by Gary Ivey | Jul 25, 2011 | Current Posts
Part of my family lore is that, through my paternal grandmother, I’m descended from Davy Crockett. Maybe I am and maybe I’m not. Someday I’ll join Ancestry.Com and find out. There’s a Davy Crockett story from his time in Congress that bears...
by Gary Ivey | Jul 25, 2011 | Current Posts
I’m tired of the Debt Ceiling debate, mainly because I don’t think anything meaningful will come out of it. A recent poll showed that 69% of Americans don’t want the Debt Ceiling raised, but prefer that the Feds learn to live within their means. ...
by Gary Ivey | Jul 23, 2011 | Current Posts
Living in the Atlanta metro area as I do, I’ve watched several locally founded companies like Coca-Cola, Delta Airlines, Turner Broadcasting, and Home Depot. Being an entrepreneur myself, I appreciate these rags-to-riches companies’ stories. So I was...
by Gary Ivey | Jul 3, 2011 | Current Posts
This morning in church my pastor mentioned Dr. Yousef Nadarkhani, a Christian pastor in Iran. Yes I know, is there such a thing? Well, perhaps not for much longer. Yousef is condemned to die for the crime of being a Christian and protesting the fact that his son was...
by Gary Ivey | Jun 30, 2011 | Current Posts
During his speech about the debt ceiling on Tuesday, which I was not able to hear in its entirety, President Obama said something curious. He criticized Republican lawmakers of grandstanding on the debt issue so they could get on “cable news”. You...
by Gary Ivey | May 31, 2011 | Current Posts
The House of Representatives just voted down a measure to raise the debt limit to more than $14 trillion. The vote was more than three to one against the bill. That doesn’t mean everyone who voted against it didn’t want the debt ceiling raised; many...