
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jAlE_HLDj8 This morning's announcement that NASA wants to build a manned moon base by 2017 suggests Democrats and Republicans can agree about something big and expensive. Earlier this year, the idea of an American moon base by 2020 emerged not from the Obama administration, but from then-Republican presidential nominee Newt Gingrich. Dismissed as crackpot grandstanding -- Gingrich got a lot of that -- the NewtBase became a semi-serious talking point during the primary campaign. It took off particularly when the Republican nominees reached Florida, ... Read More




