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PJM Political: Obama, Ayn, Caesar, Scozzafava!
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.)
PJM Political 11/7/09: Obama, Ayn, Caesar, Scozzafava!
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:
- From PJTV’s Trifecta series, Steve and St. Louis talk radio sensation Dana Loesch interview Scott Ott of Scrappleface about what he learned running for office in his hometown of Lehigh County, PA.
- Five Questions For James Lileks — including questions about the off-year elections and The Big Episode of Mad Men last week.
- Joe Hicks of PJTV.com on the GOP’s Epic NY-23 Fail during Tuesday’s elections.
- Ed Driscoll interviews author/historian Jennifer Burns about her new book, Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right. (Edited for time; click here for the full length “Director’s Cut” edition of the interview, and video of Burns’ recent appearance on Reason.tv.)
- Glenn Reynolds reports from the recently concluded 17th annual State Policy Network meeting in Ashville, NC.
- From PJTV’s Poliwood, Pajamas CEO Roger L. Simon and fellow Academy Award-nominated screenwriter Lionel Chetwynd debate the controversial statements from Rocco Landesman, National Endowment for the Arts chairman conflating the writings of President Obama with…Julius Caesar?!
- 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.
Atlas Resurgent: An Interview With Ayn Rand Biographer Jennifer Burns
(Want to download instead of streaming? Click here to download this 18 minute long interview. Or click here to download the lo-fi edition.)
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.
Breaking: Massacre at Fort Hood (Updated)
Reports are still sketchy, but as many as 12 are dead and 31 or more wounded in a shooting at the U.S. Army base at Fort Hood, Texas. UPDATE: Report: Suspect not dead.
Election Night Snapshot
What the blogosphere is saying about tonight's elections and what they portend for 2010.
PJM Political: Lileks Returns; Lamar Ponders The New Enemies List
The triumphant return of the Bard of Minnesota; Sen. Lamar Alexander flashes back to the days of Nixon. Plus, are the Taliban using heroin as a weapon?
PJM Political 10/31/09: Lileks Returns; Lamar Ponders The New Enemies List
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:
- Host Stephen Green of Vodkapundit.com interviews Scott Ott of Scrappleface.com, and Bill Whittle of PJTV.com on the future of newspapers.
- Glenn Reynolds interviews Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN).
- From the latest segment of PJTV.com’s National Security Review, Bill Whittle talks with Cliff May, President of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, and Austin Bay, co-author of A Quick & Dirty Guide To War, about claims by Gerald Posner in The Daily Beast.com that the Taliban and Al Qaeda are using heroin as a weapon in Afghanistan.
- Pajamas CEO Roger L. Simon and fellow Academy Award-nominated screenwriter Lionel Chetwynd talk with Thor Halvorssen, the founder of the Moving Picture Institute on the high tech future of film distribution.
- Back after after his exclusive three week tour of Europe, Scandinavia and the subcontinent, James Lileks (seen above in his Halloween guise of Minimus Lilekus) returns for another round of Five Questions With James Lileks!
- 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.
PJM Political: Go West, Young Podcast!
The podcast edition of the weekly Sirius-XM show heads west, to cover Blog World Expo in Vegas, and from CA, Western CPAC, and the Reagan Library. And it's Medically Incorrect, to boot!
PJM Political 10/24/09: Go West, Young Podcast!
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 — way beyond, in this special road trip edition of PJM Political:
- Pajamas CEO Roger L. Simon interviews Fred Barnes on the future of traditional media, recorded in front of the retired Air Force One at the Reagan Library in Simi Valley, CA.
- Minnesota’s Gov. Tim Pawlenty and new media’s Andrew Breitbart address the crowds at Western CPAC in Long Beach, CA.
- Host Stephen Green interviews Eric Olsen, the founder of Blogcritics.org, on how new FTC regulations will impact bloggers. Recorded at the annual Blog World Expo convention this past weekend in Las Vegas. (Watch for video on Monday at PJTV!)
- Glenn Reynolds of Instapundit.com interviews St. Louis talk radio host Dana Loesch, and PJTV’s Bill Whittle on “Can Independents & Conservatives Save the Republican Party?”
- Highlights from the first episode of a new series on PJTV.com, Medically Incorrect, hosted by Dr. Peter Weiss.
- 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.
Video: ‘Expanding The Operation’: Tim Pawlenty At WCPAC
Minnesota's Gov. Tim Pawlenty explains how he's governed as a conservative in the state of Mondale, Wellstone, and Franken.
