Vin Suprynowicz

In my Jan. 3 column, I projected that Barack Obama would probably NOT wake up one morning this year, slap his forehead and exclaim that allowing welfare recipients to vote is a blatant conflict of interest which is quickly turning this nation into a collectivist slave state (or that, if he does realize it, being a Marxist, he would see any reason to stop it.)

On the Internet, one “patrick” responded: “Vin’s ‘point’ is that ONLY people with money get to vote. Can you point out to me where the Constitution says that, cause I musta missed it. … I (used to think) that Vin actually believed in the Constitution; not so much anymore. I realize that this guy is even more on the fringe than the ‘normal’ Review-Journal self-professed ‘libertarian’ (closet racist, uber-nationalist, goose stepping, tax dodging, parasite) …”

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Nevada Secretary of State Ross Miller has been hopping up and down about a rumor that the discredited outfit ACORN will be involved in collecting Nevada data for the 2010 Census.

The rumor is false and could hamper Nevada’s efforts to count all its residents, which in turn could cost the state millions in federal funding, Mr. Miller worries.

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Here in Las Vegas, Star Nurseries had a problem.

Last fall, customers began complaining about the “day workers” — mostly illegal aliens who have snuck across our borders from Mexico and points south — who would gather by the dozens in and near the nurseries’ parking lots, trampling the landscaping, relieving themselves in the bushes, leaving litter and other “waste” behind.

When Review-Journal reporters tried to interview the men, few would talk, and none would give their full names. The few who were willing to talk did so in Spanish.

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Despite the unprecedented horse-trading — that’s the nice term — that top Washington Democrats Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi employed to push their massive bureaucratic takeover of American medical care through both houses of Congress on a “rush” schedule this year, the scheme still seems to be in trouble.

House and Senate negotiators face “a serious problem” in resolving their differences on a single bill as thick as the Las Vegas yellow pages and are not likely to have a final draft until February, according to key House Democrats involved in ongoing talks.

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City health departments do some useful work, on balance.

They were mostly born of the “sanitary” and “hygienic” movements of the late 19th and 20th centuries. Appalled by the squalor and disease in the nation’s crowded tenements, volunteers — at first — set about informing people about how diseases were transmitted, stressing the importance of sanitation, clean water, removing the garbage that drew rats and other vermin.

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Charlie Mitchener is a 61-year-old general building contractor with an office near Patrick Lane and Fort Apache in Las Vegas. He holds permits allowing him to legally carry concealed weapons in Nevada, Florida, and Utah.

Over the past three years, his office has been broken into five times. “Three of those occasions involved me interacting with Metro,” he wrote to me last week. “Each of the occasions began the same: my introduction, my presentation of my Nevada drivers license and my Concealed Firearms Permit. Prior to today, each Metro officer simply replied thank you, proceeded with his work and then when complete there was a conversation about firearms.”

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A vicious cold snap engulfed much of the nation Thursday. Snow fell as far south as Alabama and Georgia.

That’s unusual.

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And so the solstice passes and a new year dawns, leaving “newsmen” everywhere with a dearth of “news” to report (since the government bureaus close down, issuing no new edicts for the “newsmen” to interpret and praise, which should give you some indication of what really passes for “news,” these days.)

Traditionally, those in the “news” business respond by taking a stab at predicting noteworthy events of the year to come.

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Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan had announced his sympathy for jihadi terrorism to many of his co-workers. He sought contact with a radical Muslim cleric. Yet so crippled by “political correctness” are today’s American armed forces that no one blew the whistle on this burning fuse. Instead, he won promotion in today’s army and was sent to Fort Hood, where he donned his uniform and opened fire on his fellow solders on Nov. 5, killing 13 and wounding 30.

Almost two months later, the current administration can’t even find the balls to identify Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan as an Islamic fundamentalist jihadi terrorist. They can’t even decide that yes, maybe soldiers (at least officers, for heaven’s sake) should be allowed to carry self-defense arms on our U.S. military installations. That, after all, would mean overturning a decision made by that renowned military genius, Bill Clinton.

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Peace on earth, good will toward men. Fine sentiments. But as citizens of a republic, can we really assume we’ll be held forever blameless for the actions of our government?

Barack Obama, who if he were not in office would be applying for a Community Development Block Grant to stage anti-war rallies in Chicago, just authorized sending 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan. But it’s OK: He promises to pull them out in 18 months — soon enough to guarantee they can’t actually accomplish anything.

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