Never ever bet against the home team. Making predictions about the future is a chumps game, but i would never bet against america. , uniteda subchapter states of crime, you wrote about a general name christer everson. Guest he was a gentleman who is thought up by some apes gear of secure role by the environment of Protection Association and ended up in the criminal Justice System for years for a crime of which he ,as, i will not say innocent but ignorant is the better terms. We have an almost uncountable number of federal crimes that are crimes that do not require a guilty mind. Why is a guilty mind so important . Theres this thing called a conscience, right . If you do something bad, your conscience will acquit you. Doese crime in question not require a guilty mind, you will not know that you are doing it. There are so many of these offenses that you could do it all the time. Theres a book called three felonies a day, where he said if an ordinary businessman committed all these crimes
Republican line. You are on the air. Please go ahead. Caller thank you, mr. Buckley. Im going to buy your book and read that. I am a retired Public School teacher. I started in a oneroom school with no Running Water and outdoor toilets. I came through the system. I graduated college. I have four degrees. I will tell you that the Public Education system is a total mess. Doesnt get people where they need to be. You are right. It is run by theorists and not practical people. Build a hotel and get rid of the department of education and turn it back to the parents. Make them start to be responsible for what is going on in the classroom with their children. Offer them more programs because im telling you not everyone is bound for college like they tell you. They just dont have it. Guest i cannot agree more. Ive nothing much to add except for one thing. There was this book that appeared a couple years back and every member of the new class of our aristocracy read it with a guilty pleasure bec
Amazon is not just an online store anymore. Across the u. S. , this off year election day has been more about the issues than the candidates. And in houston, theyre deciding on an antidiscrimination bill that among other things allows transgender residents to use rest rooms that match their identity. And in San Francisco, the ballot to restrict shortterm home rentals could decide the fate of air b b in that city. And in ohio, it deciding whether to limit the recreation at use of Recreational Marijuana. And it could be the first to go from outlawing marijuana to allowing it for all uses. Bisi onileere, in columbus, ohio, and is there a trance that the Controversial Initiative will actually pass . Richelle, theres a very good chance that marijuana could be legalized here in ohio. A recent poll showed that it was split right down the middle. There are two initiatives that deal with it on the ballot. Issue three would legalize the drug, and issue two would put an end to the initiative for
Radical impact. On the issue of accountability, do you have legislation . I think they have the ability to do it and they simply arent enforcing it. Jeff does it. I dont question him. Its to get the best care possible. I think it wont have the same effe effect. And ive seen that where you couldnt get rid of a bad teacher. Of c you k bcan, but you have to doe work. They want to get rid of this, and we differ there. I think jeff thinks they need more protection. And what ive told the secretary is that they may need to theres a lot of risk analysis thats done in what they do, is it less expensive to just reach a settlement with this individual than it would be to take them all the way through, let them appeal to the protection board and then they end up back at the va and were paying for their Attorney Fees . I get that. But i think were going to have to take one of the most egregious cases. Even if it gets reversed. The American People would be able to see how difficult it appears to be
I wanted to note. Number one, theres some photos of you with cigars, with cigar smoke. Long time cigar smoker . Theres the cigar picture right there. I like what i call ponies, peter. Small cigars. At one time i was smoking probably five or six cigars well, strike that. Three or four cigars a day. Now that changed to three or four cigars a week. Then finally i just said to heck with it. Part of the reason was the staff didnt like it. Some of my colleagues didnt like it. The chief of staff, i think, led the fight on that. What the heck . If it is annoying to them, i dont have to have a cigar in my mouth every day. Ive been free of cigar smoke probably in excess of five years. Congressman coble, youve worked on a couple of issues that may not strike your colleagues as positive, such as limiting congressional retirement, term limits, cola increases, being careful about cola increases. Have you gotten so pushback from your colleagues up here on capitol hill . When i came up here, i said i