Thursday Reading: Balanced budget amendment, illegal immigration, & more

• David Savage (unsympathetically) profiles Justice Thomas
  LA Times: Clarence Thomas Doesn't Mind Being the Odd Man Out
  
  
• The Gray Lady reports on the recent decline in illegal immigration
  NY Times: Better Lives for Mexicans Cut Allure of Going North
  
  
• Michael Barone lambasts the Sixth Circuit's ruling that it is racially discriminatory for a state to ban racial discrimination
  Washington Examiner: Racial Quotas, Speech Codes and the Thought Police
  
  
• Senators Snowe and Demint argue for a "Balanced Budget" constitutional amendment
  WSJ: The Only Reform That Will Restrain Spending
  
  
• Randy Barnett's Bill of Federalism
  Forbes: A Bill Of Federalism