Steve Chapman on Crying Wolf Over Gambling

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Anti-gambling activists want the government to put a stop to vice. That means no casinos, those big, sleazy places with skimpily-clad waitresses and endless supplies of booze designed to part you from your cash. But it also means no online gambling since, as one breathless editorial put it, "a teenager at home could become a gambling addict." Steve Chapman urges the prohibitionist busybodies to take their complaints elsewhere.