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Inside the Beltway: Lawsuit, what lawsuit?
By Jennifer Harper - The Washington Times
Media Research Center founder Brent Bozell has seen a lot of media abuse in his time as the master monitor of the liberal press. Now, he's seen the very worst: The broadcast networks "all but spiked the largest legal action in history to defend our constitutionally protected religious freedom," the analyst says, citing CBS, ABC and NBC for skimming over news that 43 Catholic dioceses and organizations filed a lawsuit Monday against the Obama administration.
Inside the Beltway: A vial matter
By Jennifer Harper - The Washington Times
"If indeed this story is true, it's a craven act and we will use every legal means to stop its sale or purchase. ... Any individual, including a President of the United States, should feel confident that once they enter into the care of a medical system their privacy and rights are held inviolable." So says John Heubusch, executive director of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, regarding the public auction of a glass vial that contained Ronald Reagan's blood.
Inside the Beltway: Reagan conjuring up blood money
By Jennifer Harper - The Washington Times
The bids are lofty for a vial that once held Ronald Reagan's blood, now up for grabs at an online British auction house. At the moment, the leading bid is $5,081 for a 5-inch glass vial with "dried blood residue from President Reagan," drawn from him at George Washington University Hospital after a 1981 assassination attempt by John Hinckley Jr.
Inside the Beltway: Vacation with the GOP
By Jennifer Harper - The Washington Times
It's colossal, it's stupendous: the upcoming Republican National Convention is expected to draw 50,000 election-minded revelers to Tampa, where the eager city council has just opted to allow local bars to remain open until an unheard-of 3 a.m. during the four-day extravaganza at the end of August.
Inside the Beltway: Mood swings
By Jennifer Harper - The Washington Times
Oh woe is us: "The national mood is a drag on President Obama's re-election prospects," according to Gallup poll analyst Lydia Saad, who says that several indicators could prove "troublesome" come November.
Inside the Beltway: Scents and sensibility
By Jennifer Harper - The Washington Times
The public debate over gender issues may never be the same: It's the first-ever Man Candles Collection in such he-man scents as Riding Mower and 2x4 from the Yankee Candle Co., which normally caters to the rose and gardenia crowd. Perhaps they should offer a line for Washington politicians with names such as Hallowed Halls, Power Lunch and Cloakroom.
Inside the Beltway: Bipartisan gangland
By Jennifer Harper - The Washington Times
The ever-fierce Jesse Ventura says it doesn't matter who wins the presidential election any more because the office has devolved into a kind of bipartisan gangland. To make his point, the former Minnesota governor and wrestling god has written a new book titled "DemoCRIPS and ReBLOODlicans: No More Gangs in Government."
Inside the Beltway: Meet the meat police
By Jennifer Harper - The Washington Times
Behold, it's "climate smart" beef, sure to heighten the hubbub from global warming alarmists over cow flatulence, industrial agriculture and the collective impact of meat-eaters upon the Earth's atmosphere.
Inside the Beltway: Romney's graduates
By Jennifer Harper - The Washington Times
Forget shabby politics, an evolving White House and the "Celebrity-in-Chief" for a moment: It's God, country and education at Liberty University on Saturday morning, when 14,012 students receive degrees from a school administration unapologetic about its religion-based curriculum with Mitt Romney delivering the commencement address.
Inside the Beltway: Tea party glee
By Jennifer Harper - The Washington Times
Cynical pundits who insist that the tea party is dead or irrelevant must rethink their message now that Richard Mourdock publicly credited "thousands" of devoted tea party volunteers for ensuring his defeat of Sen. Richard G. Lugar in the Indiana Republican primary Tuesday. Declarations of the grass-roots movement's demise appear premature.
Inside the Beltway: Bedtime not for Bonzo
By Jennifer Harper - The Washington Times
While the strategists duke it out on the campaign trail, consider that politically charged pajamas have emerged from the entrepreneurial wags at Cafe Press, and they are proving a Republican favorite.
Inside the Beltway: Dodd-Frank=5,320 pages
By Jennifer Harper - The Washington Times
Taming the Dodd-Frank Act: It's a daunting job, but someone equipped with a whip and a chair may manage to do it. Federal regulations emerging from the new law are occupying many pages - already twice as many as health care reform legislation - and officials are not even half finished with their task.
Inside the Beltway: The calm GOP
By Jennifer Harper - The Washington Times
"Republicans have higher levels of well-being than do Democrats," says a huge Gallup health survey of 405,000 U.S. adults that tallies a half-dozen "well-being" indexes that include physical and emotional health, positive behaviors and workplace perceptions. Even the pollster acknowledges that religion could have something to do with it.
Inside the Beltway: Ayn Rand, Part 2
By Jennifer Harper - The Washington Times
It's on the way: "Atlas Shrugged Part II" is now filming in Los Angeles, the second installment of an ambitious independent movie project — due for commercial release in October, just as the presidential election looms.
Inside the Beltway: Sharon Yourwealth
By Jennifer Harper - The Washington Times
An excerpt of "Barack Obama: The Story" by Washington Post associate editor David Maraniss appeared in Vanity Fair on Wednesday, offering details about the women the young Mr. Obama dated during his "existentialist stretch" as a student in New York.
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