The COVID-19 crisis has taken an enormous human toll, with more than 200,000 Americans having succumbed to the virus, according to government data. So, too, the sweeping government response has wrought both unprecedented economic and public health consequences. Thus, in addition to the obvious health consequences, one major concern posed by the COVID-19 crisis is…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By: Elias J. Atienza President Donald Trump has gone through a turbulent first two weeks. Rocked by protests, marches, and lawsuits, his administration still doesn’t have most of their cabinet picks confirmed. Add to that the fact that Senate Democrats are promising to filibuster his Supreme Court pick, and a…
“Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely” John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton “Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely, absolute power attracts the corruptible.” Frank Herbert We have above some of the collected wisdom a historian/writer/politician and the writer of Dune. Suffice to say being the follow up act is a…
by Dane Stuhlsatz Frederick Douglass said, “Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them… The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the…