March 31st is the birthday of Cesar Chavez

and it is a holiday in California. 

Eventually it will be a holiday throughout the nation.

This is a good day to think about how best to help all of the poorest people in the world. 

At Radical Immigration we think it is by allowing them to move to where the opportunities are.  

Cesar Chavez National Day Web Site  

Lant Pritchett has written an important book about migration, the international impass about migration and how he thinks we should solve it. Buy this book.

Read my review

On the 17th of August, 1929 in Thousand Oaks, California, the Bank of America sold to Henrietta Atherton a piece of real property. The deed, which is only two pages long, contains the following restriction:

In Arizona the Border Patrol is sponsoring a race car as a recruiting tool. They are acting macho in order to attract young macho men to do a job that we as a country should not be doing.

Picture taken at an Arizona Diamondbacks Spring Training Game in Tucson on March 11, 2008