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Appearing on CBS’ Face the Nation , Newt Gingrich offered an opinion about the Romney/Ryan ticket that falls outside the conventional wisdom. Not having much foreign policy experience isn’t an issue, he asserted. Quite the opposite, in fact. Prefacing his statement with “I’m going to shock you,” Gingrich went on to argue, “I think that it is an advantage that they are not part of the current mess.” Mitt Romney , he added, has just about the same amount of foreign policy experience as Ronald Reagan did. And Reagan “defeated the Soviet empire.” “I would rather have Romney and Ryan rethinking everything than have the current team continue,” Gingrich said, pointing to the “disaster” in the Middle East. Asked about whether he feels he knows what Romney’s foreign policy philosophy is, Gingrich said he thinks he knows how Romney will approach foreign policy. Specifically, he noted, Romney will be cautious, think closely about America’s interests, apply a “decision-making process that relie...

Not everyone with conservative ties cheered when Mitt Romney selected Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan as his presidential ticket running mate. Former Bush administration State Department official Christian Whiton appeared on Fox Saturday to address his concerns with the selection, asserting that Ryan is inexperienced with foreign policy and “too young” to become President. “One reason this is a unfortunate pick opinion is that Paul Ryan has a very thin record on foreign affairs, which is a key criteria of course if you’re going to be supporting the man who will be commander-in-chief,” the D.C. International Advisory principal said. “Paul Ryan has said relatively little about foreign affairs and when he has it generally is brought back to his portfolio as head of the finance committee, so he’ll talk about how it’s important for America to thrive economically, to not appear to be in decline…But unfortunately what we don’t have from either the top or bottom of this ticket is a clear message o...

Here’s an innovative, simple, and exciting application to Google Glasses: foreign language augmented reality that translates text like real-life subtitles. Technology MacGyver Will Powell assembled a working concept of the product from a list of consumer electronics, and demonstrated it in a video of himself in conversation with his sister. Check out the video below. We’ve also pasted his description of the convoluted process the product takes to translate, below the video. “The individual using the glasses be wears the Vuzix 1200 Star glasses which are connected to the s-video connector on the first raspberry pi and the Jawbone bluetooth microphone that connects to a device such as smartphone or tablet to provide a clean noise cancelled audio feed. The bluetooth microphone streams across the network of what I say and what it picks up around me. This is then recognised and passed through Microsoft’s translation API with a caching layer to improve performance of regularly used stateme...