Stephen Kent told Fox News, “Disney may have finally gotten tired of losing. This is a remarkable course adjustment and evidence of how politics can reshape culture overnight. CEO Bob Iger has always been far more shrewd and practical than Disney's critics acknowledge.”
Read MoreConsider USA Today, which reported on “concerns that the food dye is linked to cancer and behavioral problems in children.” Only later in the report does the reader learn that cancers only appeared in rats who were given abnormally high doses of the additive as part of FDA-required testing.
Read MoreThe alternative is prohibition and turning a blind eye to what your people are doing in the absence of a regulated market. An effective regulatory regime accounts for the kind of consumer behavior lawmakers can reasonably anticipate and then keeps those people as safe as possible without removing adults’ right to make adult choices.
Like in Iowa and Tennessee, HB 1302 bars the use of credit cards in online bets, and requires age verification for players, a policy piloted by Pennsylvania and Michigan. The bill allows for up to two online betting services to partner with a local casino in order to operate. The $6 million protection fund exists to serve the smaller Mississippi casinos that might not acquire online betting partners.
Read MoreA homeowner with a backyard pool they’d like to share by the hour with locals might be surprised by the language of Statute 130A-281, which reads, “No public swimming pool may be opened for use unless the owner or operator has obtained an operation permit.”
Read MoreConsider the political culture of TikTok, the elephant in the room for this conversation. Are Democrats and Republicans ready to have a candid conversation about which mental health trends, specifically, they find so worrisome on these social media platforms?
Read MoreThe Consumer Choice Center’s media director put it this way: “Imagine the classroom slacker making the case to the teacher that the straight-A student in the front of the class is being anti-competitive by not sharing their lecture notes with them.”
Read MoreAmericans increasingly don’t know where to look for solutions to their problems.
Read MorePresident Biden places a significant premium on creating contrast with his predecessor, Donald Trump. However, regarding tariffs on certain imports, the plan is to keep things more or less the same.
Read MoreImagine the classroom slacker making the case to the teacher that the straight-A student in the front of the class is being anti-competitive by not sharing their lecture notes with them.
Read MoreIf Senator Scott Weiner’s thinking on driving were taken to its fullest extent, there would be no good or bad citizens of California, just subjects who do as they are told, because what else could they do?
Read MoreCruz’s desire to make automobile design standards a part of the culture war is disingenuous and a betrayal of limited government principles.
Read MoreBeing permanent opposition weakens our hand. It doesn’t strengthen it.
Read MoreExecutive roles are not great for creatives who like to ponder the big questions of the universe. I’m reminded of a recent Star Wars novel by Claudia Gray, Master & Apprentice, where Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn is offered a spot on the Jedi Council while he is still training Obi-Wan Kenobi in the years before The Phantom Menace. Qui-Gon is torn. He doesn’t feel like a good mentor to young Kenobi, and the role on the Council is highly prestigious — a dream come true for any Jedi.
Read MorePresidential candidate Nikki Haley reminded us of this fact on Fox News Tuesday, when she ripped into anonymous online speech as the apparent cause of America’s uncivil politics. Haley proposed forcing social media companies to share their algorithms and require the verification of every user as a top priority of her future administration.
Read MoreiGaming, shorthand for online casino-style gaming, was left out of HB 347. State budget negotiations have been slowed by ongoing disagreement over how to incorporate iGaming into the new gambling status quo.
Read MoreThe Foundation for Economic Education recently released a wonderfully detailed documentary video on Scorsese’s "Kundun" and then-Disney CEO Michael Eisner’s ultimate decision to bury the film, per China’s wishes. "Kundun" is hard to find online and isn't available to stream on any major platform. But you can learn everything about it and China’s campaign to block the film from American eyes by watching the documentary.
Read MoreConsumers will buy the products they need when they need them and in the case of expensive appliances, that probably just means adding to their debt. Consumers truly save money when they can afford the products they buy and get to choose from a wide range of appliances on the market.
Read MoreBad actors must be weeded out of markets. Legalization is the first step, allowing competing firms and platforms to offer the best experience for consumers. At the same time, consumers deserve aggressive enforcement of illegal practices designed to hook players on gambling. It is not an activity without risk.
Read MoreThe next time you watch Star Wars and see a character vanish into the ether or become “one with the Force,” I want you to remember their debts to mankind didn’t vanish along with them. They’re still there. The rest of the galaxy has to live and wrestle with the consequences of their mistakes.
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