This article was first published on May 27, 2010.

Ingraham seems stuck between two painful alternatives: a) shut down the web cafes and drive numbers underground, which will anger thousands and deny the government an opportunity to gain taxation revenue it desperately needs; b) legalize and regulate numbers, but be condemned in pulpits across the nation. OK, there’s a painless third: Do nothing.
Here’s my take. First, I confess, I find games of chance like Backgammon and cards harmless fun. Numbers, however, is a game of chance where the gambler (despite the promise of wealth dangled before him) will almost always lose his/her money and the house will almost alwa ...

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