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What a shocking surprise. No doubt all of the true blue, patriotic pro-American columnists in the conservative media will be writing about AIPAC’s latest attempt to covertly influence the US government via a corrupt Democrat rather than express shock and horror that Switzerland is still neutral:

Rep. Jane Harman , the California Democrat with a longtime involvement in intelligence issues, was overheard on an NSA wiretap telling a suspected Israeli agent that she would lobby the Justice Department reduce espionage-related charges against two officials of the American Israeli Public Affairs Committee, the most powerful pro-Israel organization in Washington.

I am generally pro-Israel myself. I’m certainly not in the least bit sympathetic to the so-called Palestinians, much less the modern remnants of the Persian empire. But it is utterly absurd for the dual citizens in both the conservative and mainstream medias to declare that anyone who might happen to cast a skeptical eye on traitorous espionage is anti-semitic. In fact, the only logical conclusion is that anyone who attempts to shut down the discussion of AIPAC’s misdeeds must be at least somewhat opposed to American interests.

As I wrote to Mark Steyn earlier today, with the exception of Germany, Europeans are completely Holocausted-out. Crying Holocaust or anointing a Hitler of the week just isn’t taken seriously by anyone anymore. In fact, the laws against Holocaust denial have only led people to call the Holocaust into question. After all, there’s no need for a law against denying World War II, because everyone knows it happened.

UPDATE – Steve Sailer brings in a guest commentator to comment on the Harman situation:

Excessive partiality for one foreign nation and excessive dislike of another cause those whom they actuate to see danger only on one side, and serve to veil and even second the arts of influence on the other. Real patriots who may resist the intrigues of the favorite are liable to become suspected and odious, while its tools and dupes usurp the applause and confidence of the people to surrender their interests.”

Meghan McCain demonstrates that the McCain genetics are deeply flawed:

“Karl Rove follows me on Twitter. That’s creepy,” wrote McCain, 24, on the DailyBeast website. McCain wrote she joined Twitter a few months ago because it allowed her to share the “less serious” and “humorously uncensored moments” of her life. Twitter, the wildly popular microblogging platform, constrains messaging to 140 characters or less.

“But there’s also been a downside: I am now being followed by Karl Rove, and my local sheriff, and God knows how many other political pundits,” McCain wrote. “We need to take Twitter back from the creepy people.”

McCain said she’s intrigued by Rove’s Twitter feeds because at the White House Rove was viewed as this “inaccessible man-behind-the-curtain figure,” and, now, he’s sending out these public messages numerous times a day.

Does the Chunky Chipmunk not realize that she is following him? Or that if she is correct and Rove has a “ghost twitterer”, he’s not the one following her anyhow! Republicans, please note that this wannabe possesses fully one-half the gene pool that you wanted to elect president. As bad as Obama has been, as stupendously horrendous as he is going to be, you should still be down on your knees every day thanking your Creator that John McCain was not elected president.

Full disclosure: I do not follow Miss McCain. Nor do I see why anyone would bother, as I am confident it would be more profitable to seek wisdom and useful information in the pigeon droppings that litter the statues in the piazza.

FD isn’t optimistic:

As a naturalized citizen of Spanish origin , I welcome your analysis. The problem with the immigration issue in the United States is that much of it comes from one country, Mexico. The term “Hispanic” or “Latin” has been corrupted here in order to hide politically incorrect truths . First of all, Mexico does not call itself a “Latin” or “Hispanic” country, it is always shouting through its semi-controlled media that they are una nacion azteca. Translation: “We are an Aztec nation”.

You can imagine what horrors and screams that would happen in the U.S. if the media and the government here proclaimed: “We are an Anglo-Saxon nation”. I say this to correct the impression regarding the ethnicity of most of the illegal aliens that cross the u.s. mexico border. The truth is that most of the “illegals” are not really “Hispanic” or “Latin” either in ethnicity or outlook , their true cultural roots are actually “Mezo-American ” or “Indian”.

Mexico and Central America is actually a majority “Indian” or “Mestizo” societies , except for the higher Spanish classes, the majority of the poor populations are pre-Columbian descendants. As long as these populations were checked by natural causes and infant mortalities the balance with
the neighbor U.S. was not much of a problem . In the post-World War II era, UN and private charitable programs of vaccinations and clean water have permitted these countries with large family traditions to explode its populations, with no hope that their economies would expand to service all these extra people .

Non-christian or “pre-christian” imperial societies would know how to act under these outside pressures the United States is under, a program like Japan or China to kick out anybody who is not “like them”, or like ancient Rome establish a no-man’s land frontier of forts and army posts across the border in order to hold back the tide. these measures are going to take a tremedous amount of courage and fortitude to implement, unfortunately the “west” has apparently been softened by Marxism and other pseudo-christian and cosmopolitan ideologies and frankly I do not think it can recover.

This almost forces one to contemplate the obvious question. If the Aztec population of California decides to erect the Great Pyramid of Los Angeles and dedicate it to the Sun God, would carving the hearts out of captured Anglos be a Constitutionally-protected practice under the First Amendment? I mean, it would be hard to argue that it wasn’t a genuine exercise of religion with verifiable historical antecedents.

America is Not Geography

Now nearly two-thirds Latino and foreign-born, [Langley Park, Md.] has the aesthetics of suburban sprawl and the aura of Central America. Laundromats double as money-transfer stores. Jobless men drink and sleep in the sun. There is no city government, few community leaders, and little community.
– New York Times, April 18, 2009

To describe the discourse concerning the mass inflow of foreigners that has taken place over the last 29 years “the immigration debate” is to use a misnomer. What has taken place since the 1980 U.S. census is nothing less than a mass migration of the sort that irretrievably transformed historical civilizations everywhere from Hellenic Greece to Moorish Spain. In 1980, the number of Hispanics living in the United States was 14.6 million. In 2008, it was 45.5 million. Hispanics now account for 15 percent of the total population, and because they are the fastest-growing population segment, the census bureau expects their numbers to increase by a further 67 million by 2050….

Never forget, science fetishists such as Richard Dawkins and PZ Myers have staked the credibility of science on anthropogenic global warmingclimate change:

ICE is expanding in much of Antarctica, contrary to the widespread public belief that global warming is melting the continental ice cap…. A paper to be published soon by the British Antarctic Survey in the journal Geophysical Research Letters is expected to confirm that over the past 30 years, the area of sea ice around the continent has expanded.

And, if we apply the atheist logic of Daniel Dennett here, we can only conclude: You cannot trust biologists. Because climatologists have amazingly inaccurate models.

Gears of War 2:very good graphics, scripting, and dialogue, interesting multiplay. However, the weapon controls aren’t great and the Locust storyline is kind of stupid. I got bored with the whole “missing wife” thing very early on; while it’s easy to see what they were shooting for, they only achieved annoying bathos. 6 of 10.

COD 5:I’ve only played the PS/3 multiplayer, but I’ve played a lot of that and it’s excellent. Absorbing gameplay, excellent graphics, good weapon controls, nice progression system. It’s sometimes a bit too easy to kill from a distance without a scope and every now and then one can empty an LMG into an enemy right in front of you without scratching them, but it’s very good. The Infinity Ward games always seem to be better than the Treyarch ones. My only complaint is that there’s little effort to make team action more viable. 8 of 10 (multiplayer)

Frontline: Fuels of War:A reasonable effort, but the gameplay is average, the graphics are mediocre, the enemy soldiers are pretty random, and the storyline doesn’t make much sense. Basic weapon controls are different than COD for no rational reason I can see. 5 of 10.

Assassin’s Creed:Great graphics. Interesting variant on the stealth concept. Absolutely terrible storytelling, abysmal dialogue, and poor design fundamentals ruin what should have been a fascinating setting. I’ve also heard the missions are very repetitive, but I quit playing very early on after being forced to listen to constant blather about how assassins are all about NOT harming innocents. Are you freaking kidding me? Why not just mount them on unicorns and arm them with paintballs while you’re at it! They went so far as to name the game after its very worst aspect. Jade Raymond is attractive and she’s a competent producer, but she definitely needs to stay the hell away from the narrative. 3 of 10.

By the way, just to confirm I wasn’t imagining the spectacular lameness, I checked out an interview with her. Get this: “This historic ambiguity has allowed us to portray the Assassins as a forward thinking group with the single objective to stop the war…. In Assassin’s Creed, Crusaders (and the Saracens) are not the Assassin’s true enemy. War is – as are those who exploit it.” Ridiculous and howlingly anti-historical. I would have had more respect for Ubisoft Montreal if they’d portrayed the Assassins as a forward-thinking group with the single objective of legalizing gay marriage.

Christian Fiction Review takes a look at Summa Elvetica:

Ladies and gentlemen, behold the winner of the most fascinating (and bizarre) book title in the history of Christian Fiction Review! That alone has probably prompted more than one second look at this most unique title. What we have here is a concept that is relatively obvious and yet never before addressed in any writings I’ve ever read.

My writing time is committed for the next four months, but it might please those who enjoyed SE to know that I spoke this week with a UK publisher who read the book and apparently quite enjoyed both the novel and the novellas. Marcher Lord is already interested in doing a second book, so I think the prospects are rather good for an eventual return to the world of Marcus Valerius, Caitlys the elven sorceress, Lodi the dwarf, and His Sanctified Holiness Charity IV.

One wouldn’t think Republicans would be dumb enough to listen to a McCain strategist, but given CNBC’s recent worries about being too harsh on Obama, it must be recognized that there are no limits on modern organizational idiocy:

John McCain’s top adviser from the presidential campaign urged fellow Republicans on Friday to warm up to gay rights and warned that the GOP risks becoming the “religious party” with its opposition to same-sex marriage.

Apparently Steve Schmidt failed to notice that at the same time McCain was getting his head handed to him in California, Proposition 8 passed. Opposition to homogamy is significantly more popular than the Republican party; no doubt this guy was enthusiastic about McCain “suspending” his campaign in order to rush back to Washington and champion Banker’s Bailout I.

Unfortunately, he’s still much too polite, as he left out the obvious, “Look, you utter morons….”

How do I say this so people will understand? Fascism isn’t a libertarian doctrine! It just isn’t, never will be and it can’t be cast as one. Anarchism, secessionism, extreme localism or rampant individualism may be bad, evil, wrong, stupid, selfish and all sorts of other things (though not by my lights). But they have nothing to do with a totalitarian vision of the state where individuals and institutions alike must march in step and take orders from the government.

Anyone who describes libertarianism as being in any way akin to fascism is either a) totally dishonest, b) totally ignorant, or c) remarkably stupid. Without exception. The heart of fascism is “nulla contro lo stato”. Nothing contrary to the State. The heart of libertarianism is “lo stato limitato”. The two ideologies are inimical and they always will be.

Spengler = David Goldman, the associate editor of First Things:

During the too-brief run of the Asia Times print edition in the 1990s, the newspaper asked me to write a humor column, and I chose the name “Spengler” as a joke – a columnist for an Asian daily using the name of the author of The Decline of the West.

Unless, of course, this is merely a red herring….