Salena Zito is a political analyst, reporter and editorial page columnist. She has also reported on Pennsylvania politics for The Weekly Standard. A board member of the Center for Media & Public Policy at the Heritage Foundation, Salena Zito honed her skills working on the campaigns of George H.W. Bush, Senator Rick Santorum, Bush2000, Bush-Cheney 2004 served on the senate staff of U.S. Senator Arlen Specter. Salena Zito has interviewed one on one Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, CIA Director General Hayden, Homeland Security Director Chertoff, Attorney General Gonzales and First Lady Laura Bush. 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ALL RIGHTS RESERVED jim.dearras@townhall.com (Jim De Arras) Tue, 29 Dec 2009 05:01:00 GMT Tue, 29 Dec 2009 05:01:00 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ A congressman who oversees American intelligence operations, a former CIA operative and a current U.S. intelligence official agree that Christmas Day's aborted attack on a U.S. airliner proves that the nation's... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/SalenaZito/2009/12/29/air_security_flawed,_experts_say 9ffe57f5-5328-4304-9b13-787e2a3f1e67 Tue, 29 Dec 2009 05:01:00 GMT What is the overriding lesson learned about this year of promised "hope" and "change," given the politics, public scandals and shifting social behavior that have permeated American pop culture? I don't thin http://www.townhall.com/columnists/SalenaZito/2009/12/27/what_do_americans_want edd0ccbf-c9d6-423e-99bf-e5f51309247d Sun, 27 Dec 2009 05:01:00 GMT Three weeks ago, I felt certain that this year that wouldn't feel a lot like Christmas. After 18 months of political road trips, press buses, press planes, hotels, motels, bad food, good food, two back-to-back... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/SalenaZito/2009/12/25/almost_home acb655e9-fdf9-4404-8a3a-5556442943c6 Fri, 25 Dec 2009 05:01:00 GMT The best way to forecast the Republican primary for Florida's U.S. Senate seat would be to quote Winston Churchill: "It is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma." Basically, the race defies conve http://www.townhall.com/columnists/SalenaZito/2009/12/20/bellweather_florida f9da6339-0e44-4b7c-9307-3de0ac9ab290 Sun, 20 Dec 2009 06:51:38 GMT NEW YORK - Eight years ago, President George W. Bush stood on a pile of rubble and told New Yorkers, "I can hear you. The rest of the world hears you. And the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/SalenaZito/2009/12/13/trying_times_for_the_big_apple cab205e6-039d-4028-8b8e-7a138761452d Sun, 13 Dec 2009 19:21:08 GMT Franklin D. Roosevelt understood what it meant to be a core Democrat and maintaining his party's ranks. He built winning coalitions around his policies by empowering previously suppressed groups, such as labor... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/SalenaZito/2009/12/06/blue_highway_democrats 98bee5d8-de5d-43c1-abad-86bc60d5f417 Sun, 06 Dec 2009 05:00:42 GMT INDIANA, Pa. - Turn the corner onto Philadelphia Street in this small Western Pennsylvania town, and you might be on the main street of Bedford Falls, the mythical town in Frank Capra's Christmas classic film, It's a... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/SalenaZito/2009/11/29/bedford_falls,_usa 67784e3c-f964-431f-b006-0b62ac29034f Sun, 29 Nov 2009 05:01:00 GMT The 2008 national election clearly shows our next generation of leaders must possess something that many recent and current elected officials lack: intellectual courage. President Nixon believed all... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/SalenaZito/2009/11/22/women,_vets_right_stuff fe76895b-abef-4444-a6ad-80b76809c232 Sun, 22 Nov 2009 05:01:00 GMT COAL RIVER MOUNTAIN, W.Va. - This mountain in southern West Virginia, right in the middle of Appalachia's spine, is fast becoming someone's Waterloo. It's too soon to tell who will be the loser: the coal in http://www.townhall.com/columnists/SalenaZito/2009/11/15/the_battle_for_coal_river_mountain 84714f75-a555-4536-ac96-40a2d9dfbd77 Sun, 15 Nov 2009 05:01:00 GMT Much will be said in the coming weeks about Sarah Palin and the Republican Party-- especially after the Democratic "upset" in the Congressional race in New York's 23rd District and the "over-the-top" Republican... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/SalenaZito/2009/11/08/get_serious,_sarah c15f352c-579d-4567-bcde-1a85f29940a3 Sun, 08 Nov 2009 15:03:04 GMT Author's Note: Republican Dede Scozzafava dropped out of next Tuesday's NY 23 special election early Saturday morning. She did not endorse either of her two opponents, Conservative party candidate Doug Hoffman or... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/SalenaZito/2009/11/01/mood_sours_toward_both_parties dd98e8a0-8fe9-4d7c-941b-d8f27d3458e1 Sun, 01 Nov 2009 04:01:00 GMT A poll of opinion polls shows that Americans are undergoing rapidly changing attitudes. RealClearPolitics, a national polling aggregator, shows that Americans are becoming less and less thrilled about the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/SalenaZito/2009/10/25/polling_polls_americans_independent_and_irate 202f1d4b-4a76-4fe7-bd23-3c43617d1d81 Sun, 25 Oct 2009 04:01:00 GMT Remember the city mouse and the country mouse who exchanged visits? In the end, the gap between the cousins' worlds left both comfortable with their own choices and baffled by the other's. That' http://www.townhall.com/columnists/SalenaZito/2009/10/18/the_gap_between_main_street_and_the_elite 0dfc1245-b699-4612-93a0-1d99ce4fd89a Sun, 18 Oct 2009 04:01:00 GMT The "Overseas Contingency Program" - more commonly known as the "war on terror" - is back at the center of the political world, thanks to the uncertain prosecution of the war in Afghanistan. As Presi http://www.townhall.com/columnists/SalenaZito/2009/10/11/in_the_shadow_of_the_war_on_terror 118c9d85-63bb-41d6-ae7d-9a1531b9435c Sun, 11 Oct 2009 04:01:00 GMT If a flood of House seats now held by Democrats switches to Republicans in 2010, it will not be because of a seismic change in the country's ideology. Many House sophomores and freshmen (those who won in 2006... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/SalenaZito/2009/10/04/change_gops_2010_ally a837d99a-a668-4422-8f23-e9633712e3fe Sun, 04 Oct 2009 04:01:00 GMT