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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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Inside the Beltway

A Bush-era stalwart is about to re-emerge after a four-year absence, wielding a hefty book, and with news of Elvis. Former Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld's 832-page memoir, "Known and Unknown," is due on bookshelves Feb. 8.

January 6, 2011

Inside the Beltway

A picture is worth a thousand words, sound bites, talking points.

January 5, 2011

Inside the Beltway

Safety in numbers? Certainly not. Multiple alarming headlines warn: "National debt at $14 trillion."

January 4, 2011

Inside the Beltway

A big, juicy debate with f-bombs and finger-pointing? Uh, no. The five hopefuls who gathered Monday to make their case for Republican National Committee chairmanship at the National Press Club were perfectly on message, delivering flawlessly timed talking points in dulcet tones. Their handlers must have been delighted.

January 4, 2011

Inside the Beltway

It could turn into yet another midday TV soap opera. The RNC chairmanship debate at the National Press Club among six voracious hopefuls has been handicapped, poked at and speculated upon by journalists for a month — billed as allegory for the party itself. Oh, the drama.

January 2, 2011

Inside the Beltway

Lose weight, stop smoking? Uh, no. Revere the U.S. Constitution and save money? You betcha.

December 30, 2010

Inside the Beltway

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie caught cold criticism because he was on vacation in Florida when the storm dumped 30-plus inches of snow on the Garden State.

December 29, 2010
Hawaii Gov. Neil Abercrombie has ordered the release of documentation on President Obama's birth "as quick as we can."

Inside the Beltway

It's time to play "find the birth certificate," even as President Obama is presumably enjoying the carefree, balmy breezes of his Hawaii.

December 28, 2010

Inside the Beltway

Interesting. Fox News hosts Glenn Beck, Bill O'Reilly and Mike Huckabee among the nation's most admired men?

December 27, 2010

Inside the Beltway

As usual, news organizations are wallowing in melodramatic weather coverage to describe East Coast snowfall, employing descriptors right out of an Edward Bulwer-Lytton novel.

December 26, 2010
ChurchAds.net U.S. and British faith and pro-life groups have sponsored thousands of Christmas billboards featuring "Mary's blessed ultrasound."

Inside the Beltway

Have a Merry Christmas, but don't forget the most basic origins of the day, say several thousand billboards that show the glow of a fetal ultrasound, a halo above the infant.

December 23, 2010

Inside the Beltway

And that would be Jan. 6, the second day that the bustling new Congress will be in session in the new year.

December 22, 2010

Inside the Beltway

Three Democrats and a Republican need tender loving care and a nice soft Barcalounger. And cookies. Several journalists are casting their sympathy votes to President Obama, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Republican National Committee Chairman Michael S. Steele as the politicians who endured the worst turmoil this year.

December 21, 2010

Inside the Beltway

The discussion has begun. Former President Jimmy Carter says that the U.S. is ready for a gay president in the "near future," telling BigThink.com that "we have realized that this issue of homosexuality has the same adverse and progressive elements as when we dealt with the race issue 50 years ago."

December 19, 2010