Ralph Reiland

We’re stuck here in Chicago as I’m writing this, stranded for a few extra days because the CNN weather map yesterday projected some scary red tornado splotches scattered along the Capitol Limited tracks we take to Pittsburgh. It looked even…

Last Tuesday, we took the midnight train to Chicago. It’s an easy ride, with a bedroom both ways — except I get the top bunk, which feels like I’m stuffed in a 1942 troop train heading off to battle the…

Remember when House Speaker Nancy Pelosi got all wound up in March 2010 about the passage of Obamacare and told the assembled conventioneers at the National Association of Counties that the bill’s reforms were going to make health care in…

Impose the world’s highest corporate income tax rate, and we can expect the result will be too few corporations and too much government. “The United States may soon wind up with the distinction that makes business leaders cringe — the…

After doing nothing during his first two years in office to deal with the debt tsunami that’s clearly visible on the horizon and heading our way, President Obama delivered a 2012 budget plan that, as Investor’s Business Daily accurately editorialized,…

Who would you guess is more likely to sue you, all other things being equal: Monet Parham-Lee or Margie Moore? Maybe I’m wrong, but I think it gets more shaky and volatile around people with exotic first names and hyphenated…

“The rich can pay for it all. That is Obama’s tax policy.” That was the morning-after analysis last Thursday by Clive Crook of the “deficit-reduction” speech that President Obama delivered the day before. The speech was “not just weak but pitiful,”…

It’s not hard to see how we’re bankrupting ourselves. Not even a rich country can make it through this level of incompetency and corruption. Locally, I drive home from work here in Pittsburgh listening to people calling the talk shows…

Here’s how the economic and political system of a nation is destroyed. Every price increase of just a dime per gallon of gasoline at the pump extracts approximately $5 billion from the pockets of U.S. consumers over the course of…

PALM BEACH, Fla. — “Red Navels and Hot Nuts” read a big handwritten sign by a roadside stand out in the middle of nowhere on a lonely stretch of a two-lane road in central Florida.  “Gator Jerkies and Boiled Peanuts”…