By: drrobertowens (Diary)  |  July 17th at 04:59 PM  | 

History is often the chosen discipline of those who seek order in a world they find confusing. A system or frame upon which to place the events of time avoiding the yawning maw of random oblivion.

By: drrobertowens (Diary)  |  July 10th at 11:58 PM  | 

If History doesn’t help us in the world today it’s useless. We might as well study tea leaves if we can’t learn from the past to live in the present and shape the future.

By: drrobertowens (Diary)  |  July 4th at 11:27 PM  | 

The state is nothing more than individuals bound together by the social contract which they have all either directly or indirectly agreed to. The state is not an individual. The state is not a separate entity with inherent rights of its own.

By: drrobertowens (Diary)  |  June 27th at 08:41 PM  | 

Political and social philosophy cannot change human nature, and no matter how people wish for another reality all we have is the real one. It’s time people admit that once government acts to equalize the lives of all it must act unequally towards some.

By: drrobertowens (Diary)  |  June 21st at 01:43 AM  | 

The Framers believed Natural Law not only conferred rights it also established limits to the scope of government and man-made law.

By: drrobertowens (Diary)  |  June 13th at 05:30 PM  | 

We’re in the midst of a transaction wherein we’re expected to trade in our freedom for cradle-to-grave security and individual liberty for bureaucratic regimentation.

By: drrobertowens (Diary)  |  June 6th at 05:54 PM  | 

Behind the veil of silence, mockery and misstatements, and continuing a trend that has gone on through the reigns of many imperial presidents, the Obama administration is accumulating more power than any previous administration in American History.

By: drrobertowens (Diary)  |  May 31st at 11:57 AM  | 

Today we face endless wars for elusive peace when we can’t secure our own borders. We’re committed to war in Iraq and Afghanistan; we’ve been rattling sabers in Iran’s direction for years and there’s one more war just for good measure.

By: drrobertowens (Diary)  |  May 24th at 11:34 AM  | 

The tale of two civilizations: America slides into the decay of collectivism with oppressive regulations and confiscatory taxes discouraging the innovation and enterprise which made us great. China turns away from these tools of re-distribution and embraces capitalism without naming it.

By: drrobertowens (Diary)  |  May 16th at 03:31 PM  | 

For years this question of who is sovereign has see-sawed back and forth. Today the Progressives and their two headed government party seek to make the exaltation of the central government permanent. If this stands unchallenged America has devolved from the defused model established under the Constitution to a centralized version reminiscent of its original absolutist definition.