Radical groups taking control of immigrant movement  —  NEW YORK (CNN) — We all awoke to headlines in our nation's most important newspapers reminding us that this is "A Day Without Immigrants."  Not illegal immigrants, mind you, but immigrants.  —  USA Today headlined today's demonstrations and boycott …

MSNBC confirms: Outed CIA agent was working on Iran  —  On Chris Matthews' Hardball Monday evening, just moments ago, MSNBC correspondent David Shuster confirmed what RAW STORY first reported in February: that outed CIA officer Valerie Plame Wilson was working on Iran at the time she was outed.

Poll: Gas Prices, Iraq Weigh Down Bush  —  (CBS) With gas prices sky-high and no end of the Iraq war in sight, President George W. Bush's approval rating hits an all-time low in a new CBS News poll.  —  Only 33 percent approve of his job performance, Mr. Bush's lowest approval rating yet in CBS News polls.

ABOUT SATURDAY NIGHT...:  —  I'm a big Stephen Colbert fan, a huge Bush detractor, and I think the White House press corps has been out to lunch for much of the last five years.  (Though, unlike many in the blogosphere, I don't think that's because White House reporters are lazy or stupid.)

Ideals Collide as Vatican Rethinks Condom Ban  —  ROME, May 1 — Even at the Vatican, not all sacred beliefs are absolute: Thou shalt not kill, but war can be just.  Now, behind the quiet walls, a clash is shaping up involving two poles of near certainty: the church's long-held ban on condoms and its advocacy of human life.

Hostile Commentary and Net Neutrality  —  Reading lots of comments on my last post, I guess my point got made: the culture and discourse of the Internet is not what you would teach kids at the dinner table — unless you kept a bar of soap handy.  —  On net neutrality, I feel like screaming "puh-leeeze."

Unity Through Autonomy in Iraq  —  A decade ago, Bosnia was torn apart by ethnic cleansing and facing its demise as a single country.  After much hesitation, the United States stepped in decisively with the Dayton Accords,which kept the country whole by, paradoxically, dividing it into ethnic federations …

Communist chic  —  IN JANUARY 2005, Britain's Prince Harry attended a birthday party dressed as a Nazi.  When the London Sun published a picture of the prince in his German desert uniform and swastika armband, it triggered widespread outrage and disgust.  In scathing editorials …

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.

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 …