by James Fite | Jan 12, 2023 | Articles, Good Reads, Opinion, Politics
Quis custodiet Ipsos custodes? The oft-quoted line – “Who will guard the guards themselves?” in English – was originally found in the Satires of the second-century Roman satirist, Juvenal. It is the spirit of this question that inspired the three-branch government of...
by Liberty Nation Authors | Jan 11, 2023 | Articles, Good Reads, Opinion, Politics
President Joe Biden made headlines with news that he retained several classified documents at his office in the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement in Washington, DC. Most notable is that this seems to be precisely the alleged crime for which former...
by Mark Angelides | Jan 11, 2023 | Articles, Good Reads, Opinion, Politics
Roman statesman and philosopher Cicero related the story of the Sword of Damocles in his 45 BC book Tusculan Disputations. He described the eponymous court flatterer who wondered why his sire, King Dionysius II, could not enjoy the trappings of wealth and power. In...
by Mark Angelides | Jan 10, 2023 | Articles, Good Reads, Opinion, Politics
“How could that happen? How could anyone be that irresponsible?” So said President Joe Biden when responding to the news that former President Donald Trump had classified documents held at his Mar-a-Lago residence. The present commander-in-chief clearly...
by Tim Donner | Jan 10, 2023 | Articles, Opinion, Politics
When Joe Biden won the White House, it was a reasonably safe assumption that he would be a one-term president. After all, he had to be rescued from a badly faltering campaign in 2020 by a desperate Democratic Party establishment devoid of other presidential options...