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Scandal makes strong case for sports-betting crackdown

It wasn’t that long ago when sports betting was illegal. Then suddenly it was as though profit, rather than controlling this vice, became paramount. It was inevitable, given human nature, that bad things would follow legalization. Last week, The Wall Street Journal carried a front-page story that reported “one of the most sprawling gambling cases in the history of American sports: a national and international conspiracy to allegedly rig dozens of games that reached from U.S. college basketball to the top professional league in China.” There was a time in America when laws ...

ICE agents are not the enemies

President Donald Trump’s approval ratings are down the drain. The midterms are coming, and if Democrats prevail, his agenda gets boxed in fast. What can he do to avoid that outcome? Well, what’s worked in the past? Immigration! Former President Joe Biden had irresponsibly left borders open for too long, a failure that suited Trump just fine. A bipartisan fix emerged, and Trump pressured Republicans to reject it. He needed a show. Few foreigners are entering the country illegally these days, and so Trump had to create the appearance of a new immigration crisis. Easy. Send ...

Even in retirement, O’Connor continues to fight good fight

Former Ohio Supreme Court Justice and former Lt. Gov. Maureen O’Connor is certainly not resting quietly in her retirement. Though she left her seat on the court in 2022 because of age limits, she is still active in matters such as redistricting and protecting the judiciary from ...

Call off the mob in Minn.

If Minnesota officials don’t like President Trump’s threat to invoke the Insurrection Act, maybe they should do more to tamp down the insurrectionary activity in their state. After an ICE officer was violently attacked by two illegal immigrants while making an arrest and shot one assailant in the leg in self-defense, anti-ICE activists — predictably, enough — rioted. In response to the unprovoked attack on the officer, Mayor Jacob Frey blasted ICE. Imagine, he implored, if your city “was suddenly invaded by thousands of federal agents that do not hold the values you hold ...

Native Americans profiled as ‘aliens’

In a nation as diverse as ours, immigration enforcement inevitably tests whether equal protection means what it says. Some tribal leaders in the Upper Midwest say that test is being failed in the wake of the killing of Renee Good in Minneapolis on Jan. 7. By the end of the week, claims of aggressive immigration enforcement actions, including door-to-door operations in some neighborhoods, poured in of agents not only tracking down those without legal status but also questioning and detaining others, whether they were legal residents or citizens or not. Social media platforms were filled ...