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...
by Gary Ivey | Feb 6, 2012 | Current Posts
Last week, President Obama attended the National Prayer Breakfast and, naturally made a statement about faith. No problem, right? It was a Prayer Breakfast, after all. But you have to look at what he said. He was talking about raising taxes on the rich (what else?)...
by Gary Ivey | Feb 2, 2012 | Current Posts
I first saw it as spam; emails telling me I needed to click a link and update my information at Fifth Third Bank. At that time I had never heard of Fifth Third Bank (there weren’t any around here), and I thought how stupid of the spammer to make up such a...
by Gary Ivey | Jan 30, 2012 | Current Posts
I saw my first Chevy Volt commercial on TV today. I don’t remember much about it because it was gone before I realized what I had seen. That may be the fate of the car itself. Back in March I wrote about the Volt (The Miracle Car Nobody Wants) and again in...
by Gary Ivey | Jan 20, 2012 | Current Posts
When the Obama Administration refused to approve the Keystone XL Pipeline this week, it was a betrayal with many more victims than beneficiaries. That makes it all the more curious during an election year. The most obvious group who was betrayed is the American...
by Gary Ivey | Jan 18, 2012 | Current Posts
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