by Gary Ivey | Oct 15, 2011 | Current Posts
The surprising ascendancy of Herman Cain to the top of the Republican presidential hopeful heap has been interesting, but since we have 13 months before the presidential election, it may or may not make any difference. However, the prospect of an election featuring...
by Gary Ivey | Oct 14, 2011 | Current Posts
“Ask five economists and you’ll get five different explanations — six if one went to Harvard.” Edgar Fiedler’s quote came to mind as I was thinking about the “Occupy Wall Street” protestors. It seems if you ask five of them what they are...
by Gary Ivey | Oct 6, 2011 | Current Posts
I left work early today, which allowed me to hear an exchange on the Michael Medved radio show that I would have missed otherwise. I must say, I have never heard the mild-mannered Medved as exercised as he was with this caller. The discussion was about the death of...
by Gary Ivey | Sep 24, 2011 | Current Posts
Some people are saying the Solyndra scandal is President Obama’s Watergate. Maybe so, maybe not. A lot of people certainly have a lot of “splainin'” to do about half a billion dollars of taxpayer money going down the drain. President Obama himself...
by Gary Ivey | Sep 13, 2011 | Current Posts
So everyone is apoplectic about Governor and presidential wannabe Rick Perry saying that Social Security is a “Ponzi scheme”. Some will take the transparently hypocritical route of saying Perry wants to starve old people. On the other end will be those...
by Gary Ivey | Sep 6, 2011 | Current Posts
After a deranged atheist attempted to assassinate Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, the press blamed the Tea Party and President Obama solemnly told us we needed to be more “civil”. But Obama’s cheerleaders apparently thought he meant civil...