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House Votes To Send Impeachment Articles to Senate as New Evidence Comes to Light: https://reason.com/2020/01/15/house-votes-to-send-impeachment-articles-to-senate-as-new-evidence-comes-to-light/ Here we go. Could be interesting, but will probably be another Congressional yawner where all we witness is politicians grandstanding.

I really regret selling my original copy of Dark Tower that I got as a Christmas present back circa 1981-82.

https://www.indystar.com/story/news/2019/06/13/hoosier-state-train-ends-june-30-what-means-you/1263927001/

Sure, if that license is granted by a private, non-government entity. You still haven't given a good reason why it has to be government in the licensing business.

Honestly the travel times don't bother me. Any rational individual should know what they are getting into if they choose rail over plane travel. I can see that the romanticism and more leisurely pace of traveling across the country by rail can be an attraction to certain individuals, but why should the federal government and the taxpayer have to pay for it?

Not the point of the article at all. But nice attempt at deflecting from the real issue.

FDR I can understand, but please expound on the shared leadership qualities and policy beliefs between Mr. Sanders and Teddy Roosevelt.

The reason being?

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/amtraks-big-lie Agreed. Amtrak needs to be weaned off the taxpayer funded teat and learnt to sink or swim on it's own.

https://reason.com/2020/01/15/occupational-licensing-hurts-the-little-guy/ Agreed. These frankly draconian licensing rules/laws need to be repealed. If members of a certain industry want to voluntarily form associations that push their own private licensing rules then by all means they can do so. What we don't need is the state once again choosing the winners and losers.

Why? What kind of leadership qualities do you believe Mr. Sanders brings to the office of POTUS? Or is it all about the "free stuff" he and the other socialists are promising to give to Americans?

If "why not" (aka "not Trump") is you and other socialists primary reason for voting for Mr. Sanders then I fear for the future of our country.

Why?

Sanders Wins Support of Crucial Nevada Teachers Union: https://www.nationalreview.com/news/sanders-wins-support-of-crucial-nevada-teachers-union/ So I guess we now know who @DanteEstonia is voting for..........................

https://mises.org/wire/subprime-loans-will-be-back-vengeance-2020 And explode it will. Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it. I suggest buying gold, and seeds.

I can think of one: https://amash.house.gov/ Sure wish he represented me and my family in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Neil Peart, Champion of Individualism: https://reason.com/2020/01/13/neil-peart-champion-of-individualism/ As Bullock notes, the driving force here wasn't Rand's full-throated endorsement of commerce; it was her defense of individual will and artistic integrity against corrupting conformity, whether the pressure to conform comes from the government or from soulless corporate executives. As time went on Peart, distanced himself from Rand and some of her more radical policy notions. The Liberty profile mentions that Peart supports a government safety net. By 2015, he was telling Rolling Stone: "For a person of my sensibility, you're only left with the Democratic Party….The whole health-care thing—denying mercy to suffering people? What? This is Christian?" Rush even sent libertarian-leaning Sen. Rand Paul (R–Ky.) a cease-and-desist letter in 2010 to get the then-candidate to stop using its songs at rallies and in videos, although the band's lawyers insisted that this was a solely a copyright issue. So went Peart's ideological journey. Meanwhile, the music he made will continue to have a life of its own, inspiring people with its defense of individual freedom for decades to come. Truly a Canadian icon. He will be missed.

I wouldn't be surprised. I just couldn't shake the feeling while watching the 1st quarter of the Chiefs-Texans games that all those drops by the Chiefs receivers along with the blocked punt was scripted.......... NFL = WWF?

Dismissing Her Political Opponents As Mentally Ill, Yale Psychiatrist Diagnoses Alan Dershowitz: https://reason.com/2020/01/13/dismissing-her-political-opponents-as-mentally-ill-yale-psychiatrist-diagnoses-alan-dershowitz/

Whatever happened to the concept of Caveat Emptor? Or does government have to protect us from everything?

I believe the image I posted is linked to the Huffington Post, but it can also be found on many, many other websites. If you use Google Chrome you can right click on the image and select "Search Google for image".

Mr. Booker is out, they are now dropping like flies: https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/13/politics/cory-booker-ends-presidential-race/index.html

The Federal "Crimes" of the College Admission Scandal Aren't Real Crimes: https://mises.org/wire/federal-crimes-college-admission-scandal-arent-real-crimes If the allegations are true, it is clear that the employees involved in the scheme acted contrary to their employers’ policies, and if they did it for payment, then we are looking at bribery. Whether or not these alleged actions rise to a crime, however, depends upon how one defines criminal behavior. First, and most important, none of these actions are directly covered by criminal statutes, federal or state, at least when it comes to employees for private organizations. For example, I had a teammate in college (when I ran track) who had someone take the College Board exam for him, and he was caught. While the NCAA declared him ineligible for his first year (he still managed to be accepted into college — don’t ask), he faced no danger of federal criminal charges despite the fact that what he did was no different than what prosecutors are alleging against a number of parents. The criminal charges, instead, fall into the typical categories of federal law, including honest services fraud, wire fraud, mail fraud, and money laundering. The various employees named in the scheme face charges of honest services fraud , which is a catch-all category of crime, and one of the most devastating weapons federal prosecutors had in their arsenal until the US Supreme Court narrowed the focus of the law. (A decade ago, Judge Andrew Napolitano this law and how federal prosecutors abuse it on his radio show.) All of the “crimes” tied to this case (which the FBI has named “Varsity Blues”) are what Candice E. Jackson and I have labeled “derivative crimes,” essentially fictional charges that are derived from some other action of the accused. That is why Singer would plead guilty to “racketeering,” which is nothing more than a combining of other acts into one “crime,” with draconian penalties for those who are convicted. (Racketeering was invented in 1970 as part of the Racketeering Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, better known as RICO.) Because nearly every private college or university receives federal funding, federal prosecutors have a link they can use to pursue these prosecutions. With thousands of federal criminal laws on the book, prosecutors can pick and choose whom they will target and what the charges will be. As Harvey Silverglate noted in Three Felonies a Day, anyone reading this article probably violates at least one federal law each day. The following account from Slate explains this: Second, the fact is that most of the parents who took part in this scheme are white, wealthy, prominent, and utterly unfamiliar with how federal criminal law works. That is why the feds can threaten Loughlin and her husband with up to forty-five years in prison if they are convicted. That is more than most murderers, rapists, and armed robbers receive for their crimes. Yet Loughlin harmed no one. Yes, one can argue that if her daughters had been accepted at USC undeservedly, two other perhaps more promising students would have been denied entry. However, that clearly would be a civil, not criminal, matter, and any students who were left out can seek remedy in court. Unfortunately, most Americans these days seem to believe that since Loughlin’s daughters are “privileged,” the law should turn them into orphans by sending their parents to prison for the rest of their lives. (The feds are calling for penalties that would effectively be life sentences for those convicted.) Like Martha Stewart, who was convicted of questionable “crimes” in 2004, these parents are “wealthy beyond a reasonable doubt,” and the idea that they are able to use their wealth to “break the rules” to get their children into places like Harvard or USC is galling to many. Declares the American Conservative: The notion that throwing Loughlin and Giannulli in prison for the rest of their lives will somehow overthrow the alleged oligarchy that is ruining our lives is a stretch, to put it mildly. But that seems to be the sentiment among many Americans. Like so many others who are ignorant of the vast array of weapons that federal prosecutors can wield against them, many of the parents who are fighting the charges have no idea what they are up against. As Jackson and I noted, federal criminal law does not have to meet the mens rea standard which for centuries has been the bedrock of American-Anglo criminal law. We write: The second disadvantage is that the American news media, which claims to be a “watchdog” protecting our rights, is rooting for the feds. When Martha Stewart was convicted, federal prosecutors already had broken the law by illegally leaking grand jury testimony to the press, a felony punishable by five years in prison. One of the jurors lied in order to get on the jury, and it was clear that his sole purpose was to vote guilty. In other words, the government cheated and denied Stewart the fundamental right to a fair trial, but all that most journalists could do was to be cheerleaders for federal prosecutors and to comment upon Stewart’s wardrobe whenever she made a court appearance. Although what Loughlin and Giannulli allegedly did was wrong by any social and moral standards, they hardly deserve to be thrown in cages for the rest of their lives. I realize that mine is an unpopular opinion these days, just as my questioning the criminal charges against Ken Lay and Jeffrey Skilling brought out the long knives. That being said, I don’t apologize for my pleas to see sanity return to how the authorities carry out the law.

Aren't the Chiefs just following the playbook/formula perfected by the Peyton Manning-led Colts teams?