Radley Balko is a policy analyst for the Cato Institute in Washington DC, USA, specializing in "nanny state" and consumer choice issues, including alcohol and tobacco control, drug prohibition, obesity, and civil liberties. He is a columnist for FoxNews.com and has been published in TIME magazine, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Sun Times, Canada's National Post, and several other publications.

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Online gambling is already illegal in the United States. Proprietors of gaming sites are all incorporated overseas. Yet Internet wagering is still a $12 billion industry.