Dr. Robert R. Owens

Dr. Owens teaches History, Political Science, and Religion. He is the Historian of the Future @ drrobertowens.com Follow Dr. Robert Owens on Facebook or Twitter @ Drrobertowens / Edited by Dr. Rosalie Owens

Most Recent Articles by Dr. Robert R. Owens:

Solyndra, Obama’s Enron September 16, 2011
What would the reaction of the media would have been if when Enron imploded it was revealed that the Bush Administration had guaranteed a half billion dollars in loans?
Real Hope for a Change September 9, 2011
The solution to our current malaise is not more of the same. It isn't spreading the wealth around in a step-by-step slide into socialism
Ride to the Sound of the Guns September 2, 2011
What we need are military officers with the bravado of Custer. We need military leaders willing to hazard all, even their careers
Freedom is as Freedom Does August 26, 2011
I believe that God desires us to make free choices with regard to faith and lifestyle. Therefore, personal freedom is necessary for life as God intended
Who Needs Robin Hood? August 19, 2011
Propaganda and indoctrination has conditioned Americans to accept one of the most insidious aspects of class warfare: Progressive taxation
History Doesn’t Repeat, it Rhymes Again August 11, 2011
If History doesn't help us to live in the present it is merely curiosity or voyeurism that compels us to gaze upon the past.
A Declaration of Independence August 5, 2011
Citizens who love our country must break the logjam caused by an imperial presidency, an abdicating legislature, an activist court, a suffocating bureaucracy.
The Corrupt Bargain July 29, 2011
Election of 1824
Lemmings, the Cliff, and 2012 July 22, 2011
How can President Obama possibly win re-election? His only chance is the Clinton formula. There has to be a viable third party candidate or the Republicans could resurrect Herbert Hoover and win in a landslide
The Ratification Debate Part Three July 17, 2011
The Federalists had the momentum from the beginning and they were wise enough to appropriate the name Federalist
The Ratification Debate Part Two July 8, 2011
New Speak is nothing new in politics, and the concept of words having power to shape reality was not invented by George Orwell
The Ratification Debate Part One July 1, 2011
To understand the debate over the ratification of the Constitution it is necessary to first establish the context, for the study of a text without a context is a pretext.
We Can Do This Unless We Don’t June 24, 2011
Four more years of managed decline without a re-election to restrain him and President Obama's transformational vision of America
America A Greek Tragedy June 17, 2011
Our turn is coming soon: The looting of America has a tremendously high price. No one will ever know what didn't happen because of the growth of unlimited government
Positively Negative June 10, 2011
Personal liberty is always and only possible when and where external control stops
History Doesn’t Repeat, It Rhymes June 3, 2011
Today many have forgotten that the "TEA" in the modern Tea Party stands for "Taxed Enough Already!"
Where’s the Outrage? May 27, 2011
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
The Constitution Failed May 20, 2011
Ignoring the unambiguous meaning of the 9th, 10th Amendments, by stretching, twisting the meanings of a few vague clauses the Progressive leaders of our Federal government have interpreted our Constitution to mean anything needed to do anything
A Declaration of Energy Independence May 13, 2011
How do we end our dependence on foreign oil? How can we achieve the energy independence which every President since Nixon has said is a matter of national security?
It’s Not Over Till It’s Over May 6, 2011
I deeply appreciate the heroic scarifies of our troops, and I'm thankful they've provided a life of peace and safety for myself and my family. I celebrate the victories just as I mourn the losses in this long war
What’s a Widget Worth? April 29, 2011
President Obama publicly laments the rise in fuel prices. However, could this rise in energy costs be government policy?
Truth Justice and the American Way April 22, 2011
In the face of the best government money can buy taxing us to penury and spending us to poverty the American people continue to produce, to work, and to hope
Uncle Sam Plays You Pay April 15, 2011
Now the battle looms to raise the debt limit. An inside-the-belt-way shell game. Vote to increase the limit on their collective credit card
Immovable Object Meet the Irresistible Force April 8, 2011
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.
Are Unintended Consequences the Intention? April 1, 2011
When the unintended consequences are the only consequences we should count on, it makes one wonder how unintended they are
What Needs To Be Said About What Needs To Be Done March 25, 2011
This isn’t what we inherited from our parents and it isn’t what we should leave for our children.
Are We On Our Way To Gettysburg? March 19, 2011
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.
What Will You Do When the Lights Go Out? March 11, 2011
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.
And the Dead Beat Goes On March 4, 2011
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
Tomorrow Begins Today February 25, 2011
We were handed the unquestioned leadership of the world and after less than two decades we have frittered it away