Valerie Plame worked on Iran: Cover blown when she was outed!  —  Valerie Plame worked on Iran: Cover blown when she was outed!  —  David Shuster reported on Hardball today that:  —  INTELLIGENCE SOURCES SAY VALERIE WILSON WAS PART OF AN OPERATION THREE YEARS AGO TRACKING THE PROLIFERATION OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS MATERIAL INTO IRAN.

1M Immigrants Skip Work for Demonstration  —  LOS ANGELES (AP) - More than 1 million mostly Hispanic immigrants and their supporters skipped work and took to the streets Monday, flexing their economic muscle in a nationwide boycott that succeeded in slowing or shutting many farms, factories, markets and restaurants.

Immigrants Stage Protests Across U.S.  —  Hundreds of thousands of immigrants and their supporters gathered in cities around the country today in demonstrations and an economic boycott intended to show the impact the workers have on the nation's economy as Congress grapples with new immigration legislation.

Sun Still Setting In The West  —  It appears that the nationwide strike by illegal immigrants and their supporters caused some headaches but little immediate economic impact, as outside of Denver, Chicago, and Los Angeles most demonstrations attracted significantly fewer numbers than earlier rallies.

Records of Abramoff's White House Visits  —  WASHINGTON - The Secret Service has agreed to turn over White House visitor logs that will show how often convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff met with Bush administration officials — and with whom he met.  —  U.S. District Judge John Garrett Penn …

Funny Guy  —  Dan Froomkin has a very good column on the Colbert Moment and journalists like Elizabeth Bumiller who have decided just to ignore the entire thing.  He also points to Special Ed, who found the whole event tasteless: … Two things.  Number one, I talked to John A. at C&L …

U.S.: Ramadi battle kills 100-plus insurgents  —  Iraq president eyes deal for armed groups to join political process  —  BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) — U.S. and Iraqi troops killed more than 100 insurgents last week in Ramadi, west of Baghdad, a U.S. Army officer said Monday.

Politicians wriggling over May 1 protests: UPDATE  —  Observers estimate "hundreds of thousands," though not yet the 2 million protestors organizers had predicted, have gathered in LA at two key locations, including one march along Wilshire Boulevard scheduled to end near the historic La Brea Tar Pits archeological dig and museum.