Blog: TAPPED

IMMIGRATION JUJITSU. The estimable Mark Kleiman and the smelly Lizardbreath have both come up with a fairly elegant solution to illegal immigration: offer green cards to undocumented immigrants who turn their employers in. Long-term, you’d probably just see employers insisting on enough false identification to protect their plausible deniability, but the better documentation employers demand, […]

DOWN WITH TIME-LIMITS! I find Mark Franek‘s argument in favor of abolishing the SAT’s time limits fairly compelling. As he notes, more than 40,000 of the test’s two million takers are getting dispensations for extra time due to learning disabilities, some real, some imagined. Back in high school, I knew a fair number of testers […]

HERE�S A QUESTION: Do the border guards in Gamboru, Nigeria, get to collect the $2 million bounty on Charles Taylor? —Mark Leon Goldberg

PROBLEMS AND SYMPTOMS. Brad Plumer makes the point on immigration driving down wages (by 7.4 percent) for high school dropouts that I’ve been ineloquently groping towards for the last few days, and does so pithily. Damn him. Well, sure, that’s true, but that’s an argument for living wages, policies to promote full employment, and the […]

BOLTEN’S FUTURE PLANS? BUSH DOESN’T KNOW. According to today’s New York Times, here’s part of what President Bush had to say yesterday about the promotion of Josh Bolten to chief of staff: Asked in an interview with CNN Espa�ol whether more changes were coming, Mr. Bush replied: “Josh has just begun to take a look […]

FAIR’S FAIR. It seems that the new GOP attack against the McCain-Kennedy immigration bill is a throw back to grade school: no cuttsies. That’s what Jon Kyl is saying in his complaint that his grandparents waited in line a long time in order to make it here, and why should Latin Americans get special dispensation […]

READER BLOGS. One cool thing about all the comments in recent days is that a lot of readers have been linking to their own blogs, which has introduced me to a whole array of new residents of the long tail. So if you’re a reader who’s got a blog, this thread is for you. I’m […]

PARTY OF HUH? This is a small thing, but a week ago, National Review writer Ramesh Ponnuru criticized me on The Corner for trusting Amazon.com‘s description that his forthcoming book, The Party of Death, was about the Democratic Party. According to Amazon, “The Party of Death is the first book to expose the real agenda […]

BUSH READS TAPPED? Earlier today I modestly proposed that President Bush cancel his Wednesday meeting with Nigerian President Olesegun Obasanjo. It seems the White House is considering doing just that. —Mark Leon Goldberg

JUST POSTED ON TAP: THE ANTI-JOE. No wonder Joe Lieberman seems testy these days — the three-term senator faces his most serious primary challenge since taking office. Marie Cocco, in the latest issue of the Prospect, looks at the man who would be senator, Ned Lamont, and his potential path to victory. For more on […]