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Jennifer Harper

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

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Norman “Chubby” Chaney of the old “Little Rascals” films gets some help from kind strangers 76 years after he died with a headstone at Baltimore Cemetery. (Courtesy of MIKAL C.G.)

Inside the Beltway: What Romney intended

"Smaller, simpler, smarter. Believe in America," reads the official motto emblazoned upon "Office of the President-Elect," a website launched by Mitt Romney's campaign through a Utah-based software site in late October. It was publicly visible for a time, soon to be discovered by several news organizations and deactivated after Mr. Romney lost the election.

November 8, 2012
Richard Viguerie says, “The agenda of the conservative movement and the tea party of small-constitutional government will now become the agenda of the Republican Party.” (The Washington Times)

Inside the Beltway: Anticipation

"Regardless of the final results of the election, Wednesday, Nov. 7 continues a gigantic battle between small-government, constitutional conservatives and the big-government Republicans for the heart and soul of the GOP," longtime conservative maven Richard Viguerie tells Inside the Beltway.

November 6, 2012
President Bush greets Artie Muller, executive director of Rolling Thunder, and singer Nancy Sinatra at the White House in 2004. The motorcycle group is strongly supporting Mitt Romney for president. (Associated Press)

Inside the Beltway: Thundering for Romney

Mitt Romney's got the biker vote. Rolling Thunder, the exuberant nonprofit membership organization for motorcycle enthusiasts, military vets and old-school patriots are near unanimous in their support of Mr. Romney following a vote Saturday during a conference in the nation's capital.

November 5, 2012
Canisius College political science professors Kevin Hardwick (left), a Republican, and Michael Haselswerdt, a Democrat, say there’s a viable chance that the presidential candidates could split the electoral votes 269-269, leaving Congress to elect the nation’s president and the Senate to choose the vice president. (Canisius College)

Inside the Beltway: The odd scenario

An unusual speculation on the election outcome emanates from a small campus in Buffalo, N.Y.: agitated America could end up with President Mitt Romney and Vice President Joseph R. Biden, insist Canisius College political science professors Michael Haselswerdt, a Democrat, and Kevin Hardwick, a Republican. The race is so close that there's a viable chance that the presidential candidates could split the electoral votes evenly, 269-269.

November 4, 2012
Mark Twain once said, “Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason.” A long-awaited Election Day for President Obama and Mitt Romney looms Tuesday. (Associated Press)

Inside the Beltway: That pesky change

The campaigns only wish they could trademark the word "change," which technically functions as both noun and verb. President Obama and Mitt Romney are duking it out over who's got the biggest "change" in the nation as Election Day looms, now some 96 hours away.

November 1, 2012
What could it predict for the election outcome? Chia Obama and Chia Romney sprout with distinctive difference as they grow in The Washington Times newsroom. (The Washington Times)

Inside the Beltway: Wave with Johnson

"Waste your vote on me," begs Gary E. Johnson to curious or disenchanted voters everywhere. The Libertarian Party candidate is calling on fierce local fans to amplify his message with grass-roots fervor, a campaign strategy of former presidential hopeful Rep. Ron Paul.

October 31, 2012

Times247 website honored for best home page

The Washington Times-affiliated website Times247.com has won an EPPY Award award for best home page for sites drawing fewer than 1 million unique monthly visitors.

October 31, 2012
CURTIS LOVELL Escape artist Curtis Lovell has advice for voters who suddenly feel trapped by the election, politics and media coverage.

Inside the Beltway: The inevitable Gore

"Hurricane Sandy is a disturbing sign of things to come. We must heed this warning and act quickly to solve the climate crisis. Dirty energy makes dirty weather," says Al Gore, commenting on Hurricane Sandy in his personal blog.

October 30, 2012
Actress Lena Dunham attends the world premiere of "Supporting Characters" during the Tribeca Film Festival on Friday, April 20, 2012 in New York. (AP Photo/Evan Agostini)

Inside the Beltway: The ebbing charm

Critics wonder how long women will tolerate certain aspects of President Obama's more curious re-election efforts. There's the odd new campaign video, for example, showcasing HBO's "Girls" actress Lena Dunham, who compares voting for the first time to losing her virginity.

October 29, 2012
Those who know the old “tip of the spear” insignia of the World War II-era Office of Strategic Services gathered Saturday to celebrate former Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates. (OSS Society)

Inside the Beltway: Strategic revels

Indicators that an OSS Society event is under way: the official party favor is an elegant martini glass, strolling violinists play "The Ballad of the Green Berets" and multiple conversations begin with such phrases as "General, I haven't seen you since Afghanistan."

October 28, 2012

Inside the Beltway: Championing the ‘undecided’

Late night comics and the liberal press delight in either vilifying or parodying undecided voters, dismissing them as "boneheads" and "idiots." David Bossie — who spent a year interviewing undecided and disenchanted voters for his new documentary film "The Hope and the Change" — will have none of it, however.

October 25, 2012
Planned Parenthood is deceiving millions of American women about the services it provides, says Lila Rose, founder of Live Action. (Photo courtesy Live Action)

Inside the Beltway: Why you’re tired

A record-breaking 915,000 presidential campaign ads have aired on broadcast and cable TV from late April through Sunday — a 45 percent increase compared with the 2008 election.

October 24, 2012
New bracelets from the Mitt Romney campaign feature the motto “Clear Eyes, Full Hearts, America Can’t Lose!” They come in red, white and blue. (Romney Victory, Inc.)

Inside the Beltway: Third party’s party

American broadcasters may overlook third-party presidential hopefuls but not Russia TV and Al-Jazeera, which plan to air an alternative U.S. presidential debate on Tuesday that will possibly reaching millions of viewers here and abroad.

October 22, 2012
Presidential candidates (from left) Gary Johnson of the Libertarian Party, Jill Stein of the Green Party, Virgil Goode of the Constitution Party, and Rocky Anderson of the Justice Party will participate in a debate Tuesday put on by Free & Equal. (Free & Equal)

Inside the Beltway: Prurient and presidential

Respect for the office of president and the bulwarks of democracy? Forget about it. The barriers are completely down, yielding more confusion for citizens already fatigued by press bias and the endless trivialization of the presidential election.

October 18, 2012
image provided by Hank Williams Jr. Country music star Hank Williams Jr. is producing politically charged talk-radio specials to offer free to interested stations to run before Election Day.

Inside the Beltway: Hank: Now hear this

Politically charged patriot and country music star Hank Williams Jr. is pining to get into talk radio. Pro-America and pro-military Mr. Williams will be producing "Loud and Rowdy," a trio of two-hour specials to air in the weeks before Election Day, offering up news of the day, politics, music and just plain "speaking his mind," a spokeswoman tells Inside the Beltway.

October 16, 2012