https://pjmedia.com/author/marktapscott/feedPJ Media is a leading news site covering culture, politics, faith, homeland security, and more. Our reporters and columnists provide original, in-depth analysis from a variety of perspectives.en-usThu, 23 Apr 2026 10:50:51 -0400<![CDATA[Whatever happens in the days ahead to now-former Rep. Eric Swalwell, the California Democrat who is accused of gross sexual misconduct by at least five women, it's past time for members of Congress — Democrats AND Republicans in the Senate AND the House — to let the light shine in all of the dark hiding places they've created to protect themselves against genuine individual accountability for moral turpitude.]]>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 21:28:00 -0400<![CDATA[Mark Tapscott]]><![CDATA[California]]><![CDATA[Congress]]><![CDATA[Eric Swalwell]]><![CDATA[House of Representatives]]><![CDATA[Ron DeSantis]]>https://pjmedia.com/marktapscott/2026/04/15/its-time-for-congress-to-come-clean-about-itself-n4951837<![CDATA[Since it's always been done by human beings, there has never been anybody remotely close to being absolutely objective in the news media in America, or anywhere else, for that matter, but that's no reason not to strive constantly to get as close as possible to that standard.]]>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 21:32:00 -0400<![CDATA[Mark Tapscott]]><![CDATA[First Amendment]]><![CDATA[Free Speech]]><![CDATA[Media Bias]]><![CDATA[Truth Social]]>https://pjmedia.com/marktapscott/2026/04/10/want-to-save-real-journalism-try-tapscotts-infamous-rules-for-editors-and-reporters-n4951670<![CDATA[When John the Baptist described himself as "the voice of one crying in the wilderness," he was both literally in the (Judean) wilderness and he was crying out to the people of his nation to repent of their sinful ways because the Messiah was coming.]]>Thu, 02 Apr 2026 18:32:00 -0400<![CDATA[Mark Tapscott]]><![CDATA[Christianity]]><![CDATA[Ronald Reagan]]><![CDATA[USA]]>https://pjmedia.com/marktapscott/2026/04/02/a-voice-in-the-wilderness-or-a-prophet-bearing-good-news-n4951375<![CDATA[Next time one of your liberal friends insists that America is not now, nor ever was, a "Christian nation," put this column in front of him or her, and ask him or her to explain the following observations about and by John Adams and Benjamin Rush.]]>Sat, 27 Dec 2025 17:05:00 -0500<![CDATA[Mark Tapscott]]><![CDATA[Bible]]><![CDATA[Christianity]]><![CDATA[Education]]><![CDATA[History]]><![CDATA[Pro-Life]]>https://pjmedia.com/marktapscott/2025/12/27/how-john-adams-and-benjamin-rush-saw-christian-america-n4947591<![CDATA[Midterm congressional elections two years after a new president is elected are almost always downers for his party, but signs are multiplying that Donald Trump could be heading toward a historic triumph when voters go to the polls in November 2026.]]>Tue, 23 Dec 2025 16:13:00 -0500<![CDATA[Mark Tapscott]]><![CDATA[2026 Elections]]><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]><![CDATA[Government Shutdown]]><![CDATA[Healthcare]]><![CDATA[House of Representatives]]>https://pjmedia.com/marktapscott/2025/12/23/two-reasons-why-2026-could-be-the-democrats-1934-mid-term-n4947440<![CDATA[Charlie Kirk is being celebrated primarily as the driving force in the amazing shift of millions of young voters to the right side of the American political spectrum, and thus providing what might well have been the critical margin in Donald Trump's return to the Oval Office.]]>Fri, 12 Sep 2025 15:54:38 -0400<![CDATA[Mark Tapscott]]><![CDATA[Charlie Kirk]]>https://pjmedia.com/marktapscott/2025/09/12/charlie-kirk-could-have-become-the-next-billy-graham-n4943642<![CDATA[Have you heard about the seismic shift in one of the key demographic groups that will shape American culture, politics and economics for decades to come? No, I'm not talking about the wholly unexpected shift of younger voters away to President Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential election.]]>Sat, 06 Sep 2025 09:29:00 -0400<![CDATA[Mark Tapscott]]><![CDATA[Christianity]]>https://pjmedia.com/marktapscott/2025/09/06/odds-are-you-havent-heard-a-word-about-the-most-important-upheaval-in-american-culture-and-politics-n4943362<![CDATA[There is a rule in the House of Representatives that requires the text of proposed legislation to be available for reading by members at least 72 hours, or three days, before the measure can be voted on by the lower chamber of Congress.]]>Sat, 09 Aug 2025 17:24:00 -0400<![CDATA[Mark Tapscott]]><![CDATA[Congress]]><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]><![CDATA[House of Representatives]]>https://pjmedia.com/marktapscott/2025/08/09/one-big-beautiful-bill-shows-peril-of-laws-that-take-up-hundreds-of-pages-n4942566<![CDATA[America’s Constitution, as written in 1787 by the Framers, nowhere required anybody to accept the divinity of Christ, but it clearly presumed the moral, political (especially individual liberty and separation of powers) and civilizational values of Christianity.]]>Sun, 03 Aug 2025 17:11:45 -0400<![CDATA[Mark Tapscott]]>https://pjmedia.com/marktapscott/2025/08/03/heres-how-madison-hamilton-and-jay-the-federalist-papers-authors-viewed-god-and-christianity-n4942364<![CDATA[You won't be reading about it in the mainstream media, because how legislative branch agencies like the Government Accountability Office (GAO) and the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) are funded isn't a first or even second-order question in the context of a $37 trillion national debt and continuing annual deficits.]]>Sat, 02 Aug 2025 16:04:00 -0400<![CDATA[Mark Tapscott]]><![CDATA[Congress]]>https://pjmedia.com/marktapscott/2025/08/02/three-huge-questions-posed-by-the-gao-budget-fight-that-house-gopers-must-confront-n4942346<![CDATA[President Ronald Reagan often quipped that the "closest thing to eternal life we are ever likely to see here on Earth is a federal agency." He was elected on a platform that included promises to shut down the then-new departments of Education and Energy.]]>Sun, 27 Jul 2025 12:49:26 -0400<![CDATA[Mark Tapscott]]>https://pjmedia.com/marktapscott/2025/07/27/somebody-please-pinch-me-cause-i-keep-hearing-congress-defunded-nprcpb-n4942144<![CDATA[It's easy to miss, in a social media-intense news environment, hugely significant cultural, economic and political changes in America these days, and that is especially the case in the area of religion and spirituality.]]>Sat, 12 Jul 2025 14:39:00 -0400<![CDATA[Mark Tapscott]]><![CDATA[Bible]]><![CDATA[Christianity]]><![CDATA[COVID-19]]>https://pjmedia.com/marktapscott/2025/07/12/is-america-about-to-experience-another-great-awakening-n4941685<![CDATA[If you ever have occasion to spend some time on the beaches, lakes, or public pools in the Los Angeles region, you can relax knowing you are in the hands of hundreds of the highest-paid lifeguards in America.]]>Wed, 02 Jul 2025 14:12:00 -0400<![CDATA[Mark Tapscott]]><![CDATA[California]]><![CDATA[Economy]]><![CDATA[Los Angeles]]>https://pjmedia.com/marktapscott/2025/07/02/wanna-make-a-fortune-join-the-la-baywatch-crews-n4941380<![CDATA[Six U.S. B-2 intercontinental manned strategic bombers took out Iran's deepest nuclear bomb development sites today, in what could well prove to be the most historic and important decision President Donald Trump will have made when he leaves office in 2029.]]>Sat, 21 Jun 2025 21:07:00 -0400<![CDATA[Mark Tapscott]]><![CDATA[Border Security]]><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]><![CDATA[Iran]]><![CDATA[National Security]]><![CDATA[Terrorism]]>https://pjmedia.com/marktapscott/2025/06/21/trump-bombed-iran-so-we-will-soon-know-how-many-terrorist-sleeper-cells-came-into-america-under-biden-n4941044<![CDATA[So the bromance between The Donald and Elon Musk has come to a spectacular public end, but regardless of whether they ever reconcile, both men owe the American people a concise and credible explanation of the true state of the Social Security system.]]>Sat, 07 Jun 2025 13:07:00 -0400<![CDATA[Mark Tapscott]]><![CDATA[Donald Trump]]><![CDATA[Elon Musk]]><![CDATA[Social Security]]>https://pjmedia.com/marktapscott/2025/06/07/trump-and-musk-both-need-to-end-the-social-security-mystery-n4940550<![CDATA[If you are old enough to remember Howard Beale in the 1976 classic movie "Network," the line you most likely recall first is his telling his viewers to go to their windows, stick their heads out, and yell these words to the nation:]]>Mon, 26 May 2025 10:06:00 -0400<![CDATA[Mark Tapscott]]><![CDATA[Big Tech]]><![CDATA[big tech censorship]]><![CDATA[Censorship]]>https://pjmedia.com/marktapscott/2025/05/26/why-do-we-americans-put-up-with-social-medias-censorship-without-due-process-n4940147<![CDATA[There is a fascinating focus group analysis circulating among liberal activists and Democratic campaign strategists that suggests that the current political zeitgeist should be fertile ground for advocates of congressional term limits to mount a new campaign for a constitutional amendment.]]>Wed, 14 May 2025 14:26:00 -0400<![CDATA[Mark Tapscott]]>https://pjmedia.com/marktapscott/2025/05/14/is-it-time-to-make-another-run-at-a-term-limits-amendment-n4939773<![CDATA[There was a time in the mid-1960s when two left-wing Columbia University professors — Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven — enjoyed a brief run of media celebrity by espousing a strategy for Democrats they believed could force the creation of an American welfare state based on a guaranteed annual income.]]>Sat, 26 Apr 2025 06:44:00 -0400<![CDATA[Mark Tapscott]]><![CDATA[Democrat Party]]><![CDATA[Joe Biden]]><![CDATA[leftism]]><![CDATA[Leftists]]>https://pjmedia.com/marktapscott/2025/04/26/bidens-expansions-doomed-social-security-medicaid-shows-lefts-cloward-piven-strategy-still-strong-n4939240<![CDATA[Here we are on Day Two of the Easter Weekend and I'm betting odds are excellent that you have heard somebody confidently assert that the claim that Jesus Christ was literally resurrected from the dead is a fairy tale, and that "what really happened" was that somebody, most likely the disciples, stole Jesus' corpse, hid it, and then built themselves a lucrative religious movement based on the resurrection lie.]]>Sat, 19 Apr 2025 09:25:00 -0400<![CDATA[Mark Tapscott]]><![CDATA[Christianity]]>https://pjmedia.com/marktapscott/2025/04/19/heres-the-most-important-easter-question-who-got-the-body-of-jesus-n4939041<![CDATA[Following is the prepared testimony delivered by John Hart, Chief Executive Officer of&nbsp;OpenTheBooks.org, the Illinois-based non-profit watchdog that makes public official spending at all levels of government.]]>Wed, 09 Apr 2025 13:41:00 -0400<![CDATA[Mark Tapscott]]>https://pjmedia.com/marktapscott/2025/04/09/openthebooks-ceo-tells-congress-n4938737