Ralph Reiland
“Washington, D.C.’s workers enjoy the highest salaries of any U.S. city, with a median household income of $85,198,” recently reported CNNMoney. It’s even higher for the federal workers segment of the city’s workers, with an average wage last year for…
It wasn’t the flavor of her lasagna or the shabby section of town where her restaurant was located that made Elaine Kaufman into a legendary celebrity. What Elaine Edna Kaufman from the Bronx created was a community of interesting people….
The holiday message from the D.C. politicians to millions of unemployed workers is that they’ll be kicked off the rolls for jobless benefits by Christmas. As they say, have yourself a merry little Christmas! Holidays are tough enough for people…
I got an e-mail the other day from a transgendered group about their special problems with the new naked pictures and federal groping at the airports. “You have the right to have manual search procedures performed by an officer who…
Especially after bad days, liberals like to go to columnists like Maureen Dowd at the New York Times for some reassurance that everything’s fine with liberalism and it’s just the rest of us who are a bad mix of weird,…
Here’s a thought regarding tomorrow’s voting, from Samuel Adams (1722-1803), a leader in the movements that became the Boston Tea Party and the American Revolution, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, and the governor of Massachusetts from 1793 to…
“Forty-four percent of boys say they’ve seen sexual images of girls in their school, and about 15 percent of them are disseminating those images when they break up with the girls,” explained Internet security specialist Parry Aftab on NBC’s Today…
The rhetoric at the White House radically changed on September 27. The event was the signing by President Obama of the Small Business Jobs Act. Until the afternoon of that ceremony in the East Room, the party line expressed by…
At least for a few moments last week, we had the strange spectacle of President Obama sounding more like a collectivist than Fidel Castro. With the federal payroll in the United States up by 200,000 positions and the private sector…
With 15 million workers unemployed and another 11 million underemployed, President Obama recently decided that the answer was to hit the road and throw some anti-rich red meat to some friendly stadium audiences. At a Labor Day rally in Milwaukee,…
