The Terrance Aeriel, Dashon Harvey, Iofemi Hightower Act

Newt Gingrich, National Review

While Republicans were focused on the kabuki-theater politics of the Iowa presidential straw poll last week, a tragedy with real implications for the nation’s -and the party’s — future was playing out on the other side of the country. The night of Saturday, August 4, four young, college students were forced to kneel against a wall in a schoolyard in Newark, New Jersey.

They were then shot, execution-style, in the head. Three were killed and a fourth survived. Just as the entertainment and free barbecue of the Iowa presidential beauty contest was getting underway, the news broke that the shooter in the Newark killings was an illegal immigrant who had recently been indicted for repeatedly raping a five-year-old relative and threatening the lives of her and her family.

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