Blog: TAPPED

WASHINGTON TIMES-INESS. If you’re going to run an article under the headline “Democrats call Zarqawi killing a stunt,” wouldn’t it be good to include in the piece a quote from some Democrat actually calling the Zarqawi killing a stunt? UPDATE: Via KCinDC in comments, it appears the Times has updated the story and backed off […]

BYRON YORK MISQUOTES ME.. And this, after I sat next to him all morning. I didn’t, to be fair, recognize him till the session’s end. I’d never seen York, and wasn’t alerted to his famous bouffant ahead of time, so I hadn’t known I was brushing such famous knees until I happened to catch sight […]

DOES STUDENT AID WORK AFTER ALL? One of the more clever libertarian arguments I’ve heard is that federal tuition assistance doesn’t make college more affordable — if the government offers $X in assistance, colleges just respond by raising tuition commensurately. Or, as Neil McCluskey puts it today at the Cato blog, “Some people complain that […]

YEARLYKOS. Wondering why the magazines are a bit quiet? Possibly because large segments of their staffs are in Las Vegas, making a fishbowl of YearlyKos. In the rooms I’ve been in, attendees have barely outnumbered those writing about the attendees. A CAP-sponsored seminar on media appearances this morning saw the second row populated by The […]

LINES IN THE SAND. The New York Times editorializes about the “ridiculous” push for a constitutional amendment to ban flag-burning — “an issue that exists only for the purpose of pandering to a tiny slice of voters.” Though the Times is correct that this is not a high-salience, top-priority issue for most voters, it should […]

DERBYSHIRE SELLS OUT. John Derbyshire has some odd reflections on his Party of Death review in which he recants nothing, but nonetheless says he regrets letting spirited controversy get in the way of collegiality. Let me just observe one nice thing about the line of argument Ramesh Ponnuru‘s been adhering to in this debate — […]

TIME AND AGAIN (AND AGAIN!) K-Lo with an assist from David Pryce-Jones unleashes a dispatch from the Gamma Quadrant: “He calls Zarqawi�s demise both a ‘collassal morale boost’ for all of us but says it also has ‘big operational significance.’ ‘When you get rid of a leader, it�s very hard to replace him.’ The Israelis […]

TURNING POINT! TURNING POINT! Look, it’s great that Zarqawi‘s dead, and it’s certainly too bad the Bush administration chose not to kill him when they had the chance years ago, preferring to keep him alive since it was useful to bolstering the set of deceptions they used to launch a war in which tens of […]

TRIUMPH OF HOPE OVER EXPERIENCE. I’m really eager to be convinced that Jacob Weisberg is right and that the gay marriage issue won’t work for the GOP this time around. But man oh man am I not convinced by his reasoning: A second reason the issue won’t work again is that Democrats have by now […]