Brazil & Japan
First question: What is the principal export product of Brazil? If your answer was coffee, you are wrong. All the geography books and encyclopedias are now obsolete. This…
Category: Environmentalism
Streetcars and Buses
One of the hit tunes from Judy Garland’s movie “Meet Me In St. Louis” was “The Trolley Song.” “Clang, clang, clang, went the trolley.” About the time that…
Land Use Control
The land controllers are back again with retreads of last year’s defeated bills. Congressman Morris Udall’s Land Use and Resource Conservation Act of 1975 could prove to be…
PHONES AND WHALE OIL
Amidst the gloom and doom of the present recession, it is good to remember that, whatever the shortcomings of our American economic system, it is still better than…
THANKSGIVING & FOOD
Thanksgiving is the most traditionally American holiday. Its observance was started by the Pilgrim Fathers 150 years before the founding of the United States. A Thanksgiving for abundant…
GRAIN DEAL REPORT
For nearly two years, the Department of Agriculture has had to take the brunt of criticism for the giant Soviet grain deal of 1972, often called “the great…
Failure of Government Controls — April 1974
SOLVING THE OIL CRISIS
History is full of examples of how government controls of various kinds create shortages of economic goods. There simply is no way that a government bureaucracy can run…
BLAME FOR GASOLINE SHORTAGE
Who is to “blame for the gasoline and fuel oil shortage? The Middle East War? The environmentalists who blocked the Alaska pipeline and California offshore drillings? The politicians…
INGENUITY AND TAXES
The recent news story about the Michigan man who makes his own gasoline in his back yard is a good reminder that Americans are a most ingenious people.…