Blog: TAPPED

OFF THE RESERVATION. I’m sorry to admit that I’m edging into full-blown Chomskyism, but I totally don’t understand why we’re even debating whether or not to bomb Khartoum when the Sudanese government’s already agreed to disarm the Janjaweed and halt the killing in Darfur, only to have an African Union-approved peace plan rejected by Darfuri […]

THE BEST COVER EVER. Via Atrios, I see HuffPo contributor Philip Weiss has some concerns about Kenneth Pollack‘s new book, The Persian Puzzle: The Conflict Between Iran and America: I just got a copy of Ken Pollack’s latest book on Iran, The Persian Puzzle, and was shocked on flipping to page 429, the Author’s Note […]

TNR AND DARFUR TNR�s Adam B. Kushner went to the Save Darfur rally on Sunday, and concludes that we liberals are na�ve to think that anything short of military strikes will stop the carnage in Darfur. This seems to be the emerging line over at The New Republic. Last week, I responded to a similar […]

BETWEEN WAR AND PEACE, MORE WAR. If you’re looking for an illustration of Jason Zengerle‘s point that John McCain continues to enjoy strong support from the MSM, look no further than David Ignatius‘s column on the maverick in which McCain’s opportunism and flip-flopping turn out to be virtues because he’s so tortured about his opportunism, […]

WHITE HOUSE: EARTH MAY BE ROUND, FURTHER STUDY NEEDED. An administration-commissioned scientific study has concluded what everyone already knows: Global warming is real and human activity is an important factor. Is a change of heart on the White House’s part in the offing? Of course not: “White House officials noted that this was just the […]

LIBERAL BLOGGERS DON’T WANT TO DESTROY THE “MSM” — THEY WANT TO MAKE IT BETTER. Just about everyone in the lefty blogosphere has taken a swing at Mike McCurry‘s piece over at The Huffington Post, and now it’s my turn. In case you missed it, McCurry wrote that he knows reporters — and Pulitzer Prize […]

visting a friend who is single-handedly and without the knowledge of a few general thoughts. 1. Americans have massively underestimated the lingering power of middle eastern colonial history on how the American invasion of Iraq appears. The narrative in Egypt is one of throwing of colonial overloards and . to the extent that . this […]

DEAD RIGHT. As I believe Matt and others have noted before, David Frum could be a candid and sharp conservative political observer before he descended into Bush hagiography and addled foreign policy nuttiness. His new online Cato essay on the death of small government Republicanism is good and worth reading (and not merely because it […]

THE PLAME-IRAN CONNECTION. Kevin wonders what’s up with David Shuster‘s assertion that Valerie Plame was working on Iran issues while undercover at the CIA. In today’s Washington Post chat, Tom Edsall reports that Walter Pincus is on the case, so I suspect we will all have answers soon enough: Washington, D.C.: MSNBC reported last night […]

THE DOUGHNUT IN THE OINTMENT. This Hill article, citing recent poll numbers showing that a majority of seniors are satisfied with their prescription drug coverage, questions whether Democrats will be able to make political hay over the “drug bill debacle” in November. I don’t actually think that’s a totally dumb question to ask, and only […]