Official lies and falsifications that kill innocents. Does the FBI manifest fidelity, bravery and integrity, or does it cut constitutional corners in order to incriminate? Can the FBI cut the cable television lines to your house and then show up pretending to be the cable guy and install listening devices? Can FBI agents and technicians testify falsely ... MORE
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Showing posts with label gambling. Show all posts
Online Gambling Ban Intrudes On State Sovereignty
by Katie McAuliffe. Restore our 10th Amendment. Federalism was not the Tenth Amendment to the constitution for an arbitrary reason. Maintaining checks and balances on power, including the relationship between states and the federal government, is fundamental to American governance. Further, the closer a government is to its voters the ... MORE
6 Ridiculous Myths About Legal Internet Gambling Busted
by Michelle Minton. Should the United States government ban online poker? One billionaire casino owner thinks so. In the quest to convince Americans that they shouldn't be able to do what they want with their own money in their own homes, proponents of the ban have spent big bucks and spread big lies. Below are some of the biggest whoppers. ... MORE
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Internet,
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online,
politics,
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terrorism
Rob Manfred Says MLB Could Support Legalized Gambling
by David Brown. New commissioner Rob Manfred says he would be open to Major League
Baseball considering a new approach to legalized gambling. Echoing
statements that NBA commissioner Adam Silver made recently, Manfred told ESPN's Outside the Lines on Thursday that, "It's important for baseball to give fresh consideration to the ... MORE
Masked SWAT Team Raids Poker Game, Terrorizes Players
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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government,
poker,
police state,
property rights,
risk,
self-ownership,
SWAT
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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individual liberty,
legalize,
prohibition,
regulation,
restrictions,
sports
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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democracy,
Democrats,
election,
free market,
freedom,
gambling,
philosophy,
politics,
voting
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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GOP,
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individual liberty,
Internet,
prohibition,
regulation,
Republican
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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freedom,
gambling,
government,
politics,
prohibition,
regulation,
restrictions,
risk,
sports
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