These days it’s hard to tell your media players without a scorecard. Bloggers are going mainstream; MSMers are blogging. We could score this a victory for the blogosophere, but that would be triumphalist (who us?). But it’s not, really. What this actually underscores is the growing democratization of media.

PJM has decided to hasten that along, establishing our PajamasXPress blogs where are inviting some of the most distinguished writer/journalists in America to blog right here at Pajamas Media:

Victor Davis Hanson is a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, a Professor Emeritus at California University, Fresno, and a nationally syndicated columnist. He writes a weekly column for National Review Online and has authored or edited 16 books.

Claudia Rosett is a journalist-in-residence for the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, and writes, among others, for the Wall Street Journal and the National Review.

Ron Rosenbaum is the brilliant columnist and cultural critic for The New York Observer. He is also the author of books on subjects ranging from Shakespeare to Hitler.

Journalist Bill Bradley has brought his popular and well-known “insider blog” on California politics, New West Notes, over to PJ for our fourth PajamasXpress Blog.

In California, A Proposition to Tax Big Oil is Popular. But Is It Popular Enough?

by William Bradley

Oil companies are unpopular, alternative fuels are well thought of, there is major concern about climate change, and there is an initiative on California’s November ballot that addresses all those concerns. It’s ahead in the polls. Yet its fate remains very uncertain. It is called Proposition 87.