Reagan and Obama: Performance vs. Excuses
The result of Reaganomics? Revived and sustained economic growth created 17 million new jobs from 1980 to 1989 and another 26 million in the 1990s. President Obama's response? He...
About: Ralph R. Reiland
Posts by Ralph R. Reiland
Obama: “Don’t Tell Me How to Mop!”
“We got our mops and our brooms out here and were cleaning stuff out and they're sitting there saying, ‘Hold the broom better, that's not how you mop,’ ”...
Big Government vs. Job Creation
Though few kids likely aspire to be bureaucrats in Washington, D.C., working for the EPA or IRS or other agency, there are plenty of people occupying those jobs, and...
Study: Welfare Pays More Than Minimum Wage in Most States
If you don’t want to work, the good news is that a new study by the Cato Institute, “The Work Versus Welfare Trade-Off, 2013,” shows that welfare currently pays...
Washington, D.C.’s Monumental Fiascos
How can they think they’re capable of managing a complex health care system, one-seventh of the entire U.S. economy, when they can’t even build a half-decent statue? That’s the...
The Killing of Detroit
In 1960, Detroit had the highest per-capita income in the United States. What happened? ...
Stop the Madness in Detroit
Detroit was the deadliest city last year among the nation’s top 20 most populous cities, measured in the number of murders per 100,000 citizens. ...
Muzzling for Political Correctness
America is “a nation of cowards” when it comes to discussing race, declared Attorney General Eric Holder on February 18, 2009, just two weeks after he was confirmed as...
Obamacare Going Off the Rails
The ill-designed Obamacare system is running off the rails on its way to implementation. On July 2, the Obama administration announced a postponement of the employer mandate, to 2015,...
ObamaCare’s Central Control Equals “Independence”?
Nancy Pelosi declared that Americans should celebrate Independence Day this year by also celebrating their new-found “health independence,” courtesy of ObamaCare. ...
It’s Still “the Economy, Stupid”
Today, it’s still “the economy, stupid” with the federal debt now at $17 trillion, up from $4 trillion in 1992, and the economy stuck in a record-breaking slow recovery...
Aldous Huxley and NSA Leaker Edward Snowden
“In 1931, when Brave New World was being written, I was convinced that there was still plenty of time,” wrote Aldous Huxley in 1958 in Brave New World Revisited....
Self-proclaimed Economic Wizards
With the U.S. economy in its slowest job-market recovery since World War II and still 2.6 million jobs short from its payroll peak in January 2008, it's good to...
McCain’s Third-rate Escapade in Syria
“Third-rate men, of course, exist in all countries, but it is only here that they are in full control of the state,” wrote H.L. Mencken in his 1922 essay...
A Government Against Liberty
Let's say you're like most people and believe the federal government has become too large, too wasteful, too crooked, and too intrusive. Now imagine you receive a letter from...
Government Drops Ball in Ariel Castro Case
Unless you're a regular at sadomaso parties, it's unlikely that you'll ever see a poor soul being led around naked on a leash.Unlikely, that is, unless you were a...
Thatcher’s Revolution
Britain was in decline when Margaret Thatcher was elected as the nation’s first female prime minister in 1979. Her answer to the economic collapse was more capitalism and less...
The Economy: Baloney vs. Stark Reality
Nearly three years since Recovery Summer, we're $16.8 trillion in the hole, the median household income is lower than in 2010, we're stuck in a jobs depression, one in...
Washington Then, Washington Now
We’ve dropped a long way in 224 years, from Washington then to Washington now, from George Washington to Washington, D.C. ...
Squirrelly Robot and Closed Control Towers
Right when America’s school kids are looking forward to a spring tour of the White House, the Obama administration cancelled all public tours, blaming budget cuts and Republican pigheadedness....