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Donald Trump to Announce he is Running for US President at 50 Percent Chance
Casino Execs to Make Pitch for Legalized Online Poker
WASHINGTON (AP) — With millions of people already playing online poker for money, the casino industry is urging Congress to step in and regulate the wagering.
The Hill: No Longer Impossible That Ron Paul Will Get GOP Nomination
Long considered an outcast, Republican Ron Paul is said to be shaping the GOP along with his son Rand (Kentucky Senator).
DoJ Oversight Hearing: Holder Doesn’t Know if Poker is Game of Skill
The House Judiciary Committee held a Department of Justice oversight hearing Tuesday morning with a short question related to whether poker is a game of skill or chance.
Oh The Irony: Trump’s Celebrity Apprentice Pre-empted by Obama
The announcement of Osama Bin Laden’s death at the hands of US special forces could not have come at a more ironic time.
Major networks cut in to the news shortly after 10:40 pm ET just as Donald Trump’s Celebrity Apprentice episode was to reveal the next firing (elimination results). Trump, as everyone knows, has ruled the political stage in recent weeks with demands for US President Barack Obama to show his long born birth certificate. Many have speculated that Trump is using the political arena to help boost ratings for his television empire.
Bin Laden Dead Odds to Pay Out
US President Barack Obama was to announce that Osama Bin Laden is dead Sunday night.
Betting exchanges and online gambling websites have offered odds on his capture or death for years with varying prices. 6 percent of those betting this contract at intrade.com believed he would be captured or killed before year’s end.
News organizations reported that the US had recovered the body of Bin Laden and conducted a DNA sample to prove the world’s biggest terrorist’s death.
Ron Paul Midway Within the Pack: Donald Trump Drops F Bomb and More (Odds)
Senator Jon Kyl May Support Legalized Online Poker?
The very man who co-authored legislation prohibiting most forms of Internet gambling, outgoing Arizona Republican Senator Jon Kyl, may consider a measure that would exempt online poker.
Kyl, a long time industry opponent, helped draft the Unlawful Internet Gaming Enforcement Act (UIGEA) in 2006. Exemptions were made for horse racing, state lotteries and fantasy sports.
The revelation from Senator Kyl comes right from his own website, under the heading of Updating the Law to Account for New Technologies
White House Decision to Release Obama Birth Certificate May Hurt Trump Odds
Online Gambling Zealot Spencer Bachus Lets District Down
Spencer Bachus Votes Against Derivative Regulations Against Best Interest of District in Agony
The man who hates online poker and other forms of Web gambling, Spencer Bachus, who also acts as the House Financial Services Committee, is helping to exasperate the agony of his district of Jefferson County. This is the claim of Joe Nocera of the New York Times.
Just 7 Percent of Prediction Market Behind Donald Trump GOP Nomination
What are Donald Trump’s odds of winning the GOP nomination for the 2012 US Presidency?
Root: Why “The Donald” Has Trumped the National Media: Latest Odds
Online Poker: Welcome to the Bank of Al Qaeda, 6-Year Old Gamblers
The GOP has taken a tough stance against legalizing online poker following last Friday’s crackdown, linking the activity to everything from drug trafficking to Al Queda.
A software engineer recently wrote to Congress, expressing fears that Democrat Barney Frank’s co-sponsored bill to legalize online gambling (HR 1174) is effectively an invitation for the 'Bank of Al Qaeda’.
Jim Thackston, of Sun Coast Data Solutions, argues that Internet poker software could be used by terrorists to launder funds.
Barney Frank to Obama Administration: Stop Wasting Time on Internet Poker Prosecutions
Centrelink High-Rollers Ordered to pay Back Millions
The Federal Government is ordering people caught losing huge amounts of money gambling while on Centrelink payments to pay back more than $9 million.
Indicted Online Poker Room PokerStars Contributed to 68 Nevada Political Campaigns
A total of $227,000 was reportedly contributed to the mid-term election campaigns of 68 Nevada candidates, the Las Vegas Review-Journal claimed on Saturday.
Iowa Cans Internet Poker Plans for Now
Iowa has become the latest state to back away from legalizing Internet poker this week.
Donald Trump Rises Above Michele Bachmann at Prediction Market
Donald Trump’s chances of winning the 2012 Republican US Presidential nomination continue to increase, now surpassing Michele Bachmann.
Prediction market intrade.com had The Donald close to 8 percent after being at 5.8 percent just last week.
Bachmann’s odds of grabbing the GOP nomination fell from just shy of 8 percent last week to 7 percent.
Bill Maher on Internet Gambling Zealot Jon Kyl: “In a World of Political Liars, Kyl Takes the Crown”
Appearing on Tuesday night’s Rachel Maddow Show on MSNBC, comedian Bill Maher blasted online gambling’s biggest opponent, the outgoing Republican Senator from Arizona, Jon Kyl.
Discussing Planned Parenthood, Maddow mentioned how Kyl claimed “90 percent of what that organization engages in is abortions”. She clarified by pointing out that only 3 percent of what Planned Parenthood does relates to abortions.
Kyl’s office also later attempted to clarify what the Senator said by suggesting Kyl did not intend his statement to be taken as factual.
Wayne Allyn Root: “I Don’t Know if Mitt Romney can Hold the Favorite Status”
Donald Trump, Michele Bachmann 2012 US Republican Presidential Nomination Odds Low
“Obama Might be a Socialist” Claims Libertarian US Vice Presidential Candidate Wayne Root
