Blog: TAPPED

NOT RUNNING. Since James Carville has kicked off a new round of speculation that Al Gore may enter the race for presidency, let me just add that in the past six months I have had conversations with five different people in line to get early calls from the former Vice President, should he even consider […]

IT�S A CIRCULATION WAR! Which, apparently, the Inky wants to lose. David Sirota points out that fully 84 percent of Philadelphians voted against Rick Santorum last fall. So naturally, the Inquirer wants to repay Philly voters� loyalty with a column! Let�s remember that Santorum has little to do with Philadelphia. He�s from the Pittsburgh area, […]

STONE, MEET WALL. Not that this comes as any great surprise, but White House spokesperson Dana Perino is pursuing the buck-passing brush-off strategy when it comes to revealing what the White House knew about the North Korean uranium enrichment program that may or may not have existed. From today’s press gaggle aboard Air Force One […]

JUST POSTED ON TAP ONLINE: FREE TO CHOOSE. The House is set to pass the Employee Free Choice Act today; Robert Reich takes on the dubious objections raised by industry groups. –The Editors

EQUAL TO THE POPULATION OF SOUTH DAKOTA. For the first time in 23 years, the Department of Housing and Urban Development presented a report to Congress yesterday documenting the scope of the United States� homelessness epidemic. The survey used a new approach, collecting data on the number of Americans sleeping on the street or seeking […]

MORONS. WE HAVE MORONS ON OUR TEAM. I don’t have much to add to the very good analysis that Hilzoy and Josh Marshall give on the North Korea uranium situation. There have been questions floating around about the uranium enrichment process in North Korea for a while, but the New York Times article confirms that […]

THE GROWNUPS IN CHARGE. Hilzoy explains the implications of today’s revelations about the abject fiasco that is Bush‘s North Korea policy: Let’s be very clear about what this means. We used to have a deal, the Agreed Framework, that kept North Korea from getting plutonium. We supposedly discovered that they were cheating on that deal […]

NOT FUNNY. Jesse Singal over at Campus Progress has a smart critique of the “comedy” presented on Fox News’ half-hearted attempt to mimic the success of Comedy Central’s Daily Show with Jon Stewart. It’s not surprising that the conclusion is that conservatives just aren’t funny. Even the name — The 1/2 Hour News Hour — […]

JUST POSTED ON TAP ONLINE: SCHLESINGER’S “OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS.” Historian Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., who died last night at the age of 89, was, among many other things, a founding sponsor of The American Prospect who contributed several articles to the magazine over the years. His last piece for us, written immediately after George W. Bush‘s re-election […]

TEH FUNNY. That “teh” is intentional, to show how well I know Internet slang. And what is “teh funny” for the day? My candidate is the Conservapedia, a new rival for Wikipedia. Now, Wikipedia has problems with accuracy and non-bias, so perhaps it’s not so surprising that alternatives would crop up, and this is the […]