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Mark Tapscott

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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.

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  • Is the conservative movement a mere outrage machine?

    Mark Tapscott

    Published: Mon, Jan 21, 2013

    It's Day Two of President Obama's second term and the gloom and despondency are palpable among his opponents. There is open talk among his allies of an alleged plan to smash the Republicans and permanently render them powerless. That may be the best thing that could happen for Obama's loyal...

  • America needs more dogs in politics, especially Labs

    Mark Tapscott

    Updated: Thu, Jan 17, 2013

    Former Arkansas Gov. and Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee did something Thursday that ought to remind us of a crucial fact about our politics and politicians. Huckabee shared on Facebook his grief and joy in losing Jet, a handsome black Labrador retriever who was his "inseparable...

  • New mysteries in EPA's Windsorgate scandal

    Mark Tapscott

    Published: Mon, Jan 14, 2013

    Washington's transparency and environmental communites were abuzz yesterday awaiting release by the Environmental Protection Agency of the first 3,000 of an expected 12,000 "Richard Windsor" emails sent to and from outgoing Administrator Lisa Jackson. After sorting through technical glitches...

  • Mark Tapscott: Confessions of a gun-loving journalist

    Mark Tapscott

    Updated: Thu, Jan 10, 2013

    Thomas McCauley famously said there is "no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality." But the gun control debate here in the former colonies just might give him pause. It happens every time there is a terrible massacre such as the Newtown school,...

  • 20 Windsorgate questions for Obama administration

    Mark Tapscott

    Updated: Thu, Jan 10, 2013

    Officials with the U.S. Department of Justice are expected to make public Monday the first batch of 3,000 of 12,000 "Richard Windsor" emails sought by Competitive Enterprise Institute Senior Fellow Christopher C. Horner. "Richard Windsor" was the government email non de plume used by former...

  • Bush officials, Environmental Defense Fund join in appeal to conservatives

    Mark Tapscott

    Updated: Tue, Jan 8, 2013

    Former environmental officials from President George W. Bush's administration gather today on Capitol Hill in an effort financed by the Environmental Defense Fund to cultivate support for "conservation programs, practices and policies centered on conservative and libertarian philosophic...

  • Mark Tapscott: Don't like Washington's games? Here's how to end them

    Mark Tapscott

    Updated: Thu, Jan 3, 2013

    Maybe there's been a more contrived melodrama in this town sometime in the dim past, but it's hard to imagine what could top the manufactured malarkey of the "Fiscal Cliff crisis." For weeks, Washington politicians and their protectors in the mainstream media warned of imminent doom if...

  • Transparency advocates see tough year, growing EPA 'Windsorgate' scandal ahead

    Mark Tapscott

    Published: Wed, Jan 2, 2013

    Ask leaders of Washington's thriving community of transparency advocates what most needs to be done in 2013 and they enthusiastically offer multiple proposals for making government more accountable and accessible. But ask what they expect to be achieved to improve government transparency in...

  • Both sides of gun control debate need to wise up

    Mark Tapscott

    Updated: Fri, Dec 28, 2012

    Gun control advocates and opponents alike - as well as journalists covering the debate - should devote serious reading and thinking time to Dan McLaughlin's even-handed analysis on Red State of the history of the Second Amendment and the ignorance about it that is too often displayed on both...


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