Fame Is Worth Less Than Service.

Everybody Should Pay Some Tax, Just As Everybody Should Vote.

In The End, All New Schools, Public Or Private, Snobby Or Not, Add Value To The Education Market, Making It Bigger And More Efficient, In The Same Way That Zuckerberg Added Wealth To The Economy Even For Non-facebook Fans.

Economics Are Part Of Our Life. We Try To Treat Them Separately, Like Over There Is The Economy And Here Is History. Econ Affects History And History Often Doesn't Get It Right If It Doesn't Respect Econ.

Coolidge Cut The Budget, And Even Better, Cut It During Peace And Prosperity. He Left A Federal Budget Lower Than The One That Greeted Him When He Arrived In Office. He Managed To Freeze Or Cut The Budget Over More Than Five Years In Office. If You Look At Charts Of Presidents - Nixon, Ike, And Reagan - You See Them Failing On This Score.

Disillusionment Can Come As Fast As A Gust, But Building Faith That The Government Won't Inflate Again Is Like Building A New Sailboat, A Project Of Years.