Chris Mooney

Last weekend on CBS’s Face the Nation, host Bob Schieffer asked Utah Senator Orrin Hatch — the ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee — why liberal groups had so vehemently opposed the nomination of Judge Charles Pickering for the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. It’s the kind of question Hatch has been getting […]

Dear Readers, Last week I posted a note to all of you about the new look of TAP Online, and the new frequency of posts thereon. I said, among other things, that we were going to bring the site into the 24-hour news cycle. I also promised that we were well on our way to […]

There’s an odd moment in the latest Vietnam flick, We Were Soldiers, in which Mel Gibson’s character prays with one of his young soldiers (Chris Klein) before shipping off to war. Kneeling at a pew with Klein, Gibson thoughtfully notes that their enemies in battle will be praying, too. He then implores God to “ignore […]

Dear TAP Online Reader, As you may have noticed, our Web site is undergoing a number of changes. Not only are we posting articles on our home page far more frequently, we’re also making significant design and format changes to the way we present our content, on our home page and on other parts of […]

03/01/2002 To: Ann Coulter, syndicated columnist Re: Where’s the carnage? Dear Ann, I must confess that my heart sank when I read your latest column, “Mineta’s Bataan death march,” in which you criticize Secretary of Transportation Norman Mineta for opposing the racial profiling of Arabs in U.S. airports. It’s not so much that I have […]

You may recall that a few weeks back, Idea Log discussed how the left wing environmental group Friends of the Earth had thrown in its lot with conservative anti-abortionists on the issue of reproductive cloning. The two strange bedfellows came together to oppose the middle-of-the road Feinstein-Kennedy bill now in the Senate, which would ban […]

If you follow green issues at all closely, by now you’ll have probably heard of a book titled The Skeptical Environmentalist, by a Danish statistician named Bjorn Lomborg. Published in the U.S. last year by Cambridge University Press, the work has set off a firestorm, largely because it purports to show that for decades, environmental […]

Remember John McCain’s 2000 campaign pledge to defeat the special interest “forces of evil” that have corrupted our politics, and to blow up the “Death Star” of the traditional Republican Party? Does any of that sound familiar? At the time, McCain’s black-and-white worldview got him into deep trouble.In particular, GOP stalwarts fought back hard after […]

Anecdotal Evidence Watch. Who’s the laziest columnist of them all? David Limbaugh certainly appears to be striving for that distinction with this opening to a column on Christian-bashing (titled “Yet more assaults on Christianity”): Based on stories I continue to encounter, the war against Christianity is escalating and becoming increasingly hysterical. Could it be that […]