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No one knows Washington secrets like Paul Bedard. This longtime DC reporter joined The Washington Examiner in early 2012 after penning U.S. News & World Report's premiere political column, "Washington Whispers," for more than a decade. Be sure to follow Paul on Twitter at @SecretsBedard, subscribe to him on Facebook -- he's facebook.com/SecretsBedard -- and sign up for his email newsletter to get all of Paul's Washington Secrets delivered to your inbox every morning.

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  • Zogby's Obama report card: President loses his reelection mandate

    Paul Bedard

    Yesterday

    Pollster John Zogby reports in our weekly White House report card that President Obama has partially crawled out of his scandal-filled hole. "This would be a perfect week for your humble pollster from Utica, N.Y. to take a vacation, since my grade will clearly anger half of D.C. As I suggested...

  • Rand Paul raps Obama's 'flash cards and PowerPoint' drone defense

    Paul Bedard

    Published: Thu, May 23, 2013

    Sen. Rand Paul, the Kentucky Republican who led the filibuster decrying President Obama's policy of using drones to strike American terrorists, still has doubts about the president's drone policy despite Obama's full-throated explanation of it Thursday at National Defense University in...

  • Harvard's Nye: On world stage, Obama no match for George H.W. Bush

    Paul Bedard

    Published: Thu, May 23, 2013

    President Obama has failed to live up to his "transformational" image crafted in the 2008 campaign, winning a lukewarm "meh" from influential scholar Joseph S. Nye Jr., former dean of the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. In his upcoming book "Presidential Leadership...

  • John Kerry's $3.5 billion Obamacare 'boondoggle' faces repeal

    Paul Bedard

    Published: Thu, May 23, 2013

    An Obamacare earmark championed by former Sen. John Kerry that raised wage payments to Massachusetts hospitals at the expense of those in the other 49 states is coming under fire in Congress and could die now that the 29-year Senate veteran is gone. Dubbed the "Bay State Boondoggle" by...

  • Chicago No. 1 in drugged-out men cuffed by cops

    Paul Bedard

    Published: Thu, May 23, 2013

    Nearly nine in 10 men arrested in Chicago last year tested positive for at least one drug, tops in a new federal report. The report from President Obama's drug czar, Gil Kerlikowske, showed that 86 percent of men arrested in 2012 in Chicago had at least one drug in their system. The report...

  • Americans say Fed's losing inflation war as food, gas prices jump

    Paul Bedard

    Published: Thu, May 23, 2013

    Americans have a response to Federal Reserve officials worried that inflation is too low: Try gassing up your limo or take a stroll through a Safeway. As the nation's financial Brahmans fret over when to change policies that have kept statistical inflation low, Americans are reporting spending...

  • IG: Afghanistan caught in $1 billion tax ripoff of U.S. firms

    Paul Bedard

    Published: Thu, May 23, 2013

    The corrupt Afghan government has hit American contractors trying to rebuild their war-torn nation with nearly $1 billion in business taxes despite agreements that the work should be free from local taxes, according to a new inspector general's report. If the administration doesn't fight the...

  • Louisiana Sen. Vitter hosts $5,000-a-head alligator hunt

    Paul Bedard

    Published: Wed, May 22, 2013

    Republican Louisiana Sen. David Vitter is no fan of swamp alligators, and now he's proving it with a $5,000-per-person alligator hunt fundraiser complete with Cajun food, an airboat swamp tour and a "tag" to hunt the toothy reptiles. Secrets received a copy of the invitation to the Sept. 5...

  • Reverse immigration: Americans urged to go to China

    Paul Bedard

    Published: Wed, May 22, 2013

    Even as the Senate wraps up work on a new immigration bill that some say doesn't go far enough in easing rules for foreign high-tech workers, China is changing its regulations to make it easier for U.S. firms to ship employees there and a law firm with ties to Washington is helping to spread the...


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