’s jobs report.

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Jacksonville courthouse project rife with illegal worker documents

Commentary by Kay B. Day

Lone gull at Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla. (by Kay B. Day)If you think about it, there’s rich irony in more than a quarter of workers at the county courthouse allegedly filing false identification documents. The county courthouse in Jacksonville—the city that is, according to local lore, the largest in land mass in the mainland United States—has apparently become a hotbed for illegal workers.

There’s additional irony when official data is considered. The U.S. Dept. of Labor noted a 10.7 percent unemployment rate for Jacksonville as of September, 2009.

Construction jobs are jobs American citizens and legal guest workers would definitely like to have.

The company overseeing the project, Turner Construction, has done business in the U.S. for more than a century and has locations in more than a dozen states.

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