Vin Suprynowicz

Did President Obama truly set up Thursday’s televised health care forum with Republican congressional leaders at Blair House, across the street from the White House, “to try to hammer out a compromise with Republicans,” as The Associated Press reported?

The Democratic scheme is to impose higher taxes and fewer choices on the 85 percent of Americans who are pleased with their current health care, in order to insure illegal aliens and fund abortion with tax dollars.

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The cyclical nature of life is reassuring. We are less afraid of the privations of winter because we’re assured the spring will come again.

Similarly, those who claim expertise in such matters — those currently encouraging us to buy stocks and government bonds, for example — insist that the market always comes back. Given a little time, everything will be the same as it was.

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In North Las Vegas, as in most places, the recession is causing tax revenues to fall. The city has undergone five rounds of budget trims since December, 2008, and now aims to cut an additional $33.4 million from planned spending to make it through fiscal year 2011. So the city announced this month it might have to cut as many as 273 jobs — 21 of them from the Fire Department.

Needless to day, the unionized fireman aren’t taking that lying down.

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Back in 1963, one Ernesto Arturo Miranda was arrested for robbery in Arizona. While in custody he confessed to raping an 18-year-old woman two days before his arrest. He was convicted on the more serious charge.

But in 1966 the Supreme Court, led by Chief Justice Earl Warren, threw out the confession — and with it the conviction — holding that Miranda’s questioning had been coercive, and that he had not been specifically advised that he had a right to remain silent until he had talked to a lawyer.

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Back in 2007, Washington state voters approved Initiative 960, which barred any state tax increase from being OK’d without a two-thirds vote of their state Legislature.

Liberal lawmakers, who refuse to set any maximum limit on the taxes working stiffs should be required to pay, complained that was a hard standard to meet.

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About one third of the way into his State of the Union speech on Jan. 27, President Barack Obama said an astonishing thing. He said: “I know that there are those who disagree with the overwhelming scientific evidence on climate change. But even if you doubt the evidence, providing incentives for energy efficiency and clean energy are the right thing to do for our future. …”

I know my head snapped upright. I can only imagine the kind of head-scratching and quizzical scowling at their neighbors that must have occurred among those who have been lining up at the trough, planning to make millions off government boondoggles justified by the “Man-made Global Warming” scam.

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Although President Barack Obama “expressed interest” in the idea last summer, “the White House staff reviewing funding options never embraced the idea” of a punitive tax on sugared soft drinks, the Chicago Tribune now reports. A key congressional committee, “after initially seeming receptive, ended up refusing to consider it.”

Why? “Several minority advocacy groups, including some committed to fighting obesity, lined up against the tax after years of receiving financial support from the (soft drink) industry,” report Tom Hamburger and Kim Geiger of the Tribune Washington Bureau.

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President Barack Obama said some interesting things in his Jan. 27 State of the Union speech. They’re interesting not so much because they’re lies (we all know that, to determine whether a lawyer or politician is lying, you merely watch to see if their lips move) but because the political class — the kind of people who field lobbyists in Washington and file lawsuits for the ACLU and edit major American newspapers — were so confident that these utterances were lies that they simply ignored what might otherwise have been some earthshaking developments.

For instance, the president said, according to the White House’s prepared transcript: “We should continue the work of fixing our broken immigration system — to secure our borders, enforce our laws, and ensure that everyone who plays by the rules can contribute to our economy and enrich our nation.”

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Charlie Mitchener, the Las Vegas business owner who was handcuffed and disarmed after presenting a concealed weapons permit along with his drivers license to a police officer responding to a burglary call at his place of business Jan. 3 (see my column of Jan. 10), has provided me with his Jan. 19 follow-up letter to the Metro Police Department.

Mr. Mitchener says he decided to write lest his “silence may put someone else at risk. …

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The observation was repeated often enough before Barack Obama’s 2008 election that few can claim not to have been warned: When Democrats including Mr. Obama promise an open, centrist, “bi-partisan” administration where Republicans, free-marketers, Constitutionalists and their ideas will be “welcome at the table,” what they really mean is:

“Those guys are welcome to prove how ‘moderate’ they are, to win accolades from our chained pets at Newsweek and the Post and the Times, praising how they’ve ‘grown in office’ by voting for our far-left agenda, so long as they smile and keep their mouths shut. Otherwise they’re the ‘Irrelevant Party of No.’”

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