Posted by Nolan Dalla on Aug 7, 2012 in Blog, Politics |

“President Obama’s first term has been a failure not because he has been one of us – which means being a liberal. His presidency up to this point has been a crushing disappointment, because — the fact of the matter is — he has been one of them.”
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Posted by Nolan Dalla on Aug 6, 2012 in Blog, Politics |

LBJ’s “Great Society” was the perfect blueprint, but was mostly ignored by the Obama Administration.
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Posted by Nolan Dalla on Aug 5, 2012 in Blog, Personal, Travel |

This is the fifth and final installment of a trip report I wrote from February and March of 2012.
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Posted by Nolan Dalla on Aug 4, 2012 in Blog, Personal, Travel |

Note: This is the fourth of five installments of a trip report I wrote from February and March of 2012.
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Posted by Nolan Dalla on Aug 3, 2012 in General Poker, Personal, Rants and Raves |

Note: This is the third of five installments of a trip report I wrote (unpublished) from February and March of 2012.
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Posted by Nolan Dalla on Aug 2, 2012 in Blog, Book Reviews |

Like his more recent now deceased contemporaries Truman Capote, Norman Mailer, and William F. Buckley and in the mold of great thinkers of yesteryear such as H.L. Mencken, Upton Sinclair, and even Mark Twain, he was a fixture on the intellectual circuit. He basked in the spotlight in a time when writers were afforded the same celebrity as rock stars. One colleague pined, “he was the man who knew everyone.”
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Posted by Nolan Dalla on Aug 2, 2012 in Blog, General Poker, Personal |

In South Florida — “Michelle Bernstein’s,” located in Palm Beach.
Part 2 of a 5-part series on visiting Florida, Philadelphia, and later Atlantic City.
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Posted by Nolan Dalla on Aug 1, 2012 in Blog, Personal, Travel |

This photo was taken in December 1989, just after the Romanian Revolution. I’m standing In front of the unfinished Casa Republicii (House of the Republic) in Central Bucharest a short time after the fall of Nicolae Ceausescu. Casa Republicii, then under construction, was to be the new government center for the Romanian Communist Party. Ceausescu oversaw its construction personally, which essentially bankrupted the nation. It still stands as the world’s largest office building. But he never saw it completed. He was shot by a firing squad on Christmas Day in 1989.
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Posted by Nolan Dalla on Aug 1, 2012 in General Poker, Personal, Travel |

This is the first of a five-part trip report to Florida, Philadelphia, then Atlantic City.
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Posted by Nolan Dalla on Jul 31, 2012 in Blog, General Poker |

“Full Tilt Poker’s actions during both the pre- and post-Black Friday period, represented an unprecedented level of irresponsibility and a grotesque violation of trust. The damage these industry outcasts have done to players, public confidence, and the game overall lingers and will not be forgotten nor forgiven until the principals have provided explanation, apology, and restitution.”
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