Inherent Powers, Ignoble History Make New Idea Anything But Innocuous

At the beginning of the last century American philosopher George Santayana famously observed: "Those who can't remember the past are condemned to repeat it."

The U.S. House recently confirmed that Santayana's warning about the danger of repeating the history we don't, can't or won't remember applies not only to ordinary mortals in the last century but to members of Congress in this century, too.