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Mark Tapscott
Mark Tapscott: New leadership for GOP, or a new party altogether?
- Doomsayers always appear when one of the two major political parties suffers an epic electoral disaster. It happened to the Republicans after the Goldwater and Nixon debacles in 1964 and 1974, and to the Democrats following the Contract with America insurgency in 1994. Obviously, both parties came back strongly from those defeats.
New leadership for the GOP or a new party?
- Doomsayers always appear when one of the two major political parties suffers an epic electoral disaster. It happened to the Republicans after the Goldwater and Nixon debacles in 1964 and 1974, and to the Democrats following the Contract with America insurgency in 1994. Obviously, both parties came back strongly from those defeats.
There they go again, stifling free speech
- Congressman Michael Capuano probably means well – and Big Government enthusiasts always try to sound like they really do – but I've never met the man, so I don't know for sure.
Past was Spitzer’s prologue
- Former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer’s blindingly fast fall from grace was portrayed by many of his media sympathizers as a temporary slip in judgment, an unfortunate exception to the high ethical standards he exemplified himself and demanded of others.
Some ‘little guys’ treated better than others
- When the New York Common Fund and CalSTRS won a record-setting $3.2 billion settlement in 1999 from the Cendant Corp. it included $262 million for the lawyers, including those from two lead plaintiff counsel firms, Bernstein Litowitz & Grossman, and Barrack, Rodos and Bacine.
Terayon silence shielded donors
- It was a case that epitomized the worst of the securities class-action lawsuit abuses of the 1990s.
Mark Tapscott: ‘Leave Us Alone’ reminds that demographics favor the Right
- Grover Norquist is a formidable political strategist in part because he listens closely to smart people like Arthur C. Brooks. That’s one of many reasons why Norquist’s new book, “Leave Us Alone: Getting government’s hands off our money, our guns, our lives,” could be the most prescient political work of 2008.
Tapscott to be honored at CPAC
- Mark Tapscott, editorial page editor of The Washington Examiner, will receive the Conservative Political Action Conference’s journalist of the year award today for producing what American Conservative Union Chairman David A. Keene called a “consistent, conservative, articulate editorial page.”
Acura MDX is the serious driver’s SUV
- Acura all but invented the crossover sport-utility vehicle market when it introduced the MDX a decade ago and now the luxury division of Japanese automaker Honda has gone and reinvented the MDX.
- Acura all but invented the crossover sport-utility vehicle market when it introduced the MDX a decade ago and now the luxury division of Japanese automaker Honda has gone and reinvented the MDX.
Mark Tapscott: Bloomberg boomlet is old news in Internet age
- Nothing but old news will be made next week at the University of Oklahoma when remnants of the last century’s New Deal model politics gather to crown themselves with the mantle of an independent third force in the 2008 presidential campaign.
Michael Phelps: New Year’s greetings from the publisher
- In 2007, The Washington Examiner could confidently, without a formal survey, count among its devoted if not always enthusiastic readers Police Chief Cathy Lanier, D.C. financial czar Natwar Gandhi and Michelle Rhee, the District’s new schools chancellor, thanks to determined reporters like Bill Myers and Scott McCabe.
Mark Tapscott: Went to court and all they got was a lousy coupon
- Funny slogans come and go rather swiftly in popular culture, but it wasn’t that long ago when a familiar sight was somebody wearing a message along the lines of “I did such-and-such and all I got was this lousy T-shirt.”
- Funny slogans come and go rather swiftly in popular culture, but it wasn’t that long ago when a familiar sight was somebody wearing a message along the lines of “I did such-and-such and all I got was this lousy T-shirt.”
Bush should use the 'mother of all vetoes'
- Democrats in Congress appear determined to force a showdown with President Bush this week on the budget, daring him to veto their $520 billion omnibus spending bill with funding for all major federal departments and agencies, plus token funding for U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.