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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."

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Inside Politics

"Barack Obama found it 'exciting,' and Hillary Clinton saw it as 'a positive sign.' Others, like Zbigniew Brzezinski, the former U.S. national security adviser, went further and praised it as a 'vibrant democracy.' A variety of useful idiots at home and abroad expressed similar illusions about the Iranian presidential election on Friday," Amir Taheri writes in the London Times.

June 15, 2009

Inside Politics

" 'Obama Beach.' That phrase was a slip of the tongue by British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, speaking last Saturday in Normandy, alongside President Barack Obama and other leaders gathered in honor of the 65th anniversary of World War II's D-Day landing on the coast of France."

June 12, 2009

Inside Politics

"There was a time when we would have called it a scandal," Newt Gingrich writes of the United Auto Workers union's contributions to the Democratic Party.

June 11, 2009

Inside Politics

"President Obama's nomination of Sonia Sotomayor for the Supreme Court points to a dilemma that will likely plague his presidency -- How does a 'post-racialist' president play identity politics?" Shelby Steele writes in the Wall Street Journal.

June 9, 2009

Inside Politics

"When Gov. Pat Quinn succeeded Rod Blagojevich in January, he immediately proposed raising the personal income tax to 4.5 percent from 3 percent, the business tax rate to 7.2 percent from 4.8 percent, and expanding the sales tax to services ranging from dry cleaners to Internet hookup.

June 8, 2009

Inside Politics

Bill O'Reilly, host of the top-rated cable-TV talk show (on the Fox News Channel), countered critics who have tried to blame him for the slaying of a Kansas abortionist.

June 4, 2009

Inside Politics

The Rothenberg Political Report has just released its latest outlook for next year's House races and is predicting small gains for Republicans.

June 3, 2009

Inside Politics

"With General Motors having filed for bankruptcy, the question arises: What will the bankrupt company look like and how will it be different?" Fortune magazine's Alex Taylor III writes at http://money.cnn.com.

June 2, 2009

Inside Politics

"A toothbrush, TelePrompter and the nuclear football - they are the essentials for a traveling president. But as Barack Obama packs for this week's historic trip to the Mideast and Europe, there is something he definitely ought to leave at home: grating apologies for America's past," New York Daily News columnist Michael Goodwin writes.

June 1, 2009

Inside Politics

"Both President Barack Obama and Republicans get something they want from the Supreme Court nomination of Sonia Sotomayor," Karl Rove writes in the Wall Street Journal.

May 29, 2009

Inside Politics

"In a previous Forbes column, I decried President Barack Obama's insistence that empathy would weigh heavily in the scales when it came to his next Supreme Court nominee,"Richard A. Epstein writes at www.forbes.com.

May 28, 2009

Inside Politics

"I have given some reasons ... why Sonia Sotomayor might be an especially controversial pick with conservatives and some centrists - not to mention yours truly," Stuart Taylor Jr. writes at www.nationaljournal.com.

May 27, 2009

Inside Politics

"Critics in his own party and Republican opponents are attacking Barack Obama's emerging stance on national security with equal ferocity," writes in the Financial Times.

May 26, 2009

Inside Politics

"It was a tale of two speeches. One was clear, direct and powerful. Barack Obama gave the other speech," New York Daily News columnist Michael Goodwin writes.

May 25, 2009

Inside Politics

"While insisting 'we need to focus on the future,' President Obama devoted much of his speech on terrorist detainees [Thursday] to denouncing the policies of President Bush's administration," Fred Barnes writes at www.weeklystandard .com.

May 22, 2009

Inside Politics

" 'So what about California?' a reader asks. Ummm, that's a tough one. No, wait, it's not: California is completely, totally, irreparably hosed. And not a little garden hose. ... Their outflow is bigger than their inflow," Megan McArdle writes at theatlantic.com.

May 21, 2009

Inside Politics

What no one seems to discuss is, "Where is all this bailout money coming from?" David Boaz writes at www.cato.org.

May 20, 2009