Jennifer Harper
Articles by Jennifer Harper
Inside the Beltway
Simple question: Will President Obama score big on the patriotic meter this Memorial Day weekend? Published May 27, 2010
Inside the Beltway
Gears have definitely shifted. Rolling Thunder will not have a traditional audience at the White House to kick-start the 23rd annual "Ride for Freedom" rally. Officials from the mammoth motorcycle group tell Inside the Beltway they will not pay a call on President Obama this weekend when 900,000 riders gather in the nation's capital in the name of patriotism, and to honor active-duty troops, prisoners of war, those missing in action and veterans. Published May 25, 2010
Inside the Beltway
The BP oil spill is hideous. But it also presents a golden opportunity for advocacy groups with high-profile fundraising and political activism on their minds. Published May 25, 2010
Scientists plumb depths to peg oceans’ volume
Sunken battleships, leviathans, dark depths - such is the stuff of the deep and endless sea, at least in popular imagination. And few of us can fathom how much water is contained in all the oceans -- until now. Published May 21, 2010
Scientists plumb depths to peg oceans’ volume
Sunken battleships, leviathans, dark depths - such is the stuff of the deep and endless sea, at least in popular imagination. And few of us can fathom how much water is contained in all the oceans, which cover 71 percent of planet and account for 97 percent of its water. Published May 20, 2010
Inside the Beltway
"Mexicans place a significant amount of blame for the Mexican drug war on American gun dealers. Eighty-one percent of Mexican adults say American gun dealers are very or somewhat responsible for the problem, compared to 54 percent of Americans who say the same," says a Harris poll of 1,009 U.S. adults and 549 Mexican adults conducted May 5 to 9. Published May 19, 2010
NIGHTSTAND READING
NIGHTSTAND READING Published May 18, 2010
Inside the Beltway
BITTER MEMORIES Published May 18, 2010
Inside the Beltway
It's a majority. 51 percent of voters believe the United States is "the last best hope of mankind." Twenty-six percent disagree, and 24 percent are not sure. This is according to a Rasmussen Reports poll of 1,000 conducted Wednesday and Thursday. Published May 17, 2010
Inside the Beltway
Dueling numbers throw our differences into stark relief. A Pew Research Center poll of 995 adults reveals that six out of 10 Americans "broadly" approve of Arizona's tough new immigration law Published May 14, 2010
Inside the Beltway
OBAMA SWEEPSTAKES Published May 13, 2010
THE INNER KAGAN
THE INNER KAGAN Published May 12, 2010
At evening of press revelry, Obama rags Biden, Goldman
Behold, the mighty press of the press. Published May 1, 2010
Earth to Mars: Beware of bugs
Beware extraterrestrials? Perhaps they should beware Earth. Published April 28, 2010
Celeb support doesn’t help candidates
The stardust is tarnished, and the glow dimmed. Celebrity endorsements have come to mean little in politics, according to a study released Monday by researchers at North Carolina State University. Published April 27, 2010
Excessive cleanliness may boost allergies
Put away the hand sanitizer. It's not necessarily the grime, dust bunnies, cat dander or pollen causing those miserable springtime allergies. The culprit actually may be too much cleanliness. Published April 15, 2010
Doctors face religious conflicts at hospitals
New research reveals that one in five primary care physicians who practice in religiously affiliated hospitals say they have faced "clinical ethical conflicts" when treating their patients in those facilities, where end-of-life care, abortion and other practices may be restricted. Published April 14, 2010
Diet found to cut risk of Alzheimer’s
A team of medical researchers from Columbia University Medical Center has identified a "protective diet" that lowers the risk of Alzheimer's disease, according to research released Monday in the Archives of Neurology. Published April 13, 2010
Retirement delay seen key to solvent Social Security
The national fear that Social Security and Medicare will go broke under the huge demands of aging baby boomers could be remedied by a major "tectonic" cultural shift. Published April 8, 2010
Forecasters at odds about warming threat
Is climate change a serious threat to humanity or a scam trumped up by agenda-minded activists? Published March 30, 2010