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Jennifer Harper

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

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Inside the Beltway

Academy Award-winning actor Jon Voight has America on his mind these days, and has shared an open letter to President Obama with The Washington Times.

June 22, 2010

Inside the Beltway

Imagine a recent meeting between President Obama and Senate Republican Whip Jon Kyl, talking border issues in the privacy of the Oval Office.

June 21, 2010

Inside the Beltway

Movie star Jane Russell will be part of the burgeoning cast for Troopathon 2010, a live broadcast to raise money for care packages for troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.

June 20, 2010

Amor, si si? Well, actually, no, no. The Arizona immigration law has taken a big bite out of Mexican affection for Americans, says the massive new Pew Global Attitudes poll - which plumbed the attitudes of more than 24,000 people in 22 countries.

June 17, 2010

Inside the Beltway

The public's taste for stricter gun-control laws is fading.

June 16, 2010

Inside the Beltway

Sarah Palin identified the emerging "conservative feminist."

June 14, 2010

Inside the Beltway

Memo to Environmental Protection Agency administrator Lisa P. Jackson, others.

June 13, 2010

Inside the Beltway

Has the White House responded to any requests made by Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer to help secure her state's border?

June 10, 2010

Inside the Beltway

The political, environmental, economic and legal dynamics of the BP oil spill have taken on a new tenor - the faith factor.

June 9, 2010

Inside the Beltway

Uh-oh. The BP oil spill could bring out the naked truth.

June 8, 2010

Poll: U.S. ‘loves’ technology, Constitution

There are definite things we "love and hate about America," the numbers say. The nation does not live in a gray zone void of pronounced opinions.

June 8, 2010

U.S. no peacenik, global index says

America, land of peace? Forget about it. The United States is just the 85th most peaceful nation on earth, according to the fourth annual Global Peace Index.

June 7, 2010

Inside the Beltway

Now that White House reporter Helen Thomas has resigned, retired, retreated and called it a day at 89 years of age, the press itself is sorting out the travails of one of their own, defeated by controversy.

June 7, 2010

Korean War vets get theatric thanks

They were stalwarts who faced down the communist threat six decades ago, fighting a difficult three-year war across the rugged Korean countryside.

June 7, 2010

Inside the Beltway

The drive-by media get their revenge. Some news organizations were not kind to Rush Limbaugh, who married his sweetheart Kathryn Rogers on Saturday.

June 6, 2010

Inside the Beltway

Newly stern President Obama has presented BP with a $69 million bill for cleanup of the Gulf oil spill. Hurray. But wait.

June 3, 2010

Inside the Beltway

Though Al Gore and his wife, Tipper, have announced a separation rather than a divorce after four decades of marriage, much of the press already has ramped up the tragedy.

June 2, 2010