Inside the Beltway: The Badger vote
The tea party understands Wisconsin voters, no matter how many high-powered Democrats show up in the state before the big recall vote on Tuesday. Published May 31, 2012
Jennifer Harper
Articles by Jennifer Harper
Inside the Beltway: True North
After three decades of searching, Oliver North at last gets the ceremonial sword he received upon his graduation from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1968. Published May 30, 2012
Inside the Beltway: All booked up
President Obama's glittering support in Hollywood on the West Coast is about to be augmented by titans in the book publishing world on the East Coast. Published May 29, 2012
Inside the Beltway: Mitt + The Donald = Vegas
A veritable royal flush of Republicans will be in Las Vegas on Tuesday when presumptive presidential nominee Mitt Romney journeys to Nevada for a pair of private events, one at a local furniture manufacturer, the second at Donald Trump's opulent International Hotel and Tower for a fundraiser where tickets will fetch $2,500 to $10,000. Published May 28, 2012
Thunder had to roll fast with president
Rolling Thunder made it to the White House this year, but the experience for the motorcycle-riding patriots was more pro forma photo oppportunity than heartfelt meeting with President Obama, the group says. Published May 27, 2012
Inside the Beltway: Campers alert
The summer breeze calls: Children of disabled or wounded military service members still have time to sign up for Camp Corral, a free weeklong summer camp sponsored by the Golden Corral restaurant chain, for ages 8 to 15. Published May 27, 2012
Inside the Beltway: Thunderous applause
Inquiring minds want to know: When Rolling Thunder roars through the nation’s capital this weekend, will President Obama meet with the group’s founder and national executive director, Artie Muller, as former President George W. Bush did in years past? Published May 24, 2012
Inside the Beltway: Catholics outraged by ignorance from network news
In the wake of a damning Media Research Center report that broadcast news networks afforded a mere 19 seconds of coverage to historic Catholic lawsuits challenging the White House on certain mandates in the health care bill, religious and pro-life leaders have stepped forward to express "outrage" at ABC, CBS and NBC. Published May 23, 2012
Inside the Beltway: Lawsuit, what lawsuit?
Media Research Center founder Brent Bozell has seen a lot of media abuse in his time as the master monitor of the liberal press. Now, he's seen the very worst: The broadcast networks "all but spiked the largest legal action in history to defend our constitutionally protected religious freedom," the analyst says, citing CBS, ABC and NBC for skimming over news that 43 Catholic dioceses and organizations filed a lawsuit Monday against the Obama administration. Published May 22, 2012
Inside the Beltway: A vial matter
"If indeed this story is true, it's a craven act and we will use every legal means to stop its sale or purchase. ... Any individual, including a President of the United States, should feel confident that once they enter into the care of a medical system their privacy and rights are held inviolable." So says John Heubusch, executive director of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, regarding the public auction of a glass vial that contained Ronald Reagan's blood. Published May 21, 2012
Inside the Beltway: Reagan conjuring up blood money
The bids are lofty for a vial that once held Ronald Reagan's blood, now up for grabs at an online British auction house. At the moment, the leading bid is $5,081 for a 5-inch glass vial with "dried blood residue from President Reagan," drawn from him at George Washington University Hospital after a 1981 assassination attempt by John Hinckley Jr. Published May 20, 2012
Inside the Beltway: Vacation with the GOP
It's colossal, it's stupendous: the upcoming Republican National Convention is expected to draw 50,000 election-minded revelers to Tampa, where the eager city council has just opted to allow local bars to remain open until an unheard-of 3 a.m. during the four-day extravaganza at the end of August. Published May 17, 2012
Inside the Beltway: Mood swings
Oh woe is us: "The national mood is a drag on President Obama's re-election prospects," according to Gallup poll analyst Lydia Saad, who says that several indicators could prove "troublesome" come November. Published May 16, 2012
Inside the Beltway: Scents and sensibility
The public debate over gender issues may never be the same: It's the first-ever Man Candles Collection in such he-man scents as Riding Mower and 2x4 from the Yankee Candle Co., which normally caters to the rose and gardenia crowd. Perhaps they should offer a line for Washington politicians with names such as Hallowed Halls, Power Lunch and Cloakroom. Published May 15, 2012
Inside the Beltway: Bipartisan gangland
The ever-fierce Jesse Ventura says it doesn't matter who wins the presidential election any more because the office has devolved into a kind of bipartisan gangland. To make his point, the former Minnesota governor and wrestling god has written a new book titled "DemoCRIPS and ReBLOODlicans: No More Gangs in Government." Published May 14, 2012
Inside the Beltway: Meet the meat police
Behold, it's "climate smart" beef, sure to heighten the hubbub from global warming alarmists over cow flatulence, industrial agriculture and the collective impact of meat-eaters upon the Earth's atmosphere. Published May 13, 2012
Inside the Beltway: Romney's graduates
Forget shabby politics, an evolving White House and the "Celebrity-in-Chief" for a moment: It's God, country and education at Liberty University on Saturday morning, when 14,012 students receive degrees from a school administration unapologetic about its religion-based curriculum with Mitt Romney delivering the commencement address. Published May 10, 2012
Inside the Beltway: Tea party glee
Cynical pundits who insist that the tea party is dead or irrelevant must rethink their message now that Richard Mourdock publicly credited "thousands" of devoted tea party volunteers for ensuring his defeat of Sen. Richard G. Lugar in the Indiana Republican primary Tuesday. Declarations of the grass-roots movement's demise appear premature. Published May 9, 2012
Inside the Beltway: Bedtime not for Bonzo
While the strategists duke it out on the campaign trail, consider that politically charged pajamas have emerged from the entrepreneurial wags at Cafe Press, and they are proving a Republican favorite. Published May 8, 2012
Inside the Beltway: Dodd-Frank=5,320 pages
Taming the Dodd-Frank Act: It's a daunting job, but someone equipped with a whip and a chair may manage to do it. Federal regulations emerging from the new law are occupying many pages - already twice as many as health care reform legislation - and officials are not even half finished with their task. Published May 7, 2012
