Ante Up Against Government Intrusion

Ante Up Against Government Intrusion

Not long ago, a district judge in Colorado declared that poker is a game of "gambling" rather than "skill" because "while poker ... might involve some skill, these games certainly are contingent 'in part' upon chance, and when, as here, the games involve risking a thing of value for gain, they constitute a form of gambling."

Guess what? Nearly everything we do in life depends "in part" on "chance." So we might as well think of our entire existence as one colossal game of craps -- with government as the hairy-knuckled, silk-suited mobster calling in the "vig" (whatever the heck...