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9:45 AM ET, March 26, 2006

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Los Angeles Times:
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 …
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Max Blumenthal / The Huffington Post:
Sensenbrenner Awakens A Sleeping Giant  —  I have just returned from the largest, most energized demonstration I have ever witnessed in my life.  Over 500,000 people filled the streets of downtown Los Angeles to march against HR 4437, a bill authored by Republican Rep. James Sensenbrenner …
Peter Prengaman / Associated Press:
Immigration March Draws 500,000 in L.A.  —  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Immigration rights advocates more than 500,000 strong marched in downtown Los Angeles, demanding that Congress abandon attempts to make helping illegal immigrants a crime and to build more walls along the border.
White House:
President's Radio Address
Discussion: Blogs for Bush and Bring it On!
Los Angeles Times:   School Walkouts Protest Immigration Proposals
ABCNEWS:
Afghan Court Drops Case Against Christian  —  Afghan Court Drops Case Against Man Who Faced Possible Execution for Converting to Christianity  —  KABUL, Afghanistan Mar 26, 2006 (AP)— An Afghan court on Sunday dismissed a case against a man who converted from Islam to Christianity …
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Amir Shah / Associated Press:
Pressure Grows to Free Afghan Convert  —  KABUL, Afghanistan - The Afghan government faced heavy international pressure to reconsider the charges against an Afghan man who faces a possible death sentence for converting from Islam to Christianity — and reports emerged that the man might be freed soon.
Discussion: A Blog For All and Jihad Watch
Karl / paradox1x:
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.
Discussion: BuzzMachine
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Daniel Rubin / Blinq:
Blue Sky On a Gray Day
Discussion: Philly Future
Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
Saving journalism (and killing the press)
Discussion: Suburban Guerrilla
R. Jeffrey Smith / Washington Post:
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.
Jonathan Finer / Washington Post:
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.
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Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
Feingold Campaigns For Retreat From Iraq — In Iraq
Cynocephalus / Samizdata.net:
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 …
Discussion: Kesher Talk and USS Neverdock
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Voltaire / March for Free Expression:
Thanks All  —  Thanks for making it such a successful rally.
Discussion: Michael J. Totten
Time:
The Democrats' plan for midtern elections  —  If the elections were held today, top strategists of both parties say privately, the Republicans would probably lose the 15 seats they need to keep control of the House of Representatives and could come within a seat or two of losing the Senate
Ian / Expose the Left:
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.
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George / SEIXON:   Michael Ware: Terrorist Propaganda Works!
Declan McCullagh / CNET News.com:
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 …
Discussion: Election Law and Why Now?
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Donald G. McNeil Jr / New York Times:
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.
Discussion: Obsidian Wings
Sam Dillon / New York Times:
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 …
Discussion: The Education Wonks
Andy Zahn / flathat.wm.edu:
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 …
Discussion: AMERICAblog and Wonkette
Jeffrey Gettleman / New York Times:
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 …
 
 
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Rachel L. Swarns / New York Times:
A G.O.P. Split on Immigration Vexes a Senator
Discussion: The Agonist
Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
Testing Presidential Waters as Race at Home Heats Up
Discussion: MyDD
Hassan M. Fattah / New York Times:
In Dubai, an Outcry From Asians for Workplace Rights
Discussion: NathanNewman.org
Josh Gerstein / New York Sun:
CAIR Settles A Libel Suit Against Critic
Discussion: Solomonia, Debbie Schlussel and lgf
Robert Kitson / Guardian:
Ashton tells England: I'll come back
Discussion: Silent Running
Kevin Aylward / Wizbang:
ON BEN DOMENECH AND TUCKER MAX
Jim VandeHei / Washington Post:
Bush Shows Strategy for Keeping Hill Majorities
Discussion: MyDD and AMERICAblog
Lynne Duke / Washington Post:
The Word at War  —  Nah, Here's the Scoop, Say the Guys …
 Earlier Items: 
BBC:
Hundreds join free speech rally
Discussion: Biased BBC
Dave Johnson / Seeing the Forest:
The Blogs' Message: The Nature Of American Government Has Changed
Los Angeles Times:
Russians Told Iraqi Regime of U.S. Troop Movements
Robert Mayer / Publius Pundit:
RALLY, BRUTALITY IN BELARUS
John / AMERICAblog:
Our loonies versus their loonies  —  Whenever I get into a discussion …
Cari Tuna / Yale Daily News:
Joya talks on Afghanistan, Hashemi
Jason L. Riley / Opinion Journal:
Classy Economist  —  Thomas Sowell is a lifetime student of the market force.
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