“Phoenix, Arizona, United States” on The Daily Caller

Reporting from Phoenix — Under a broiling desert sun, tens of thousands of protesters on Saturday slowly marched five miles to the state Capitol to rally against Arizona’s controversial new immigration law. (more)

BOSTON — The Orlando Magic made it interesting. (more)

Reports are surfacing around the Valley that illegal-immigrant families with school-age children are fleeing Arizona because of a new immigration law. (more)

The Lakers blinked before their Boston counterparts did, many times in fact, getting shoved aside by Amare Stoudemire and the Phoenix Suns, 118-109, in Game 3 of the Western Conference finals Sunday at US Airways Center. (more)

I am a pastor and father living in South Phoenix. (more)

In America, there’s supposed to be a stark separation between sports and real life. Sporting events are designed to be forms of escapist entertainment, much-needed opportunities for Americans to forget about things like budget deficits and political candidates and focus instead on their hometown team. (more)

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Wal-Mart said Wednesday it is pulling an entire line of Miley Cyrus-brand necklaces and bracelets from its shelves after tests performed for The Associated Press found the jewelry contained high levels of the toxic metal cadmium. (more)

NEW YORK (AP) — Baseball commissioner Bud Selig is ignoring calls to move next year’s All-Star game from Phoenix because of Arizona’s new immigration law. (more)

The Republican National Committee’s site-selection committee is expected to name Tampa, Fla., on Wednesday as site of the party’s 2012 convention, top Republicans tell POLITICO. (more)

In November 2007, Gillian Gibbons, a British schoolteacher in Sudan found herself behind bars in a Sudanese prison sentenced to 15 days after being found guilty under Section 125 of the Sudanese Criminal Act, for “insulting religion, inciting hatred and showing contempt for religious beliefs”. She had committed the crime of allowing one of her pupils to name a teddy bear Mohammed after the first name of one of the popular students in class. Little did she know that she also committed the criminal offense of maligning the Prophet Mohammed. She was spared 40 lashes because she apologized to the shar’iah court and after intervention by British leaders was given a presidential pardon by Omar Bashir after seven days in prison. (more)

The recently passed Arizona immigration law is being subjected to a constant stream of irresponsible and ignorant demagoguery. In their total sellout to the political left and the forces of multiculturalism, the mainstream media have been guilty of the kind of sloppy work that ought to earn a failing grade from any self-respecting journalism professor. (more)

The New York Times wants readers to know that while Arizona is a backwards, redneck, racist state, it’s a “complex” kind of hate. One that deserves the careful analysis and gentle scolding of the Gray Old Lady. (more)

In a March 5, Daily Caller article, Alex Beehler argued that instead of teaching Harry Potter and other “children’s literature” to Princeton undergraduates, students “might be better educated in the responsibilities and opportunities based on a society founded on individual liberty.” (more)

A second ex-New Orleans officer charged in an alleged conspiracy to cover up a deadly police shooting of unarmed residents after Hurricane Katrina is expected to plead guilty, a person familiar with the case said Tuesday. (more)

Greg Hennessy designs software in New York, where his $2 million-a-year company, SWAT, is based. His customer credit-card payments go to a bank in Panama, where his business is incorporated. As a result, he pays taxes at Panama’s bargain-basement rates, far lower than what he’d owe in the U.S. “So far,” he says, “it’s been excellent.” (more)

For its neighbors in the city’s wealthiest area, the Streets of Buckhead is an unfinished eyesore, not the glitzy shopping district promised at the height of the real-estate boom. (more)