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The following opinion piece ran in today’s Wall Street Journal, European edition: A trans-Atlantic spat over online gambling may help rewrite the rules of the game for Internet commerce across borders. For a change, the Europeans stand on the side of free trade, while America dabbles in regulatory overreach. The European Union last month launched [...]

Edit: As it has been pointed out by numerous commenters, Ron Paul  has not actually dropped out of the race, he just can’t win because of the number of delegates needed to secure the nomination. Please see comments for wealth of information dealing with this. While Ron Paul has long dropped out of the Republican [...]

While speaking in Wikes Hall in Pennsylvania, US Senator and presidential hopeful Barack Obama, has told American parents that they need to curb the amount of time their kids spend playing video games. “Turn off the television, turn off the video games”, he said adding that “Government can’t do everything”. In fact one of his [...]

The Congress held the hearing about online gambling and the UIGEA which currently prohibits online gaming by forcing the financial institution to block financial transactions that are going toward internet gambling. Today’s hearing, a summary of which is available in all it’s glory by PPA including videos, supporting materials and even transcript coming shortly. We [...]

The current laws about Internet gambling have had damaging unintended consequences far beyond their intended target, according to a study published March 27, 2008 by the Competitive Enterprise Institute. The Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA), passed in October of 2006, has little to do with gambling itself, but is actually a wide-ranging regulatory mandate [...]