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If you’re of a mind to see poverty and depair, Charley Reese invites you to experience it “staycation style”:

Damn, Bitter Betty reminds me that 33 years ago this summer I was staying in Las Vegas and my dad took the family to see Jaws before he and my mom went to the casinos. (Heh. It’s true. It was a different world.) But we had a good time. No, we did.

Steve Sailer comments on a report on the gambling habits of the Presidential candidates:

John McCain, no surprise, loves to roll the dice in casinos, while Barack Obama played poker every Wednesday night in Springfield with other legislators and lobbyists. Most nights Obama won.

Who knows if this will become a regular series, but I’ve definitely ran across enough stories to keep it going if I wanted to.

Mark Rodgers thinks that with other states bringing the social ills of gambling right up against our borders it may be time to follow suit out economic interest:

Okay, get this...

Hillary Clinton's Nevada Campaign has taken a page out of the Karl Rove Bag o' Dirty Tricks.

Many of the working class in Las Vegas work in the tourist industries (casinos, hotels, restaurants, etc.) so the Nevada Democratic Party decided to work to include these voters. They created at-large caucuses for these workers on locations in casinos. The point is to increase voter turnout in the more difficult caucus setting by making it easier to attend a caucus,