Our conscience, our faith, our local community, even our online hobby clubs - all civilize us.

Today we care about budgets more than anything. Our American future hangs on the ability of government to cut budget.

Although unions may be good for a worker, singular, they are not always good for workers, plural. Especially when it comes to finding a job.

If Coolidge were a stock, he'd be a buy. The experts have historically ranked Coolidge in the bottom quartile or bottom half of all presidents. But his economic performance and his statesmanship suggest Coolidge belongs in the top quarter of presidents. The disparity between the Coolidge price and Coolidge value is huge. So revision is warranted.

Fame is worth less than service.

The 1920s are the decade that signaled the arrival of a gift that still means a lot to us: Saturday.

Coolidge was a pragmatist. He didn't start out with a tax theory. But he observed over time that lower tax rates sometimes brought in extra revenue. The success of his and Treasury Secretary Andrew Mellon's experiment with rate cuts has been obscured by our modern history books.