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Drunk driving is certainly a scourge that endangers thousands of innocent bystanders annually. Nevertheless, we have to take a sober approach to the problem, lest we zealously impose unnecessary restrictions that infringe on individual privacy and assume guilt rather than innocence...
Moreover, much-quoted “alcohol-related” numbers are about as relevant to the problem of drunk driving as the ratio of cars to bumblebees. These numbers, rolled out by MADD like WWI howitzers, do not evaluate whether drinking actually contributed to the accident. So, if a sober driver hits a driver who had a beer at dinner, it is recorded as an “alcohol-related” accident. In fact, as noted by Radley Balko, a Cato Institute analyst, when the Los Angeles Times examined accident data in 2002, it found that only...
With classes on Wednesday and problem sets and midterms often scheduled for Thanksgiving week, many students face a difficult choice in deciding whether or not to go home. Students must often miss valuable lectures and sections and thus pay a price academically by opting to leave early. And even if they depart homeward, their vacation is inevitably rushed as they scamper from lecture directly to the airport on Tuesday afternoon, mutating what should be a relaxing and enjoyable experience into a distressing affair...
...driving the game into the black market, Pappas and students agreed that by targeting the more reputable shareholding sites, the provisions would not solve the problem of gambling disorders...
...Problem gambling exists in any situation in which there is money to be put to risk,” said Deringer, who added that he had encountered possible problem gamblers at Harvard...