WASHINGTON ¨C E.B. White reportedly said ¡°the most beautiful sound in America¡± is ¡°the tinkle of ice at twilight.¡± In 2015¡¯s twilight, fortify yourself with something 90 proof as you remember this year in which:
We learned that a dismal threshold has been passed. The value of property that police departments seized through civil-asset forfeiture ¡ª usually without accusing, let alone convicting, the property owners of a crime ¡ª exceeded the value of property stolen by nongovernment burglars.
The attorney general of New York, which reaps billions from gambling ¡ª casinos, off-track betting, the state lottery ¡ª moved to extinguish (competition from) fantasy football because it is gambling. Florida police raided a mahjong game played by four women aged between 87 and 95 because their game¡¯s stakes allegedly exceeded the $10 limit set by state law.
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