Editor: The exercise of governmental power can be benevolent. But in our current circumstances, the power of the U.S. government is being wielded by men who are power-drunk.Adam Smith described this ...
House Democrats issued an explosive statement attacking Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr, accusing him of a “corrupt abuse of power,” and calling for his resignation. Carr is ...
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Power without accountability corrupts nations
FOR generations, human beings have struggled with the same problem: the abuse of power through the machinery of enforcement and the law itself. As a lawyer, and as someone who observes politics and ...
The Bible points to the love of money as the root of all kinds of evil. Not money itself, but our desire for it and to acquire more of it, which can lead to an abandonment of moral principles and ...
Promising to go after “corrupt power brokers in Tallahassee,” José Javier Rodríguez, the Miami Democrat who lost his Florida Senate seat to a criminal election conspiracy, is launching a campaign to ...
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‘Absolute power corrupts absolutely’
The full quotation is: “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” Its author was John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton, aka Lord Acton (1834-1902), an English aristocrat, writing in ...
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