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Jennifer Harper

Jennifer Harper

jharper@washingtontimes.com

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

Articles by Jennifer Harper

Party’s main event a spectacle

There has been a cast of thousands over the years. They laughed. They cried. They hooted and hollered, toasted God and country and hammered on party platforms - not to mention each other. There have been riots, splendid oratory, posturing of the most political sort, and plenty of song and story.

August 22, 2008

Poll: American views of business dive

Economic worries and public uncertainty about modern life in general don't unfold in a vacuum. There's a price for all that free-floating angst - and American institutions and major industries are paying it.

August 15, 2008

Missing pilot to be brought home

His life ended in the skies over eastern Germany six decades ago. Second Lt. Howard C. Enoch Jr. was 19, a Kentucky patriot with a cheerful grin - a fighter pilot who had been in the U.S. Army Air Corps less than a year. He took off in his P-51D Mustang from a British air base one early spring, never to return.

August 14, 2008

Olympics lip-syncing hits low note

Forget the economy. Forget tanks rumbling across Georgia and Obama-mania. Somebody call Milli Vanilli, and maybe William Hung.

August 13, 2008

Fat and healthy not an oxymoron

It could be weighty news for the chubby. "Overweight" doesn't always mean unhealthy, according to research published Monday in the Archives of Internal Medicine, a publication of the American Medical Association.

August 12, 2008

Inside Politics

Jesse Ventura is still capable of a deft stranglehold.

August 8, 2008

Inside Politics

Make nice with Vice President Dick Cheney or else, cautions a Wall Street Journal editorial.

August 7, 2008

Inside Politics

Republican support among Cuban-Americans is no longer a given, according to some observers — particularly the New York Times, which recently posed the question, "Will Little Havana go blue?"

August 6, 2008

Inside Politics

Flyover country is speaking out. Almost 3,000 "rural adults" were surveyed by Zogby International — revealing they favor Sen. John McCain over Sen. Barack Obama in the presidential matchup.

August 5, 2008

Inside Politics

Many chortled over the appearance of Paris Hilton and Britney Spears in a campaign spot for Sen. John McCain. Miss Hilton's mother is not amused.

August 4, 2008

‘Survivors’ voting their grief

"Angry Survivors" could be a new demographic for political strategists to consider, harboring a subtle dynamic that could influence the presidential election.

August 3, 2008

Economy leads Americans’ list of woes

American angst is now centered on the economy, our worries fixated on gas prices, personal finances, unemployment, inflation, stagnant real estate - dotted with a few resilient pockets of optimism, according to research released Friday.

August 2, 2008

American figures fatten

The future population of America could be very, very hefty, according to an analysis released Monday by the federal Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.

July 29, 2008