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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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Days of yore: World Net Daily launched a national billboard campaign in 2009 to draw attention to the exact location of President Obama's birthplace. (World Net Daily)

Inside the Beltway: The ‘Birther’ question gets reborn

In another era, Donald Trump pursued the question of President Obama's citizenship with gusto, wondering if the nation's primary leader had been born in the United States -- or elsewhere. Republicans, apparently, are still wondering.

September 1, 2015
Co-authors Dick Cheney and daughter Liz Cheney (Image from Simon & Schuster)

Dick Cheney: Tell children that America is ‘the most powerful, good and honorable nation in history’

The book authored by former vice president Dick Cheney and daughter Liz Cheney arrives on bookshelves Tuesday. "Exceptional: Why the World Needs a Powerful America," makes the case for a strong national defense advising readers, "For the better part of a century, security and freedom for millions of people around the globe have depended on America's military, economic, political and diplomatic might. For the most part, until the administration of Barack Obama."

September 1, 2015
Gov. Scott Walker and Sen. Joni Ernst on a Harley-enhanced campaign ride in Iowa earlier in 2015. (AP Photo)

Scott Walker to tour every county in New Hampshire on a Harley-Davidson

Donald Trump may show up to his campaign events in his own 757 aircraft emblazoned with a personal logo. But Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker may trump Mr. Trump for the flashiest ride over Labor Day. Mr. Walker plans a bodacious motorcycle ride through New Hampshire which covers considerable territory.

August 31, 2015
One poll finds voters very critical of three leading presidential hopefuls: Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton and Jeb Bush. (associated press photographs)

Inside the Beltway: Vexed voters go off on Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, Jeb Bush

American voters are hard to please. Or maybe they're just annoyed, or have early onset election fatigue. Consider that 1,653 likely U.S. voters were asked by Quinnipiac University to describe Democratic front-runner Hillary Rodham Clinton and Republican hopefuls Donald Trump and Jeb Bush in the single word of their choice -- and their choices were less than sterling.

August 27, 2015
South facade of the White House (White House image)

A VP for president? Historical odds not friendly to a Biden bid says new study

Vice presidents who seek the presidency can have a long road, says some new historical research from the University of Minnesota. Even with a wave of initial good will at his back for a 2016 campaign, Vice President Joe Biden would face long historical odds in winning the White House from his current political perch.

August 27, 2015
Democratic presidential candidate Bernard Sanders, who is gaining ground on front-runner Hillary Rodham Clinton, will be among the five White House hopefuls at the party's summer meeting this week in Minnesota.

Inside the Beltway: Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders at Democrats’ summer meeting

It's a biggie: All five Democratic presidential hopefuls will take a few moments off their campaign trail time to journey to Minneapolis for the party's official summer meeting, which begins Thursday. Indeed, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Sen. Bernie Sanders, Martin O'Malley, Lincoln Chafee and Jim Webb will all be along to share their feelings -- but not Vice President Joseph R. Biden, who lingers off stage, mulling his own White House run.

August 26, 2015
A group of black pastors and pro-life leaders are calling for the removal of a portrait bust of Planner Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger from the National Portrait Gallery. (Image from STAND)

Black pastors, pro-life advocates rallied against museum portrait of Planned Parenthood founder

Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger does not belong beside Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks in the "Struggle for Justice" exhibit at the National Portrait Gallery in the nation's capital. So say Ministers Taking a Stand, a group of black pastors who are asking the gallery to remove a portrait bust of Sanger, and rallied Thursday outside the facility. The group has drawn support from Texas Republicans Sen. Ted Cruz and Rep. Louis Gohmert, who have circulated a letter among their colleagues supporting the pastors' request.

August 26, 2015
Advertising outreach for a new ammunition line meant to down invasive lightweight drones. (Snake River Shooting Products)

‘Prepare for Drone Apocalypse’: New ammo meant to protect privacy and down drones

Now ready for citizens concerned their privacy is at stake in an increasing drone-friendly culture: Snake River Shooting Products has just introduced Drone Munition shot shell based defense rounds. "Prepare for the Drone Apocalypse, the Idaho-based company warns in its first ad for the new product, which they describe as a "12 gauge 3-inch shot shell solution aimed at defending against drone-based privacy concerns and terror."

August 24, 2015
A campaign image from the Draft Biden 2016 political action committee, now appearing on bumperstickers and other campaign swag.

Inside the Beltway: Joe Biden meeitng with Elizabeth Warren worries some, elates others

Vice President Joseph R. Biden, Sen. Elizabeth Warren: Their low-key meeting in the nation's capital over the weekend has Democrats dancing, dubious or dithering over the prospects of "Biden/Warren 2016" -- or maybe it's Warren/Biden 2016, depending on the prevailing winds of sentiment. It's also certainly possible that there will be no combination, and that the meeting was a staged event to distract the news media from Hillary Rodham Clinton's email woes for the time being.

August 23, 2015
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump greets his eager public in Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)

Donald Trump ‘pep rally’ in Alabama expected to draw a record-breaking 35,000 fans

Yes, Donald Trump campaigns on a jumbo scale. The "Donald J. Trump for President Pep Rally", scheduled in Mobile, Alabama on Friday evening, has drawn such an overwhelming response from Trump folks that it had to be moved from a sizable civic auditorium to the Ladd-Peebles Stadium, which can seat 40,000. This is likely to be one of the biggest campaign event of the season - eclipsing a recent gathering for Sen; Bernie Sanders which drew 28,000 fans.

August 21, 2015