By: drrobertowens (Diary)  |  April 15th at 07:11 PM  | 

Now the battle looms to raise the debt limit. This is an inside-the-belt-way shell game wherein the parties of power each beat their chests and growl at each other about who is the most responsible before they both vote to increase the limit on their collective credit card.

By: drrobertowens (Diary)  |  April 8th at 05:33 PM  | 

We are the American people. We are exceptional, and we can do what must be done! It’s time for every good citizen to come to the aid of our nation. We must stand for the solution or we will fall before the problem.

By: drrobertowens (Diary)  |  April 1st at 06:04 PM  | 

When the unintended consequences are the only consequences we should count on, it makes one wonder how unintended they are.

By: drrobertowens (Diary)  |  March 25th at 07:47 PM  | 

This isn’t what we inherited from our parents and it isn’t what we should leave for our children.

By: drrobertowens (Diary)  |  March 20th at 06:47 AM  | 

The lack of a Historical perspective may well prove to be the undoing of our nation. Once a people are divorced from their past they live in the Eternal Now and those who set the agenda can always change now.

By: drrobertowens (Diary)  |  March 12th at 11:34 AM  | 

We’ve allowed demagogues preaching a false gospel of man-made global warming chanting songs of pollution hysteria while serving sacraments of social guilt to give our enemies a chokehold on our energy artery.

By: drrobertowens (Diary)  |  March 4th at 10:02 AM  | 

We can’t spend our way to prosperity. We can’t borrow our way to solvency, and we shouldn’t condemn our descendants to a life of limited opportunity crushed under the debt for the entitlements we wanted but couldn’t afford.

By: drrobertowens (Diary)  |  February 25th at 05:55 PM  | 

Are we to be the generation that drops the ball? Each generation of Americans has bequeathed to their posterity a land stronger than they received. We were handed the unquestioned leadership of the world and after less than two decades we have frittered it away.

By: drrobertowens (Diary)  |  February 18th at 04:25 PM  | 

Buying health insurance will no longer be an option because failing to do so will be illegal. In other words, “Don’t not do that!” or face the full force of the law and miraculously not doing something becomes doing something.

By: drrobertowens (Diary)  |  February 12th at 06:19 AM  | 

How long did the limits last? The Anti-Federalists were still active in politics as the warnings they gave were realized and the children of the Revolution took their first steps down the road to tyranny.