by Gary Ivey | Apr 23, 2011 | Current Posts
I have a book that I had nearly forgotten about until I was rearranging one of my floor-to-ceiling shelves today. It was most appropriate that I found it today, between Good Friday and Easter. The title is “I Believe in the Resurrection of Jesus”. The...
by Gary Ivey | Apr 20, 2011 | Current Posts
In a speech at a Virginia college, President Obama said, “I want to live in a country that’s fair.” Now who could disagree with that? Certainly not most of those college students, who, if they are like most young people, are easily stirred up with...
by Gary Ivey | Apr 19, 2011 | Current Posts
I had to look it up online to be sure I heard right after hearing a byte from President Obama’s speech last Wednesday. Apparently, referring to the Bush tax cuts, he did actually say we’ve got to reduce the “spending in our tax code.” Huh?...
by Gary Ivey | Apr 16, 2011 | Current Posts
I never thought it would happen, but Ayn Rand’s “Atlas Shrugged” has finally been released and it is great! (official website) Actually, just Part 1 was released yesterday. It will be a trilogy, since the book is over 1,000 pages. It’s been...
by Gary Ivey | Apr 15, 2011 | Current Posts
I didn’t get to hear President Obama’s speech on the budget the other day because it was in the middle of the day and I work for a living, but the excerpts I’ve heard have been very disappointing, I understand Obama recommends taxing the rich. How...
by Gary Ivey | Apr 12, 2011 | Current Posts
“A government is the most dangerous threat to man’s rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.” Ayn Rand...
by Gary Ivey | Apr 7, 2011 | Current Posts
We are at a tipping point. The point at which the weight shifts and everything crashes down one way or the other. In fact, the rancor in Washington DC over the 2011 AND 2012 budgets is because both Democrats and Republicans realize we are at this point. On the right,...
by Gary Ivey | Apr 6, 2011 | Current Posts
So the Federal government spent eight times what it took in in revenue during March! But Nancy Pelosi says if we cut anything from the budget, seniors and children will starve. Seniors and children are outraged!!!! Not about budget cuts but that Nancy Pelosi thinks...
by Gary Ivey | Apr 2, 2011 | Current Posts
I hear a lot of frustration from people who watched as President Obama went to Brazil and encouraged them to drill for oil, promising we would buy from them, all the while the deep-water wells in the Gulf of Mexico are idle and we aren’t drilling off Florida and...
by Gary Ivey | Mar 29, 2011 | Current Posts
By 2050, three Federal programs, Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, will take all the tax revenue that the government collects, according to a study by the Cato Institute (article). That means every other activity of the government, from the president’s...