word "capitol" is used in reference to a building.

Regarding that scurrilous den of Democratic iniquity, Chicago, here are a few more statistics for you to chew on. By itself, the Chicago economy is bigger than that of Switzerland, with a total economic output for the year 2014 of $643 billion. In fact, the Chicago metropolitan area accounts for 82% of the entire GDP for the State of Illinois.

So, in other words, the Democratic city folks in Chicago subsidize their whiney-a$$ed Republican country brethren in the boondocks. But that's hardly surprising, because economies tend to thrive under Democratic leadership. When Republicans are in charge, not so much.

 Which they have, although Bryan Pagliano, the staff member who set up the server, has received immunity at some level at the insistence of his own counsel.  The interviews are voluntary since there is, to our knowledge, no grand jury to subpoena witnesses. The FBI does not have subpoena power, let alone authority to charge for a crime (a prosecutor or grand jury--grand jury only can indict).

Mrs. Clinton, in effect, does not have the recourse available to all other citizens, but still runs risks inherent to 18 USC 1001. While Mrs. Clinton is a subject of, or witness to, the investigation, it is unlikely that she is a target--that there is substantial evidence linking her to a crime.

 Unlikely, owing to the requirement that she knew, and intentionally, that she crossed lines, intuiting classifications that were not deemed classified at the time, or that others might think ought to be, and even intelligence experts differ about. It would involve proving one interpretation of a Rorschach test over another.

Accordingly, it is my belief that no evidence, or insufficient evidence, exits and no charges will be filed. The matter will be closed soon.

I would hazard a guess, however, that should Trump find himself in the position of an FBI inquiry, he would not risk an FBI interview and would take advantage of all rights available to him.  As with his claim that "China is killing us on trade," yet his ties are made in China, it becomes acceptable to his supporters because he is a businessman and would be foolish not to take advantage of all the opportunities. And, the media would admire his savvy, or, at least, concur that he is smart to do so. A different standard for Trump would, in my view, be in play.

As reform of the criminal justice system is considered, it is my hope that 18 USC 100l is repealed or amended so as to narrow the reach of the statute.  Testimony should, at the very least, be under oath and interviews be tape recorded, rather than reliance upon an interview report dictated by an agent. Interviewees should be informed of their rights and that lying is a federal crime.

"It is impossible to mourn the death Saturday of Michael Cimino without confronting the loss of what he and his New Hollywood ilk represented: an audacious, ecstatic, sensuous, deranged and ultimately staggering vision of what the movies could be, and a willingness to pursue that vision utterly without compromise.

"It was a costly vision, to be sure -- by which I mean more than just the well-documented financial fiasco of 'Heaven's Gate,' the ravaged and ravishing 1980 western that broke United Artists, hastened the death of a '70s auteur renaissance and dealt Cimino's career a blow from which it never recovered. Coming on the heels of his critical and commercial success with the Oscar-winning 'The Deer Hunter' (1978), 'Heaven's Gate' remains, for many, the definitive Hollywood cautionary tale of filmmaker hubris run amuck (as compellingly detailed in the tell-all book 'Final Cut' by Steven Bach, a former UA executive who was involved with the production).

(Three-plus decades later, and those UA executives in charge at the time are still trying to cover their a$$es.)

"Three decades after being critically eviscerated, yanked from theaters and largely kept out of public view, Cimino's epic of community and class warfare may yet experience the happy ending that eludes its characters as they lurch across the frontier terrain of 1890s Johnson County, Wyo. No shortage of critics and cinephiles have reclaimed the picture as a misunderstood masterpiece, many of them arguing on the strength of a beautiful Criterion Collection restoration, supervised by Cimino himself, that began playing festivals and repertory houses in 2013.

"To experience 'Heaven's Gate' anew -- and it is indeed a thing to be experienced, with an open eye and an even more open ear (some of the dialogue remains famously muddled) -- is to gape at its magnificence and also sense the price that the director paid for his perfectionism. [...] What the director was looking for, amid the endless reshoots and nearly 250 miles of accumulated footage, was not just a narrative but a panorama -- a full-bodied portrait of working-class American life, filled with moments of languorous intimacy that would soon be subsumed in a whirlwind of violence. It's no overstatement to suggest that he was trying to give cinematic form to the lost, brutalized soul of America itself, and to create an epic human tragedy that would not just equal but eclipse his earlier landmark."

For that very reason, perhaps we also shouldn't label the film a "box office bomb," since it was actually shelved by United Artists and the public didn't get the opportunity to see it.

Further, executives at United Artists were more than eager to deflect attention away from their own culpability for having greenlighted Michael Cimino's overly ambitious project in the first place, as well as their failure at several key moments during his film's production to cap its runaway budget. And of course, the director's own mercurial behavior made it very easy for everyone to blame him for the fiasco.

Three decades-plus after the fact, "Heaven's Gate" is only now starting to be considered in a more favorable light, as more people see the epic Western for the very first time. I found it to be visually striking if somewhat ponderous, but hardly the awful film so many tried to make it out to be 35 years ago. Perhaps now, with Cimino's passing, critics themselves will take the time to watch it and give it a second chance.