Like the U.S. dollar, the value of a Newt Gingrich fidelity pledge has dropped precipitously over the last decade. The GOP is torpedoing one of President Obama's nominees because it thinks the person was conceived in an Ian Fleming fever dream. And America's trade gap is perilously wide, but an anti-gay Republican lawmaker in Alabama is doing his part by boosting our exports of sperm to New Zealand's growing lesbian sector.