More Than 500,000 Rally in L.A. for Immigrants' Rights  —  Joining what some are calling the nation's largest mobilization of immigrants ever, hundreds of thousands of people boisterously marched in downtown Los Angeles Saturday to protest federal legislation that would crack down on undocumented immigrants …

Domenech appears to have copied from National Review column  —  A Flat Hat opinion column written by former Washingtonpost.com weblogger Ben Domenech was found today that is similar to two columns written by Jonah Goldberg for National Review Online.  —  Domenech's column, entitled …

Proposed FEC Rules Would Exempt Most Political Activity on Internet  —  The Federal Election Commission last night released proposed new rules that leave almost all Internet political activity unregulated except for the purchase of campaign ads on Web sites.

Saving journalism (and killing the press)  —  I'm in Philly at the Annenberg School of Communication for the Norg unconference: A remarkable, perhaps historic, gathering of newspaper people and bloggers starting a conversation about saving news.  Will Bunch, a columnist on the Daily News …

War in their future, Mids choose Marines … When it came time for Jake Dove, a senior at the U.S. Naval Academy, to decide how he would fulfill his required military duty after graduation, there was no question about it: Marine Corps all the way.  —  "In my eyes it's a perfect community," said Dove, an Annapolis High School graduate.

Steyn: Will we stick our necks out for his faith?  —  Fate conspires to remind us what this war is really about: civilizational confidence.  And so history repeats itself: first the farce of the Danish cartoons, and now the tragedy - a man on trial for his life in post-Taliban Afghanistan …

KOOKY KT'S SPY TALE  —  ALBANY - A Republican challenger to Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton is bizarrely claiming that the former first lady has been spying in her bedroom window and flying helicopters over her house in the Hamptons, witnesses told The Post yesterday.

The pro-freedom of expression rally in London  —  The rally in Trafalgar Square today was attended by about 1,000 (at most by my estimate) very disparate people and was a worthy effort for a poorly funded ad-hoc team of folks.  —  My main criticism would be that most of the speakers seemed …

Russians Told Iraqi Regime of U.S. Troop Movements  —  WASHINGTON — Russian diplomats passed detailed but sometimes inaccurate information about American troop movements to senior Iraqi officials even as U.S. troops closed in on Baghdad during the 2003 invasion, according to a Pentagon study released Friday.

'Hee Haw' Co-Host Buck Owens, 76, Dies  —  LOS ANGELES - Singer Buck Owens, the flashy rhinestone cowboy who shaped the sound of country music with hits like "Act Naturally" and brought the genre to TV on the long-running "Hee Haw," died Saturday.  He was 76.  —  Owens died at his home, said family spokesman Jim Shaw.

Schools Cut Back Subjects to Push Reading and Math  —  SACRAMENTO — Thousands of schools across the nation are responding to the reading and math testing requirements laid out in No Child Left Behind, President Bush's signature education law, by reducing class time spent on other subjects and …

Classy Economist  —  Thomas Sowell is a lifetime student of the market force.  —  PALO ALTO, Calif.—Thomas Sowell's excuse for limiting interviews to an hour is that it helps him "avoid stress."  But one suspects the real reason is that he has better uses for his time than to humor nettlesome journalists.

Joya talks on Afghanistan, Hashemi  —  Lecture focuses on women's rights in Afghanistan, U.S. policy since fall of the Taliban  —  Female Afghan parliamentarian Malalai Joya criticized current U.S. policy in Afghanistan, as well as the presence of former Taliban spokesman …

Bound, Blindfolded and Dead: The Face of Atrocity in Baghdad  —  BAGHDAD, Iraq, March 25 — Mohannad al-Azawi had just finished sprinkling food in his bird cages at his pet shop in south Baghdad, when three carloads of gunmen pulled up.  —  In front of a crowd, he was grabbed by his shirt and driven off.

H.R. 4437: A Bad, Bad Border Bill  —  Bump and Update: The Senate Judiciary Committee will begin debating the Senate version of H.R. 4437 on Monday.  It has already passed the House.  —  Update: From Common Dreams: … Update: (3/25) Barbara Boxer slams the bill: