Ed Driscoll

PJM Political: And the Oscar Goes to…

Saturday, November 21st, 2009 - by Ed Driscoll

Bill Whittle on bringing KSM To NYC. Dr. Helen on bringing intellectual diversity to academia. Glenn Reynolds interviews The Smart Set. And Roger & Lionel explain how a film wins an Academy Award.

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PJM Political 11/21/09: And The Oscar Goes To…

Saturday, November 21st, 2009 - by Ed Driscoll

Tune in each Saturday to Sirus-XM’s POTUS channel (#110 on Sirius, #130 on XM) at (all times eastern) 6:00 am, 12:00 pm, 6:00 pm, and Sunday at midnight (also eastern time zone) for the weekly edition of Pajamas Media’s PJM Political!

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

  • Bill Whittle of PJTV.com interviews Charles Stimson, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of defense for Detainee Affairs, now with the Heritage Foundation. They’ll be discussing Attorney General Eric
    Holder’s decision to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and other 9/11 suspects in New York City.
  • Pajamas Media CEO Roger L. Simon and fellow Motion Picture Academy member Lionel Chetwynd make sense of the byzantine process of how a film gets nominated for an Academy Award.
  • Dr. Helen Smith interviews Jessica Custer of the Network of Enlightened Women, on their efforts to bring increased intellectual diversity to America’s universities.
  • Glenn Reynolds interviews the members of the Smart Set, on how the Internet is changing how music is distributed and opening new opportunities for entrepreneurial musicians.
  • Produced by Ed Driscoll.

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 video coverage throughout the week.

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The Pinchurian Candidate

Wednesday, November 18th, 2009 - by Ed Driscoll

In the latest edition of his "Silicon Graffiti" videoblog, Ed Driscoll notes the disparity between Frank Rich of the New York Times referring to the "GOP Stalinists" in NY-23 the weekend before this month's elections, and the Gray Lady's own frequent love for Big Brother throughout the decades.

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Oh, That Liberal Fascism: Leftist Thugs Get Violent, Again (and Again)

Tuesday, November 17th, 2009 - by Ed Driscoll

Members of International ANSWER follow the lead of SEIU by getting violent with the law-abiding.

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PJM Political: We’re Off on the Road to Guantanamo

Saturday, November 14th, 2009 - by Ed Driscoll

Bill Whittle heads to Guantanamo Bay. Bill, PJM Political host Steve Green and Scott Ott debate why the fall of the Berlin Wall didn't receive sufficient MSM coverage. Plus a Fort Hood update. And Roger and Lionel explain why Woody Allen's Whatever Works... didn't.

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PJM Political 11/14/09: We’re Off On The Road To Guantanamo

Saturday, November 14th, 2009 - by Ed Driscoll

Tune in each Saturday to Sirus-XM’s POTUS channel (#110 on Sirius, #130 on XM) at (all times eastern) 6:00 am, 12:00 pm, 6:00 pm, and Sunday at midnight (also eastern time zone) for the weekly edition of Pajamas Media’s PJM Political!

If you missed this week’s show, click below to listen:

(Want to download instead of streaming? Click here to download this week’s show. Or click here to download the lo-fi edition.)

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

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 video coverage throughout the week.

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In The Midnight Hour, Pelosi Cried, More, More, More…

Sunday, November 8th, 2009 - by Ed Driscoll

Taxes, spending, and government regulations that is, as the health care bill silently passed late Saturday night, and moved on to the Senate.

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PJM Political: Obama, Ayn, Caesar, Scozzafava!

Saturday, November 7th, 2009 - by Ed Driscoll

The latest edition of PJM Political checks in on Tuesday's elections, along with a tale of two competing authors: the surprisingly resurgent Ayn Rand, and "the most powerful writer since Julius Caesar." (Click here to hear the full length version of Ed Driscoll's interview with Rand biographer Jennifer Burns.)

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PJM Political 11/7/09: Obama, Ayn, Caesar, Scozzafava!

Saturday, November 7th, 2009 - by Ed Driscoll

Tune in each Saturday to Sirus-XM’s POTUS channel (#110 on Sirius, #130 on XM) at (all times eastern) 6:00 am, 12:00 pm, 6:00 pm, and Sunday at midnight (also eastern time zone) for the weekly edition of Pajamas Media’s PJM Political!

If you missed this week’s show, click below to listen:

(Want to download instead of streaming? Click here to download this week’s show. Or click here to download the lo-fi edition.)

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

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 video coverage throughout the week.

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Atlas Resurgent: An Interview With Ayn Rand Biographer Jennifer Burns

Saturday, November 7th, 2009 - by Ed Driscoll

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Taken from the November 7th edition of Pajamas Media.com’s PJM Political on Sirius-XM Satellite Radio’s POTUS Channel, Ed Driscoll interviews Jennifer Burns, assistant professor of history at the University of Virginia. They discuss her new book, Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right, and the surprisingly resurgence of Rand’s vision of free market capitalism, only months after Newsweek ushered in the Obama administration by declaring on its cover in February, “We Are All Socialists Now.”

Burns was also recently interviewed by Reason.tv as part of their retrospective on Rand. Click on YouTube player below to watch that interview:


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 video coverage throughout the week.

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