About: Ralph R. Reiland
Posts by Ralph R. Reiland
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....
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...
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. ...