Tired of the daily grandstanding by a “Crisis President” that wallows in third grade ad hominem invectives, gratuitous self congratulations, and thinly described projections of irresponsible personal dithering and fiddleing on other national and international leaders? I suggest turning off the tube and picking up a copy of A.J. Baimes’ The Arsenal of Democracy: FDR, […]
Presidential Address in Time of Crisis.
Twelve score and four years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal, except for migrants, women and the media. Now we are engaged in a great pandemic, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and […]
JOHN AND HORACE DODGE DIED IN THE LATE STAGES OF THE SPANISH FLU IN 1920.
SETTING OUT FROM DETROIT TO NEW YORK BY LUXURY TRAIN ON A BITTERLY COLD JANUARY 2, 1920, JOHN AND HORACE DODGE EAGERLY QUAFFED A NUMBER OF GLASSES OF SMUGGLED CANADIAN WHISKEY AS THEY LOOKED FORWARD EXPECTANTLY TO THE FUN AND CAMARADERIE OF THE ANNUAL AUTOMOBILE SHOW IN MANHATTAN. LIFE WAS GOOD AND GETTING BETTER. THE […]