Dr. Robert Owens
The History of the Future

Most Recent Commentaries:

• "A nickel isn't worth a dime today" (May 16, 2013)
  None of us gets to live in the world we grew up in because the world moves too fast.  Things change. What was science fiction yesterday is your cell phone today. 
• Did You Do Anything to Keep Liberty Alive? (May 12, 2013)
  The coming mid-term elections may well be the most important in our lifetime. America faces a crisis as profound as the Revolution and as divisive as the Civil War.
• Why I am No Longer a Conservative Republican  (May 2, 2013)
• The Revolution Passed in the Night (April 25, 2013)
• If We Blow It Up Again It Will Blow Up Again (April 18, 2013)
• War What is it Good For (March 29, 2013)
• Is America a Republic or an Empire? (March 23, 2013)
• A Slow Motion Revolution Gathers Speed (March 16, 2013)
• Federal Reserve Constitutional or Merely Legal? (March 8, 2013)
• Republic or Empire (March 2, 2013)
• Economics 102 (February 23, 2013)
• Bring the Monster Out (January 26, 2013)
• Bringing a Knife to a Gun Fight (January 17, 2013)
• It Can't Happen Here (January 12, 2013)
• Empires Rise and Empires fall (January 6, 2013)

Archives for 2012:

• Merry Christmas and a Happy New America (December 29, 2012)
• Are Democrats Smarter Than Republicans? (December 23, 2012)
• Everybody Wants To Go To Heaven (December 13, 2012)
• Happy Days Are Here Again (December 6, 2012)
• Who Does He Say That He Is? (November 30, 2012)
• It's Always Darkest Before the Dawn (November 22, 2012)
• Calling a Spade a Spade (November 17, 2012)
• The Joy of the Lord is My Strength (November 7, 2012)
• History Holds Its Breath (November 1, 2012)
• Choose This Day Who You Will Serve (October 26, 2012)
• Why Does Affirmative Action End at the Gridiron? (October 18, 2012)
• Without Hope You're Hopeless (October 12, 2012)
• Did He Do What Needed to be Done (October 4, 2012)
• Don’t Surrender Without a Fight (September 30, 2012)
• No One Wins (September 21, 2012)
• Reap the Whirlwind (September 14, 2012)
• Is There Any Hoper of Change? (September 7, 2012)
• Socialism is as Socialism Does (August 31, 2012)
• The god Particle I Don’t Think So (August 23, 2012)
• Education is the Foundation of the Future (August 16, 2012)
• If it isn't Right it's Wrong (August 10, 2012)
• Is the Inertia Greater Than the Momentum ? (August 2, 2012)
• No Joke (July 27, 2012)
• How Chicago Plays Ball (July 6, 2012)
• Why the Congress Must Reign in the Supreme Court (June 29, 2012)
• Not Worth a Continental (June 15, 2012)
• Hunker in the Bunker and Wait for the Rain (June 8, 2012)
• Let’s Learn From the Past and Stop Spending the Future (May 31, 2012)
• The No Growth Zero Sum Pie (May 26, 2012)
• What’s Mine is Mine What’s Yours is Negotiable (May 18, 2012)
• America Lost in a Bubble (May 10, 2012)
• When Will Enough Be Enough (May 4, 2012)
• If I Wanted to Make America Prosperous Again (April 27, 2012)
• Liberty is Null and Void (April 19, 2012)
• The Heart of the Problem is in the Heart (April 13, 2012)
• Supreme Contempt (April 6, 2012)
• Where Does the Supreme Court Get Its Power? (March 30, 2012)
• We Know the Problem … What’s the Answer? (March 23, 2012)
• Praetorian Progressives and Their Imperial Dreams (March 16, 2012)
• Real Rebels and the Counter Revolution (March 9, 2012)
• None Dare Call It ... (March 1, 2012)
• The Forbidden Word Impeach (February 23, 2012)
• The Man Who Would Be King (February 17, 2012)
• The Sun is Setting Tell Everyone You Know (February 9, 2012)
• If We Don’t Win We Lose (February 2, 2012)
• Now is the Time! (January 26, 2012)
• How Dumb Do They Think We Are (January 20, 2012)
• Can Freedom Survive or Is the Fix In? (January 12, 2012)
• 2012 What Will It Be (January 5, 2012)

Archives for 2011:

• OWENS’ LAW OF OSCILLATING PYRAMIDS (December 29, 2011)
• A Different Gospel (December 22, 2011)
• Executive Orders (December 17, 2011)
• Putting the Paste Back in the Tube (December 9, 2011)
• Smoke and Mirrors (December 1, 2011)
• We Can Trust Us (November 25, 2011)
• Organized Anarchy Leads to One Last Question (November 18, 2011)
• Let’s Conversate about the Argubate (November 11, 2011)
• Who Votes for Democracy? (November 4, 2011)
• Those Who Read the Past Write the Future (October 28, 2011)
• Imperial Republics Fall (October 21, 2011)
• The Coming Contraction (October 14, 2011)
• How Do We Re-Industrialize America (October 7, 2011)
• Is the Federal Reserve Constitutional? (September 30, 2011)
• Where Did This Debt Come From Anyhow? (September 23, 2011)
• Solyndra Obama's Enron (September 16, 2011)
• Real Hope For a change (September 9, 2011)
• Ride to the Sound of the Guns (September 2, 2011)
• Freedom is as Freedom Does (August 27, 2011)
• Who Needs Robin Hood? (August 19, 2011)
• History Doesn't Repeat it rhymes (August 11, 2011)
• A Declaration of Independence (August 5, 2011)
• The Corrupt Bargain (July 30, 2011)
• Lemmings, the Cliff and 2012 (July 23, 2011)
• The Ratification Debate Part Three (July 17, 2011)
• The Ratification Debate Part Two (July 8, 2011)
• The Ratification Debate Part One (July 1, 2011)
• We Can Do This Unless We Don't (June 24, 2011)
• America a Greek Tragedy (June 17, 2011)
• Positively Negative (June 10, 2011)
• History Doesn't Repeat it Rhymes (June 3, 2011)
• Where’s the Outrage? (May 27, 2011)
• The Constitution failed (May 20, 2011)
• A Declaration of Energy Independence (May 13, 2011)
• It’s Not Over Till It’s Over (May 6, 2011)
• What's a Widget Worth? (April 29, 2011)
• Uncle Sam Plays You Pay (April 15, 2011)
• Immovable Object Meet the Irresistible Force (April 8, 2011)
• Are Unintended Consequences the Intention? (April 1, 2011)
• What Needs To Be Said About What Needs To Be Done (March 25, 2011)
• Are We On Our Way To Gettysburg? (March 20, 2011)
• What Will You Do When the Lights Go Out? (March 12, 2011)
• And the Dead Beat Goes On (March 4, 2011)
• Tomorrow begins Today (February 25, 2011)
• Don't Not Do That! (February 18, 2011)
• How Long Did the Limits Last? (February 12, 2011)
• The Great Civil Debate (February 4, 2011)
• Hu's On First (January 28, 2011)
• The 8th Deadly Sin (January 21, 2011)
• Grow the Economy not the Bureaucracy (January 15, 2011)
• Where Are The Jobs? (January 8, 2011)

Archives for 2010:

• Finally We All Agree (December 30, 2010)
• Why Are Democrats Smarter Than Republicans? (December 23, 2010)
• Here Comes the Judge (December 18, 2010)
• A Born Again Bush Booster and the Stealth Stimulus (December 11, 2010)
• Learning the Truth About Education (December 3, 2010)
• Don't Throw the Baby Out With the Bathwater (December 1, 2010)
• Time to START Supporting Obama (November 26, 2010)
• Thanks for Nothing (November 20, 2010)
• A Principle for Peter in the 21st Century (November 13, 2010)
• My Name’s America and I’m a Debt-a-holic (November 6, 2010)
• This isn't a Recession (October 30, 2010)
• Wanted a Kamikaze Congress for a Banzai Counterattack (October 23, 2010)
• I’ll See Your Hiroshima and Raise You a Nagasaki (October 18, 2010)
• The Unconventional Convention (October 10, 2010)
• What did You Do to save the Country? (October 4, 2010)
• Why Would a capitalist Hate capitalism? (September 26, 2010)
• Dream From Our Forefathers (September 18, 2010)
• Thugocracy (September 13, 2010)
• It's Easy Being Critical (September 6, 2010)
• Restoring Honor 8-28-10 (August 30, 2010)
• Whose Responsibility is It? (August 21, 2010)
• Between Barack and a Hard Place (August 14, 2010)
• Too Many Rights on the Left (August 7, 2010)
• The Fix is In (August 1, 2010)
• Freedom From Tyranny Is Our Goal (July 24, 2010)
• Watchmen on the Wall (July 17, 2010)
• July Fourth 2010: The State Versus the Individual (July 4, 2010)
• Equality is Never equal (June 27, 2010)
• The Unlimited Blessings of Limited Government (June 21, 2010)
• The Bottleneck is Always at the Top (June 13, 2010)
• I Got Some Transparency for You Right Here (June 6, 2010)
• Obama's War (s) (May 31, 2010)
• Red Emperors Exploit Red Ink (May 24, 2010)
• What Is Sovereignty and Who Has It (May 16, 2010)
• Government Funded Front Groups (May 10, 2010)
• A Government of Fallible Men to Rule Fallible Men (May 3, 2010)
• Does Equality Mean We Are All The Same (April 26, 2010)
• A Sign For The Next Tea Party (April 19, 2010)
• We Must Know Who We Are to Decide What We Will Be (April 12, 2010)
• Since Some Don’t Worry About the Constitution We Should (April 5, 2010)
• We Can Learn What We Don't Know (March 29, 2010)
• The Arrogance of Power (March 22, 2010)
• Return of the Swamp Creature (March 15, 2010)
• American Exceptionalism and a Can Do Attitude (March 8, 2010)
• Why This When We Want That? (March 1, 2010)
• The Party of Hell No! (February 22, 2010)
• How True is the Truth? (February 14, 2010)
• How Dumb Does He Think We Are? (February 8, 2010)
• Did He Really Say What He Said (February 1, 2010)
• Beyond Brown the Second Round (January 25, 2010)
• Half Their Brain Tied Behind Their Back (January 18, 2010)
• Wanted Community Organizers No Experience Needed (January 11, 2010)
• Pop Goes the Culture (January 4, 2010)

Archives for 2009:

• What To Do Now That It's Been Done (December 28, 2009)
• Culture Kampf and the Kamikaze Congress (December 21, 2009)
• You Say You Want a Revolution (December 14, 2009)
• Huge Hoax Holding Humanity Hostage (December 7, 2009)
• Wailin and Flailin on Palin (November 30, 2009)
• Please, Mr. Custer, We Don't Want to Go! (November 23, 2009)
• Without Hope You're Hopeless (November 2, 2009)
• Opaque Transparency or Smoke and Mirrors (October 26, 2009)
• Snatching Defeat from the Jaws of Victory Again (October 19, 2009)
• Jettison the Empire to Save the Republic! (September 28, 2009)
• Is This the News or a Comedy Tour? (September 22, 2009)
• The BIG Speech (September 19, 2009)
• Follow the Leaders Rush, Glenn and sarah (September 5, 2009)
• What's in a Number? (August 30, 2009)
• Fool Me Once ... - If you don't work for what you want you have to take what you get. (August 24, 2009)
• The Key - Comprehensive Immigration Reform is the key to the Obama revolution. (August 16, 2009)
• If the Voters are the Mob Who Brought the Thugs? (August 10, 2009)
• Who Are the Barbarians (August 6, 2009)

Biography - Dr. Robert Owens

Dr. Owens teaches History, Political Science, and Religion. Get the latest dispatches from the History of the Future and find books by Dr. Owens @ http://drrobertowens.com View the trailer for Dr. Owens’ latest book @ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ypkoS0gGn8 © 2010 Robert R. Owens dr.owens@comcast.net Follow Dr. Robert Owens on Facebook.

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