The Minnesota Supreme Court has ruled that using automatic cameras to record traffic violations is not permissible if they don’t identify the driver of the vehicle. That may be proper but, like any other definition of property rights, it carries…
“Fair” climate policies are foul to poor countries
Imagine the following scene in the Old West: A bunch of tired, thirsty cowboys ride up to a desert waterhole. Seeing cool water, they whoop in delight, springing from their horses to drink deeply. Once their thirst is quenched, they…
Inflation does not create itself
Inflation does not create itself The theory of spontaneous generation, that living beings spring spontaneously from inanimate matter, died out in biology by the mid-1800s. It apparently remains alive and well in journalism. Just look at media stories about the…
How a tractor helped win WWII
Like many others, I am watching the Ken Burns documentary on World War II. The third episode shows a U.S. secret weapon without noting its importance. A photograph of a farm near Luverne, Minn., features an Allis Chalmers model WC…