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 …

Norgs: the unconference: "this is the day that the war ends"  —  I wanted to post this quickly to point you to a few participants and their reports, the day was too big skip without getting at least this up.  I will have more later, about the day, the format (hey - the unconference format works!), and thoughts for the future.

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.

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 …

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.

Did Anyone Get Michael Ware on Bill Maher?  —  Did anyone record Michael Ware on Bill Maher this evening?  If you did, please send me the clip.  —  I know it' a longshot, well, because it's Bill Maher, but please send it this way.  I am unable to record clips my self while I am in NC.

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 …

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 …

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 …

Dose of Tenacity Wears Down a Horrific Disease  —  OGI, Nigeria — Whatever secrets the turgid brown depths of the Sacred Pond of Ogi may keep, there is one they betray quite easily: why it is so infuriatingly hard to wipe even one disease off the face of the earth.

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 …

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.

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 …

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.