There is a respectable body of economic thought that holds that casino gambling is actually economically regressive to a state and a community.
I am a trial lawyer. Matilda says that at dinner on a good day I sound like an affidavit.
David Robinson chose to stay at Navy. He talked about commitment, loyalty and values. I wonder how many of us would choose these virtues rather than the chance of becoming a millionaire, especially if you were a college sophomore when you had to make that choice.
There's something about rhetorical violence that is ugly and worrying.
If I made a mistake in terms of running for president, the mistake was not in refusing to run in '91.
The Catholic teaching against murder, for example, is largely the same as our secular laws. But as a law, it obviously has a secular rationale at least as strong as its religious rationale.