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Roman Genn doesn’t make the “B-List”!

On behalf of Pajamas Media, artist Roman Genn went to Tuesday night's Barack Obama Fundraiser at the Beverly Hilton. Unfortunately, Roman didn't get through the rope line ... but he still came up with some pretty amusing pictures - for a Hollywood outsider. (Click at more) "Stand aside, loathsome plebeians. Lord Geffen passeth!"

Dissent Crushed: Abdel Kareem, Egypt’s Free Speech Martyr

The four-year jail sentence of student blogger Abdel Kareem Soliman for the crimes of "contempt for religion" and "insulting the president" has dealt a harsh blow to the Egyptian blogosphere and free speech in the Middle East in the Internet age. The popular blogger known as Sandmonkey reports from Cairo on Abdel Kareem's story and the grave consequences of his case.

Baghdad Bagman Bagged:

“In the multi-billion dollar global scam that was the United Nations Oil-for-Food program, there has now been at least a small portion of justice done. On Thursday, a cold rainy day in Manhattan, I joined the throng assembled in Judge Denny Chin’s courtroom to see the sentencing of a South Korean businessman, Tongsun Park. Park got five years in prison and was ordered to forfeit $1.2 million and pay a $15,000 fine for what Judge Chin described as ‘a very serious crime.’” Read the rest at Claudia Rosett’s The Rosett Report @ PajamasXpress.

F-Bombs Away! Chris Matthews, Cursing and Character

Was it something they said? Let's reconsider the quaint topic of cursing. By Julian Tepper

Let’s Go Back to the Moon

Special to Pajamas Media by Buzz Aldrin and Taylor Dinerman Author at work, July 20, 1969 On my last trip to the moon I didn't get to stay the whole day and had to share my accommodations with another man.

QUAGMIRE!

"We were -- neck deep in the Big Muddy, And the big fool said to push on." By Jules Crittenden Illustration by Roger de Hauteville @ Maggies Farm.

Prime Minister Prodi’s Fall: Politics as Usual in Italy

Ciao bambini! Italy, where politics imitates The Rocky Horror Show,"It's just a jump to the left / And then a step to the right / Let's do the Time Warp again!" A Special Report to Pajamas Media by Mario Sechi

“We open in Venice. We next play Verona…”

The Democratic presidential hopefuls had their first quasi-debate – or was it an audition – in Carson City, Nevada last night. Pajamas Media’s Bill Bradley was there, but Barack Obama wasn’t. Read all about it at Bill’s New West Notes.

Sanity Squad: The Presidents

Can you guess which President the London Examiner was referring to when it wrote that the man had “murdered the Constitution of the United States” and “overthrown all for which Washington fought and Patrick Henry spoke?” Hint: it wasn’t George Bush.

The Presidents

Democrats Do The Sunset West

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, speaking here during the Armed Services
Committee hearing on the new US commander in Iraq, appears today at
the campaign’s first presidential forum, in Carson City, Nevada.
As presidential candidates converge last week and this on likely early primary state California, they flock to Nevada for today’s first campaign forum of the season, among the Democrats, in what will be the second-in-the-nation caucus contest, following Iowa.

But first a word on the only Democratic presidential candidate who will not be in Carson City today, Barack Obama.

Read the rest @ Bill Bradley’s New West Notes