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Edit: Redstate.com picked up this review of my article. It's at http://www.redstate.com/macaoidh/200...s-out-of-power.
Digg: http://digg.com/political_opinion/Re...s_Out_Of_Power
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Hi all,
I will be writing a biweekly op-ed for www.biggovernment.com. I hope you'll find them interesting. The first one is online now, at http://biggovernment.com/2009/11/10/...d-online-poker.
In my opinion, we need to change public opinion to win, so I hope
you'll all support things like this. If you do Digg, Twitter, post a
comment (on either Digg or biggovernment.com), please reply with
"Dugg", "Twittered", etc. to encourage others.
Thanks!
Rich
RT
@TheEngineer2008: BigGovernment.com: The GOP's Bad Bet Against Online Poker:
http://digg.com/d319dPa #digguser #nation #tcot #tlot #c4l
Raising on Aces and Eights: The GOP’s Bad Bet Against
Poker
by Rich Muny
The GOP has historically been the party of limited government and personal
responsibility. President Ronald Reagan said it best in his frequent citations
of Thomas Paine’s famous axiom – “the government governs best that governs
least.” Unfortunately, the party moved away from the limited government
conservatism of Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan during the George W. Bush
Administration. In fact, the 2008 Republican Party Platform regrettably went so
far as to advocate a federal prohibition of online poker.
Poker is not a crime, nor should it be. Millions of Americans – including the president
and many in Congress – play the game at their kitchen tables, on the Internet,
and at their local card rooms. It is a great American pastime. During that
failed era of big government “conservatism”, however, some big government social
conservative groups like Focus on the Family wished to use the power of the
federal government to stop Americans from playing online poker in their own
homes........
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Tweeted!
That first link to the article is faulty, but the link at the header of the article near the bottom works just fine.
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 allin4flush: | |
Thanks!That first link to the article is faulty, but the link at the header of the article near the bottom works just fine.
Thanks for the heads-up. I just fixed it.
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| deej_0607: | |
Thanks! Glad you liked it.
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Everyone is against gambling online except for the people who gamble online. GOP is no different than the libs when it comes to this. Liberals are about BIG government and controlling our lives with their agenda. They wont make a concerted effort to change gambling laws, imo.
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Everyone is against gambling online except for the people who gamble online. GOP is no different than the libs when it comes to this. Liberals are about BIG government and controlling our lives with their agenda. They wont make a concerted effort to change gambling laws, imo.
That's why we have to tell them that their other priorities are harmed by opposition to online poker.
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| cbolt21: | |
and controlling our lives with their agenda.
That's funny. I can quote megabytes of history that says conservatives do that quite a bit.
But we won't derail this thread with that, Limbaugh, Jr.
Gambling enemies are our enemies. Unite.
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Adam
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11-10-2009 4:37 PM
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Great article, and obv Dugg :)
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After reading jennifear's thread about her interview with her bank I was thinking about shooting Breitbart a message in support of our cause. Funny that it's already happened.
Well done!
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tweeted!
www.twtter.com/pokerrapper
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| Adam: | |
Great article, and obv Dugg :)
Thanks Adam, for this and all the support for poker rights!
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Good article for sure
I can't even begin to understand how people who have more than likely never played poker, and don't understand anything about it can make these laws...just doesn't make since.
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