by | May 24, 2016

Is it time to abolish the 18th AND the 21st Amendment? Tennessee recently passed a law limiting any company from owning more than two liquor-store licenses. Why? Well, current holders of liquor licenses don’t want out-of-state grocery chains to enter…

by | May 20, 2016

Variety is the spice of life. It’s time to try another grape. I admit i — I keep a box of Pinot Grigio in the fridge. I also have various Merlots, Cabernet Sauvignons, and Pinot Noirs on my wine rack. These are…

by | May 19, 2016

Eight years down the road, supermarket beer sales are changing the entire alcohol beverage sales category in Pennsylvania, and not for the better. Given our state’s comically byzantine alcohol laws, Pennsylvanians remain pathetically happy that some of us are now…

by | May 12, 2016

A call for a prohibition — of alcohol regulations. Everyone has heard this basic truth many times: the amount of alcohol is the same in a 1.5 ounce shot of liquor, a 4 ounce glass of wine and a 12-ounce bottle…

by | May 10, 2016

When leftists run the bureaucracy no one has any fun. In the Food and Drug Administration’s crackdown on what is now a thriving market for vaping products (nicotine and flavorings delivered without tobacco through a vaporizing device), Trevor Burrus has identified one…

by | Apr 28, 2016

You’d think selling an old bottle of whiskey would be easier than selling an old gun. It seems like every month, I get an email or two from strangers asking me the same question. They read something like this: “Hi….

by | Oct 29, 2015

There is a bottle that sits on my desk which serves as irrefutable proof that less regulation is better than more.  Pull the stopper top and a remarkable aroma plumes forth. “I’d wear this as cologne,” a colleague remarked. He’s…

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