Ralph Reiland
You’d think the central planners at the White House would go outside their small group of relatives for some top-notch expertise when they’re trying to revamp something as big and complex as one-sixth of the American economy. When Bill Clinton…
Here’s how to get the money for health care reform, and it can be done without Congress passing another trillion in spending, without putting more job-killing mandates and taxes on business, without killing off whatever incentives still remain for our…
“This isn’t about me,” President Barack Obama asserted recently, maintaining that his manic push for a vote on health care reform is all about us. In fact, the big rush is all about him and his attempt to hurriedly get…
President Obama got it right for a minute during his recent stop in Africa. “No business wants to invest in a place where the government skims 20 percent off the top,” he told the Parliament of Ghana. Then he flew…
SEA ISLE, N.J. — I felt like JonBenet’s mother (during the good years) last week at the dog show up on the boardwalk. Simba, our golden retriever, repeated his prize-winning performance from the week before (“Best of Show“) and brought…
SEA ISLE, N.J. — After the age of 20, they say we lose about 50,000 brain cells a day. That means you’ll probably lose a couple hundred just during the few minutes it takes to read this column. For those…
SEA ISLE, N.J. — The big news here is that Simba, our one-and-a-half-year-old golden retriever, just won “Best of Show” in this year’s dog show on the boardwalk. “Paws on the Promenade” is not exactly the Westminster Kennel Club Dog…
SEA ISLE, N.J. — I met Elaine Scattergood for breakfast last week in a little coffee shop on Dune Drive in Avalon, just a few blocks from where Utz potato chip magnate Michael Rice is putting the finishing touches on…
SEA ISLE, N. J. — An article I read somewhere said that Eskimos have 100 words for snow and that Sherlock Holmes could distinguish 140 types of tobacco by their ashes. Distinguishing one type of ash from another was clearly…
SEA ISLE, N.J. — They had a contest here last week in the Press of Atlantic City that asked readers in 25 words or less to submit answers to this question: “Where do you want to spend the last years…
