In accordance with longstanding custom, Joe Biden’s first act upon being sworn in as the 46th US President will be to deliver an Inaugural Address. It will likely be longer than the shortest one (George Washington’s 135-word speech in 1793) but mercifully shorter than the longest one (William Henry Harrison’s two-hour, 8,450-word sleeper in 1841)….
In every presidential election, the Republican candidate runs as a conservative promising to reduce the debt and deficit. The promises have been made for so many decades that they have created a myth that Republicans are fiscal conservatives determined to reduce the National Debt and the Democrats are crazy, uncontrolled spenders. In the 2016 election,…
Happy Sunday, Liberty Lovers! Calvin Coolidge and his wife, Grace, loved cornmeal muffins! They got a recipe for the White House to use from the inn at Northampton, adapted it, and made it their own. Join me as I make Calvin Coolidge’s favorite cornmeal muffins, while trying not to set my kitchen on fire. I…
Silent Cal doesn’t get much credit for being a great president, but he was surely one of the best, if not THE best. Why? Amity Shlaes, author of the book Coolidge, explains why.