Austin Bay’s latest podcast explores presidential politics with Tom Bevan, the co-founder and executive editor of Real Clear Politics. How did the site get started? How does it differ from other political sites? How do they select their stories? And what’s Bevan’s take on the state of the presidential race? Tune in and learn all!

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The second of Austin Bay’s ongoing podcasts in his new “Deep Background” format features an old friend—Jim Dunnigan, the co-author, along with Austin of A Quick And Dirty Guide To War (with a new edition on the way!), and editor in chief of Strategy Page. Jim explores what went right and wrong during 2007 in the Global War On Terror, and what to expect in 2008.

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Over the past 18 months Blog Week in Review, hosted by author, syndicated columnist and blogger Col. Austin Bay has changed and evolved, including its eventual incorporation into Pajamas’ weekly PJM Political show on XM Satellite Radio’s POTUS ‘08 presidential election channel.

Austin’s program will continue to cover issues explored on the web and on Weblogs, but the web is maturing. We are in world of convergence media—broadcast radio, satellite radio, Weblogs, Websites, Web podcasts, broadcast TV, Internet video—digital capabilities are bringing these media together. And to better reflect the expanded nature of the show, it’s now known as Deep Background .

The new format’s debut edition is a fascinating interview with Michael Knox Beran, a contributing editor to City Journal magazine, and the author of Forge of Empires 1861-1871: Three Revolutionary Statesmen and the World They Made, concurrent profiles of Tsar Alexander II, Otto von Bismarck, and Abraham Lincoln. The latter of the three and his pivotal role in history is also discussed in an article that Beran recently contributed to City Journal, provactively titled “How Lincoln Saved The World.”

The December 27th edition of Pajamas’ PJM Political show on XM Satellite Radio will feature a portion of this interview; this is both a sneak preview of this coming week’s XM show, and the full length “director’s cut” edition of Austin’s interview with Beran.

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Blog Week In Review host Austin Bay interviews Bill Roggio of the Long War Journal on the state of the Global War On Terror, the National Intelligence Estimate and Iran, and the role both are playing in the 2008 presidential election.

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The December 13th edition of Pajamas’ PJM Political on XM Satellite Radio featured a portion of this interview; this is the full length “director’s cut” edition.

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Blog Week In Review host Austin Bay interviews Joe Mathieu, the director of programming for XM Satellite Radio’s POTUS ‘08 presidential election channel, which hosts Pajamas’ weekly PJM Political show. Mathieu, who came to POTUS ‘08 via Dow Jones and CBS’s Marketwatch Radio, also hosts the channel’s daily “POTUS ‘08 Live” segments. He explains how the channel launched, and the benefits to the candidates of being able to express their views in-depth, rather than in sound bites.

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The December 6th edition of Pajamas’ PJM Political on XM will feature a portion of this interview; this is the full length “director’s cut” edition.

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The November 15th edition of Pajamas’ PJM Political show on XM Satellite Radio’s POTUS ‘08 channel features a portion of this interview; this is the full length “director’s cut” edition.

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The November 8th edition of Pajamas’ PJM Political show on XM Satellite Radio’s POTUS ‘08 channel features a portion of this interview; this is the full length “director’s cut” edition.

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[Previously @ Pajamas Media: Richard Fernandez reviews Michael Ledeen’s book; Ledeen responds]

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The nature of counterinsurgency operations has changed since the “classical” era of the wars of colonial independence in the ’50s and ’60s. And how an essential element of winning the counterinsurgency war in Iraq will be winning the battle of competing narratives that currently contend for space in the hearts and minds of the Iraqi civilian.

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This week’s podcast features Jeff Goldstein and Neo-neocon on the inexorable attraction of defeat in Iraq, America’s penchant for self-flagellation, and finding meaning in a chocolate Jesus. Why does doom sell, and why are we so susceptible to the pitch?

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Hostages, the nuclear quest, financing and arming militias in Iran, financing terror elsewhere, threatening Israel with elimination –- welcome to the government of Iran’s Islamic Republic. Pajamas Media’s own Richard Fernandez of the Belmont Club joins host Austin Bay to talk about the IRI, its influence in Iraq via the Mahdi Army, and its role on the world stage.

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The panel also tackles the plight of imprisoned Egyptian blogger Abdel Kareem Soleman and what his case means for the future of free speach and the internet in the Middle East. Austin Bay hosts and asks the questions. Ed Driscoll produces.

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Michael Ledeen joins Blog Week in Review to discuss all things Iran. Listen to the real story on UN sanctions, the EU-3, Hezbollah, nukes, Iraq interference, and regime change. Austin Bay hosts and asks the questions. Ed Driscoll produces.

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This week’s special guest, Claudia Rosett, and host Austin Bay discuss the “Byzantine” nature of UN accountability at the close of the “stunningly hypocritical” reign of Kofi Annan. Also, a tour of major world issues from Russia, to China and North Korea, and how to strengthen democratic resolve in the face of rising regional threats. Ed Driscoll produces.

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This week’s program is a Blog Week special, with John Hinderaker and Scott W. Johnson of Powerline. They talk about why they created their successful blog, and the Baker-Hamilton Iraq Study Group report and its historical perspective —as compared to Pearl Harbor, whose 65th anniversary was commemorated last week. Along with host and moderator Austin Bay they also predict next week’s events. As usual, Ed Driscoll produces.

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Panelists Tammy Bruce and Glenn Reynolds discuss—what else—the recommendations of the Iraq Study Group. Neither finds the report encouraging.

Also discussed is whether America remains the most optimal place to do business.

Finally, the panelists, along with regular host and moderator Austin Bay, predict the upcoming week’s top stories.

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This week’s panelists, PJM’s Richard Fernandez and Glenn Reynolds, discuss one Jamil Hussein—an alleged Iraq Police Officer who was an Associated Press source regarding reportage which saw six Sunnis burned alive—and dissect the work done by bloggers like Flopping Aces, who questioned not only the veracity of the story but the very existence of Hussein.

The panelists also discuss the NYPD shooting death of a black man on the night before his wedding, focusing on a $WSJ op-ed entitled “50 shots.”

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Blog Week in Review will return next Friday, December 1, 2006.

Pajamas Media and the Midterm Elections of 2006: Andrew Marcus and Richard Miniter (PJM in Washington) are the guest panelists and discuss three topics:

• The Citizen Journalist In Action: how Pajamas Media armed individuals with small video cameras (Canon PowerShot A630 8MP Digital Camera with 4x Optical Zoom) to cover events on the Day of (mostly) the Democrats.
• Will bloggers sell out? And what does “selling out” really mean as far as bloggers are concerned?
• In the short-term, what’s next?: Panelists toss out topics that they think will emerge as significant issues (or intensify as issues) in the next week to ten days in the blogosphere.

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Eric Umansky and Glenn Reynolds discuss the elections, who really won, who lost, and what cave dwellers in Waziristan may make of the vote. Expected Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi’s “first one hundred hours” gets the skeptical treatment. Austin Bay moderates. Surprise panelist Ed Driscoll drops in for a cameo —and produces the show, as well. Brought to you by Volvo USA.

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Prelude to a Power Change? Perhaps. Panelists Tammy Bruce and Glenn Reynolds analyze the 2006 midterm election, dissect Senator John Kerry’s “botched joke” and focus on the Internet Governance Forum which was held in Athens, Greece this week.

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Freerangers in the Mix: Independent political candidates for office in 2006—and, possibly in 2008—are the special focus for this episode of Blog Week in Review. One of the most reknowned “Freerangers” running this year is humorist/musician Kinky Friedman whose candidacy for Texas governor is hot. As a result, this week’s panelists have a distinctly Texas-flavor: Jonathan Gurwitz, editorial writer for the San Antonio Express News and contributor to the Wall St Journal’s editorial page and Ed Clements of KLBJ-AM Radio in Austin Texas and of the television show Friday Night Lights.

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The Road To 9/11 and the “Egyptization” of al Qaeda: Blog Week in Review is devoted almost entirely to a discussion of Lawrence Wright’s new book The Looming Tower, as Wright sits down to talk with Richard Fernandez and host
Austin Bay. Ed Driscoll produces. Brought to you by Volvo USA.

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“Dafur is just Rwanda in slow motion.” Hope and cynicism in a world of ever more egregious examples of human depravity—that’s the flavor which Gerard Van der Leun and Michael Totten bring to the discussion the Dafur-Sudan genocide. Additionally, Michael and his ‘Middle East Journey” are the backdrop framing discussion of the aftermath of the Israel-Hezbollah.

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Sex, courtesy of the Foley scandal, is more interesting than nuclear threats issued by North Korea’s perennially threatening dictator Kim Jong-il, if both the Big Media and the New Media are any indication; Pajamas Media’s Gerard Van der Leun and Richard Fernandez discuss the reasons thereto. Additonally, the panelists take a look at Australia’s new initiatives to integrate Muslim immigrants into the country’s larger society, with the most notable program involving a new community board composed of 100 Australian imams. An example of moderate Islam in action?

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Interesting times: a fourteenth-century Crusader quote spoken by the Pope is taken out of context and used to inflame Muslims around the world. BWIR looks at the background, the foreground and the distance between.

Second topic—Flab of the West: Have we become too soft, too pliable, too empathetic, too politically correct to wage an effective and victorious war against those who hate us and our works?

Our special guest panelist is the inimitable Mark Steyn—whose latest book, America Alone, is number 69 at Amazon. Mark mixes it up with regular panelist Glenn Reynolds. Reliably, Austin Bay moderates and Ed Driscoll produces. (Now sponsored by Volvo.)

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Hubris was the case and the subject matter as Glenn Reynolds and David Corn spar a bit over the Plame story in the week’s Blog Week In Review. Austin Bay hosts; Ed Driscoll produces.

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The fifth anniversary of the worst enemy attack on American soil has everyone buzzing, including Tammy Bruce, Roger L. Simon and Gerard Van der Leun, along with Blog Week in Review Host Austin Bay. Ed Driscoll produces.

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This week’s special guest panelists—Daniel Drezner and PJM’s own editor-in-Chief Gerard Van Der Leun—join Blog Week in Review’s regular host, Austin Bay. This week’s topics: Iranian “diplomacy” and Iran’s other weapon against its enemies—oil. Produced by Ed Driscoll.

Blog Week in Review returns from its impromptu hiatus in fine fashion. Its regular crew—Tammy Bruce, Glenn Reynolds and Eric Umansky, along with host Austin Bay—have a lot of catching up to do in view of warp-velocity world events. This week, the topics are the US Department of Defense’s conduct guidelines for active-duty military personnel and, of course the two main War on Terror issues of the day 1) the British terror bust and its implications and 2) who really won the Israel—Hezbollah War (that last topic really heats things up among our panelists). Produced by Ed Driscoll.

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Blog Week in Review will return Friday, August 17, 2006. Really this time.

Blog Week in Review will return next Friday, July 28, 2006.

And what a week to review! Moderator Austin Bay talks with the usual suspects, Tammy Bruce, Eric Umansky, and Glenn Reynolds. The topics: 1) Mumbai terror attacks, (2) Geneva Convention rights for Al Qaeda, and (3) Israel versus Hezbollah—and Iran. As always, Ed Driscoll produces.

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In this week’s Blog Week in Review, Tammy Bruce, Eric Umansky and Glenn Reynolds discuss immigration hearings, political funding of blogs and Kosola, and finally North Korea. As usual, Austin Bay moderates and Ed Driscoll produces.

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Did the New York Times endanger national security by publicizing the SWIFT program, designed to track the funding of international terrorists? Or was the news organization simply an agent of the public’s right and need to know the actions of the US Government?

Also Israel vs. Palestine and Fatah vs. Hamas. And more…

Guest panelists include La Shawn Barber and Daniel Drezner, who join regular panelist Eric Umansky. Hosted by Austin Bay; produced by Ed Driscoll.

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This week’s Blog Week in Review features Glenn Reynolds along with two guest panelists, Neo-neocon and Marc Cooper. Hosted as usual by Austin Bay and produced by Ed Driscoll, the three discuss the North Korean situation among other topics.

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Are we “California Dreamin’”? In a Pajamas first, the blogosphere’s own “Mama Michelle” (Malkin) joins “Mama Tammy” and “Papa Eric” for this week’s BWIR. Topics: Zarqawi, Rove and the “Mama” of them all - Oriana Fallaci. Moderator: “Papa Austin”. Producer: “Papa Ed”.

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PJM Sydney editor Richard Fernandez joins regulars Tammy Bruce and Eric Umansky in a spirited discussion of Haditha, the Canadian terror arrests and Internet click-through fraud. Moderator Austin Bay comments on Zarqawi’s death. Ed Driscoll produces.

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“Great Expectations” (college graduation, not the Dickens novel), Internet political polls and those ever-popular Iranian nukes are some of the subjects of the new BWIR. Guest panelist “Advice Goddess” Amy Alkon joins regulars Glenn and Eric. Moderator: Austin. Producer: Ed.

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New kid Jeff Goldstein joins old hands Glenn and Eric for this weeks BWIR. Topics: the Internet’s Army of Fact-Checkers, the FBI investigating Congress, a possible Palestinian civil war and a possible Rove indictment. Moderating: Austin. Producing: Ed.

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Glenn Reynolds, Tammy Bruce, and Eric Umansky weigh in on Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Net Neutrality and General Hayden’s CIA nomination. Austin Bay moderates. Ed Driscoll produces.

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Blogger Alaa jailed in Egypt … weblogs and the campaign of 2006 … that lengthy missive (not a love letter) to President Bush from Iran’s Ahmadinejad … Those topics and more in this week’s Blog Week in Review. Panelists: Glenn Reynolds, Tammy Bruce, Eric Umansky. Moderator: Austin Bay. Producer: Ed Driscoll.

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“Plagiarize. Let no one else’s work evade your eyes…” as Tom Lehrer sang – or was it The Great Lobachevsky? In any case, from the hallowed halls of Harvard (Kaavya Viswanathan) to the boardrooms of the LA Times (Michael Hiltzik), plagiarism and linguistic masquerades have been at the top of the blogs this week. Our panel – Glenn Reynolds, Tammy Bruce, Eric Umansky, with moderator Austin Bay – takes on this subject, plus Darfur and the immigration demonstrations.

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Michael Ledeen, Tammy Bruce, Eric Umansky of Slate and moderator Austin Bay lock horns over Tony Snow’s tricky new job, crazy gas prices, Iran’s belligerence and heroic “United 93”. Producer: Ed “Blue Hat” Driscoll.

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For the second edition of Pajamas Media’s new Blog Week in Review, blogger and journalist Austin Bay asks three top pundits to look back at a week of crazy gas prices, the critically acclaimed new film “United 93,” Fox broadcaster Tony Snow’s appointment as White House Press Secretary, the new Iraqi government and the looming threat of nukes in Iran.

Big ideas and big surprises from nationally syndicated radio host Tammy Bruce, respected Slate columnist and blogger Eric Umansky and author-columnist Michael Ledeen.

The show is produced by blogger and journalist Ed Driscoll.

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Our maiden effort explores the US visit of China’s President Hu, the departure of White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan and the rise of nuclear Iran. Our pundits include nationally respected bloggers Glenn Reynolds (The Instapundit), syndicated radio host Tammy Bruce and journalist Eric Umansky. The show is moderated by blogger and journalist Austin Bay and produced by blogger and journalist Ed Driscoll.

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