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 [...]