From Jeff Taylor, June 2006 Reason, “Wall of Confusion” [print only]: Arizonal lawmakers worried about illegal immigration have paired an old idea, an anti-immigrant wall, with new one:  a state tax on bank wire transfers to and from other countries.  The state’s House Appropriation Committee has approved an 8 percent tax on all out-of-country wire transfers, with proceeds earmarked for building a wall at the border. Extrapolating from the estimated

From the WSJ: Judge J. Michael Luttig, one of the country’s most prominent conservative jurists and once considered a likely Supreme Court nominee, has resigned from the Fourth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Va., to become senior vice president and general counsel for the Boeing Co. in Chicago.  In a three-page letter to President Bush today, Judge Luttig, a 1991 appointee of President George H.W. Bush, wrote of

ABC News has this interesting tidbit from the recent Mayoral race in Newark, NJ: Both Booker and James are black. But during the last election, James’ supporters criticized the light-skinned Booker as not sufficiently black. Some of that bitterness remained on Tuesday, as reflected by anti-Booker signs urging people to “vote black.” “Don’t waste your vote on folks who will not and cannot represent you!” said the signs, which were