Jennifer Harper

Inside the Beltway

The big rally is done, and Glenn Beck is manning the Fox News microphones and testing the reach of theblaze.com, his new website.

August 31, 2010

Oval Office gets a makeover

If President Obama's visitors ever grow bored, they can always read the mottoes woven into the border of the Oval Office's new rug.

August 31, 2010

Inside the Beltway

So he had to wear a bulletproof vest. Fox News host Glenn Beck himself revealed Monday that he was wearing serious protection beneath his light blue shirt at the "Restoring America" rally on Saturday, at the request of his wife, Tania.

August 30, 2010

Inside the Beltway

Political correctness got some plainspoken comeuppance during the "Restoring Honor" rally on Saturday.

August 29, 2010

Inside the Beltway

Electric, patriotic, historic, maybe a little psychic, too: There's a certain spiritual charge in the air around Washington this weekend as thousands arrive for Glenn Beck's rally on Saturday.

August 26, 2010

Glenn Beck rally planned at King site

The Fox News host insists his three-hour "Restoring Honor" event Saturday will not be a political rally, a "tea party" celebration or even a vehicle for personal aggrandizement. But defining what it is has proved to be an irresistible challenge for supporters and skeptics alike.

August 26, 2010

Inside the Beltway

Five of her people won. Indeed, Sarah Palin must relish the outcome of Tuesday's primaries, a fitting comeback to critics who claimed the power of her political endorsements had waned, and her Mama Grizzly claws had grown dull.

August 25, 2010

Inside the Beltway

It is the stuff of reality TV. Maybe the Bravo Network. We're talking about public auctions of seized and forfeited assets by the U.S. Treasury, that is.

August 24, 2010

Inside the Beltway

The "ground zero mosque" outcry continues, and this time the outcry is over the outcry - with some rambunctious libertarian underpinnings.

August 23, 2010

Study: Tea brewed at home healthiest

Pity all those earnest folks who guzzle down a pricey bottle of fancy tea, hoping for a healthy dose of cancer-fighting "antioxidants" and "flavonoids."

August 23, 2010

Inside the Beltway

It has become a parlor game among pundits and press: Who supports the "ground zero mosque" and who doesn't?

August 22, 2010

Inside the Beltway

Is the political hubbub over the "ground zero mosque" just a White House ruse to distract Americans from bad news about the economy? Partisan posturings have conveniently thrown the press into predatory mode; shrill coverage is now front-page fare, replacing serious examination of unemployment, skittish voters and old campaign promises

August 19, 2010

Inside the Beltway

Yes, the contentious, national discourse on race and religion continues. But the contentious national discourse on gay conservatism is also under way with a flourish, and much political theater.

August 18, 2010

School shopping no spree in slow economy

Big prices and small budgets have turned the once pleasant annual purchasing party into an allegory of a flagging economy, producing parental angst and industry cheerleaders who urge the moms and dads to at least "buy American."

August 17, 2010

Inside the Beltway

The Council on American-Islamic Relations is happy with MSNBC's Keith Olbermann for criticizing the use of the phrase "ground-zero mosque" in the press and elsewhere, deeming the term a "misnomer" and saying that the project is neither a "training ground for terrorists" nor an insult to Sept. 11 families.

August 17, 2010

Inside the Beltway

Details emerge after hundreds of "tea party" members converged in a desolate spot along the Arizona/Mexico border some 70 miles east of Nogales, to support Gov. Jan Brewer's immigration law and quest for citizen security.

August 16, 2010

Poll: Women today treated with less chivalry

Feminists may insist that life for women has gotten better since the days when raucous female activists marched in the streets for equality and questioned traditional social mores about men, marriage and career. Pollsters say otherwise.

August 16, 2010

Inside the Beltway

Americans are taking it personally. Public rumbling has commenced over President Obama's public defense of the $100 million "ground zero mosque" project, despite the president's efforts to backpedal or control the political trajectory of his opinions.

August 15, 2010

Inside the Beltway

Oh, the Republican Party is in disarray. Oh, the Republicans have no leadership.

August 12, 2010

Researchers propose statin with fast food

As a public service, British researchers are proposing that fast-food eateries dole out complimentary cholesterol-lowering statin drugs to offset the hazardous glories of their fatty cuisines.

August 12, 2010