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by | Apr 23, 2004

WASHINGTON — The recent decision by the porn industry to shut down production for 60 days because several of its stars tested positive for HIV could not have come at a more appropriate time. After all, April is National STD…

by | Apr 5, 2004

WASHINGTON — The year was 1976. Ronald Reagan had lost the GOP’s presidential nomination to Gerald Ford. The prospects for conservative victories in Congress were not very promising. But I was sure I had found a rising star. He was…

by | Mar 30, 2004

WASHINGTON — When you are a press secretary for a United States Senator, which was my first job in Washington, and that Senator has a colleague from the same state who is from the same political party, you end up…

by | Mar 18, 2004

Last week the House of Representatives reacted to the Super Bowl halftime exhibition by passing a measure that would permit the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to increase fines for indecency on the airwaves from $17,000 to $500,000. More importantly, after…

by | Mar 2, 2004

A veteran Hill staffer remarked to me last week that for the first time since the 2002 elections she misses Senator Jesse Helms (R-NC). Helms finished his Senate career as Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, after having…

by | Feb 25, 2004

WASHINGTON — A hot topic of recent political news is the so-called “Memogate.” If you have followed such things then you know that some memos from the files of Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee made their way into the…

by | Feb 10, 2004

Polls are now showing that John Kerry, the likely Democratic nominee for President, can defeat President Bush. Some of those polls show that Kerry’s lead is now into double digits. Bush-Cheney campaign operatives tell supporters not to worry. Kerry is…

by | Dec 24, 2003

Right now, the policy wonks and campaign strategists of both parties are on a safari of sorts, hoping to bag the next big idea that captures the interest of the voters next year. The Bush administration is attempting to find…

by | Dec 10, 2003

In the past week or so I’ve done a half dozen interviews on the performance of Bill Frist in his first year as Majority Leader. No doubt I was called by major news organizations because their Google search revealed that…

by | Nov 18, 2003

At the conclusion of the marathon debate of nearly 40 hours which Republicans engineered over the question of some of President Bush’s nominees to the Circuit Courts of Appeal, Pennsylvania’s Senator Rick Santorum said he believes that it is now…

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