Forbes.com offers this Special Report on Immigration, including my most recent contribution.

Also, as I'm revising a paper on the Memphis riot of 1866, here's a good case to be made against fire department socialism:

“The proof also establishes the fact that many of the firemen of the city, whose especial duty it was to suppress the devouring flames and to preserve and protect the property of all the citizens of the city, instead of employing themselves in this honorable and useful pursuit, for which they are generously paid out of the revenue of the city arising from a tax on the property of the citizens, were criminally engaged with the mob in the destruction of life and property.” (from Memphis Riots and Massacres, p. 41)

Here's Fred McChesney on the origins of municipal fire departments.