THURSDAY, JANUARY 4, 2024
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Diocletian, who, from a servile origin, had raised himself to the throne, passed the nine last years of his life in a private condition….[H]e had preserved, or at least he soon recovered, a taste for the most innocent as well as natural pleasures, and his leisure hours were sufficiently employed in building, planting, and gardening. His answer to Maximian is deservedly celebrated. He was solicited by that restless old man to reassume the reins of government, and the Imperial purple. He rejected the temptation with a smile of pity, calmly observing, that if he could show Maximian the cabbages which he had planted with his own hands at Salona, he should no longer be urged to relinquish the enjoyment of happiness for the pursuit of power.
– Edward Gibbon, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire [1776] |
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January 4, 2024
Reinforcing the Immigration Police State
Proponents of America’s system of immigration controls never mention their support of what comes with this system that they support — an immigration police state. That’s because they don’t want to be known as proponents of a police state. They want to be known only as proponents of immigration controls. But an immigration police state comes with a system of immigration controls, just … |
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How Absolute Power Corrupted the President
by John W. Whitehead
Once a dictator, always a dictator. Power-hungry, lawless and steadfast in its pursuit of authoritarian powers, the government does not voluntarily… |
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