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Jennifer Harper

Jennifer Harper

jharper@washingtontimes.com

Jennifer Harper wrote the daily Inside the Beltway column for The Washington Times.

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A Wall Street Journal editorial says, "A story this old and unprovable can't be allowed to delay a Supreme Court confirmation vote." (Associated Press)

Inside the Beltway: The complex hazards of the ‘MeToo Kavanaugh ambush’

Behold. The Wall Street Journal has offered a new editorial titled "The #MeToo Kavanaugh Ambush." Regarding the baroque challenges now facing Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh from political and cultural opponents, the news organization simply advises "A story this old and unprovable can't be allowed to delay a Supreme Court confirmation vote."

September 18, 2018
A former McCain campaign adviser says that voters are becoming weary of the slams against President Trump and losing their power. President Trump faces the press and their many microphones during a brief encounter on the White House lawn. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnick) (Associated Press)

Inside the Beltway: Repetitive Trump attacks losing their power

Anyone out there remember details from the infamous, anonymous New York Times op-ed? Anyone? It was just one in a long line of intense, coordinated, strategic attacks on President Trump and his administration which arrive like clockwork daily, and every other word is "chaos."

September 17, 2018
U.S. Constitution. ** FILE **

Trump’s reminder: It’s Constitution Day

Everyone argues about the U.S. Constitution. Not so many sit down and read it, or honor its existence. Monday is Constitution Day, a fact not lost on President Trump.

September 17, 2018
Fox Sports Radio host Clay Travis has a new book arriving "Republicans Buy Sneakers Too: How the Left is Ruining Sports with Politics." (Clay Travis)

Inside the Beltway: Clay Travis: ‘How the left is ruining sports with politics’

Fox Sports Radio host Clay Travis has much to say in a forthcoming book titled "Republicans Buy Sneakers Too: How the Left is Ruining Sports with Politics." Mr. Travis is intent on saving sports, he says, from "social justice warriors seeking to turn them into another political battleground." Mr. Travis is naming names and supplying anecdotes; he refers to ESPN as "MSESPN" and insists that politicized sports could sully national unity.

September 16, 2018
This satellite image provided by NOAA shows Hurricane Florence on the eastern coast of the United States on Friday, Sept. 14, 2018. (NOAA via AP)

Gale force: The hurricane media rages against Donald Trump

The threat of global warming and climate change are hot political topics, embraced by liberal politicians and much of the news media. So are hurricanes, which became a contentious partisan subject beginning in 2005 when former President George W. Bush was criticized for his administration's response to Hurricane Katrina in 2005. The same thing has happened to President Trump.

September 14, 2018
Talk radio host Michael Savage does not mince words in his 26th book, titled "Stop Mass Hysteria: America's Insanity from the Salem Witch Trials to the Trump Witch Hunt," which will be published Oct. 9. (Courtesy of Center Street Books)

Inside the Beltway: Michael Savage fires off new book on mass hysteria and the ‘Trump Witch Hunt’

An unsettling new culture seems to have sprung up now 20 months after President Trump was inaugurated, fueled by the president's tenacious persistence, negative press coverage, shrill outcry and much more. This unprecedented political phenomenon has fueled a new book by talk radio kingpin Michael Savage and the title tells all: "Stop Mass Hysteria: America's Insanity from the Salem Witch Trials to the Trump Witch Hunt."

September 13, 2018
Fox News contributor Charles Krauthammer told panelists on Dec. 29, 2016, that new sanctions issued against Russia stem from President Obama seeing himself as a "god hovering over the country." (Fox News screenshot)

Fox News establishes scholarship to honor Charles Krauthammer

Fox News Channel has partnered with the National Merit Scholarship Program to establish the Charles Krauthammer Memorial Scholarship, named for the late political analyst who was a contributor to the network from 2002 to his passing in 2018.

September 13, 2018
A massive new IPSOS poll surveyed people in 31 nations to reveal some surprising loneliness. (Courtesy of NASA)

Inside the Beltway: Gallup ‘Global Emotions’ poll suggests world is actually happy

There are some intriguing findings in a massive new Gallup "Global Emotions" poll of 147,000 people which took a year to conduct and offers insight into mood of the world's populations. Some of the findings are surprising, even counterintuitive given the endless media coverage suggesting madness and mayhem rules the planet. Most people appear happy.

September 12, 2018
Serious business: President Trump, FEMA Administrator Brock Long and Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen discuss incoming Hurricane Florence. The media is already labeling it "Trump's Katrina." (Associated Press)

Inside the Beltway: News media fixates on ‘Trump’s Katrina’ and Hurricane Maria

The weather was politicized years ago when global warming and climate alarmism were ramped up as a dire, dramatic topic by the news media and quickly added to the liberal list of pet issues. The weather was again politicized when former President George W. Bush was criticized for his administration's response to Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

September 11, 2018
President Barack Obama speaks as he campaigns in support of California congressional candidates, Saturday, Sept. 8, 2018, in Anaheim, Calif. (AP Photo/Ringo H.W. Chiu)

Was Obama worse to the press than Trump?

Former President Barack Obama recently has re-emerged as a strident political force for his party, criticizing President Trump for deeming the news media "an enemy of the people," among other things.

September 11, 2018
Ongoing studies by the Media Research Center charting broadcast coverage of President Trump reveal 90 percent of coverage is negative. (Associated Press)

Inside the Beltway: Media attacks on Trump run like clockwork

For many Americans, the political world goes from complicated to incomprehensible when the news media makes negative claims against President Trump that don't match up with reality. The public, for example, rejoices over the administration's very real economic and diplomatic gains but then are warned by grim journalists that the administration is in "chaos."

September 9, 2018
Organizers behind the protests during Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation hearings have declared that the situation is now "an emergency." (Women's March)

Inside the Beltway: Trump resistance now ‘an emergency,’ say organizers

The volume has gone way up on the non-stop effort to counter President Trump, his administration and his nominee for the Supreme Court. It's about to get a lot louder according to chief organizers - who have declared that the situation has escalated into "an emergency, all-hands-on-deck moment."

September 6, 2018