Praetorian Progressives and Their Imperial Dreams
By: drrobertowens (Diary) | March 16th at 03:37 PM |
Under President Obama we doubled-down in Afghanistan? We sent more of our fellow citizens to a long hard slog in a country whose synonym is Quagmire while announcing the eventual date of their withdrawal at the same time. In an unprecedented action Mr. Obama announced our attack as he heralded our retreat in a calculated political decision that has cost lives, squandered treasure and told | Read More »
The Man Who Would Be King
By: drrobertowens (Diary) | February 17th at 06:26 PM |
In 114 BC, Rome was a democratic Republic. Representatives elected by popular vote filled the Senate, and the Senate ran Rome. The Empire was conquered in the name of the Senate and the People of Rome, symbolized by the ever present SPQR seen on every Roman standard in every gladiator movie you have ever watched. At the beginning of the first century BC sovereignty in | Read More »
If We Don’t Win We Lose
By: drrobertowens (Diary) | February 2nd at 10:00 PM |
America’s slide from the forefront of freedom to the swamp of collectivist social engineering didn’t start with the current manager of our decline and his Cavalcade of Czars. It didn’t start with President Obama’s favorite foil and arch-nemesis the man the Corporations-Once-Known-as-the Mainstream-Media love to hate, George Bush, the Younger. It didn’t start with the Bush-Clinton decade + 2 of continuous government growth, its thousand | Read More »
Now is the Time!
By: drrobertowens (Diary) | January 26th at 07:54 PM |
Sarah Palin was just about to drag the Progressive John McCain over the finish line. Then the economy collapsed and Senator McCain suspended his campaign to fly back to Washington and add his, “Me too” as President Bush said, “I’ve abandoned free-market principles to save the free-market system.” An economic downturn, a weak contender, and unpopular never-ending wars let Barak Obama win the presidency with | Read More »
Can Freedom Survive or Is the Fix In?
By: drrobertowens (Diary) | January 12th at 03:34 PM |
The Republicans have a habit of nominating moderates who have served the Party well, or as the Soviets called them apparatchiks, or as they are called in Chicago Ward Heelers, or as they are called everywhere else Hacks. That is how they ended up with Bob Dole and John McCain. They had run for the nomination before and lost. They were loyal soldiers who then | Read More »
Where’s the Outrage?
By: drrobertowens (Diary) | May 27th at 11:18 AM |
Today we are faced with an out of control administration that believes it can involve America in a war on the whim of the executive instead of the act of Congress.
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The Unconventional Convention
By: drrobertowens (Diary) | October 10th at 07:01 PM |
Yes, Virginia there will be another morning in America once the Progressive led mourning for America is over.
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