Vin Suprynowicz

Supporters of the Obama administration have taken to asking, as though someone made it up, “When did the administration apologize?” for the 14-minute video trailer for an amateurish film critical of Islam and its prophet, Muhammad, which was posted on YouTube this summer.

In fact, the U.S. Embassy in Cairo issued an official condemnation of the film, apparently a short time before said embassy was attacked by Muslim terrorists on Sept. 11.

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There were more disturbing — in fact, downright evil — mass shootings this summer, which of course brought more predictable knee-jerk calls for yet more gun control.

“AK-47s belong in the hands of soldiers, not on the streets of our cities,” said Barack Obama. (Actually, while the Second Amendment certainly does guarantee my right as a civilian to own a fully automatic, select-fire AK-47 — something Mr. Obama may have missed while going to school in Indonesia — they’re currently banned; nothing but semi-automatic look-alikes can be legally imported or sold to us civilians.)

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It’s wonderful what the government can accomplish with a little gentle arm-twisting, especially after it’s set an example by seizing control of General Motors (rather than allowing an orderly bankruptcy, which would have allowed the outfit to escape its crippling labor contracts) and turning over part ownership of that once proud industrial giant to the unions, as their reward for driving the car-maker to the brink of bankruptcy in the first place.

On Aug. 28, for instance, the Obama administration announced a final “agreement” with auto makers (who were promised that any failure to “agree” would net them something much worse) which by 2025 will increase the cost of an average new car in America by $3,000 to $4,800, while additionally increasing by $2,000 to $6,000 the interest charges most borrowers will pay over the life of a typical auto loan.

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“Too many elected officials in Washington are still calling climate change a liberal hoax,” declared U.S. Sen. Harry Reid, in prepared remarks as he opened his fifth annual “National Clean Energy Summit” show in Las Vegas Aug. 7. “They falsely claim scientists are still debating whether carbon pollution is warming the planet. …”

But “This year alone, the United States has seen unparalleled extreme weather events — events scientists say are exactly what is expected as the earth’s climate changes. The Midwest is experiencing its most crushing drought in more than half a century — or maybe ever. … Corn crops are withering and livestock are dying — or going to slaughter early — as heat waves parch America’s breadbasket, breaking records set during the Woody Guthrie Dust Bowl years.”

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A local medical doctor wrote in a letter to the Review-Journal on Aug. 17, in response to my Aug. 12 column, complaining that Suprynowicz “add(s) to a gross misunderstanding” by expressing my “consistently erroneous opinion that shots … cause brain defects in children. This has been soundly disproved by extensive medical research. The shots are to prevent serious injury and death.”

Let us see whether we can locate anyone else who shares the “consistently erroneous opinion” that vaccinations cause serious injuries — including injuries to infant brains and their development.

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President Barack Obama’s supporters have cheered the boldness with which he’s cut through the Gordian knot of congressional “gridlock,” instituting changes in the law that meet with their approval through executive fiat.

But to fully grasp the danger of a president thus bypassing our constitutional system of checks and balances — a system in which only Congress is supposed to make the law, which the executive branch swears to enforce as written — those who are happy with the current results need only ask themselves how pleased they would be if some future executive were to similarly bypass Congress, using a mere stroke of the pen to outlaw homosexual conduct, say, or to close down the Environmental Protection Agency, or to order unrestricted eavesdropping on our computers and telephones.

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We’ve been discussing topics where today’s Internet readers complain the Mainstream Media appear to report only one side — The Government Line. Last week we dealt with 1) the Sept. 11 attacks, and 2) childhood immunizations. Here are more:

3) Inflation is routinely reported as “slight; under control” in terms of consumer prices, when the economist’s actual definition of inflation is an increase in the money supply. Obama and his Federal Reserve Board have tripled the money supply — 300 percent inflation.

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I was raised in a Democratic home in New England in the 1960s. The Kennedys were our heroes. Jack was so handsome and virile, he and his lovely bride brought such class to the executive mansion, Why, they had cello recitals there by Pablo Casals! Such a far cry from that dowdie Mamie Eisenhower and that scurrilous red-baiting Dick Nixon who said such terrible things about the wonderful Helen Gahagan Douglas, calling her “pink” and all.

(The liberals I grew up with still refuse to admit the Venona cables prove the Roosevelt and Truman administrations were just as rife with Communist agents in high places as Nixon and the other “red-baiters” warned.)

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Based in Washington, D.C., Diana West writes a weekly column nationally syndicated by the Universal Press Syndicate in Kansas City. It’s a courageous column tackling topics seldom broached in the pages of many mainstream dailies.

I called Ms. West last month to ask her about a recent piece in which she mentioned that few subscribing newspapers have run her columns on the various court challenges this year to Barack Obama’s eligibility to run for president.

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For centuries, a few hundred wealthy individuals, families and corporations have had de facto control over what we consume as “news” — simply because they could afford to buy big printing presses, and ink by the barrel.

Despite early fears in the newspaper industry, neither radio nor television ever broke this monopoly. You’d quickly realize why, if you ever held in your hands the script for a half-hour news broadcast. It’s a handful of pages, double-spaced.

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