Pajamas Media
Archive for October, 2007
Kimball, Silver Don Their Pajamas!
Pajamas Media proudly announces our latest PajamasXpress bloggers – Roger Kimball and Ron Silver. Kimball – author of The Rape of the Masters: How Political Correctness Sabotages Art, among many other works, and editor of The New Criterion and Encounter Books – will blog at “Roger’s Rules”. Actor and activist Silver, who published his first article on PJM on Tuesday, will blog at the “Silver Bullet.” Both men’s first posts are up. Have a look.
Madrid’s March 11 Sentence: Case Wide Closed
Twenty-one of 28 suspects in the 2004 Madrid train bombings were found guilty today by a Spanish court, but the suspected mastermind was absolved on all charges. Because a case is not closed in Spain until the courts have determined the person or persons ultimately responsible for a crime's commission, Robert Latona wonders whether justice has been served.
Ask Dr. Helen: Should Men Get Married?
If PJM's advice columnist Dr. Helen Smith ever doubted that the institution of marriage was getting to be an increasingly risky and expensive proposition for men - her readers have certainly educated her, forcing her to think carefully about whether or not to advise them to head to the altar.
Little Brotherly Love Among Democrats at Philly Debate
Bored with the lackluster Democrat debates? Sick of the predictable invincibility of Hillary Clinton? Strap on your seatbelt, because Eric Scheie found Tuesday's debate at Philadelphia's Drexel University to be surprisingly interesting - after all, how many presidential debates include UFO sightings?
Ron Rosenbaum: Shocking Inside DC Scandal Rumor
Is the Los Angeles Times sitting on a story about a sexual scandal involving one of the leading presidential candidates? PajamasXpress blogger Ron Rosenbaum explores the ethics dilemma the media establishment faces in such a situation. Read the full post here.
Disquiet on the Danube: Hungarians Take to the Streets
PJM Budapest: Hogan Hayes looks at the rumblings of discontent with the Socialist-led coalition governing Hungary. But can the country change course?
Sudan’s Deadly New Crisis
PJM Khartoum: War clouds are once again growing over the troubled Sudan, writes Drima, AKA The Sudanese Thinker, as the latest peace effort teeters on the brink of collapse.
How to Get the World to Like Us -The Case for Isolationism
Bummed out about international hostility to the US of A? Waiting for the good times to roll again? Actor/activist Ron Silver has a proposal for you. (NOTE: Silver's new PajamasXpress blog "Silver Bullet" for Pajamas Media is now active.)
Ari Fleischer: A New Breed of Jewish Leader
Jane Whitson - AKA Nashville-based blogger Webutante - barely knew Jewish Republicans existed until last week, when she met former White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer, whom she now views as "a modern day Moses leading his people out of slavery, into freedom. But rather than leading them out of the land of Egypt, he's taking them out of the bondage of the Democratic party."
What’s Al Qaeda Got To Do With The California Fires?
Global warming or Al Qaeda? Everyone has their own bogeyman to blame for the wildfires that raged through Southern California last week. PJM's Aaron Hanscom wonders if this is a good thing.
