If you missed the latest edition of PJM Political on Sirius-XM this weekend, click here to join host Steve Green of VodkaPundit.com for a look at Washington and beyond, featuring Steve’s guests:

• Roger L. Simon, Michael Ledeen, and Avi Davis of the American Freedom Alliance, on last weeks’ AFA-sponsored conference. “Is the (Real) News Dead?”, on the state of old and new media at Pepperdine University last weekend in Malibu, CA.
• Ed Driscoll interviews Scott Baker of the B-Cast, the pioneering hour-long nightly Blogosphere video newscast, now at its new, solo URL about the recent videos involving White House correspondent Helen Thomas and Rep. Robert Etheridge. (This interview was heavily edited for time; watch for an extended version shortly.)
• Glenn Reynolds interviews Mickey Kaus, pioneering blogger with Kausfiles.com, Bloggingheads.tv, Salon and the Huffington Post, about what he learned after his abortive run against Barbara Boxer earlier this month in the California primary for the Democratic Senate nomination. (For our earlier interview with Kaus on the eve of the CA primaries, click here.)
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It’s back to back Radio Free Ed this weekend, as the latest PJM Political, featuring my interview with James Glassman of Tech Central Station and Ideas in Action on PBS is now online. And don’t miss the latest edition of Jimmie Bise’s The Delivery show, where I stopped by last week, along with PJM Political host and friendly neighborhood Vodkapundit, Steve Green.

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If you missed it on Sirius-XM today, the latest edition of PJM Political is now online, featuring my interview with Mickey Kaus on his nascent Democratic Senatorial campaign — and much more:

Join host Steve Green of VodkaPundit.com for a look at Washington and beyond:

• Ed Driscoll interviews pioneering blogger Mickey Kaus on the ultimate dark horse senatorial campaign, and why he’d be a better Democratic senator than Barbara Boxer. (Moose T-shirt, and plenty of additional Kaus campaign swag available here. Moose meme explained here.)
• From his weekly Instavision series on PJTV.com, Glenn Reynolds interviews former senator, former presidential candidate, former Law & Order co-star Fred Thompson, about his new book, Teaching the Pig to Dance.
• Steve Green has five questions for James Lileks, including the Tammany Hall-like taint of the the Joe Sestak affair, the FTC’s newspaper bailout, and much more.
• Taken from PJTV’s Poliwood, Roger L. Simon and Lionel Chetwynd wonder if the recent pro-totalitarian comments by Woody Allen and Thomas Friedman — material best left for cocktail parties and college dorm bull sessions than the op-ed page of the New York Times – signals a shift in the culture wars.
• Roger interviews historian and author Richard Landes, who is on location in Jerusalem, about Monday’s Gaza flotilla incident.
• Produced by your humble Blogospheric narrator.

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If you missed the big show on Sirius-XM’s POTUS channel this week, click here to join host Steve Green of VodkaPundit.com for a look at Washington and beyond:

• Ed Driscoll interviews New York Times journalist Zev Chafets about his new book, Rush Limbaugh: An Army of One. (This segment will soon be available as a separate podcast.)
• Ed interviews Peter Robinson of the Hoover Institute (and the man who helped draft President Reagan’s epochal “Tear down this wall” speech in 1987) about his new Ricochet.com venture with Mark Steyn and Rob Long.
• James Lileks on President Obama’s press conference yesterday, and the odds of North Korea crossing the 38th parallel.
• From PJTV’s Trifecta, Steve, Bill Whittle, and Scott Ott of Scrappleface on the MSM’s ever-so cordial reception to Rand Paul’s national debut.
• Produced by your humble guide to deep water information drilling in the Blogosphere.

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Just had a great interview with Zev Chafets, author of the new book of Rush Limbaugh: An Army of One, published by Sentinel Books and available from Amazon.com and your local bookseller. Look for it here on this week’s edition of PJM Political, coming Saturday.

In the meantime,  it’s worth noting that, like the rest of us, apparently the ombudsman of the Washington Post can’t be bothered to read Newsweek — even though the magazine is owned by the Post. And that as always, the role of the ombudsman at the modern newspaper is to provide cheat-and-retreat cover after it moves even further to the left than usual to cover a political story and retreats to the putative center, at least for a moment.

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On this week’s big show:

• Steve, Ed, and Jennifer Rubin of Commentary magazine’s Contentions blog recap Tuesday’s elections, Rand Paul’s (R-KY) foot-in-mouth moments immediately afterward, and the national implications of the stolen valor of Richard Blumenthal (D-CT). Plus a sayonara to Arlen Specter (D/R/D-PA, by way of Scottland).
• James Lileks longs for the days when currency still had the same names as listed in the Monty Python “Money” song, and goes back to the future with his recently announced dead-tree magazine.
• Tracie Savage of PJTV.com interviews California Insurance Commissioner and Republican gubernatorial candidate Steve Poizner.
• From PJTV’s coverage of the fourth International Conference on Climate Change, Harrison Schmitt, Ph.D., the second to last man on the moon as part of Apollo 17, and former GOP senator from New Mexico.
• Produced by your humble narrator of the Blogosphere and the Cosmos.

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If you missed the latest edition of PJM Political on Sirius-XM’s POTUS channel this weekend, click here to join host Steve Green of VodkaPundit.com for a look at Washington and beyond:

• Glenn Reynolds talks with David Kirkham, the  man who helped to oust incumbent Republican Senator Bob Bennett in Utah.
• PJTV’s Joe Hicks has rare praise for Prof. Henry Louis Gates, and his new book, Tradition and the Black Atlantic.
• James Lileks is shocked — shocked! — that Russia is reluctant to impose sanctions on Iran.
• Dr. Helen Smith interviews the Cuban-American bloggers of Babalu Blog, in a segment recorded for PJTV in Little Havana.
• Syndicated advice columnist Amy Alkon discusses her new book, I See Rude People with Dr. Helen.
• Produced by your humble Blogospheric narrator.

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If you missed this week’s edition of PJM Political on Sirius-XM’s POTUS channel, then click here to join host Steve Green of VodkaPundit.com for a look at The Big Week That Was:

• Ed Driscoll interviews Jennifer Rubin from Commentary magazine on would-be Times Square bomber Faisal Shahzad, and President Obama’s on-again/off-again love of media diversity.
• Steve talks with James Lileks on the now-infamous Kinsley-esque gaffe regarding Shahzad by MSNBC’s Contessa Brewer.
• PJTV.com’s Allen Barton interviews Terry Jones of Investor’s Business Daily, and Yaron Brook of the Ayn Rand Institute on Goldman Sachs’ Week from Hell.
• From PJTV’s Poliwood, Roger L. Simon and fellow Academy Award-nominated screenwriter Lionel Chetwynd on the death threats against TV’s South Park, and Comedy Central’s feckless and hypocritical response.
• Plus Roger Simon, the Ultimate Blue State California Guy, attends his first NASCAR race, where he interviews Texas Gov. Rick Perry about his presidential aspirations.
• Produced by your humble Blogospheric narrator.

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While I was in New York at the start of the week, I dropped by the offices of the Manhattan Institute (right next to Grand Central Station) to speak with Brian Anderson, the executive editor of City Journal magazine. We discussed Comedy Central caving to Islamofascist censorship of South Park, his 2005 book South Park Conservatives (which I was very happy to have been mentioned in), and California’s economic meltdown.

Also on this week’s show:

• Host Stephen Green interviews James Lileks on England’s Gordon Brown shooting himself in the John Lobb, and Charlie Crist bolting from the GOP, despite saying he was a team player just weeks ago.Glenn Reynolds interviews Mark Tapscott, the editorial page editor of the Washington Examiner on the left’s fascistic backlash over Arizona’s new immigration law, and the latest woes of Government Motors.  (Watch interview here.)
• Joe Hicks of PJTV interviews Christopher Horner, senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, and the author of the new book Power Grab, on the prospect of a cap and trade bill being taken up by Congress this year. They’ll also discuss the apparent conflict of interest of ex-Gore associate and current Obama energy official Cathy Zoi, which Horner explored further in an article at Pajamas Media, and in an another interview at PJTV, with Richard Pollack.
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Click here to join host Steve Green of VodkaPundit.com for the newest edition of Pajamas’ weekly Sirius-XM radio show:

• Ed Driscoll interviews Instapundit Glenn Reynolds on former President Clinton’s recent comparisons between the Tea Parties and Timothy McVeigh’s bombing of the Oklahoma Federal Building 15 years ago.
• Tucker Carlson, formerly of CNN and MSNBC (not to mention Dancing with the Stars), sells the April 15th DC Tea Party on his sprawling new Daily Caller e-zine.
• Tony Blankley of the Washington Times and Terry Jones of Investor’s Business Daily on the uneasy coexistence between the GOP and the Tea Parties (and vice-versa).
• For a such a self-styled high tech progressive, Hollywood superstar director James Cameron is remarkably anti-progress and anti-technology. Pajamas CEO Roger L. Simon and fellow Academy Award-nominated screenwriter Lionel Chetwynd explore why.
• Steve’s weekly five questions for James Lileks, who was on his way to conspire with Dark Lord of the Sith, Karl Rove.
• Produced by your friendly neighborhood blogger man.

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Join host Steve Green of VodkaPundit.com as he reports live on location from the April 15th Tucson Tea Party, plus:

• Taken from his weekly Instavision show on PJTV.com, Glenn Reynolds interviews Byron York, chief political correspondent of the Washington Examiner, on RNC Chairman Michael Steele putting the party back into the Grand Old Party.
• Ed Driscoll (hey, that’s me!) interviews Elizabeth Crum, inveterate Twitter user, the editor of Nevada News Bureau.com and a political analyst for KTNV Channel 13, the ABC affiliate in Las Vegas. They’ll discuss the two big Senate races in Nevada this year: Republican John Ensign, who’s in the midst of an ethics investigation, and Democrat Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, whose poll numbers are currently somewhere south of Jimmy Hoffa.
• James Lileks on the on the death of Polish President Lech Kaczynski in a tragic plane crash in Russia.
• PJTV’s Brandi Milloy speaks with Michael Barone of the Washington Examiner on the fall races.
• Steve checks in on location, in a segment recorded live at the April 15^th Tucson AZ Tea Party, where he’s joined by PJTV’s Stephen Kruiser, and pundit and radio host, James T. Harris.
• Produced by your humble Blogospheric narrator.

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Not to mention namedropping the man, the myth, the Keystone State legend: Harris Wofford?!

If you missed this week’s edition of PJM Political on Sirius-XM’s POTUS channel, click here to join host Steve Green of VodkaPundit.com and a troika of DC insiders, for everything you ever wanted to know about ObamaCare, and more:

• Richard Pollack, Pajamas Media’s DC Editor interviews former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich on topics ranging from ObamaCare, to offshore drilling to student loans. (Click here to watch on PJTV.)
• Ed Driscoll interviews Tevi Troy, former deputy secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services from 2007 to 2009 on the history of healthcare from the late 1980s and former senator Harris Wofford, through President Bush’s Medicare Prescription Drugs plan and President Obama’s new healthcare plan.  (For much more on this topic, read Troy’s article in the April issue of Commentary, “Health Care: A Two-Decade Blunder.”)
• Taken from his weekly Instavision show on PJTV, Glenn Reynolds interviews Randy Barnett, the Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Legal Theory at the Georgetown University Law Center on the constitutionality of ObamaCare.
• James Lileks on the incident involving a Qatari diplomat onboard a United Airlines flight from DC to Denver.  (Note: this interview was taped before the allegations surfaced on Friday that the stickiest of the icky may have played a role in the incident.)
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Now online, if you missed it on Sirius-XM’s POTUS channel. The big show features my interviews with Steve Green, Glenn Reynolds, and Dr. Helen:

Join host Steve Green of VodkaPundit.com for a snapshot of Washington, and beyond:

• Taken from Wednesday’s edition of PJTV.com, Pajamas Media CEO Roger L. Simon covers an anti-Castro protest this week in Echo Park, CA, featuring Hollywood actor Andy Garcia (The Untouchables, The Godfather Part III, the Oceans 11 movies) and gossip blogger/media gadfly Perez Hilton amongst its speakers.
• James Lileks on the latest calls from President Obama and French President Nicolas Sarkozy for sanctions against Iran, and this weekend’s rollout of the Apple iPad.
• Host Steve Green on the Democrats’ curious strategy of laying low (at least according to Reuters) in the immediate wake of the passage of ObamaCare.
• From PJTV’s Trifecta, Green, PJTV’s Bill Whittle, and Scott Ott of Scrappleface debate if the Tea Party-backed candidates will be their own worst enemies in the fall.
• PJTV.com’s Joe Hicks and Glenn Reynolds of Instapundit.com on the reports of Tea Party-backed violence in the wake of the passage of ObamaCare, and the surprisingly tight coordination between politicians and servile journalists.
• Forensic psychologist Dr. Helen Smith discusses her widely read and debated (over 400 comments so far!) Pajamas article, “How Should Conservatives Deal with the Left’s Disrespect and Lack of Empathy?”
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Apparently, it’s Theodore Dalrymple day on the Pajamas homepage. In addition to the full-length version of my audio interview with Dalrymple for the PJM Political show, Bernard Chapin has a lengthy print interview with the good doctor about his latest book, The New Vichy Syndrome: Why European Intellectuals Surrender to Barbarism.

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If you missed it on Sirius-XM, the latest edition of PJM Political is now online:

Join host Steve Green of VodkaPundit.com for a snapshot of Washington, Hollywood, and beyond:

• PJM Political producer Ed Driscoll speaks with Adam Baldwin. Baldwin is the the co-star of NBC’s Chuck TV series, Stanley Kubrick’s classic 1987 film Full Metal Jacket, frequent Big Hollywood contributor, and daily Twitter user.
• Theodore Dalrymple stops by to discuss his latest book, The New Vichy Syndrome: Why European Intellectuals Surrender to Barbarism. Dalrymple, a prolific British journalist much beloved by American conservatives and libertarians, is a scholar with the Manhattan Institute, and frequently contributes to their quarterly magazine, City Journal.
• Jonathan Tobin, executive editor of Commentary magazine, discusses his article in the March issue, titled “Smearing Theodore Roosevelt.” For a president carved into Mount Rushmore, Teddy Roosevelt’s reputation has certainly come under quite a bit of fire recently, from both the left and the right. Tobin will explain why all of the historical revisionism regarding TR’s record is occurring.
• Taken from PJTV’s Poliwood, Pajamas Media’s CEO Roger L. Simon is joined by fellow Academy Award-nominated screenwriter Lionel Chetwynd, to explore the new “history” TV series that Oliver Stone will be producing for Showtime. Blue Horseshoe goes back and to the left, back and to the left, to further process history through the Play Doh Fun Factory of historical revisionism.
• Produced by your humble and still vacationing Blogospheric narrator, who will resume fulltime blogging duties on Tuesday.

Click here to listen to the whole show.  Or, for individual interviews, my conversations with Adam Baldwin and Theodore Dalrymple were both edited to fit the show’s running time on Sirius-XM. Click here for my interview with Adam Baldwin, and click here for my interview with Theodore Dalrymple.

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If you missed it on Sirius-XM this weekend, the latest edition of PJM Political is now online:

Join host Steve Green of VodkaPundit.com for a snapshot of Washington and beyond:

• Five questions for James Lileks, just back from touring the Caribbean with Hugh Hewitt.
• PJTV’s Trifecta on Eric Massa (D-NY), just back from touring the DC showers with Rahm Emanuel, featuring Bill Whittle, Scott Ott and Steve.
• Steve and Ed Discuss what’s next for ObamaCare, and how it could play out in the fall Congressional races.
• Taken from his weekly Instavision series on PJTV.com, Glenn Reynolds is joined by his wife, Dr. Helen Smith, for a rare joint interview, with Walter Sinott Armstrong of Duke University. Will neuroscience become our judge, jury, and executioner? Think of it as Tech, Lies, & Videotape…
• From PJTV’s Poliwood, Pajamas Media CEO Roger L. Simon, and Lionel Chetwynd, his fellow Academy Award-winning screenwriter, explore what The Hurt Locker directed by Kathryn Bigelow, and Sandra Bullock’s win for The Blind Side at last week’s Oscars says about Hollywood.
• In a move seemingly ripped from the pages of an Ayn Rand novel, the University of Tennessee flatters Al Gore and itself by presenting Gore with an honorary doctorate in ecology and evolutionary biology. PJTV.com’s Allen Barton, Terry Jones of Investor’s Business Daily, and Yaron Brook of the Ayn Rand Center discuss.
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Join host Steve Green of VodkaPundit.com for a snapshot of Washington and beyond:

• Recorded live at CPAC 2010:

• Dana Loesch talks Tea Parties and mid-term election strategy with Ken Blackwell of the Republican National Committee.
• Dana speaks next with the Wall Street Journal’s John Fund, about how President Obama plans to use reconciliation in the Senate to break the logjam on his healthcare proposal.

• In an interview exclusive to this week’s show, Ed Driscoll talks with Ed Morrissey of Hot Air.com. By the middle of the preceding decade, global warming  become the left’s “moral equivalent” of the War on Terror. Concurrently, the legacy media kicked itself endlessly for not being skeptical enough regarding the faulty intelligence during the period that preceded the Iraq War.  (The post-Clinton period, at least.) Captain Ed wonders why they now appear as if they’re completely ignoring the faulty intelligence that led to Climategate.
• From PJTV.com’s Poliwood series, Pajamas Media CEO Roger L. Simon and fellow Academy Award-nominated screenwriter Lionel Chetwynd compare the divergent mindsets between the two most polar opposite films ever made: 2009’s The Blind Side, and 1972’s Last Tango In Paris.
• A brief snippet from Bill Whittle’s PJTV interview with Lord Christopher Monckton, who’s been challenging Al Gore for a face-to-face debate on global warming for years. Watch the entire segment here.
• Produced by your humble Blogospheric narrator, and creator of very silly Brandocons…

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On the big show this week:

Join host Steve Green of VodkaPundit.com for a snapshot of Washington and beyond:

• Richard Pollack, PJTV.com’s Washington Bureau Chief interviews Senator Jim Inhofe, Republican from Oklahoma, and why he’s calling for an investigation of former Vice President Al Gore, in the wake of the scandal that’s been dubbed Climategate.
• A look back at last week’s CPAC conference, the annual Conservative Political Action Conference held in Washington DC, starting with Dana Loesch of PJTV.com and her St. Louis-based talk radio show (and note that St. Louis is celebrating the one year anniversary of its first Tea Party today, as Dana notes on her blog). Dana has interviews recorded live at CPAC with a few names whom you may have heard of:
  • Newt Gingrich
  • Andrew Breitbart
  • Ann Coulter
• Then we turn the tables, and the microphones on Dana, so that Glenn Reynolds can interview her, as part of his Instavision series on PJTV.com.
• In the final segment of this week’s show, PJM Political producer Ed Driscoll (hey, that’s me!) interviews Jennifer Rubin of Commentary magazine’s contentions blog about this past Thursday’s so-called summit meeting between President Obama and the Republicans, as part of the president’s latest efforts to move his heretofore stalled healthcare proposal forward. Featuring soundbites of John McCain, Lamar Alexander, President Obama, and a race card-dealing Sen. Tom Harkin (D-IA) in action.

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It took a while for our suits to finish talking to their suits and vice versa — and DC wearing snowsuits for much of February didn’t speed the process! But PJM Political returns to the POTUS (Politics of the United States) channel on Sirius-XM this weekend. (Channel #110 on Sirius, #130 on XM.) Tune in to our usual timeslots on Saturday at 6:00 am, 12:00 pm, 6:00 pm, and Sunday at midnight. (All times eastern.)

Otherwise, click here to listen to this week’s show.

Watch for original content for PJM Political to reappear in the coming weeks. In the meantime, join host Stephen Green of Vodkapundit.com for a best-of compilation of recent interviews from PJTV:

• Roger L. Simon interviews Michael Oren, the Israeli ambassador to the US, who will discuss how close Iran is to having nuclear weapons – and what, if anything can be done in the time left to stop them.
• Recorded during the Tea Party Convention earlier this month in Nashville Tennessee, Glenn Reynolds talks with John Avlon, former speechwriter for Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, and the author of the new book Wingnuts: How the Lunatic Fringe Is Hijacking America. Avlon takes no prisoners as he deflates the birthers, the truthers, and the wingnuts on both sides of the aisle. (Watch interview here.)
• Taken from another segment from Glenn’s Instavision series on PJTV.com, as Glenn talks with Michael Barone. Barone, the veteran columnist with the Washington Examiner, and the author of The Almanac of American Politics, explores how Scott Brown won in Massachusetts, and how he’ll impact the Senate.
• We end our return to the POTUS channel this week with a segment from PJTV.com’s weekly Poliwood show, co-hosted by Pajamas CEO Roger L. Simon and fellow Academy Award-nominated screenwriter Lionel Chetwynd. Roger and Lionel interview the legendary film director, and Roger’s longtime writing partner, Paul Mazursky.
• Produced by your humble navigator through the uncharted dihydrogen monoxide of the Blogosphere.

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If you missed any recent edition of PJM Political, click here and scroll through for hours of audio archives. And tune in to Pajamas Media’s PJTV.com for extensive video coverage of CPAC 2010 this weekend, and more from the National Tea Party Convention in Nashville earlier this month. Plus news and opinion throughout the week.

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The latest edition of PJM Political is now online. Join host Steve Green of VodkaPundit.com for a look back this New Year’s weekend at the year — and the decade — that was:

• Steve discusses The Biggest Story of 2009 — and why it won’t appear on the MSM’s WWII-era radar screens anytime soon.
• PJM Political producer Ed Driscoll speaks with:

Glenn Reynolds on the Year In New Media and other Army of Davids-related stories from 2009.

James Lileks on Time magazine’s recent “Decade From Hell” cover story.

Col. Austin Bay, co-author of A Quick and Dirty Guide To War on President Obama’s first year as Commander In Chief of the War On Terror. (Hint: Austin doesn’t give Mr. Obama a B+.)

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Update: Tabitha Hale’s new article is the natural extension of Steve’s conversation about the Big Story of 2009.

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