Ralph Reiland

PALM BEACH, Fla. — The guy might have a bad comb-over and goofy TV show, but Donald Trump is no slouch when it comes to hitting the jackpot. A case in point is Mar-a-Lago, the biggest and most famous mansion…

PALM BEACH, Fla. — For dinner, they sat my wife next to a self-declared gigolo on the Auto Train to Florida. The seating in the train’s dining car is four to a booth, and the couple across the table from…

“The Macarena” was ranked “The #1 Greatest One-Hit Wonder of All Time” by VH1. The Spanish dance song by Los del Rio became a big international hit in 1995 and 1996. And then it was old. After 100 listens, Los…

Millions of economic transactions take place every hour in the United States, too many for any central committee in Washington to handle or even Understand, even if they all graduated with honors from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. For the…

Pushing his agenda for higher taxes on “the rich,” President Obama kicked off his December 6 speech in Kansas by saying his Kansas grandparents “shared the optimism of a nation that triumphed over the Great Depression.” In fact, the 1929…

It’s not like the old days in China when the top guys in the Communist Party at least pretended to be pro-equality. Back then, “poor peasants” were encouraged to denounce and kill “rich peasants” for the crime of being too…

Today’s crop of central planners and big spending politicians could learn a thing or two about economics from Henry Hazlitt’s classic bestseller, Economics in One Lesson, published in 1946. Common sense doesn’t have an expiration date. “There is no more…

You knew it was coming. First they came for the cigarettes, then Hank Williams Jr. got knocked off Monday Night Football for being politically incorrect, and now they’re coming for the butter. Denmark, on October 1, put a $1.29 per…

“Middle-class families shouldn’t pay higher taxes than millionaires and billionaires,” repeatedly proclaims President Obama, arguing for his proposed $1.5 trillion tax increase over the next 10 years. “That’s pretty straightforward. It’s hard to argue against that.” In fact, Mr. Obama’s…

“Pass this bill now,” President Obama is repeatedly demanding, regarding his new American Jobs Act. There’s nothing new in the legislation, just more government spending, more transfers of money from “the rich” to Obama’s political allies, more spending for infrastructure…