PAtownhall.com
Pennsylvania's Marketplace of Ideas
Pennsylvania's Marketplace of Ideas
PAtownhall.com
Pennsylvania's Marketplace of Ideas
Pennsylvania's Marketplace of Ideas
Mon, August 04, 2008by Ralph R. Reiland
"There is no native criminal class except Congress," said Mark Twain.
In the Pennsylvania version of this criminal class, the latest storm cloud over our stable of thieves and ... [View Full Article]
Tue, July 29, 2008by Ralph R. Reiland
Barack Obama was way too pro-Reagan during an interview earlier this year with the Reno Gazette-Journal's editorial board, according to Paul Krugman, professor of economics and international affairs ... [View Full Article]
Wed, July 23, 2008by Ralph R. Reiland
"We don't need a world full of corporate attorneys and hedge-fund managers,"
Michelle Obama told a crowd in a Baptist church in South Carolina in January. "But see, that's the ... [View Full Article]
Wed, July 16, 2008by Ralph R. Reiland
The bloom is coming off the Obama rose.
It started with people fainting at his mega-rallies and peaked with the plate that he used to eat waffles in a Scranton ... [View Full Article]
Mon, July 14, 2008by Ralph R. Reiland
So now the fancy brick promenade outside the new Majestic Star Casino in Pittsburgh won't be so majestic, or so star-like. In fact, there won't be any bricks at all -- just some cheap concrete. ... [View Full Article]
Tue, July 08, 2008by Ralph R. Reiland
SEA ISLE, N.J. – The big stories here on the beach the week before last were about sharks and gambling and Donald Trump and gambling.
In shark news, the prize money ... [View Full Article]
Thu, June 26, 2008by Ralph R. Reiland
SEA ISLE, N.J. --- The Pittsburgh metro region in the news here, with Allegheny County Chief Executive Dan Onorato labeled in The Press of Atlantic City as "public enemy No. 1 in some ... [View Full Article]
Mon, June 16, 2008by Ralph R. Reiland
Like losers in a shell game, most of us got snookered into looking under the wrong nutshell in regards to the inflammatory and racist sermon that was delivered by Rev.Michael Pfleger during his guest ... [View Full Article]
Mon, June 09, 2008by Ralph R. Reiland
SEA ISLE, N.J. -- The big news down the beach from us in tony Avalon is the fight over a mega-mansion that's being built on the dunes by a potato chip magnate from Pennsylvania.
View Full Article]
Mon, June 02, 2008by Ralph R. Reiland
New York Times columnist Paul Krugman called it "yet another fake Clinton scandal."
He was referring to the orchestrated hysteria regarding Hillary Clinton's ... [View Full Article]
Wed, May 28, 2008by Ralph R. Reiland
"Suddenly, $50-per-barrel oil is within reach, a number unthinkable at the beginning of the year." That was the news from MSN Money, Aug. 20, 2004.
Now ... [View Full Article]
Mon, May 19, 2008by Ralph R. Reiland
It's Monica again, said Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan, time again to run out of the room when the Clintons appear, time once again to get the kids away from the TV lest they hear yet ... [View Full Article]
Mon, May 12, 2008by Ralph R. Reiland
Barack Obama was remarkably slow on the uptake regarding his pastor's anti-white rants and anti-Americanism, i.e., it took 20 years for the verbally-accomplished Obama to utter a negative peep.
View Full Article]
Tue, April 08, 2008by Ralph Reiland & Sarah J. McCarthy
The U. S. Department of Justice reports that approximately 8,000 blacks were murdered in the United States in 2005. In one year, that's exactly double the recently reported total number of American ... [View Full Article]
Tue, March 25, 2008by Ralph R. Reiland
SATURDAY
There's a fun outdoor bar by the pool at our hotel, the Lago Mar Resort and Club, a quiet beachfront resort on the peninsula between the Atlantic Ocean and ... [View Full Article]
Tue, March 18, 2008by Ralph R. Reiland
It's a different Hillary Clinton who's campaigning in Pennsylvania this time around.
"I think she's learned a great deal," says Dan Danner, executive vice ... [View Full Article]
Fri, March 14, 2008by David W. Kirkpatrick
School choice has many variations the most successful of which is the charter school movement. There were no such schools prior to 1992 when the first one opened in St. Paul, Minnesota, a school ... [View Full Article]
Mon, March 10, 2008by Ralph R. Reiland
There's not a lot of money in Zanesville. Nearly a quarter of the Ohio town's population, 22.4 percent, is living below the poverty line, including 32.3 percent of those under 18 years of age.
View Full Article]
Mon, March 03, 2008by Ralph R. Reiland
The so-called "Bridge to Nowhere" in Alaska became a national joke in 2005 after ABC's "20/20" put the spotlight on this particularly fat slice of pork.
View Full Article]
Mon, February 25, 2008by Ralph R. Reiland
Speaking recently in Milwaukee, would-be First Lady Michelle Obama said, "For the first time in my adult life I am proud of my country because it feels like hope is finally making a ... [View Full Article]
Mon, February 18, 2008by Ralph R. Reiland
There's automatic cheering at her political rallies when Hillary Clinton tells the faithful that she'll deliver "universal health care."
Her plan will ... [View Full Article]
Mon, February 11, 2008by Ralph R. Reiland
In his "The Moral-Hazard Myth" article in the February 7th issue of The New Yorker, Malcolm Gladwell points to what's wrong with the American health-care system, starting with the economics ... [View Full Article]
Thu, February 07, 2008by David W. Kirkpatrick
There are more than 14,000 school districts in the United States
and while there are many variations in size, wealth, location - rural, suburban or urban - and the like, they are very much ... [View Full Article]
Tue, February 05, 2008by Ralph R. Reiland
A liberal friend phoned last week with his analysis of how the presidential race was shaping up. The news that morning was that both John Edwards and Rudy Giuliani had dropped out.
"Same ... [View Full Article]
Mon, January 21, 2008by Ralph R. Reiland
With things heating up in the presidential primaries, the God-talk seems to be getting increasingly bizarre.
Looking for votes in the upcoming Florida primary, Rudy ... [View Full Article]
Wed, January 16, 2008by Ralph R. Reiland
PALM BEACH, FLA. -- The Wall Street Journal once referred to people whose incomes were so low that they didn't make enough money to pay any federal income taxes as "lucky duckies."
The really ... [View Full Article]
Wed, January 02, 2008by Ralph R. Reiland
First, shut off the TV. Here's how we stack up in average daily viewing hours per household: Sweden, 2.5; Britain, 3.1; Italy, 4.1; Turkey, 5.0; United States, 8.2 hours. "Television," said ... [View Full Article]
Tue, December 11, 2007by Ralph R. Reiland
Nine months before they voted to increase taxes on car rentals and poured alcohol drinks, primarily to cover the red ink at the Port Authority, members of Allegheny County Council along with County ... [View Full Article]
Wed, December 05, 2007by Ralph R. Reiland
After the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York, we hopped an open-topped tour bus with the grandkids for a trip down the rabbit hole into Chinatown.
"If they ... [View Full Article]
Sun, November 25, 2007by Ralph R. Reiland
"I know what it takes to run the country," Hillary Clinton told an interviewer at New York's RNN cable station in January.
The first thing wrong with that ... [View Full Article]
Tue, November 20, 2007by Ralph R. Reiland
A May 2007 report from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, "Issues Challenging Pennsylvania Small Business," provides some insight into the reason for the economic decline ... [View Full Article]
Mon, November 12, 2007by Ralph R. Reiland
TUESDAY
It's an easy six-hour ride from our driveway in Pittsburgh to the Millennium Broadway Hotel in Manhattan, a leisurely drive through the hills of Pennsylvania ... [View Full Article]
Mon, November 05, 2007by Ralph R. Reiland
"It is our attitude toward free thought and free expression that will determine our fate," warned United States Supreme Court Associate Justice William O. Douglas. "There must be no ... [View Full Article]
Mon, October 29, 2007by Ralph R. Reiland
It looks like the "political crooks" in this state are totally unrepentant. Or maybe they're just like unreformed addicts who can't stop stealing.
They ... [View Full Article]
Tue, October 23, 2007by Ralph R. Reiland
Here's a question for Allegheny County Chief Executive Dan Onorato and members of the Allegheny County Council: How does the Pittsburgh metro region stack up against the rest of the nation in ... [View Full Article]
Thu, October 11, 2007by Ralph R. Reiland
I think we're going backward.
Do a quick Google search of "Jefferson," for instance, and you go from the principal author of the Declaration of ... [View Full Article]
Mon, October 01, 2007by Ralph R. Reiland
Whatever happened to Rocky and Bell?" I asked Scott Simmons, co-owner of Simmons Farm in McMurray, Pa.
Rocky and Bell were the two humongous draft horses, ... [View Full Article]
Mon, September 24, 2007by Ralph R. Reiland
It's not hard to understand supply-side economics. High taxes slow down economic activity. That's why we tax cigarettes.
On a larger scale, the Kennedy-Johnson tax ... [View Full Article]
Wed, September 19, 2007by Ralph R. Reiland
The lesson this week is to be careful in the men's room at the Minneapolis airport if you have restless leg syndrome (RLS).
There's "an irresistible urge to ... [View Full Article]
Sun, September 09, 2007by Ralph R. Reiland
Ken Mehlman, in a recent interview with Joshua Green, a senior editor of The
Atlantic, stated that both parties were successful in achieving some of
their highest goals over the past ... [View Full Article]
Tue, September 04, 2007by Ralph R. Reiland
You can't get your oil checked in Sea Isle anymore.
Heading back from the Jersey Shore for the start of another school year, we stopped at Sea Isle's only service ... [View Full Article]
Tue, August 28, 2007by Ralph R. Reiland
"Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted," states the Eighth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
View Full Article]
Mon, August 27, 2007by Ralph Reiland & Sarah J. McCarthy
Peter Barone, a cook at Maynard's Cafe in Margate, N.J., was arrested and charged with six counts of selling cocaine to an undercover police officer.
Maynard's, an ... [View Full Article]
Thu, August 23, 2007by Ralph Reiland & Sarah J. McCarthy
Peter Barone, a cook at Maynard's Cafe in Margate, N.J., was arrested and charged with six counts of selling cocaine to an undercover police officer.
Maynard's, an ... [View Full Article]
Tue, August 21, 2007by Ralph R. Reiland
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 ... [View Full Article]
Mon, August 13, 2007by Ralph R. Reiland
America is becoming Nazified, warns Gerry Spence in his new book,
"Bloodthirsty Bitches and Pious Pimps of Power."
A frequent TV commentator on ... [View Full Article]