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

People value Halloween, like Valentine's Day, because they can tell themselves that it's not merely secularized but actually secular, which is to say, not Christian, Jewish, Hindu or Muslim.

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.

Coolidge believed that government officials who tell themselves that spending benefits the economy delude themselves and the citizens. Government budgets promote human freedom.

Coolidge liked the dignity of the presidency. He didn't get on the phone easily. It's possible that he banished the phone from his desk. He was known to use it from time to time. The person who was hilarious with the phone was Hoover. He was a real engineer. He made a closed circuit phone where he could call the important people and they could call him, a government hotline, but it was closed. He shut out the possibility of input from people he didn't expect to get input from.

In a way, Calvin Coolidge is better than Reagan. His tax rates were lower, and he cut budgets.