The Gingrich-Adams lesson

WASHINGTON, DC: Let us now praise Newt Gingrich. Yes, Newt Gingrich.

There he was, the scourge of Big Government, on the op-ed page of The New York Times Wednesday calling for a doubling of the National Institutes of Health budget. “It’s irresponsible and shortsighted, not prudent, to let financing for basic research dwindle,” he wrote, noting that government investments in preventing and curing disease could save the government money in direct health care costs.