Power does corrupt

Lord Acton has received empirical verification.  Power does corrupt, according to a very interesting article from The Economist.  (HT: Stephanie)

I wonder if people who call for government intervention in our lives will take anything away from these experiments.  Too often, people who want government intervention (in particular, liberals) claim that markets don’t always produce the [...]

We live in two Americas…

…one in which politicians think that they are (and often are) above the law, and one in which others have to play by basic moral rules, or at least they should have to.

Next week will feature the release of a book by Andrew Young, a former staffer for John Edwards, former senator from North Carolina [...]