“There is no job that is America’s God-given right anymore.” Carly Fiorina, CEO of Hewlett-Packard (HP). January 7, 2004

On March 7 Carly Fiorina joined the Republican National Committee as Victory Chairman. A week later Meg Whitman, the outgoing CEO of Ebay, became McCain’s campaign co-chair.

Talk about stacking the deck! A recent Youtube video shows both McCain and Meg Whitman voicing their support for more H-1B visas. Meg Whitman said, “I’m a huge fan of increasing H-1B visas”, while McCain said, “I support increases in H-1B visas

The second article below contains an excerpted interview with Fiorina.

• Whitman joins Fiorina on McCain presidential campaign trail By Mary Anne Ostrom and John Boudreau, San Jose Mercury News, March 15, 2008
• McCain Embraces Tech Executives For White House Push - TechCrunch Interviews Carly Fiorina Michael Arrington, March 17 2008

The new Attorney General Michael Mukasey spoke at San Francisco’s Commonwealth Club recently and had some serious remarks about the danger facing the country.

In Michael Mukasey, President Bush finally seems to have an Attorney General worthy of the current moment. In Nancy Pelosi’s hometown this week, the former judge who once tried terror cases told the Commonwealth Club audience that even he had no idea of the extent of the threat.

Speaking of what he hears in his national security briefings, Mr. Mukasey said, “It is way beyond – way beyond anything that I knew or believed. So, if I was picked for the level of my knowledge . . . that was a massive piece of false advertising.” [...]

The AG also addressed why immunity from lawsuits is vital for the telecom companies that cooperated with the surveillance after 9/11. “Forget the liability” the phone companies face, Mr. Mukasey said. “We face the prospect of disclosure in open court of what they did, which is to say the means and the methods by which we collect foreign intelligence against foreign targets.” Al Qaeda would love that. The cynics will call this “fear-mongering,” but most Americans will want to make sure we don’t miss the next terror call.
[One Missed Call, Wall Street Journal, March 29, 2008]

For another chilling warning about the terrorist threat, see the 5-minute Youtube clip of former Speaker Gingrich answering a question about the future struggle against Islam: Newt Gingrich on Islamic Terrorism. He is “deeply worried” that his young grandchildren face a more dangerous future than boomers did during the Cold War. He believes it is quite likely that America will lose a city to nuclear terrorism if the war against jihad is not won. Here’s a quote from that clip:

“Tony Blair said it very well. The people who did the London subway bombings spoke English, were British citizens, lived in British housing and had jobs. And had decided because of their relationships that they were engaged in a war against the very country that had given them freedom, prosperity and safety.”

The bombers in the July 2005 attacks were the children of immigrants, who grew up in British communities and did not assimilate to western values, but instead became enemies of their neighbors.

Some cultures are simply incompatible. The West and Islam can never live together because Muslims despise our society and the hard-won liberties we treasure: free speech, representative government under law, individual rights and gender equality. Continuing to welcome them as immigrants is madness–a kumbaya fantasy that severely endangers our safety.

This story, via Tim Blair, is the sort of thing that’s always good to hear:

Police: Teen makes mistake of trying to rob former U.S. Marine - San Jose Mercury News

Bay City News Service
Article Launched: 03/27/2008 10:39:20 AM PDT

SANTA ROSA - A boy in his mid-teens learned Wednesday afternoon that it is not a good idea to try to rob a former U.S. Marine at knifepoint, even if the former Marine is 84 years old, police said today.

Santa Rosa police Sgt. Steve Bair said that’s what happened around 2 p.m. in the 1600 block of Fourth Street. The elderly man was walking with a grocery bag in each arm when the boy approached him with a large knife, Bair said.

The boy said, “Old man, give me your wallet or I’ll cut you,” Bair said. The man told the boy he was a former Marine who fought in three wars and had been threatened with knives and bayonets, Bair said.

The man then put his bags on the ground and told the boy that if he stepped closer he would be sorry. When the boy stepped closer, the man kicked him in the groin, knocking him to the sidewalk, Bair said. The ex-Marine picked up his grocery bags and walked home, leaving the boy doubled over, Bair said.

The man reported the attempted robbery to police 45 minutes later.

Bair said the teen is described only as 15 or 16 years old. Anyone with information is asked to call the Police Department.

The teen is “described only as 15 or 16 years old?” I realize that the unnamed ex-Marine is 84, but if he can see well enough to kick him in the groin, he can see well enough to see if he’s white, black, Hispanic, or Asian. It’s the first thing that people notice, sometimes before they notice if they’re talking to a man or a woman, and it’s the primary means of identification for policeman looking for a suspect. Chalk up another one for the AP Stylebook.

More here–with different details of his age and service, but still no details of the teenager.

I have a questioned I’ve never seen asked about the basic biological feasibility of China’s ongoing occupation and settlement of Tibet. The Chinese see Tibet as underpopulated, and have been sending lots of Han Chinese to live there, which has finally caused a violent reaction by the Buddhist Tibetans.

But, can Han Chinese women reproduce enough at those altitudes?

We know that white women suffer a very large number of miscarriages on the Altiplano of Bolivia and Peru, so that the population of the highlands is still overwhelmingly Indian almost 500 years after Pizarro. La Paz, Bolivia is in a deep canyon, with the richest (whitest) neighborhoods at the lowest point, below 10,000 feet.

Lhasa is at about 12,000 feet and much of the rest of Tibet is higher, making it even higher than the Altiplano on average.

Do Han Chinese women have lots of miscarriages in Tibet? Or are they better biologically adapted to extreme altitude? We know the famous Tibetan Sherpas of Nepal have a biological adaptation to high altitude, but do the lowland Chinese?

This question would seem to have significant implications for whether Chinese colonization of Tibet makes sense. If the Chinese are just letting themselves in for a lot of personal heartbreak by trying to form families at 12,000 feet, maybe their government could be persuaded to just give up on their settlement plan and let the Tibetans have Tibet.

Allan Wall is scheduled to appear on the George Putnam Show, on Monday, March 31st, at 1 p.m. Pacific Time. You can listen here.