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Congressmen demand end to EPA's IRS-like bias against conservative, state/local FOIA requestors

Mark Tapscott | Published: Fri, May 17, 2013

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...

UPDATED: IRS tax exemption/Obamacare exec got $103,390 in bonuses; Did Obama OK them?

Mark Tapscott | Updated: Thu, May 16, 2013

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...

WATCHDOG EXCLUSIVE! IRS doles out $92 million in employee bonuses

Mark Tapscott | Updated: Thu, May 16, 2013

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...

IRS exec got $42k in bonuses in three years

Mark Tapscott | Updated: Wed, May 15, 2013

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...

Huelskamp thrashes VA bureaucrat who got big bonuses for lousy work

Mark Tapscott | Updated: Tue, May 7, 2013

Want to see how congressional oversight is supposed to work? Check out this video of Rep. Tim Huelskamp, R-KS, grilling Department of Veterans Affairs Glenn Haggstrom about why he received nearly...

Remember the Alamo! Today is Texas Independence Day

Mark Tapscott | Published: Sat, Apr 20, 2013

It's a day that has often been left in the shadow of the Alamo in the national historical consciousness, but April 21 is among the most important days on the calendar in the history of one of...

Think Obama's budget is bad? Bush was a bigger spender

Mark Tapscott | Published: Tue, Apr 9, 2013

President Obama's two-month-late federal budget proposal is drawing substantial criticism from Republicans in Congress and elsewhere, but Chris Edwards, the Cato Institute's budget-numbers master,...

Examiner's Obamacare Solyndra co-ops probe featured on Greta Van Susteren/Fox News

Mark Tapscott | Published: Fri, Apr 5, 2013

Watchdog’s Richard Pollock was featured on FOX News yesterday for his reporting on the questionable grants for Obamacare exchanges. Pollock discovered that federal officials approved Obamacare...

Washington Examiner shifts business model from daily newspaper to political site and weekly print magazine

Mark Tapscott | Updated: Tue, Mar 19, 2013

Clarity Media Group executives today announced a major shift in the business model of The Washington Examiner, becoming a digital platform and weekly print magazine focused on political news and...

Franklin Center to critics: Read our stuff before you diss us

Mark Tapscott | Updated: Sun, Mar 17, 2013

Steven Greenhut of the Franklin Center for Government and Public Integrity has a message for non-profit journalists who he claims are "breathlessly trying to portray us as right-wing-funded shills...




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