On Stand, Moussaoui Says He Knew of Plan to Attack W.T.C.  —  ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — Al-Qaida conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui testified Monday that he and would-be shoe bomber Richard Reid were supposed to hijack a fifth airplane on Sept. 11, 2001, and fly it into the White House.

Scalia just gave the finger in church yesterday (not kidding)  —  UPDATE: The Boston Herald is reporting Scalia's movement as "an obscene gesture" and a "flick of the wrist."  That still is unclear, it could have been the wrist-under-chin gesture mixed with the middle finger.  Either way, it's not really relevant.

Alec Baldwin v. Sean Hannity in Radio Donnybrook  —  Hollywood liberal Alec Baldwin stormed out of an in-studio radio interview Sunday night after he was confronted on the phone by radio hosts Sean Hannity and Mark Levin.  —  Baldwin was 30 minutes into a planned two-hour-plus sitdown …

WELCOME TO RECONQUISTA  —  ***scroll for updates...Bush warns against stoking anti-immigrant feelings.  Wants a "civil debate."  Video here...Ok.  Tell that to the divisive militants below...***  —  As Mickey Kaus points out, the reporters at the Los Angeles Times (and all other major media …

Rove said cooperating in CIA leak inquiry  —  Karl Rove, Deputy White House Chief of Staff and special adviser to President George W. Bush, has recently been providing information to special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald in the ongoing CIA leak investigation, sources close to the investigation say.

More Than a Feeling  —  When The Guardian reported last February about another Downing Street memo in which President Bush suggested luring Saddam Hussein into war by "flying U2 reconnaissance aircraft planes with fighter cover over Iraq, painted in UN colours," there was much scoffing and hoo-hawing from the Right.

FEC Won't Regulate Internet Politics  —  The Federal Election Commission decided Monday that the nation's new campaign finance law will not apply to most political activity on the Internet.  —  In a 6-0 vote, the commission decided to regulate only paid political ads placed on another person's Web site.

Powerplay  —  Jaafari's allies denounce the Hayy Ur raid while MNF-I disputes the allegations of an unjustified assault  —  Weapons discovered by the 2nd Battalion, 1st Iraqi Special Operations Forces Brigade during an operation in northeast Baghdad March 26 to capture or detain suspected insurgents included …

Congressman Got Sweet Real Estate Deal from DeLay-Buckham Front Group  —  Recently, the Washington Post and TPMmuckraker.com have been reporting on the DeLay-Buckham front group, U.S. Family Network.  Ed Buckham, you'll remember, was Tom DeLay's Chief of Staff until he left the Hill to open up his lobby shop, Alexander Strategy Group.

Iraq Reporters Hit Back at Claims They Are Biased on War  —  NEW YORK After the latest round of blaming the media for distorted coverage in Iraq, which emerged this week from top Bush administraton officials, war reporters and editors strongly defended their coverage this weekend in a variety of venues …

Today Tehran, Tomorrow the World  —  What's at stake in the dispute over Iranian nukes?  Ultimately, human survival  —  Like many physicists who worked on the Manhattan Project, Richard Feynman could not get the Bomb out of his mind after the war.  "I would see people building a bridge," he wrote.

Blogger up for non-fiction award  —  An anonymous blog by a young woman in war-torn Iraq has been longlisted for BBC Four's Samuel Johnson Prize for non-fiction.  —  Baghdad Burning, a first-hand account written under the pseudonym Riverbend, is one of 19 books in contention.

How to Stop a Civil War  —  Administration officials have been right in recent weeks to argue that there is no large-scale civil war underway in Iraq.  As long as the Iraqi political leadership remains generally united in trying to calm the situation, and as long as sectarian violence remains …