Ralph R. Reiland

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 highest corporate tax rate in...

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, Mr. Obama declared...

Answering a student’s question at a recent town hall meeting at Indian Hills Community College in Iowa, here’s how President Obama  characterized the Arizona law that’s designed to crack down on illegal immigration: “You can imagine, if...

Jack Cassell is too much for some people.He’s the Florida doctor who told his patients to go elsewhere for treatment if they voted for Obama. The message posted on his office door: “If you voted for Obama, seek urological care elsewhere. Changes to your...

Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman got it right about a lot of things, but he was overly optimistic when he wrote in 1990 that socialism was dead. "Ten years ago, many people around the world believed that socialism was a viable, even the most promising,...

It looks like the "intelligence" in the Obama administration isn't too intellectual. Instead of using the word "terrorism" to describe things such as the terrorist attack on 9/11, Janet Napolitano, head of Obama's Department of Homeland Security, says we're now...

There's not a lot of money in Zanesville, Ohio. I spent four years there during college in the 1960s, down the road a few miles at Muskingum College. Zanesville was poor then; now it's worse. The biggest employer in the region, Longaberger, a basket maker, has a home...

There's automatic cheering at her political rallies when Hillary Clinton tells the faithful that she'll deliver "universal health care." Her plan will "rein in costs" while simultaneously "improving quality," she says, thereby insuring that "all Americans will have...

There's big controversy here in Pittsburgh about the mayor taking the city's anti-terrorism van to a Toby Keith concert during the summer. But, really, where would our federally-supplied anti-terrorism vehicle have been that August night if the mayor hadn't taken it?...

Readers of The New York Times got a front-page example recently of what F.A. Hayek called "the fatal conceit" -- the idea that some great mind or committee can do a better job than the private market in organizing and directing an economy. Hayek argued that the market...

Okay gang, only a few shopping days left to make this the biggest grossing holiday in the history of capitalism. And so far, so good. Running the numbers in mid-December, Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody's Economy.com, predicted this year's Christmas sales will...

If you think the government's initial response to Hurricane Katrina was incompetent, at all levels, wait till you see the tidal wave of ineptitude, cronyism, irrationality, waste and thievery that's guaranteed to be involved in the clean-up and rebuilding. "It's gonna...