Pajamas Media Changes Sleepwear In preparation for adding more content in video, audio and text forms, Pajamas Media today is changing its layout slightly and its publishing platform. Because of the narrowing of the presidential election, the Straw Poll is being discontinued. We look forward to new features coming soon.

In Focus: The Old Story of McCain the Thwarted Democrat Is it news that John McCain nearly became John Kerry’s running-mate and may have once considered becoming a Democrat? New York Times thinks so, writes Michael Weiss.

Can Obama Overcome the 'Wright Stuff?' Barack Obama never wanted to run for president as “the black candidate.” But now, he doesn’t have a choice, writes Bill Bradley.

Turning the Tables on the Associated Press The AP threatened to sue Brian C. Ledbetter for reproducing their photos without authorization. But they didn’t ask permission before they grabbed Ashley Dupre’s pictures.

Frontline's 'Bush's War': Not About Bush or His War Frontline’s big fifth-anniversary of Iraq show, which begins airing tonight, is a “narrowly focused, warmed-over Donald Rumsfeld-Dick Cheney hatefest,” says Jules Crittenden.

The Incredible Shrinking Dollar The plummeting value of the dollar is making for a restless electorate: no wonder “change” is a successful campaign theme, says John Tamny.

What I Would Say to Eliot Spitzer Publicly shamed ex-governor Eliot Spitzer is now Citizen Spitzer: a full-time repentant husband. Brad Rourke has some advice for him.

Lisbon Treaty Spells End of a Sovereign Britain (Stephen Webbe)

A Look Back at the Obama Week (Victor Davis Hanson @ PajamasXpress)

Killing Al-Qaeda in Nineveh Province (Michael Yon)

Stop Those Checks: Congress Should Repeal Rebate (Bruce Bartlett)

Back to Watergate: Obama, Grandmothers and Charles Colson (Roger L. Simon)

For Hillary, Three in a Row or Done (Michael Tomasky)

Hagel Says the Surge Isn't Working (Crooks and Liars)

Petraeus: Iran 'Behind Green Zone Attack' (BBC)

Obama and Clinton Tied Again (Gallup)

Clinton Slight Lead (Rasmussen)

Anti-Intellectualism in America? (Philly Enquirer)

Supreme Court Allows Inmates to Get Abortions (AP)

Sirius and XM Satellite Approved by DoJ (CNN)

Hitchens on Jeremiah Wright (Slate)

BBC Admits Significant Errors in Israel Coverage (Jerusalem Post)

U.S. Home Sales Rise First Time in Seven Months (Bloomberg)

An Objectivist Faces Islamists on Campus (Objective Standard)

Money Still Flowing to Terror Groups (LA Times)

Lieberman: McCain's Bipartisan Wingman (Politico)

Tibet Protest at Olympic Torch Lighting Ceremony (Telegraph)

Iraq May Yet Be Model for Arab World (Amir Taheri)

Detroit Mayor Charged with Perjury, Obstruction in Sex Scandal (AP)

Jeremiah Wright's 'Prophetic Tradition' Just Conspiracy Mongering (Augean Stables)

Bhutan Ends Royal Rule (CNN)

Al-Qaida Number Two Calls for Attacks Against Israel and US (AP)

Anti-War Protestors Squirt Fake Blood on Easter Sunday Churchgoers (Gateway Pundit)

Hitting the LA Times Hit Piece on McCain (Patterico’s Pontifications)

Connecticut Newspaper Regrets Lieberman Endorsement (Firedoglake)

Bali Bombers to Be Executed (Daily Telegraph)

Sarkozy's Ex-Wife Re-Marries in NY (AP)

Obama's New Pastor Says Rev. Wright Was "Lynched" (Fox News)

Four US Soldiers Killed in Iraq: War Toll Hits 4000 (Bloomberg)

Week 62 Begins! Over 210,000 votes have been cast in the weekly PAJAMAS MEDIA PRESIDENTIAL STRAW POLL.

NEW DEAL: Pajamas Media editors have noted that the number of weekly votes in our poll has diminished drastically from the tens of thousands cast at the outset. For months now, many readers have been complaining to us about the increasing inutility of the poll because of vote-swarming by second tier candidates. Many voters have lost interest and are not participating. Websites that had run our widget were no longer doing so.

Something needed to change.

Therefore, especially since the campaign itself appears to be narrowing its focus to front-running candidates, henceforth the Pajamas Media Poll will be restricted to those first tier candidates listed on the front poll page of the leading online poll aggregator Real Clear Politics. As of now, that is two candidates on the Democratic side and four on the Republican. We will change our lineup on the Sunday after RCP does, if it does.

DON’T FORGET: You can put the poll on your website or blog with our free voting widget and become a precinct in the Pajamas Media Straw Poll. Learn how the readers of your site are voting and compare it the the total.