King George III

By Dr. ROBERT OWENS

When taxes become destructive they surpass the consent of the governed bending to the will of tyranny.  When regulations strangle competition instead of securing it from evil combinations they become counterproductive and defeat the very purpose for which they were proposed.  When foreign entanglements bleed the nation but do not secure the peace or defeat the enemy they become interventionist vehicles for vested interests.  When spending becomes a hemorrhaging of assists leading to national bankruptcy those who continue to pile debt upon debt seek not the good of the nation but instead its destruction.  When leaders selected to unite instead do all they can to divide they no longer advance the interest of the whole and are instead partisan leaders in a factional fight.

A social contract is one made between a people and their government.  It is an agreement whereby the people surrender certain aspects of their independence for the guarantee of corporate security and the enjoyment of a general welfare.  In the case of most countries this is an unwritten and unconscious arrangement built upon tradition and precedent as in the case of England.  However, in the United States we have an actual contract, the Constitution.  This was ratified by the original states and the subsequent states were formed under it and admitted as full partners to it.

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By Dr. ROBERT OWENS

Where does our federal government get the right to put the chains of hopeless debt on our grandchildren to buy a better hammock for those who won’t work?  The 10^th Amendment says, “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”  If we never delegated the power to create a National Debt, how did the government get it?  The power to encumber is the power to destroy.   This habit of charging the Visa to the MasterCard is selling us out to the rising red star in the East, and if we don’t pull the brake we’re heading for a cliff.

East is East and West is West, and never the twain shall meet passed for wisdom in the days when information took more than a nanosecond passing between continents.  Today they not only meet; they compete, and the Red Emperors of the East exploit the red ink of the West.  Today our Progressive leaders embrace the suffocating sameness of socialist conformity and collectivist confiscation while communist mandarins release the long pent up energies of their people.

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By Dr. ROBERT OWENS

Just like it isn’t bragging when you can really do it and it isn’t paranoia when they’re really out to get you, the bluster of an undefeated champion is often well founded.  For years when Mohammed Ali said, “I’m the greatest” he was right.  For years when Iron Mike Tyson said, “Nobody can beat me” he was right.  However, there comes a time when Rocky II turns into Rocky III.  There comes a time when the Champ is no longer facing the Bum of the Month Club; he’s facing Clubber Lang.  There comes a time when all the bluster becomes braggadocio.  When the hollow taunting of opponents no longer intimidates, it merely enrages.   President Obama’s recent condescending and insulting mockery of the Tea Party Movement has blended with that of his political soul-mates.  The red flag waving on the ramparts of the Progressive juggernaut has become a red cape in front of a raging bull.

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By Dr. ROBERT OWENS

Americans have dealt with the arrogance of power before.  From 1756 through 1763 a world war ravaged the globe from India to Europe and from the farthest reaches of the Pacific Ocean to the deepest woods of Ohio.  England and France fought to see who would become the greatest colonial power.

For seven years, battles raged throughout the Colonies as the French and their Indian allies pushed the Americans back across the Allegheny Mountains and sought to over-run the fertile area from the mountains to the coast which held the majority of English settlements.  After many massacres and defeats the American Militias, with a core of British officers and supplies, were able to not only repulse the enemy but follow them home to Canada.  Known as the French and Indian War in America and as the Seven Years War in Europe when the final treaties were signed in 1763, with the lone exception of Florida, England became the master of North America east of the Mississippi.

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