Last year, California Indian gaming stole the gambling crown, generating more profits than Nevada's iconic casinos. Unfortunately, this barely-regulated new economy has holes big enough and pockets deep enough to swallow entire communities like San Pablo, California and the entire East Bay. In 2000, Congressman George Miller of Contra Costa infamously slipped into a House budget omnibus bill an amendment to the 1988 Indian Gaming Affairs Regulatory Act, retroactively giving the Lytton Band of Pomo Indians a nine-acre reservation smack in the center of San Pablo. They have since installed almost 1,000 slot machines at Casino San Pablo. This is...