Dr. Robert R. Owens

Why This When We Want That?

Now that the Health Care Summit is over could we have a Jobs Summit or an Economy Summit? And what a Health Summit it was. When Mitch McConnell the leader of the Senate Republicans pointed out a two for one disparity between the time given to the Democrats and the Republicans Mr. Obama explained, "I don't count my time because I'm the President." Senator McCain criticized the current democrat bills for backroom pay-offs and unsavory deals.

The Party of Hell No!

The Democrats have decided to re-name the Republicans the Party of No. That's it. That's their strategy to avoid an electoral debacle shaping up to be as bad for the Party of Hope and Change as 1994 was for the Party of Grope and Sleaze. Many have tried this strategy before.

How Dumb Does He Think We Are

As the economy constricted from the latest bubble what have we done? On an individual basis unless we have an economic death wish we cut back spending, increase saving and pray we don't get downsized, rightsized or thrown under the bus to free up capital for someone else's bonus. As a business owner we follow the same pattern. People wonder why banks aren't loaning money to small businesses. Don't mistake a symptom for the disease. Banks aren't loaning because businesses aren't borrowing.

Did he Really Say What He Said

Where to start? After a State-of-the-Union speech ranking among the longest in the last 45 years what was said? Stay the course in other words. Blame Bush, the banks, and Congress for any failures while taking credit for any success, scold the Supreme Court and lecture the rest of us. If we aren't smart enough to understand his brilliant plans he'll just have to lecture us again. He's getting so repetitious I'm looking for my Headon so I can apply it directly to where it hurts.

Beyond Brown the Second Round

In the recent Massachusetts election Republican Scott Brown confounded the purveyors of conventional wisdom and caused a magnitude 10 earthquake in the political world by liberating the Kennedy Senate Fiefdom from the grip of the Democrat machine. To the 24 hour talking-heads this changes everything since the Democrats can no longer cut-off debate in the Senate though they can still stifle debate in the House and hold the Executive Department in their iron fist. But did the Party of Power really experience anything besides a bump in the road?

Half Their Brain Tied Behind Their Back

Every day to the amazement and delight of more than 20 million people across the fruited plain, Rush Limbaugh performs his host duties flawlessly with half his brain tied behind his back. Anyone who has ever spent an objective hour listening to his program knows that Rush has a brain the size of a planet. The Corporations Once Known as the Mainstream Media assure we now have a president who is always the brightest guy in the room instead of one who didn't have enough brains to tie his shoes.

Wanted Community Organizers No Experience Needed

Talk about a man-caused disaster have you looked at the recovery lately? The Republicans under the Bush dynasty and the Clinton interlewd paved the way for the current debacle of fiscal debauchery. The only thing growing is the government. Have the Liberals staged a second revolution? Khrushchev predicted the Soviet Union would bury us and since they're now on the trash heap of history is the Liberal Politburo of leftwing academics, corrupt politicians and their lamestream propaganda machine digging the grave instead?

Pop Goes the Culture

Culture to a human is like water to a fish. We move around in it constantly but we don’t notice it very much. Though unnoticed water can have profound effects on fish. Too cold and they freeze. Too hot and they boil. Not enough oxygen and they suffocate. Too polluted and they choke to death. In a similar fashion the culture in which we move shapes us in many subtle ways. If it’s refined the world we perceive and the world we deal with is refined. If it’s crude the world is crude. If it’s toxic t the world is toxic.

What To Do Now That Its Been Done

You can't beat good political drama. The Nuremberg rallies with all those glistening uniforms and snappy torch light marches. The May Day Parades with the Soviet gerontocracy standing on Lenin's tomb smiling at the grandchildren of the people they tortured riding on their shiny tanks and missile launchers.

Culture Kampf and the Kamikaze Congress

There is a culture war raging in America. It has wreaked havoc in our national psyche since the Summer of Love elevated the ersatz individualism and limousine liberalism of the Boomers from childhood fantasy to national fever-dream. This is a historically traceable event with vast implications for the future. He who controls the past shapes the present and creates the future. If history doesn't help us live in the here and now what good is it?

You Say You Want a Revolution

Our revolution changed the world. Our Declaration of Independence proclaims self-evident truths. That all men are created equal, they're endowed by their Creator with unalienable rights, among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. These words shook a world held in the vise-grip of hereditary privilege inspiring people around the globe. Our Constitution established a representative republic with a limited government of the people, by the people and for the people.

Walin and Flailin on Palin

Sarah Palin made the mistake of being a self-made woman who actually accomplished things in her own right instead of riding her husband's coattails.

Please, Mr. Custer, We Don’t Want To Go!

When the neo-cons, a group of liberal democrats realized Margret Thatcher was right in saying, “The trouble with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people’s money” they decided liberalism is as Michael Savage contends a mental disorder. In the 1970s and 80s they abandoned the Good Ship Democrat proclaiming themselves Born-Again Republicans. Generally they still carry the baggage of their former psychosis when it comes to social issues but when it comes to foreign affairs and military matters they sound like Errol Flynn playing George Custer in They Died With Their Boots On, “Don’t wait for orders from headquarters. Mount up everybody and ride to the sound of the guns.”

It’s Never Too Early to be Too Late

If no one has told you this yet let me be the first, as you get older time goes faster. If you’re under thirty you’re thinking, “This old coot has finally gone off his rocker!

Who Changed the Change?

The Framers moved beyond a loose Confederation of States creating the greatest experiment in freedom the world has ever known. They birthed a nation conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal unleashing the creative power and energy of humanity in a way never before known and never since equaled. They launched a government of the people, by the people and for the people.

Without Hope You’re Hopeless

Marching out of Yorktown to surrender the British Army played the song "The World Turned Upside Down." As I drive to Mega Lo Mart to make my latest deposit of monopoly money in a Chinese savings account all I can do is mumble the final tag-line of the Wicked Witch of the West, "What a world? What a world?"

Opaque Transparency or Smoke and Mirrors

Remember the promise of transparency that helped win the Presidency? All bills passing Congress would be posted for 5 days before signed. Seems the rules have changed. Apparently the pledge only applied to NON-emergency bills and everything is an emergency in the New Republic.

If it Wasn’t so Sad it Would be Funny

Lately the news reminds me of Monty Python. I keep waiting for President Obama to appoint a Czar of Silly Walks or Reverend Wright to resurface and declare piously, "Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!" If the situation wasn't so serious I couldn't take it seriously.

The Good the Bad and the Ugly

Believing in volunteerism and trying to help make my local community a place where neighbors know each other, a place where people gather to share common experiences and where good clean fun is part of life. Recently I devoted many hours to what I will call my local MegaFest.

Is This the News or a Comedy Tour?

Everyone routinely called them the Mainstream Media. Rush now calls them the State Controlled Media. I’ve called them the Mainstream Media, the Poodle Press, and the Lap-Dog Media. Whatever you’ve called them the time’s come to call them irrelevant. Out with the old and in with the new.