Experts say Gingrich moon base dreams not lunacy

WASHINGTON — Repub­li­can pres­i­den­tial can­di­date Newt Gin­grich wants to cre­ate a lunar colony that he says could become a U.S. state. There’s his grand research plan to fig­ure out what makes the human brain tick. And he’s warned about elec­tro­mag­netic pulse attacks leav­ing Amer­ica with­out electricity.