Drugs: Quick Fixes and Lasting Grief
There’s the too frequent news in the morning about those who didn’t make it through the night because of drug overdose, both legal and illegal. ...
About: Ralph R. Reiland
Posts by Ralph R. Reiland
Obama vs. “The Top”
"If you look at what's happened over the last four or five years, the folks who don't have a right to complain are the folks at the top," President...
Obama’s Part-time Nation
More and more Americans are working part-time, including many who desire a full-time jobs. But ignoring the difference between part-time and full-time employment, the administrations is boasting about businesses...
National Border Patrol Council: “Law Enforcement? What’s That?”
Here’s a recent — and supposedly racist — message from the labor union that represents U.S. border patrol agents, as posted by the governing National Border Patrol Council: “New...
Harebrained Bureaucrats and Gun Craziness
Does it make sense to suspend a first grader who inadvertently brought a toy gun to school and then turned it in to his teacher when he discovered his...
De-skilling America’s Doctors
“It'll just get worse,” I remember my doctor warning two decades ago about HillaryCare. He said he already had to fax people who had no medical knowledge just to...
A Winning Strategy for Economic Recovery
There's a commonsense perspective and first-rate line of attack for economic recovery in the ideas quoted below from a major speech by a top U.S. politician. ...
Nothing Left but Wacky?
The cover story in the March issue of Harper’s claims that an “increasingly right-of-center Democratic Party” has “renounced its commitment to any sort of redistributive vision.” Seriously. By Ralph...
Obama’s Policies Have Hurt, not Helped, the Poor
It’s the “defining challenge of our time,” declared President Obama, referring to income inequality in the American economy. A good start for Mr. Obama in reducing the hardships that...
More Unequal and Better Off
Here’s an actual business case, a true story about an acquaintance of mine and her entrepreneurship and success in the competitive arena of women’s decorative gear — an account...
Economic Inequality and Political Baloney
The big story that’s simultaneously being spotlighted from the Vatican to the White House, from Oxfam to newly elected Mayor Bill de Blasio in New York City, is economic...
Amtrak: Railroading the Taxpayers
Today is our lucky day, the day each year my wife and I get to be on the receiving end of multiple doses of federal welfare — for our...
Politically Correct Bird-O-Matics (i.e., Wind Farms)
Wind turbines have become slicing and dicing machines, Bird-O-Matics, with their gigantic spinning blades chopping up tons of birds, including eagles. ...
Education’s Ongoing Crackup
Getting causation backwards, the common sense idea that high performance would produce high self-esteem was replaced by the notion that high levels of self-esteem would produce high achievement. ...
Washington Fruitcakes, Extra Nutty
There's clearly no shortage of arrogance, senselessness, and deceitfulness among the current crop of politicians and central planners in D.C. ...
The Troubled ObamaCare Website: Spinning a Failure
“Even with the issues we've had, the marketplace is working and people are enrolling," happily announced Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius on November 13, bizarrely referring to...
Is President Barack Obama Too “Smart” to Do the Job?
Perhaps Obama — perennially “bored to death” and with talents so “extraordinary” that he has “never been challenged intellectually” — finds the issues of the presidency cerebrally unchallenging and...
Beating Nazis Faster Than Development of Obamacare Website
Germany unconditionally surrendered three years and five months following the attack on Pearl Harbor — less time than it’s taken the Obama administration to get the HealthCare.gov website up...
A 101-year “Recovery”?
In September, the U.S. economy added 126,000 private sector jobs, the second-worst month of hiring by employers in the private sector this year, reported the Labor Department last week....
The Lesson of “Nonessentials”
The number of nonessentials on the federal payroll isn't small. A Wall Street Journal review of agencies' shutdown plans found that more than 818,000 dispensable workers would be furloughed....