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  • 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.

  • Inside the Beltway: Enough already

    By Jennifer Harper - The Washington Times

    The U.S. should stop "reflexively exploiting major national security threats as a political ping-pong ball between right and left," says Zuhdi Jasser, president and founder of American Islamic Forum for Democracy. Get down to business and start crafting a practical strategy to defeat the threat of Islamist militancy both at home and abroad, he says.

  • Inside the Beltway: Still occupied

    By Jennifer Harper - The Washington Times

    "May Day, 2012. Take to the streets! Wherever you are, whoever you are: no work, no chores, no banking, no shopping, no school. Block the flows, be the crisis," proclaims the official Occupy Wall Street motto for Tuesday, which is, the group says, "a day without the 99 percent, a general strike, and more."

  • Inside the Beltway: Keith Urbahn's moment

    By Jennifer Harper - The Washington Times

    A subculture has emerged around the first anniversary of the killing of Osama bin Laden, which is Tuesday. To politicize, or not to politicize? That is the question.

  • Inside the Beltway: The dinner primer

    By Jennifer Harper - The Washington Times

    It's the glint of top brass and the gleam of glitter, a hybrid mix of political theater and silver screen spectacle: 2,800 guests are expected at the 98th White House Correspondents' Dinner on Saturday night, to mingle at the odd nexus of Washington and Hollywood.

  • Inside the Beltway: W wheels with the warriors

    By The Washington Times

    The Secret Service has already gone over the rocky desert trail with sharp eyes and a fine-toothed comb, making way for former President George W. Bush, 24 wounded warriors and a slew of mountain bikes - all arriving Thursday in Palo Duro Canyon near Amarillo, Texas.

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