by Gary Ivey | Mar 31, 2012 | Current Posts
Today I fueled up both cars at once. Yikes! $107.28 and they weren’t even really empty! To add insult to injury, I got the gasoline for 30 cents off the posted price per gallon. It should have been nine dollars more. How did I get it 30 cents off? I had 300 fuel...
by Gary Ivey | Mar 28, 2012 | Current Posts
This week the Supreme Court is hearing oral arguments about the Constitutionality of the Health Care law known as “ObamaCare”. The main liberal assertion, articulated better by Justice Ginsburg than by the Obama Administration lawyer, is that, since it...
by Gary Ivey | Mar 21, 2012 | Current Posts
Growing up, I was a fan of the Peanuts comic strip. It was always a joy to see Snoopy aboard his Sopwith Camel, Schroeder channeling Beethoven or Linus quoting Kirkegaard. It was also Linus who annually lamented the failure of the Great Pumpkin to appear: “How...
by Gary Ivey | Mar 16, 2012 | Current Posts
Apparently Chuck Schumer believes drilling in Saudi Arabia will lower US gasoline prices but drilling in the US will not. According to New York Senator Charles Schumer, the fact that the Saudi Arabians are increasing oil production is good news, because that will...
by Gary Ivey | Mar 11, 2012 | Current Posts
In spite of how it might appear sometimes (previous post), I’m not at all opposed to developing alternate energy sources. Yes I wrote a novel (“Backlash”) that follows a fictional Big Oil company executive who is the heroine (!) of the book. But that...
by Gary Ivey | Feb 27, 2012 | Current Posts
My friend Terry Freeman found this word: Ineptocracy (in-ep-toc’-ra-cy) – a system of government where the least capable to lead are elected by the least capable of producing, and where the members of society least likely to sustain themselves or succeed,...
by Gary Ivey | Feb 27, 2012 | Current Posts
As gas prices continue to edge up past $3.60 per gallon, President Obama went to Florida and made a scoffing speech about energy, in which he insisted that more oil was being produced during his administration and we should just shut up about the current price of...
by Gary Ivey | Feb 17, 2012 | Current Posts
“All your S’s look like F’s”, said Ben Franklin to Tom Jefferson in a classic Stan Freberg radio skit (YouTube) about the writing of the Declaration of Independence, concerning Jefferson’s flourishing Colonial penmanship. Interestingly,...
by Gary Ivey | Feb 14, 2012 | Current Posts
I’m relatively new to Twitter, so I’m still learning the ropes, but it’s fun to see how fast information can flow in the Twittersphere. Today I was stopped by something David Limbaugh “tweeted”: “Why can’t the media say to...
by Gary Ivey | Feb 10, 2012 | Current Posts
The Obama Administration seriously “stepped in it” recently with its mandate that employers pay for insurance that includes free contraception, the “morning after pill” and tubal ligation. They seemed genuinely surprised that Catholic...