Joan Z. Shore: McCain: Gambling With America
God doesn’t play dice with the universe, said Einstein. But John McCain is playing dice with America. Selecting Sarah Palin was cynical and irresponsible.
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Gambling casinos info:
- Playing cards are believed to have been invented in China and/or India sometime around 900 A.D. The Chinese are thought to have originated card games when they began shuffling paper money (another Chinese invention) into various combinations.
- In 1911, the state of California ruled that "draw" poker was a skill, and thus could not be banned under existing anti-gambling laws. However, "Stud" poker was still considered illegal at the time.
- Las Vegas is a testament of the powerful ability of gambling to foster economic development. Because of gambling, Las Vegas has shown impressive job growth, developed into a major city with a low tax burden that many state and local governments look at with envy.
- The current wave of legal lotteries started in New Hampshire, spread to other North-Eastern states, and then across the nation.
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