We have added a number of new blogs to the Pajamas Media blogroll today, and will be adding more in the forthcoming days and weeks. Please help us welcome them by taking a fresh look and clicking on a few of the names you haven’t seen before.
We also extend our sincerest thanks to all of the great blogs–and people– that helped us get this project off the ground less than two years ago. Just as we have grown and changed in that time, so have they, and it is time for some of them to part ways with us. We wish them the best of luck and continued success in their endeavors.
We knew Iran was brash about its nuclear program, but would it really go as far as to run an advertisement in a paper wholly owned by the New York Times seeking bids from companies to execute its plan to build two new nuclear reactors?
Apparently.
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by Allison Kaplan Sommer, PJM Tel Aviv editor

“I’ve been told that I have a lot of energy. The secret is that I use renewable resources. Some days I’m solar powered. Some days I’m wind powered. And some people in this room might think I’m hybrid gas-powered. You’ll just have to guess which it is today.” — Bill Richardson
Eighth of a series of leading Presidential candidates by illustrator Roman Genn. Copy at will but please credit Roman Genn and Pajamas Media.
Previously: Fred Thompson, John Edwards, Mitt Romney, Hillary Clinton, John McCain, Barack Obama, Rudy Giuliani
Over 110,000 votes have been cast in the weekly PAJAMAS MEDIA PRESIDENTIAL STRAW POLL. The fourteenth week has officially begun. The fourteenth week saw basically the same pattern as the thirteenth with Fred Thompson well in the lead on the Republican side and Bill Richardson ahead on the Democratic side by a substantial margin.
Artillery in Baghdad -- Listening to the sounds of shelling in a city at war.
By Omar Fadhil
The best of the week @ Pajamas:
Genn’s Candidates: Hillary Clinton
The Cool Water of the Koran (Part V) – Salim Mansur
Bowling For Virginia Tech: Who Made Him Do This? – Oleg Atbashian
Power Line at 4 1/2 – Roger L. Simon Interviews John Hinderaker
Iran’s Parliament vs. Ahmadinejad – Meir Javedanfar
Baghdad Dispatch: The Wall – Omar Fadhil
Stalking Wild Truffles in Oregon – Nancy Rommelman
Police Pay-Wagons of Iraq – Richard Miniter
Healthy? Don’t Click! – Max Sawicky
Sanity Squad: Involuntary Commitment
Hair Ball! – The John Edwards snips but does not score. – The Manolo
The Scolder of France – Nidra Poller
Genn’s Candidates: Rudy Giuliani
Made In Iran: A Traitor’s Tale – Richard Miniter
Adam "Pacman" Jones
"On draft day, the NFL looks at a young man's talent. Then they look at his rap sheet."
By Fred Thompson
Teachers' strikes have been spreading across Iran for the last eleven weeks and now the mullahs are "striking back" with a phony strike of their own. Iranian-American filmmaker Ardeshir Arian is following the story for Pajamas Media.
by Ardeshir Arian

How is the Iraq legislation just passed by the Democrats in Congress seen in Iraq? PJM Baghdad editor Omar Fadhil tells you.
Who says the Corn & Miniter Show doesn’t have reach? At last week’s White House Correspondent’s Dinner, David Bass (subbing for Rich Miniter) approached Fred Thompson for his view of what’s going on with the weekly presidential candidate evaluations on the Corn & Minter Show and Thompson told him “You need to keep David Corn in check!”
Is Bass keeping Corn in check? Decide for yourself on this week’s Corn & Miniter Show.
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