Matthew J. Stinson has a half-serious immigration proposal that would rile everyone’s feathers:

I had a rather insane yet provocative idea while watching Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger address immigrant sailors and Marines who were being sworn in as US citizens at Camp Pendleton (as shown above): why doesn’t President Bush revamp his temporary worker program, appease the conservative base, and address the military’s troop shortage in one fell swoop? The French have the Foreign Legion, which, back in the day, was made up of criminals. Why not go one better and have the US Undocumented Legion?

He goes on to list down some of the more predictable objections from just about every side of the compass.

An excellent flight of fancy, and I’d be flashing a wacky face if this ever becomes actual policy.

Think of the environment! Think of the evils of biotechnology! Think of the ecological effects of playing God that we will have on the environment! Don’t we hear those previous statements from some crap-science environmental freaks everytime we mention the words “biotechnology,” or “genetic modification?”

Would environmentalists salt the earth above minefields to prevent a safety flower from taking root and indicating where mines are? Who knows, some of them have burned SUV dealerships before. I suppose saving lives might be less important than maintaining genetic purity [Whoops! Not. --- Ed.].

Dodd Harris links to Dave, who has the details on this remarkable work.

Doc J, blogmaster of Outside The Beltway and one of a few bloggers I’d like to have as a poli-sci prof is celebrating one year of blogging today. He’s humble enough to not call his rise in the sphere “meteoric,” but his loaf sure has had much more yeast than those of others.

Personally I’d like to thank him for having assisted me in a long-ish project post that I worked on. (The link in his post leads to a 404.)

Congrats, Doc.