When the Minuteman Project set up shop in Herndon late last year, their ongoing crusade to act as a defense of last resort against illegal immigration brought national attention to the very local issue of day laborers. Day laborers — primarily Hispanic, mostly illegal — have long gathered in front of businesses and alongside busy roads, waiting to picked up by employers seeking landscaping or construction work. Their presence had been such that last August…

They’ve promised to sponsor ice cream socials, plan happy hours, organize hayrides, and break up day laborer sites around the region. Yes, the Minuteman Project has arrived in Virginia. NBC 4 is reporting that members of the organization — the same folks that put together the controversial civil defense groups along the U.S.-Mexico border — are setting up shop in the region, and they look to identify illegal immigrants and the contractors that hire them….

Once a butterstick, now a “solid little Tonka truck,” the baby panda that has transfixed attention on the District’s National Zoo and provided much-needed fodder for slow news days is six-weeks old today, almost half-way to the 100 days at which it is officially named. Zoo vets examined the cub yesterday for 14 minutes, reports the Post, weighing it in at four pounds and noting that teeth and open eyes are the next developments…