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 …

Former DeLay Aide Enriched By Nonprofit  —  A top adviser to former House Whip Tom DeLay received more than a third of all the money collected by the U.S. Family Network, a nonprofit organization the adviser created to promote a pro-family political agenda in Congress, according to the group's accounting records.

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 …

McCain, Feingold Air Views in Iraq  —  Visiting Legislators Debate U.S. Policy as Violence Rages  —  BAGHDAD, March 25 — The increasingly rancorous public debate in the United States over the war spilled into Iraq during a news conference Saturday with two visiting lawmakers who are outspoken in their opposing stands on the issue.

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 …

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.

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 …

RALLY, BRUTALITY IN BELARUS  —  After Lukashenko gave the order to clear October Square of any and all protestors in the Friday twilight., it was completely cordoned off by riot police.  Access to the square was denied.  But thousands, at least twenty to thirty thousand …

Redirecting Bullets in Baghdad  —  NEW TARGETS Violence has changed, not abated, in Baghdad.  Now Iraqis bomb each other, not just Americans.  —  BAGHDAD, Iraq  —  I GOT back to Iraq two weeks ago, having been away more than a year.  The first story I covered began with a tip that vigilantes …

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.

The Blogs' Message: The Nature Of American Government Has Changed  —  In Administration tells Congress (again) - We won't abide by your "laws", Glenn Greenwald lays it out: … I think this is the key line: … This is the key.  Maybe, just maybe, they mean the things they are saying.

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 …

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 …

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 …