Blog: TAPPED

WHAT HAPPENED TO THE WSJ? I’m a bit freaked out to read such a cogent and smartly argued health care op-ed on the editorial page of The Wall Street Journal, but Nobel Laureate Daniel McFadden goes ahead and shocks me anyway. The piece recounts the author’s research group, which has tracked the implementation and performance […]

A MODEST QUESTION. To ruthlessly steal from Scott and his earlier post about the Edwards bloggers and Joan Walsh of the Salon: I have a question, and it has to do with this quote by Walsh: Clinton hired Peter Daou, who’d run John Kerry’s Internet operation and later licensed his Daou Report to Salon (it […]

POSTED ON TAP ONLINE: ALL SMILES AND WHEN COUNTRY WENT RIGHT. Terry Samuel gives us yet another reason why everyone seems to love Barack Obama: Heart-warning, inclusive, all-American. The bad, racial-hatred part of the story never comes. Obama’s emphasis is not on the horrors of the past injustice but on a kind of human decency […]

A MODEST REQUEST. Would it be possible for people discussing the Edwards blog pseudo-scandal to stop discussing Amanda Marcotte and Melissa McEwan as if they’re the same person? OK, from Dan Gerstein, what do you expect, but could Joan Walsh get this straight? In context, isn’t it kind of important that one of these two […]

GLAD TO SEE IT. The NBA has responded to Tim Hardaway‘s homophobic rantings by bouncing him from all promotions for this weekend’s All Start Game. Good for them. –Ezra Klein

OCCAM’S POLITICIAN. Thank God for Badler in the post below. I really don’t know why people keep trying to chalk up Hillary‘s opinions to pandering and circumstances rather than admitting that she’s simply not all that progressive, but it’s long past time to face reality. Plenty of folks in the country may agree with her […]

HRC AND THE FOREIGN POLICY ELITE. Far be it from me to disagree with our erstwhile boss man, Mike Tomasky, but I was intrigued by his post on “Comment is Free,” the online opinion page of the Guardian. Mike argues that the reason Hillary Clinton refuses to admit that she was wrong to support the […]

WHAT AMNESIA? Brendan O’Neill has a column in The Guardian‘s “Comment is Free” section about this magazine’s history of commentary on the Iraq war. For anyone who fell for wannabe president Hillary Clinton’s claim last week that she did not vote for pre-emptive war in Iraq, and thus she is really more of a peacenick […]

DIVERSITY OF WHAT? I like Kay‘s linkage of geographical quotas and diversity quotas. To suggest that maybe women should have vaguely equal-esque representation in the House of Representatives is seen as crazy, totally unAmerican. But of course the four bearded men and a dog who live in Montana should get precisely the Senatorial clout of […]

OPENING BID: $50,000. Walter Mondale‘s boyhood home in Elmore, Minn. is listed on eBay. So far, no bids. — Kay Steiger