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About Ralph R. Reiland
Ralph R. Reiland is the B. Kenneth Simon professor of free enterprise at Robert Morris University in Pittsburgh.
Articles by Ralph R. Reiland
We Are All Socialists Now? (May 17, 2009)
Faith trumps reality among the anti-capitalists.
The Politics of Stupidity: Crazy Word Games from Team Obama (April 28, 2009)
Left-wing chatter is good; right-wing chatter on the other hand...
Castro's Cuba at Fifty: No Freedom, No Fish (January 24, 2009)
In 1959, the year of Castro's collectivist conquest, Cuba was the second richest country in Latin America. Now, even after being on the receiving end of decades of massive amounts of Soviet welfare, Cuba is the second poorest, just ahead of easy-to-beat Haiti.
Big Three Automakers Out of Gas (December 4, 2008)
Let the Big Three fail.
Michelle Obama's Pain (March 19, 2008)
Michelle Obama has pocketed many dollars thanks to Capitalism. She just does not want you to.
What Universal Health Care Can Do For You! (February 19, 2008)
As Hillary Clinton is fond of saying to Barack Obama, it might be "time for a reality check."
Jesus in the Constitution? (February 3, 2008)
It feels like we're on the road to Kabul.
Homeland Security or Homeland Pork? (October 12, 2007)
We're lucky these guys weren't running World War II.
How Mugabe is Destroying The Zimbabwean Economy (August 17, 2007)
With three-fourths of Zimbabwe's labor force already jobless prior to Mugabe's decree, the government's prescription for bringing down inflation only worsened the nation's poverty crisis.
Subsidized "Free Trade" Is Not Free Trade (January 28, 2007)
For a small-scale corn farmer driven out of business in Mexico by the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), the fancy economic theories about the benefits of "free trade" might not seem too believable.
Energy and Terrorism: Capitalism To The Rescue (October 17, 2006)
The good news out of Munich is that BMW has come up with something that could do a better job than the CIA in defunding al-Qaida.
Children as Bombs (September 20, 2006)
As if things weren't crazy enough already in the Middle East, here's the officially sanctioned message in sixth-grade Palestinian textbooks for 11- and 12-year-old kids: "The noble soul has two goals: death and the desire for it."
Flag Burning and Freedom (July 9, 2006)
To punish flag burning, Brennan concluded, is a contradiction, a violation of what the flag stands for: "We do not consecrate the flag by punishing its desecration, for in doing so we dilute the freedom that this cherished emblem represents."
Rioting for Ineptitude in France (March 26, 2006)
The students are rioting in Paris, again, and the streets of Dublin are quiet. The dissimilarity flows from the differences in the way the economic systems are run in France and Ireland.
Will the Pope Steal this Christmas? (December 16, 2005)
Why the Pope is not happy this Christmas.
A Flood of Free Money from FEMA (October 7, 2005)
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.
FEMA is Crazy! (October 2, 2005)
It would've been cheaper to give everyone a free house.
"Public Servant" Pickpockets, Pennsylvania Style (July 31, 2005)
Will Rogers had it right. "A politician," he said, "is just like a pickpocket."
The Road From Live Aid: Paved With Socialist Intentions (July 26, 2005)
The money was supposed to go towards relieving hunger.
Class in America: The New York Marxist (May 23, 2005)
It looks like The New York Times thinks we've strayed too far from paying proper respects to the central tenets of Marxism.
Social Security's Demographic Tsunami (March 5, 2005)
Things were cheap when Franklin Roosevelt succeeded in pushing the Social Security plan through Congress in 1935. The maximum tax was 2 percent on a worker's first $3,000, or $5 per month. Benefits didn't commence until age 65, and life expectancy at birth was 58 for men and 62 for women. Among men who survived to age 21, only about half managed to make it to 65.
Healthcare To Die For in Britain? (February 26, 2005)
The downside of Britain's universal healthcare system.
Dishwasher Economics (February 17, 2005)
Raise the cost of living and the price of doing business, and you'll attract less investment, and penalize job creators.
Susan Sontag: Not So Judicious (January 8, 2005)
Writer Susan Sontag, one of America's most "celebrated" intellectuals, died a few days after Christmas of leukemia. She was 71.
Votes, Phonies and Snake Oil (October 31, 2004)
A look at the Kerry Campaign
United Nations Fails the "Global Test" (October 17, 2004)
What the report from the CIA's Iraq Survey Group shows is that Saddam Hussein played the United Nations like a fiddle.
Watch Both Boots (October 10, 2004)
The federal deficit this year will hit a record $422 billion, according to the latest projections from the Congressional Budget Office. That's over a billion dollars a day in red ink, more than a billion a day in federal spending that's over and above the level of federal tax revenues.
America the Vulnerable: How Our Government Is Failing to Protect Us from Terrorism (September 13, 2004)
Today, in spite of the wake-up call on September 11, 2001, and over a decade since the bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993, Stephen Flynn sees an America that has pulled the covers up over its head and fallen asleep.
Calling All Marxists! Life After Capitalism 2004 Conference (August 27, 2004)
The "non-sectarian anti-capitalist left in the United States" wants you!
Drug War Crimes: The Consequences of Prohibition (August 19, 2004)
Jeffrey A. Miron, Professor of Economics at Boston University contends that the war on drugs has been more effective in fostering corruption among public officials than in reducing drug consumption.
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