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...tensions didn't end there. Along the back wall 2004 World Poker Champion Greg Raymer stood waiting for a talk radio interview. "Focus on the Family considers poker immoral," Raymer said, gesturing towards the Focus on the Family booth down an aisle. "They have no right to tell me what to do." Raymer is at CPAC representing the Poker Players Alliance, which is lobbying to have a 2005 ban on Internet poker lifted - literally one of the last bills passed by the GOP before they lost control of Congress. "In the privacy of our own homes, consenting adults should...
CPAC has always been wonderful in its jumble of competing issue groups all jostling for attention. And it certainly has seen similar tensions in years past: this is the second year that the Poker Alliance has set up shop at CPAC. But it was striking to see in speech after speech many of the wedge issues that so preoccupied the most recent GOP majority - Terry Schiavo, abortion, stem cells, gays, family values, religion in government - sublimated to the GOP's laser-like focus on the economy and to see the CPAC's attempts, as with GOProud, to widen their tent...
After checking in to the Tropicana, some members of Red Line played poker in the Excalibur. Later, the teammates each put $6 towards a well-equipped room in Caesar’s Palace where they watched the Super Bowl. “I thought a Jacuzzi bath would be nice,” said Alex Y. Yang ’10, captain of the Red Line team...
...public saw only the poker face. " 'Never let them see you sweat' - you can put that above Gates' door," says Richard Armitage, an old friend and colleague. Four years later, while serving as Deputy National Security Adviser under President George H.W. Bush, Gates was nominated again to be DCI. What followed was one of the longest and most bitter confirmation hearings in Senate records. CIA co-workers from the Soviet desk excoriated his character, his motives, his honesty. They called him a toady who'd fire dissenters and slant intelligence just to please his then boss, Casey. The hearings, which...
...cross between MGMT and New Boyz in a Godard film. There is a closeup of the "Welcome to Las Vegas" sign. There is a collective swagger into Diddy's Vegas haunt, Vanity Nightclub, in which the artist formerly known as Puff Daddy appears to lick a fat stack of poker chips. Around the 2:40 mark Jadakiss raps an elegant ode to the eponymous beverage, "the best premium vodka ever," and we're sold. Kinda like Chester French. And just in case we forget the real headliner, there are plenty, plenty of glamor shots of the vodka bottle from pretty...