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Greg Pierce

gpierce@washingtontimes.com

Greg Pierce grew up in Indiana and Illinois, and graduated from Illinois State University, where he was editor of the student newspaper. He worked at newspapers in Indiana, Florida and Connecticut before coming to The Washington Times in 1984. Before compiling "Inside Politics," he covered federal agencies for the newspaper. Mr. Pierce also compiles "Washington in Five Minutes" and edits the weekly history page, "America at War."

Articles by Greg Pierce

Inside Politics

"Do we really have to foot the bill for those bonuses at the American International Group?" Andrew Ross Sorkin writes in the New York Times.

March 18, 2009

Inside Politics

"As governor of South Carolina, Mark Sanford has made a mark not by creating any new social programs or by slashing taxes or making some other dramatic gesture. He's done it by doggedly opposing new spending at every opportunity, to the point where he's struck many critics as a monomaniacal economic Luddite," Reihan Salam writes at www.forbes.com.

March 17, 2009

Inside Politics

"Not long ago, after a string of especially bad days for the Obama administration, a veteran Democratic pol approached me with a pained look on his face and asked, 'Do you think they know what they're doing?' " New York Daily News columnist Michael Goodwin writes.

March 16, 2009

Inside Politics

"Last week, President Barack Obama convened a health care summit in Washington to identify programs that would improve quality and restrain burgeoning costs," Drs. Jerome Groopman and Pamela Hartzband write in the Wall Street Journal.

March 13, 2009

Inside Politics

"Free Barack!" Camille Paglia writes at www.salon.com

March 12, 2009

Inside Politics

"We all knew [President] Obama was going to reverse [former President George W.] Bush's policy on federal embryonic stem-cell research, and now he's done so," Rod Dreher writes in a blog at beliefnet.com.

March 11, 2009

Inside Politics

"For the second time in as many months, Republicans in Congress have managed to slow down a major appropriations bill with horror stories about tangential spending," Bruce Reed writes at www.slate.com.

March 10, 2009

Inside Politics

"He hasn't called anyone an 'evildoer' or denounced an 'axis of evil.' But make no mistake: President Obama is putting together an enemies list," New York Daily News columnist Michael Goodwin writes.

March 9, 2009

Inside Politics

"The Democratic idea bank of Robert & Robert says it's safe to unload on Ronald Reagan," Wall Street Journal columnist Daniel Henninger writes.

March 6, 2009

Inside Politics

"If leadership is measured by seizing big opportunities that others do not see, then Barack Obama is already proving himself a leader," Roger Altman writes in the Financial Times.

March 5, 2009

Inside Politics

"As 2009 opened, three weeks before Barack Obama took office, the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed at 9,034 on January 2, its highest level since the autumn panic. [On Monday] the Dow fell another 4.24 percent to 6,763, for an overall decline of 25 percent in two months and to its lowest level since 1997. The dismaying message here is that President Obama's policies have become part of the economy's problem," the Wall Street Journal said Tuesday in an editorial.

March 4, 2009

Inside Politics

Barack Obama's first budget is a revelation," Clive Crook writes in the Financial Times.

March 3, 2009

Inside Politics

Congress will scrub President Obama´s name from a list of earmark co-sponsors in the $410 billion omnibus spending bill," Jonathan Allen reports at www.cqpolitics.com.

February 27, 2009

Inside Politics

A group called the Free Radio Coalition has been formed to fight the possible reimposition of the so-called " Fairness Doctrine," Radio America President James Roberts said Tuesday.

February 25, 2009

Inside Politics

"The Obama people keep telling audiences how 'smart' their government is going to be, and Making Work Pay is a clever way to overcome humanity's unfortunate impulse to save rather than spend in hard times," Wall Street Journal columnist Daniel Henninger writes.

February 20, 2009

Inside Politics

"Through most of his inaugural prime-time press conference, Barack Obama seemed like he was channeling a particularly loquacious combination of Joe Biden, Bill Clinton and the ghost of Hubert Humphrey," Walter Shapiro writes at the New Republic Web site (www.tnr.com).

February 11, 2009