Showing posts with label poker. Show all posts
Showing posts with label poker. Show all posts

Masked SWAT Team Raids Poker Game, Terrorizes Players

by Tom Jackman.        Militarized cops seek to protect society from gamblers. On a quiet weeknight among the stately manors of Great Falls, ten men sat around a table in the basement of a private home last November playing high stakes poker. Suddenly, masked and heavily armed SWAT team officers from the Fairfax County Police Department   ... MORE

Jacob Sullum: Pot, Poker, and Prohibitionism

GOP becoming party of unprincipled killjoys?     Mike Lee calls for "a new conservative reform agenda" based on "three basic principles," one of which is federalism. "The biggest reason the federal government makes too many mistakes is that it makes too many decisions," the Republican senator from Utah explained in a speech at the       ... MORE

Walter E Williams: Income Inequality

Let's think about fairness and justice.           Democrats plan to demagogue income inequality and the wealth gap for political gain in this year's elections. Most of what's said about income inequality is stupid or, at best, ill-informed. Much to their disgrace, economists focusing on measures of income inequality bring little light to the issue.     ... MORE

Ben Wolfgang: Online Poker Fans Ready To Deal

A comeback deal. The Obama administration may have called off the game more than a year ago, but the nation’s poker partisans are still looking for a deal. Card sharks are ramping up pressure on the federal government to remove a cloud of uncertainty hanging over Internet poker, caused by a patchwork of federal laws that has left the game in a ... MORE