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An Innocent Game of Footsie?

Although B. Daniel Blatt (GayPatriot West) feels some compassion for Senator Larry Craig, he believes the Idaho politician should resign for soliciting sex in an airport restroom. "The real issue here is not as much hypocrisy as it is absence of judgment."

Voice of America Tries Reform

Human rights activist Banafsheh Zand-Bonazzi agrees with concerns expressed on Pajamas Media that the Voice of America has failed at promoting Iranian freedom. But the writer reports the network is committed to reform under new chairman Jim Glassman.

Derbyshire v Spencer, The Final Round

Robert Spencer gets one more crack at defending Religion of Peace?-Why Christianity Is and Islam Isn't. Who will be the last man standing in the battle that got underway one week ago following John Derbyshire's review of the book?

Porn Nation

What's a father to do when an innocent slip-up on the computer enables his daughter to see "paparazzi photos of celebrity nether regions"? Brad Rourke is one of the many parents in America who "feel besieged by a culture around us of non-stop porn."

Week 32 In Progress!

Over 130,000 votes have been cast in the weekly PAJAMAS MEDIA PRESIDENTIAL STRAW POLL. The thirty-second week has officially begun.

Ron Paul and Bill Richardson won the thirtieth week in the poll.

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Sarko:”An Iran armed with nuclear weapons is unacceptable.”

In a major foreign policy speech today, French President Nicolas Sarkozy outlined four challenges for France in the 21st Century. The fourth and most critical was Iran. PJM's Fausta Wertz translated the key parts...

Finessing The Surge

Some Democrats are scrambling to re-position themselves on the surge in Iraq, and Neo-Neocon is watching them while pondering the contrast with another war and another ending.

Roger L. Simon: Not Blogging the Beijing Olympics

High tech big boys Google, Yahoo and Microsoft have been subject to much criticism, in and out of the blogosphere, for cooperating with online censorship in the People's Republic of China. Some say this cooperation has even led to the incarceration of journalists and dissidents. Now Yahoo and Microsoft are at it again, signing a "self discipline" pact with the Internet Society of China. Pajamas Media CEO Roger L. Simon has a suggestion for what bloggers and their readers can do about it.

Monday Morning Quarterback: Looking Past Labor Day

In a relaxed week before Labor Day weekend, PJM political columnist Bill Bradley looks at the main development areas in the White House race: the war in Iraq, the timing of the primaries, and Fred Thompson's possible announcement.

The Private Lives of Public Men

A lot of column inches, digital and otherwise, are devoted to the interpersonal troubles of our elected officials and their wives (and husbands). And while Burt Prelutsky may dig the dirt as much as the next guy, the time for the "politics of personal destruction" was 1998. According to Burt, "We should all keep in mind that politics is not the clergy, and being president is not a sacred calling." [Download Burt's reading of this story in MP3.]