Ireland

SOTU: Irish Entrepreneurs Put Politics to Productive Use

by Ivan Osorio on January 26, 2010

in Culture, Deregulate to Stimulate, Economy, International, Nanny State, Personal Liberty

The Washington Examiner’s David Freddoso reports that Paddy Power, Ireland’s largest bookmaker, is taking bets on President Obama’s State of the Union speech tomorrow — from the first cliche uttered to the color of the president’s tie.

Why Ireland? Quite simply, because online gaming is an industry that the American government has literally chased out and away from our shores, for no good reason.

Meanwhile, back in America, all we can do legally is engage in drinking games.

For more on online gaming, see here.

LibertyWeek 63: Suing the Government into Honesty

by Richard Morrison on October 5, 2009

in CEI Projects, Features, Podcast, Zeitgeist

Your host Richard Morrison welcomes guest co-host Jeremy Lott and Editorial Director Ivan Osorio for Episode 63 of the LibertyWeek podcast. We start with CEI’s FOIA fight with the U.S. Treasury, 7-Eleven’s attempt to give consumers a big gulp of government and the solution to a jobless recovery. We then move on to union pension politics, Ireland’s regrettable embrace of EU hegemony and some scantily-clad Olympic News.