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If Javier Milei can pull Argentina out of the red, we can do it here. A day after his pumped-up divisive State of the Union address, unsurprisingly headlined “fiery” by the copycat media lackeys, President Biden speaking in Pennsylvania reverted to his old befuddled self. "Pennsylvania, I have a message for you: send me to Congress!" "Last night [at] the U.S. Capitol -- the same building where our freedoms came under assault on July the 6th!" "We added more to the national debt than any president in his term in all of history!" Well, the last statement is true. I’ll...

Someone commented that Milei in Argentina is perhaps the MOST libertarian elected figure in the WORLD since Calvin Coolidge was elected president. Can any FR historians tell me about Mr. Coolidge and his administration? I want to know where I can get an unbiased account as you know from the usual sources it's impossible.

As we have been discussing for months, the United States ended its “job recovery” from the COVID-19 recession in December of 2022, when it finally surpassed the December 2019 level (158.8 million Americans employed) reaching 159.24 million Americans employed. Job creation above the U.S. pre-pandemic high is now at 160.9 million Americans employed or roughly 2.1 million jobs “created” above the pre-pandemic high as of March 2023. We are also concerned about the world economy as it seems to be returning to trading blocs and other forms of fragmentation while simultaneously looking to replace globalization and free trade. Brazil, Russia,...

Washington -- I see that President Calvin Coolidge is in the news, along with his sidekick Warren Gamaliel Harding. Warren was a mediocrity's mediocrity and was long held to be the worst president of modern times. That was until Jimmy Carter became president and then Barack Obama and now Joe Biden. After Joe's term, I think we shall retire the trophy. Coolidge became president on Aug. 2, 1923, with the passing of Harding, who was thought to be in perfect health or at least not near death. Now Coolidge is about to be restored to his former stature as a...

Leftist citizens of the world are uncomfortable at the sight of unabashed and self-confident patriots celebrating the founding of a nation dedicated to undeniable truths. Tough. Let the micro-aggressions roll as we stand athwart the progressive junking of all that is good and decent. On our nation’s 150th anniversary in 1926, Republican president Calvin Coolidge gave a speech in which he responded to the progressive wave that was muddying the minds of the nation. Only thirteen years after the passage of the destructive 16th and 17th Amendments, Coolidge deftly reminded Americans not to discard principles that had served the nation...

The Roaring Twenties was the most fun, dynamic, and frivolous decade in American history. Let's make a new one. “I was born in the wrong era.” It is a common refrain. It is very natural for us as human beings to peer back through the annals of history and find a time that seems better suited to us. For many people, myself included, one of those times is the mythical roaring 1920s. The dapper dress, the hot jazz, the peephole of a speakeasy sliding open as you pronounce the password.Oh, to have lived in the ’20s. But wait. In just...

The president has lit the National Christmas tree on the mall virtually every year since 1923. But what makes this year so special is that the president didn’t shy away from the true meaning of the season. In his remarks, Trump reminded the nation about a piece of the tradition that we often overlook. After President Calvin Coolidge lit the first National Christmas Tree, a cross was displayed in bright lights on the Washington Monument — “a powerful reminder,” the president said, “of the meaning of the season.” Mentioning a cross is bold enough on its own, but the president...

Today's Quotefall Puzzle features a quote by Calvin Coolidge. Click puzzle (or click here) for full size rendition, then use your browser's print command to print puzzle. The U.S. Constitution was fully ratified on September 17, 1787, and was originally the most comprehensive, ultimately most equitable contract for moral and upright humanity that the world has ever devised. All hints, along with the answer, are provided in the first reply comment below, using filtered font to prevent accidental spoilers. Please refrain from disclosing the full answer in comments to prevent spoilers.To solve the puzzle: Enter the letters in the top half (letter...

Today's Quotefall Puzzle features a quote by Calvin Coolidge. Click puzzle (or click here) for full size rendition, then use your browser's print command to print puzzle. Calvin Coolidge was the greatest president of the 20th Century, other than Ronald Reagan, who ushered in the great American dream in the Roaring Twenties. All hints, along with the answer, are provided in the first reply comment below, using filtered font to prevent accidental spoilers. Please refrain from disclosing the full answer in comments to prevent spoilers.To solve the puzzle: Enter the letters in the top half (letter columns) of the puzzle into the...

Today's Quotefall Puzzle features a quote by Calvin Coolidge. Click image (or click here) for full size rendition, then use your browser's print command to print puzzle.Calvin Coolidge, one of America's most underated presidents, embodied the spirit and hopes of the middle class, and oversaw the great American industrialization that is considered the greatest decade of capitalism in human history.All hints, along with the answer, are provided in the first reply comment below, using filtered font to prevent accidential spoilers. Please refrain from disclosing the full answer in comments to prevent spoilers.To solve the puzzle: Enter the letters in the...

Today's Quotefall Puzzle features a quote by Calvin Coolidge. Click image (or click here) for full size rendition, then use your browser's print command to print puzzle.Calvin Coolidge was the most capitalist chief executive in American History who oversaw the modern American industry growth, particularly upon small businesses accessing the broad swath of American industry and ingenuity.All hints, along with the answer, are provided in the first reply comment below, using filtered font to prevent accidential spoilers. Please refrain from disclosing the full answer in comments to prevent spoilers.To solve the puzzle: Enter the letters in the top half (letter...

Early film from Movietone sound cameras of life in Havana including horse racing, thirsty American tourists at the world famous Sloppy Joe's bar having a legal drink, various scenes of entertainment and night life, religious pilgrims, the Pan American Conference of 1928, the state visit of US President Calvin Coolidge, some scenes of local landmarks and the visit by Charles Lindbergh. (B&W with sound appx 45 minutes)

A series of newsreel shorts show President Calvin Coolidge and his family on vacation at the Coolidge Homestead in Plymouth Notch, Vermont in the summer of 1924. (appx 13 minutes)

Fellow Countrymen: We meet to celebrate the birthday of America. That coming of a new life always excites our interest. Although we know in the case of the individual that it has been an infinite repetition reaching back beyond our vision, that only makes it more wonderful. But how our interest and wonder increase when we behold the miracle of the birth of a new nation. It is to pay our tribute of reverence and respect to those who participated in such a mighty event that we annually observe the 4th day of July. Whatever may have been the impression...

•President Calvin Coolidge was born in Plymouth, Vt., on July 4, 1872. He is the only president born on July 4; however, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson and James Monroe all died on the Fourth of July. •One lucky Philadelphian purchased a $4 picture at a flea market. Behind the picture was an original 1776 printing of the Declaration of Independence. It was sold to TV producer Norman Lear for $8.1 million. •After the war, King George III rationalized that Washington would become a dictator and make the Americans yearn for royal rule. When he was told that Washington planned to...

Our forefathers came to certain conclusions and decided upon certain courses of action which have been a great blessing to the world. Before we can understand their conclusions we must go back and review the course which they followed. We must think the thoughts which they thought. Their intellectual life centered around the meeting-house. They were intent upon religious worship. While there were always among them men of deep learning, and later those who had comparatively large possessions, the mind of the people was not so much engrossed in how much they knew, or how much they had, as in...

In school, I liked math the least and history the most. Both can be useful in the coming debate over President Trump's proposed tax reforms. The one thing I learned in math class is that if the formula is wrong, the answer will be wrong. In history class, I learned we are not the first people to occupy the planet and that the experiences of those who came before us can be helpful when considering contemporary issues. Since the administration of Franklin D. Roosevelt, the left has presented government as the answer to every problem. The increasing taxes needed to...

PLYMOUTH NOTCH, Vermont -- When was the last time you heard a member of one political party praise a member of the other party? Here in this hamlet nestled among the Green Mountains, former Baltimore Democratic Mayor Kurt Schmoke rose to speak well of our 30th president, Calvin Coolidge, a Republican. The occasion was the annual celebration of Coolidge's birthday on July 4, the only president born on the day we celebrate America's birth. Perhaps it takes the death of one and the absence from public office of another (Schmoke is now president of the University of Baltimore) to cool...

Coolidge was perhaps the 20th century’s most religious president. He saw the hand of Providence involved in America’s destiny and in her day-to-day affairs. He often warmly quoted the Bible in his speeches. He attended church regularly though he never joined a Washington church, worrying that his duties as president might make it difficult to set a good example. “I am inclined to think now that this was the counsel of darkness,” he regretted in his Autobiography. Most of all, he believed, as did his mentor, Charles Garman of Amherst College, that the Golden Rule revealed a new politics, where...

After his retirement, Coolidge gave several reasons for his decision, but one stands out. Coolidge suggested that it would be difficult to stay in office for too long without drinking too much of the Kool-Aid (to use a modern phrase)! “It is difficult for men in high office to avoid the malady of self-delusion,” he observed. “They are always surrounded by worshipers. They are constantly, and for the most part sincerely, assured of their greatness. They live in an artificial atmosphere of adulation and exaltation which sooner or later impairs their judgment. They are in grave danger of becoming careless...