… the name of The History Channel program that I just watched. The promo: Heroes who fight tax collectors and moral crusaders, or just common criminals? Like it or not, America was built by rumrunners, moonshiners, and bootleggers–even founding father John Hancock was a smuggler. In the 1920s, Prohibition turned fishermen into rumrunners and two-bit [...]

After pulling over a weaving car, the officer asks, “Have you been drinking?” The driver answers yes. Then the officer asks, “Where?” Well, look out if your establishment’s name is the next sound heard. I just read “N.J. Sharpens Liquor-law Policing,” in USA Today. It begins: The state of New Jersey has a question for [...]