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FLASHPOINT for Jun 29, 2006

Thursday, June 29, 2006 | 7:44 a.m.

You have to give James Dobson this: As obsessive types go, he is as obsessive as they get. Dobson is the Focus on the Family chairman and longtime anti-gaming advocate who just a few months back declared: "Gambling - all types of gambling - is driven by greed and subsists on greed. That makes it morally bankrupt from its very foundation." Yes, no one ever gambles for the fun of it. Don't tell the Strip folks or the LVCVA, please. Dobson believes that what happens in Vegas should only happen in Hell - part of the reason he has embraced the House GOP's "American Values Agenda." That progressive agenda includes banning Internet gaming. And if he and his apostles can wipe it off the Internet ...

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