Online gambling is a matter of choice

Las Vegas Sun – Charge up your iPhone, because online gambling is here. Nevada and Delaware legalized in-state online gambling this year. Laws in these two states start to bring into the open what has been a gray area in American law. The U.S. Justice Department long has insisted that the Wire Act of 1961 bans interstate gambling. And in 2006, Congress passed the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act, which was signed by President George W. Bush. It effectively banned financial institutions from handling any online gambling payments. Ironically, both Bush and the majority in both houses of Congress were…