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The Castro case: Missed opportunities
By Ralph R. ReilandUnless you’re a regular at “sadomaso” parties, it’s unlikely that you’ll ever see a poor soul being led around naked on a leash. Unlikely, that is, unless you were a neighbor of Ariel Castro. “Neighbors of accused kidnapper Ariel Castro …
A beautiful spring in the ’Burgh
By Ralph R. ReilandIf Time magazine was right in its cover story on June 24, 1974, “Another Ice Age?”, we might be making snowmen in our yards this week and doing ice sculptures on the porch for Mother’s Day. Worse, we might be …
Thatcher’s revolution, part 2
By Ralph R. ReilandIt took only a few minutes after my column came out last Monday (“Thatcher’s revolution,” April 22) before I got a predictable response from a loyal reader. “OK,” he emailed, “so there were ‘income gains in every income quintile’ during …
Thatcher’s revolution
By Ralph R. ReilandDaniel Yergin, Pulitzer Prize-winning American author, energy scholar and economics researcher, wrote recently that the passing of Margaret Thatcher provides “a timely reason to ask: What was the Thatcher Revolution about?” Yergin explains that he tackled that same question 15 …
Baloney vs. stark reality
By Ralph R. ReilandIt was nearly three years ago, June 2010, that the Obama administration billed the coming season as “Recovery Summer.” To pump up the administration’s hot-air balloon of optimism about an economic turnaround that supposedly was just around the corner, President …
Living large on the taxpayers’ dime
By Ralph R. ReilandBehaving more like political royalty than “public servants,” Vice President Joe Biden and his entourage ran up a one-night tab of $459,388.65 in February in a London hotel, the five-star Hyatt Regency. That’s enough money to keep the White House …
The wisdom of (George) Washington
By Ralph R. ReilandWe’ve dropped a long way in 224 years, from Washington then to Washington now, from George Washington to Washington, D.C. Born into a Virginia farming family, the commander of the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War and the first U.S. …
Envy on the Intracoastal Waterway
By Ralph R. ReilandFORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. It’s not what I signed up for, but I got a three-hour Marxist lecture while taking a boat ride on the Intracoastal Waterway of Fort Lauderdale. “That waterfront mansion coming up on our left is Alamo car …
Cutting White House tours & sparing the waste
By Ralph R. ReilandRight when America’s school kids are looking forward to spring tours of the White House, the Obama administration canceled all public tours, blaming budget cuts and Republican pigheadedness. Shutting down the tours was a quick way to teach the next …
Uniform lunacy at the TSA
By Ralph R. ReilandJust when you think things can’t get any crazier, Washington’s politicians go another step higher on the lunacy scale. With automatic spending cuts collectively known as the sequester cutting only 2 cents per dollar out of the bloated federal budget …
The hobbling hand of government
By Ralph R. ReilandThe vast majority of America’s small business owners, the key job creators in the economy, say Washington’s policies are hostile to job creation and antagonistic toward free enterprise — and that federal policies have become even more hostile in recent …
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