Prepare yourselves for yet another chapter of "The Wit and Wisdom of former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich", the self-righteous, born-again Republican moralist, philanderer, presidential wanna-be, and author of several novels, catalogued, ironically, as "historical fiction."

This time the Tulane-trained expert on Belgian education policy in the Congo is posturing around ground zero.

According to the disgraced and disgraceful former Congressman, "Nazis" (members of an early 20th-century German political party and disproportionately "Christian") . . . and "The Japanese" (citizens and soldiers of a disproportionately Shinto/Buddhist country summed up by Newt as the folks who brought you Pearl Harbor) . . . and Muslims (an internally fragmented religious community comprising dozens of nationalities and even more points of view) are just alike.

And if you're not impressed by Newt's mastery of history (and traditional formal logic), he's ready to wow you with his economic insights.

Like most of his tea-sipping friends, he's convinced that extending tax breaks to the wealthiest one-percent of America's households constitutes good stewardship of the American economy.

How will the roughly $680 billion (with a "B") in tax benefits be distributed?

Well, none for you, Pilgrim.

Princeton economist and Nobel Prize winner Paul Krugman put it this way.

"Take a group of 1,000 randomly selected Americans and pick the ONE with the highest income; he's going to get the majority of that group's tax break. And the average tax break for those lucky few -- the poorest members of the group have annual incomes of more than $2 million, and the average member makes more than $7 million a year -- would be $3 million over the course of the next decade."

Nice . . . for all of us taking home that kind of dough.

Don't Tread on Me? Good Lord, don't go anywhere NEAR those people.

Next week: Palin cures cancer and launches her tea-parties-for-world-peace campaign.

Watch this space . . . and keep your citizenship papers handy.