‘Haiti’s Avoidable Death Tool’

The always-insightful Walter Williams comments on Haiti; and the political climate that made this earthquake so disastrous.

Some expect Haiti’s 7.0 earthquake death toll to reach over 200,000 lives. Why the high death toll? Northern California’s 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake was more violent, measuring 7.1 on the Richter scale, resulting in 63 deaths and 3,757 injuries.

The 1906 [...]

On Intellectual Property

Properly defining the concepts that you are talking about is crucial when writing non-fiction; it is also especially important in public debate. Too often people are arguing past each other because of misunderstandings in the other’s argument  Such misunderstandings are rampant in talks about “Intellectual Property.”

As Sonia Arrison notes, the people talking about intellectual property [...]