Ralph Reiland
PALM BEACH, Fla. — Each night, dozens of little green parrots come home to the pine trees right outside our bedroom window to spend the night by the ocean. We’re at the legendary Breakers Hotel, and these birds are wild…
A guy I never saw before walked up to me a few years ago on the sidewalk in Pittsburgh out front of Heinz Hall and said, right out of the blue, “God hates fags.” Across the street, behind a police…
“Everything is funny, as long as it’s happening to somebody else,” quipped Will Rogers. It’s been that way lately. With a crazed look on his face and his country descending into chaos, Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi stepped out of his…
“So be it.” Those three words, uttered by House Speaker John Boehner last week about the prospect of federal work force layoffs, generated a firestorm of anger and anxiety among congressional Democrats, liberals, federal workers (and federal nonworkers in no…
Attempting to patch things up a bit with the business sector, President Obama began his February 7th speech at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce sounding more like Milton Friedman than Saul Alinsky. “America’s success didn’t happen by accident,” Obama declared. “It…
On Egypt, Glenn Beck, a guy who normally gets it right when it comes to recognizing the anti-business activities of government, got it all wrong this time in connecting the dots. It was a shish kebab vendor and a fruit…
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 to the newly empowered Congressional Republicans by giving a…
“On any given day in the U.S., the number of people with severe mental illness in prisons is estimated to be three times higher than the number in hospitals, according to a new report from the Treatment Advocacy Center and…
Just when it looked like 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 first Democratic majority in a decade, thanks to Obama’s appointees)…
Funny things happen at Christmas. And things not so funny. One of the best stories at our house is about the year we unloaded a ceiling-high Christmas tree from the roof of our station wagon, heaved it down to the…
