Vin Suprynowicz

Imagine a foreign army occupies the state of Indiana. Its commanders are concerned that local Hoosiers don’t like the foreigners in their midst, a dislike which they display practically every night by setting off murderous roadside bombs every time an army patrol goes by.

And because the local people are at odds with the occupation forces, they offer those troops precious little help or intelligence as they pursue their military mission.

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When — in the name of heaven, I demand to know when — are those responsible for enforcing the Endangered Species Act going to do something about remediating the habitat devastation and starting to recover the minuscule remaining population, before it has dwindled past the point of no return, of that brave and noble beast, the poodle?

What? Are you serious, Vin? There are, like, 68 million domestic pet dogs in this country, and the poodle is the seventh most numerous breed. So there have to be literally millions of poodles out there. As a matter of fact, purebred poodles are among the 4 to 6 million dogs euthanized in America each year because homes can’t be found for them. America’s dog and cat problem is not species extinction; it’s overpopulation.

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None of the Democrats’ current health care “reform” bills will meet President Barack Obama’s stated goal of slowing the ruinous rise of medical costs, Congress’ budget umpire warned last Thursday. In fact, they could break the bank.

The sobering assessment from Congressional Budget Office Director Douglas Elmendorf came as House Democrats pushed to pass a partisan bill through committees, while in the Senate a small group of lawmakers continued to seek a deal that could win support from both political parties.

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There is one good thing about the lunatic “Global Warming” catechism now taught our youth in the mandatory government youth propaganda camps (taught essentially as a “state-established” religion without meaningful “equal time” for rebuttals, which ought to cause someone to go back and re-read the First Amendment) and eagerly embraced by the tax-guzzling, power-mad cretins now in charge in Washington City:

When they are finally forced to admit that the globe has been cooling again — not warming — for the past decade, yet proceed to demand PRECISELY THE SAME REMEDIES for “Global Cooling” (which they will cleverly dub “Climate Change”) as they did for “Global Warming” — higher electric bills, more government controls, taxes sufficient to cripple our entire industrial economy and generally lower our standard of living in keeping with the world socialist doctrine that America and particularly the “capitalist rich” must be “punished” and “made to sacrifice” in penitence for our former prosperity — there is finally a decent chance that they’ll simply be laughed out of town.

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“President Obama believes America’s wealthiest households have become too wealthy and that the best way to ‘remedy’ this situation is to increase their federal tax burden,” Michael Franc of The Heritage Foundation wrote back on May 18. (www.heritage.org/research/taxes/bg2271.cfm)

In a message accompanying his Fiscal Year 2010 budget, Mr. Obama explained: “For the better part of three decades, a disproportionate share of the Nation’s wealth has been accumulated by the very wealthy. Yet, instead of using the tax code to lessen these increasing wage disparities, changes in the tax code over the past eight years exacerbated them.”

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Yes, enforcing the laws against illegal immigration might involve men with handcuffs leading away the nice lady who brings you chips and salsa at your favorite Mexican restaurant. I am not thoroughly happy with that prospect, since I agree it certainly seems young Maria is doing us no immediate harm, merely seeking a better life for herself and her kids, and I do enjoy the chips and salsa.

Nor am I happy with the prospect of my friends who “look Mexican” being stopped and asked to “show their papers.” (Though I don’t see why it would be unreasonable to start with the guys who hang around outside the rent-a-truck operations, looking for “day work” . . . or the folks mailing money to Mexico at the post office. How can it be constitutionally required that federal law enforcement agents have to pretend to be idiots?)

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A recent column on the euphemisms used by proponents of illegal-immigrant amnesty brought some irate buzzing from all seven members of the Young Anarchists’ League.

As near as I can figure, I’m “not allowed” to call for the enforcement of current immigration laws — or possibly of any laws, even those few (including the immigration laws) enacted within the powers delegated to Congress under the Constitution — since any such enforcement of the law amounts to some kind of “collectivist police state fascism” against people who have “not initiated force or fraud.”

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Don’t ask, for the moment, why Congressional Democrats need to find an extra trillion dollars to pay for a socialized medicine scheme they insist will “reduce costs.”

We’re WAY too far into Wonderland to worry about that.

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Do the forces now in charge of our energy future prefer that the American economy continue to grow based on the exploitation of plentiful and less expensive coal and other fossil fuels — or by rapidly bringing on line new reactors to exploit plentiful and less expensive nuclear fuel — or, finally, by replacing those older power sources with wind, solar, and other “renewable” sources, regardless of the cost?

Based on developments here in the Southwest last week, the answer would appear to be … that it was trick question, to begin with. Those in charge today have no intention of providing the foundering American economy with the new energy resources it needs to resume growing, at all.

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Utah’s U.S. senators say they want Congress to investigate the actions of federal agents who arrested two dozen people — four of them older than 70 — June 10 in an investigation of the “theft” of ancient artifacts in the Four Corners region.

A day later, one of the men arrested, a prominent local doctor, committed suicide.

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