Speakers include retired admiral john richardson, former chief of naval operations. Is smash lapr desk of the American Conservative Union as we begin another week of the impeachment story front and center. I wonder what you think of this comparison. What are the lessons democrats and republicans should take from the clinton impeachment and the nixon impeachment inquiry . I was a young staffer over there for the fracas. The clinton impeachment fracas. I would say two things. It is a political exercise. It is all politics are there are legal arguments wrapped around it, but in the end, there are legal arguments wrapped around it, but in the end, one thing we do not talk about is that the previous impeachments and nixon was not impeached but would have been, and probably would have been convicted. The republicans could not get the super majority vote in the senate. Both clinton and nixon had just gotten reelected. So the voters did not have another chance to render an opinion on their leg
Competition is the mainstay of many businesses and individuals. How does UPS compete to hire drivers for their trucks? One way might be to offer air conditioning, which has been negotiated for the first time. Lenders and vendors are led by competitive people, and several own interests in major or minor league sports franchises, the latest being Stan Middleman & the Phillies. Competition in the food and beverage industry? SF’s Anchor Steam was scaling back, Tupperware is in rough straits, and now the owner of Pyrex and Insta Pot is filing for bankruptcy! How is the public expected to keep its leftovers!? Builders are out there competing for lots. Residential lenders don’t compete with real estate agents, but NAR is always discussing its lobbying efforts. This week the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) is hosting a national, industry-wide campaign to grow its free grassroots advocacy network, the Mortgage Action Alliance (MAA), a non-partisan and effective way
It isn’t as if building or lending products, or ways of doing business, were handed down by Trappist monks. Change is always afoot, for better or worse. What is old is new again. Teachers are moving to oral exams to counteract AI and ChatGPT, similar to ancient Greek and Roman times. In the West and Southwest, adequate water rights and supplies have always been contentious but have resurfaced (get it?) with news that may impact other cities and towns: Arizona began limiting approvals for new developments within the Phoenix area. It’s hard to build large affordable housing developments or swaths of housing in general if there is no water. Or road or sewage capacity. For fans of tiny homes, what is old is new again, and the Sears catalog kit houses (sold between 1908 and 1942) of old are back at Home Depot: Here’s 837 square feet for $43,000, 540 square feet for $44,000, and 444 square feet for $32k. (Today’s podcast can be found here and this week’s is
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