by Tom Jackman. Militarized cops seek to protect society from gamblers. On a quiet weeknight among the stately manors of Great Falls, ten men sat around a table in the basement of a private home last November playing high stakes poker. Suddenly, masked and heavily armed SWAT team officers from the Fairfax County Police Department ... MORE
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Showing posts with label gambling. Show all posts
John Stossel: Place Your Bets - Bootleggers and Baptists
Unholy alliance against liberty. Want to bet on tomorrow’s NFL game between Chicago and Dallas? I do. Newspapers and websites all over America tell their readers that Dallas is favored by three points. That’s the “spread” posted by bookies. Millions will be bet on that game, and billions will be bet on other games this weekend — college ... MORE
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John Stossel - Democratic Delusions
Politics vs markets. When the Berlin Wall came down 25 years ago this week, people in the Soviet Bloc gained something even more valuable than a right to vote: a free market. Democracy is definitely better than taking orders from Communist dictators. But real freedom means doing what you choose as an individual, not waiting for the rest of ... MORE
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Jacob Sullum: Pot, Poker, and Prohibitionism
GOP becoming party of unprincipled killjoys? Mike Lee calls for "a new conservative reform agenda" based on
"three basic principles," one of which is federalism. "The biggest
reason the federal government makes too many mistakes is that it
makes too many decisions," the Republican senator from Utah
explained in a speech at the ... MORE
Republican Internet Gambling Ban Undermines Rights
by Michelle Minton. Democrats aren't the only big government party. Despite rhetoric that we need to “restore” the Federal Wire Act in order to protect states’ rights, Republican lawmakers are pushing a bill that would do the exact opposite. The bills would rewrite a U.S. federal law instituted in 1961, creating a de facto ban on Internet ... MORE
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John Stossel: Gambling And Government
Did you fill out a March Madness bracket this year? In many states, if you put money in a pool, that's illegal! The NCAA website warns, "Fans should enjoy ... filling out a bracket just for the fun of it, not ... the amount of money they could possibly win." Give me a break. Americans bet more money on March Madness this year than on the Super ... MORE
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politics,
prohibition,
regulation,
restrictions,
risk,
sports
Matt Rousu: Time For Feds To Legalize Internet Gambling
A nanny state is no friend of liberty. While Americans love to wager money, our country has an interesting relationship with legalized gambling. Though it’s legal in Las Vegas, Atlantic City, many Indian Reservations, and other places in the US, it is illegal elsewhere. Further, the legality of online gambling sites has also been questioned. ... MORE
John Stossel: Banning The Things That Make Us Happy
People say America is a free country. But what if you want to drink, have a cigarette or make a bet? Government often says "no" to protect us from ourselves. It's as if the government is still run by the Puritans who settled this land four centuries ago. They said pleasure and luxury are sinful. Today's government has a better argument ... MORE
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