Congress? Barristers, Pits, and Sugar
Appearing to embrace the new civility and bipartisanship that’s the currently appropriate stance for politicians following the Tucson shooting, President Obama in his State of the Union address tossed a bone...
About: Ralph R. Reiland
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It Gets Nuts When the Sane Are Crazy Too
“On any given day in the United States, the number of people with severe mental illness in prisons is estimated to be three times higher than the number in hospitals, according...
ObamaCare’s Horror Show
The "death panels" in ObamaCare remind me of Jason in those "Friday the 13th" slasher movies. In the first scene, the end-of-life panels pop up out of nowhere, like the hockey-masked...
Mandatory Pro-unionizing Posters
Just when it looked as if employers were getting less fearful about what President Obama might do next to worsen the business climate, the National Labor Relations Board (now with its...
Sky-High D.C. Salaries: Expensive Ineptitude
“Washington, D.C.’s workers enjoy the highest salaries of any U.S. city, with a median household income of $85,198,” recently reported CNNMoney. ...
A Special Place: Elaine’s
It wasn’t the flavor of her lasagna or the shabby section of town where her restaurant was located that made Elaine Kaufman into a legendary celebrity. What Elaine Edna Kaufman from...
The Right Grope at TSA Airport Security
I got an e-mail the other day from a transgendered group about their special problems with the new naked pictures and federal groping at the airports. ...
Obama: Overinflated, Bound to Burst
Inflated self-esteem can be decidedly counterproductive. American students, for example, took first place in self-judged mathematical ability in a comparative study of eight countries, but last place in actual mathematical competency....
Morning After Headache at the Times
Especially after bad days, liberals like to go to columnists like Maureen Dowd at the New York Times for some reassurance that everything’s fine with liberalism and it’s just the rest...
Tomorrow, a Time for Patriotism
Here’s a thought regarding tomorrow’s voting, from Samuel Adams (1722-1803), a leader in the movements that became the Boston Tea Party and the American Revolution, a signer of the Declaration of...
Centralized Hot Air vs. Economic Reality
Here’s a short multiple-choice quiz. Who said the following? “Were we directed from Washington when to sow, and when to reap, we should soon want bread.” ...
Obama: Too Foreign, Too Anti-business
What’s very weird, even a bit “foreign,” not unlike how self-declared communist leader Hugo Chavez in Venezuela regularly demonizes the business sector, is how President Obama seems to have decided that...
Torments Ending in Tragedy
"Forty-four percent of boys say they've seen sexual images of girls in their school, and about 15 percent of them are disseminating those images when they break up with the girls,"...
Obama on Jobs: Flip-floppin’ & Flying Blind
The rhetoric at the White House radically changed on September 27. The event was the signing by President Obama of the Small Business Jobs Act. ...
Backfiring of Obama’s Economics of “Fairness”
We raise taxes on things we want to discourage, like cigarettes, and we lower taxes on things we want to encourage, like education. ...