It's hard to imagine No Casinos winning hearts and minds with its new TV and radio ads on Spectrum Gaming's conflict of interest. The ads might fire up the choir a little, but even the No Casinos faithful have dwindled in Florida, a state rolling in games of chance.

Why would county commissioners approve changes to their comprehensive plan they knew would be challenged by a state agency, a constitutional authority and as many as four private stakeholders?

WASHINGTON -- In January 1938, Rep. Louis Ludlow, an Indiana Democrat, proposed a constitutional amendment strongly supported by the public: "Except in the event of an invasion of the United States or its territorial possessions and attack upon its citizens residing therein, the authority of Congress to declare war shall not become effective until confirmed by a majority of all votes cast thereon in a nationwide referendum."