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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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. ...