A poll at the recently held Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) found that efforts by Las Vegas Sands CEO Sheldon Adelson to ban online gambling at the federal level are highly unpopular. The Institute for Liberty recently released the data from the high-profile conservative gathering that took place in February. The IFL is a group whose mission is keeping government “from unnecessarily interfering in the daily lives of America’s entrepreneurs.” Two of the questions posed to attendees had to do with online gambling. About 90 percent of respondents said they oppose efforts to ban state-regulated gambling. About the same number…

This Week in Gambling: It will not be a very Merry Christmas for billionaire hypocrite Sheldon Adelson. He has literally spent millions of dollars in an effort to promote his Restoration of Americas Wire Act (RAWA), his self-serving agenda to ban online gambling thinly disguised as legislation. The Poker Players Alliance (PPA) is now reporting that the U.S.Senate has passed their final bill of 2016 without any RAWA verbiage included. The bill was a government spending bill, which will fund operations well into next year. The House of Representatives passed this bill earlier, also without the inclusion of RAWA, and…

Billionaire Sheldon Adelson sanctimoniously demanding a federal monopoly on the exploitation of fashionable debaucheries is like a dog walking on his hind legs. It is done awkwardly, but you are surprised to see it done at all. Mr. Adelson has accumulated a net worth of $33.6 billion. He is a casino magnate. His stupendous wealth comes from gratifying sordid hormonal cravings: instant riches and creature comforts worthy of King Louis XIV. It may be that the casino czar sheds a tear for the collateral damage of his vulgar enterprises: personal bankruptcies; broken hearts; shattered families; and dissipated lives. But if…

The Restoration of America’s Wire Act (RAWA) is back, courtesy of United States Senator and failed presidential candidate Lindsey Graham. Since quitting the campaign, backing other failed candidates, and refusing to back the Republican’s presumptive nominee, Donald Trump, Graham is ready to return to the work of the people. Well, at least to the work of big-money political donor Sheldon Adelson. Numerous attempts to ban online gambling by way of a federal law have failed, but Adelson – errr, Graham – is not giving up yet. He has added some of the RAWA language to the most recent Senate Appropriations…

RAWA, the Restoration of America’s Wire Act, has been shuffling around the halls of Congress for more than two years, but the anti-online gambling and poker legislation has found little patronage or support during its loiter. First introduced into the US Senate and House of Representatives by Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) and Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) in March of 2014, RAWA seeks to restore the Wire Act and effectively take away a state’s right to offer Internet gambling. RAWA isn’t officially dead, but by all means it appears to be shelved in its original form. That’s why some were…

Advocates of regulated online gambling in the United States received good news this week when it was learned Sheldon Adelson and the Las Vegas Sands Corp. have decided to stop supporting a 50-state ban on online gambling. Adelson has spent tens of millions of dollars in supporting “Restoration of America’s Wire Act” (RAWA), but has seen the legislation stall on Capital Hill. Online players should not celebrate too soon, because the new RAWA bill might well be perfectly tooled to cause mischief, if a nativist politician came to power looking to score easy victories over anyone deemed a devious foreigner….