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Greg Pierce

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

"The polls now all indicate an Obama win on Nov. 4; some even suggest a landslide. But there's a strong chance the race will tighten back up this month. ..."

October 8, 2008

Inside Politics

"The sound you hear is the grinding teeth of Sarah Palin's media critics after her debate with Joe Biden," writes John Fund at www.opinionjournal.com.

October 6, 2008

Inside Politics

"Katie Couric is a master sneerer. She's never done a fair interview with a conservative woman — ever," Michelle Easton writes in Investor's Business Daily.

October 3, 2008

Inside Politics

"Even after declaring his candidacy, and despite a certain inevitable sidling rightward, Obama still reflected the presuppositions of a radical worldview," Joshua Muravchick writes in the October issue of Commentary magazine.

September 30, 2008

Inside Politics

"In its print review (not available online, so far as I can tell) of [Friday] night's debate, The Washington Post 'Fact Checker' column continues its role as a propaganda arm of the Obama campaign," Ed Whelan writes at National Review Online (www.natonalreview.com).

September 29, 2008

Inside Politics

"Now that both campaigns have lost all of their credibility by distorting each other's records and agendas, where does the 2008 presidential contest stand?" Stuart Rothenberg writes in Roll Call.

September 26, 2008

Inside Politics

NEWS BLACKOUT: "Writing in Tuesday's Wall Street Journal and National Review Online, Ethics and Public Policy Center senior fellow Stanley Kurtz traced Barack Obama's partnership with former domestic terrorist William Ayers, when the two collaborated at the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, a charity established to help Chicago's public schools that was commandeered by Ayers to promote his radical agenda," the Media Research Center's Rich Noyes writes at newsbusters.org.

September 25, 2008

Inside Politics

"In the period since the Republican convention, Gov. Sarah Palin won the 'weeks' for her team...It was John McCain's turn to pick up the ball and run with it. He didn't do it very well."

September 23, 2008

Inside Politics

"The presidential race is within the margin of error in just about every poll, which makes it quite newsworthy that two alternative candidates for president, Bob Barr and Ralph Nader, have managed to stagger onto the vast majority of state ballots for this fall's election," John Fund writes at www.opinionjournal.com.

September 22, 2008

Inside Politics

"[Sen. John] McCain was always the Republican every Democrat I knew feared most, precisely because he has long been the one we liked most," Susan Estrich writes at www.foxnews.com.

September 19, 2008

Inside Politics

"The McCain convention bump seems to be subsiding, and the tracking polls suggest the national race is back almost dead even," Richard Baehr writes in the American Thinker.

September 18, 2008

Inside Politics

"The chaos on Wall Street that exploded over the weekend ... may be something of a gift to Barack Obama and the Democrats," Steve Kornacki writes in the New York Observer.

September 17, 2008

Inside Politics

"The brilliance of the McCain strategy and messaging is that it includes a trap for Obama," Democratic political consultant Joe Trippi writes at JoeTrippi.com.

September 16, 2008

Inside Politics

"With top Dems fearing Barack Obama is in a hole, the Obama campaign has made a weird decision. It's going to dig that hole deeper, harder and faster," New York Daily News columnist Michael Goodwin writes.

September 15, 2008

Inside Politics

"Of all the advantages Gov. Sarah Palin has brought to the GOP ticket, the most important may be that she has gotten into Barack Obama's head," Karl Rove writes in the Wall Street Journal.

September 12, 2008