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.

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.

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 …

Blue Sky On a Gray Day  —  The question was, Who are you and why are you here?  Not just the facts, but the emotions - how do you feel about the assault on news right now?  —  Feel?  I told a little story today.  Every morning I walk to the end of the driveway, and pick up a newspaper or three.

Election commission takes light touch with Net regs  —  The Internet's freewheeling days as a place exempt from the heavy hand of federal election laws are about to end.  —  Late Friday, the Federal Election Commission released a 96-page volume of Internet regulations that have been anticipated …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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.

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.

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 …

ON BEN DOMENECH AND TUCKER MAX  —  Much like Jeff Jarvis, I somehow missed the beginning and end of the story of The Washington Post's new Red America blog (though we did link to it), and the early retirement of its author Ben Domenech over allegations of past plagiarism.

The Word at War  —  Nah, Here's the Scoop, Say the Guys Who Planted Stories in Iraqi Papers  —  Oh, no, not at all — the Lincoln Group does not do propaganda.  Sure, the firm's been tarred by some in Congress, the media and the defense establishment for paying Iraqi newspapers to publish hundreds of …