Editorial Page Editor Mark Tapscott was voted Conservative Journalist of the Year for 2008 by the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), and he was inducted into the Freedom of Information Act Hall of Fame in 2006. Before joining the Examiner in 2006, he was director of The Heritage Foundation's Center for Media and Public Policy and founded its Database 101 Computer-Assisted Research and Reporting Boot Camps at the National Press Club. He's a former assistant managing editor and managing editor for two other Washington region daily newspapers. He is also proprietor of Tapscott's Copy Desk blog.
A federal Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request has been filed by a citizens activist group seeking the rest of the story behind the recent gag order issued by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services against health insurance companies to prevent them from providing customers with information about Obamacare.
Let Freedom Ring has posted the text of its FOIA request on its web site. The key graph reads:
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That much-ballyhooed Baucus version of Obamacare is irrelevant, according to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, because Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid will write the real Senate version of Obamacare and he will do it in secret.
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Just when it seems congressional Republicans have finally gotten the message about standing on principle before grasping for power, they go and pull a Dede Scozzafava.
Scozzafava is the "Republican" New York assemblywoman selected by the GOP establishment as their candidate in the upcoming special election to succeed Rep. John McHugh. He recently resigned from his seat representing the Empire State's 23rd Congressional District on Capitol Hill to become President Obama's secretary of the Army.
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Democrats in the Senate are secretly adding amendments they favor and removing those they oppose, even after congressional committees have voted on them, according to House Minority Leader John Boehner, who plans to introduce an amendment requiring the full text of all committee-approved legislation to be posted on the Internet within 24 hours of being adopted.
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Among the first things journalists once learned was the Chicago News Bureau maxim that "if your mother says she loves you, check it out." Dan Zak of The Washington Post must have missed that lesson in j-school, judging by his review of last night's D.C.'s Funniest Celebrities charity event at the Improv.
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Kevin Jennings, President Obama's Assistant Deputy Secretary of the Office of Safe and Drug FreeSchools at the U.S. Department of Education, is in hot water this week for having failed to report that a 15-year-old sophomore student in his school had told him of having sex with an older man.
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Are radical environmentalists members of a political movement or more like the devotees of a religious cult, one that might dubbed the Branch Carbonians? Truespeak.org’s Jim Guirardi suggests the label and offers an illuminating case for the latter in this post from the American Thinker.
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If nothing else, the Obama eruption in American politics is steadily revealing the stark reality behind the progressive movement — the totalitarian temptation is always there and, for more than a few, possessing the official power to compel sooner or later becomes irresistible.
This doesn’t apply to everybody on the left, of course. Some of the folks I most admire in this town are liberals whose work on behalf of values like transparency in government and protecting civil liberties is remarkable and essential.
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Hoover Institution research fellow Peter Schweizer has a potential blockbuster of a new book hitting the shelves Oct. 6 entitled "Architects of Ruin: How Big Government liberals wrecked the global economy and how they will do it again if no one stops them." Whew, is that a mouthful of a title or what?
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Every week, Rasmussen Reports posts a comprehensive and extremely useful summary of the week's most important survey results on major national issues, officials, and political campaigns.
Here's the top of this week's report, noting that President Obama's "game-changer" address to a joint session of Congress on health care reform produced a modest and quite temporary popularity bounce, followed by a return to majority opposition to Obamacare:
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A day before the event, organizers said a mere 20,000 or so folks had registered for Saturday’s amazing 9/12 March on Washington to protest out-of-control government. What they got was hundreds of thousands of intensely patriotic people who came to the nation’s capitol to yell “Stop!”
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Now that the U.S. Census Bureau has terminated its relationship with ACORN, will Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley do the same and stop promoting the Baltimore ACORN office as an honest source of counseling for people facing forceclosure? Check it out here on the state's web site.
HT: Jeff Werner
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Now that the U.S. Census Bureau has terminated its relationship with ACORN, will Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley do the same and stop promoting the Baltimore ACORN office as an honest source of counseling for people facing forceclosure? Check it out here on the state's web site.
HT: Jeff Werner
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Now that the U.S. Census Bureau has terminated its relationship with ACORN, will Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley do the same and stop promoting the Baltimore ACORN office as an honest source of counseling for people facing forceclosure? Check it out here on the state's web site.
HT: Jeff Werner
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Excerpts from the prepared text of the President's speech tonight to the nation and Congress have been released by the White House and if these are indicative of the tone and level of detail that will be displayed throughout the address, it will likely come across as just more of the same old rhetoric, evasion, double-talk, and straw-man tactics we've seen for months from Obama.
Here's is the excerpt in which Obama provides the specific details of his plan:
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