Mark Tapscott is The Washington Examiner's executive editor. He oversees the daily work of the newspaper's special reporting team. He was inducted into the National Freedom of Information Act Hall of Fame in 2006. Before joining The Examiner in 2006, he started and led the Heritage Foundation's Computer-Assisted Research and Reporting (CARR) Boot Camps. He formerly held editing and reporting positions with The Journal Newspapers and The Washington Times.
By Mark Tapscott | 06/16/13 08:45 AM
Colorado's Black Forest fire is barely contained at latest reports and has killed at least two people while consuming hundreds of homes and other structures and forcing the evacuation of more than 38,000 people, but a dozen other significant fires are also burning across the country, according...
By Mark Tapscott | 06/08/13 11:30 AM
Leo Linbeck, Jr., a longtime Texas corporate titan, philanthropist and Fair Tax advocate, died early this morning following a long illness. "The American people have lost a giant who championed simple and fair taxation for everyone," said Cynthia T. Canevaro, national campaign manager for...
By Mark Tapscott | 06/04/13 11:45 PM
Former Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta disclosed top secret information about the Navy SEALS unit that conducted the mission on which Osama Bin Laden was found and killed, according to an unpublished Inspector-General report obtained by the Project on Government Oversight. Panetta's...
By Mark Tapscott | 06/03/13 11:10 AM
Environmental Protection Agency officials granted at least six ethics and cyber-security certifications to "Richard Windsor," the fake employee invented for former EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson's use for conducting official business. In a response to a Freedom of Information Act request filed...
By Mark Tapscott | 05/22/13 11:55 AM
Members of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee are in the headlines this week as a result of today's hearing on the IRS scandal, but the panel did something else significant on May 10 that could prove far more significant in the long run. That's the day the committee made...
By Mark Tapscott | 05/22/13 07:30 AM
Limiting how many terms members of Congress can serve has long been among the most popular proposals with American voters, but opposition from entrenched incumbents in both political parties has prevented adoption of the idea in law.
By Mark Tapscott | 05/17/13 04:30 PM
Two powerful congressional Republicans want to know more - a lot more - about why and how Environmental Protection Agency officials have for several years erected multiple obstacles to conservative think tanks, media outlets and non-profit activists filing Freedom of Information Act requests...
By Mark Tapscott | 05/16/13 07:25 PM
Sarah Hall Ingram, the IRS executive in charge of the tax exempt division in 2010 when it began targeting conservative tea party, evangelical and pro-Israel groups for harrassment, got more than $100,000 in bonuses between 2009 and 2012. More recently, Ingram was promoted to serve as director...
By Mark Tapscott | 05/16/13 03:59 PM
More than $92 million in bonuses averaging $5,500 per employee have been handed out by IRS executives to thousands of the tax agency’s employees since 2009, according to data obtained by The Washington Examiner.
By Mark Tapscott | 05/15/13 03:56 PM
Lois Lerner, the senior executive in charge of the IRS tax exemption department and the person at the center of the exploding scandal over the IRS targeting conservative, evangelical and pro-Israel non-profits, has been given $42,531 in bonuses since 2009. That figure was included in data...
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Today, speaking at the Brandenburg Gate, President Obama paid appropriate tribute to the brave East Germans who rebelled 60 years ago against Communist dictatorship:
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