Podcasts about obamanomics

This Flashback Friday is from episode 449, published last 8 December 2014. Jason Hartman brings in a real estate focus to the introduction of today's Creating Wealth Show by explaining exactly how you can work out your rent-to-value ratio. As this is one of the most important figures a real estate investor need to keep in mind, there's no excuse for deceiving yourself. Later, he invites Tim Carney, author of The Big Rip-Off and Obamanomics and writer for the Washington Examiner to come on the show and give his thoughts about the huge and potentially irreversible impact that big business and big Government are having on America. They also discuss topics such as human rights to information and what you say when Goldman Sachs offers you a position. Key Takeaways 03.27 In some markets, you can't control the rent-to-value ratio, but you really want to aim for 1% per month or above. 11:01 Seemingly, the bigger you get, the more you can get away with. 14.44 Tim Carney provides some examples where regulation seems to have an alternate outcome to what was hoped. 18.38 A look at the options of how we can possibly dislodge the power of big business and government.  19.45 Politics and the economy are starting to work together because fewer people are now gaining from a specific policy. 22:16 Government agencies don't even have to worry about subtlety; if they want you they'll do what they can to get you. 24:00 Why is it that they can spy on us and we get no information about Government actions, even when they affect us? 25.41 Big business benefits from and lobbies for big Government to the detriment of the consumer, the competitor and the tax payer.  28:10 Technology could be our undoing or it could be our liberation. We'll have to wait and see. 30.28 To read Tim's articles, head to  www.WashingtonExaminer.com and his Fellowship is with the American Enterprise Institute: www.AEI.org    Mentioned in this episode The Big Rip-Off by Tim Carney Obamanomics by Tim Carney www.AEI.org www.WashingtonExaminer.com   Follow Jason on TWITTER, INSTAGRAM & LINKEDIN Twitter.com/JasonHartmanROI Instagram.com/jasonhartman1/ Linkedin.com/in/jasonhartmaninvestor/ Call our Investment Counselors at: 1-800-HARTMAN (US) or visit: https://www.jasonhartman.com/ Free Class:  Easily get up to $250,000 in funding for real estate, business or anything else: http://JasonHartman.com/Fund CYA Protect Your Assets, Save Taxes & Estate Planning: http://JasonHartman.com/Protect Get wholesale real estate deals for investment or build a great business – Free Course: https://www.jasonhartman.com/deals Special Offer from Ron LeGrand: https://JasonHartman.com/Ron Free Mini-Book on Pandemic Investing: https://www.PandemicInvesting.com

The federal judge in Washington, D.C., who has been assigned to oversee the latest charges filed by special counsel Jack Smith against former President Donald Trump on Tuesday, is probably the worst possible choice for him. U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan, an Obama appointee, has been called “the toughest punisher” of Jan. 6 rioters, but she has a nefarious past in addition to that distinction.  Jack Smith Forced To Admit to ‘Incorrect' Claim About Evidence In Trump Classified Documents Case. It's the video evidence we pointed out on Monday's show!.  United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres' office has condemned a series of drone attacks on Moscow and called for an end to “any and all attacks on civilian facilities.” Russia has blamed the “terrorist strikes” on Ukraine, and Kiev has heavily suggested that it was responsible. This confirms what we already knew about Ukraine, they LOVE targeting civilians, even if they are their own. Bidenomics has caused the US credit rating to be slashed from AAA to AA+. The last downgrade to the US credit rating was in 2011 due to Obamanomics. Notice a pattern here? Naturally the White House is blaming Donald Trump. ~~~~FOLLOW US ON RUMBLE~~~~

Join Roger in this week's Liberty + Leadership Podcast as he sits down with Tim Carney, an acclaimed author and senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. Tim takes us on a fascinating journey working with the "Prince of Darkness," Robert Novak, and how his TFAS Novak Fellowship inspired him to write gripping books like "The Big Ripoff" and "Alienated America." In this thought-provoking discussion, Tim discusses the vital importance of "social capital," and why he believes liberal elites aren't living lives too differently than conservatives. Tune in for Tim's fantastic overview of economic competition, cronyism, civil society, localism, and religion in America.Tim Carney is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) where he focuses on economic competition, cronyism, civil society, localism, and religion in America. He is also a senior political columnist at the Washington Examiner and a noted author, whose books include “The Big Ripoff: How Big Business and Big Government Steal Your Money,” “Obamanomics: How Barack Obama Is Bankrupting You and Enriching His Wall Street Friends, Corporate Lobbyists, and Union Bosses,” and “Alienated America: Why Some Places Thrive While Others Collapse.” Tim is a 2003 TFAS Novak Fellow Alumnus and earned a bachelor's degree from St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland.The Liberty + Leadership Podcast is hosted by TFAS President Roger Ream and produced by kglobal. If you have a comment or question for the show, please drop us an email at podcast@TFAS.org.Support the show

On April 14, 2015, The Acton Institute and the Mackinac Center for Public Policy jointly hosted Timothy Carney for a lecture on the topic "Is Big Business a Danger to Economic Liberty?" Timothy P. Carney is the senior political columnist at the Washington Examiner, a visiting fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, and the author of three books. Tim was a 2012 Pulliam Distinguished Visiting Fellow at Hillsdale College and he sits on the board of visitors for the Institute for Political Journalism. A protégé of the late columnist Robert Novak, Tim was senior reporter at the Evans-Novak Political Report and became editor when Novak retired in 2008. His work has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, New York Post, and many other publications. He is author of Obamanomics (2009) and The Big Ripoff (2006), which won the Templeton Enterprise Award from the Intercollegiate Studies Institute and the 2006 Lysander Spooner Award for the "best book on liberty." Tim is a native of Greenwich Village and an alumnus of St. John's College in Annapolis. He now lives in the D.C. area with his wife and six children.Subscribe to our podcastsTimothy Carney Author Page | Amazon Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.

 Dr. Rasmus reviews the significant political & economic takeaways 10 days now after the election. Then discusses the four dates in December that amount to milestones for Trump to try to overturn the election. How each offers an opportunity for Trump to reverse, or at least delay, the certification of the election and create more political and economic chaos in the interim. Rasmus briefly also discusses what’s going on with Trump’s firings in his Defense Dept and national intelligence agencies? Is he preparing a foreign policy ‘October Surprise’ in December?  A review of key issues in the Supreme Court’s upcoming ACA decision & why tax cuts for the rich is really at its core. The Pfizer vaccine and its possible disappointment. The China-US Trade War deal one year after. The show concludes with comments on an early look at Bidenomics and why it will likely be Obamanomics 2.0 warmed over—and therefore insufficient to stimulate the economy in 2021

Noahide Nations Radio Show on Israel National Radio Obamanomics and his Magic Wand Please help support our efforts to spread HaShem's Light by supporting the Academy of Shem and our Rabbis & Instructors HERE --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Jason Furman was one of President Obama's top economists, from the start of his campaign through the end of his presidency, and served as chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers from 2013 through 2017. He joined me on the podcast to discuss his time in the White House, how he views the recession and […] The post https://www.aei.org/multimedia/ep-98-oval-office-economics/ (Ep. 98: Obamanomics — Political Economy with James Pethokoukis) appeared first on https://www.aei.org (American Enterprise Institute - AEI).

Danny Lobell, along with guests Jamie Flam (artistic director of The Hollywood Improv and host of the Gatekeeper podcast) and Jessimae Peluso (MTV's Girl Code and host of the "Sharp Tongue" podcast) chat about PopBookings. They also cover financial terms like Obamanomics. Tune in for laughs and investment advice.

Jason Hartman invites Tim Carney, author of The Big Rip-Off and Obamanomics and writer for the Washington Examiner to come on the show and give his thoughts about the huge and potentially irreversible impact that big business and big Government are having on America. They also discuss topics such as human rights to information and what you say when Goldman Sachs offers you a position.   Key Takeaways 05.55 – Tim Carney provides some examples where regulation seems to have an alternate outcome to what was hoped. 10.50 – A look at the options of how we can possibly dislodge the power of big business and government.  11.57 – Politics and the economy are starting to work together because fewer people are now gaining from a specific policy. 14.28 – Government agencies don't even have to worry about subtlety; if they want you they'll do what they can to get you. 16.16 – Why is it that they can spy on us and we get no information about Government actions, even when they affect us? 17.53 - Big business benefits from and lobbies for big Government to the detriment of the consumer, the competitor and the tax payer.  20.23 – Technology could be our undoing or it could be our liberation. We'll have to wait and see. 22.36 – To read Tim's articles, head to www.WashingtonExaminer.com and his Fellowship is with the American Enterprise Institute: www.AEI.org    Mentioned in this episode The Big Rip-Off by Tim Carney Obamanomics by Tim Carney www.AEI.org www.WashingtonExaminer.com

Jason Hartman invites Tim Carney, author of The Big Rip-Off and Obamanomics and writer for the Washington Examiner to come on the show and give his thoughts about the huge and potentially irreversible impact that big business and big Government are having on America. They also discuss topics such as human rights to information and what you say when Goldman Sachs offers you a position.   Key Takeaways 05.50 – Tim Carney provides some examples where regulation seems to have an alternate outcome to what was hoped. 10.40 – A look at the options of how we can possibly dislodge the power of big business and government.  11.52 – Politics and the economy are starting to work together because fewer people are now gaining from a specific policy. 14.23 – Government agencies don't even have to worry about subtlety; if they want you they'll do what they can to get you. 16.11 – Why is it that they can spy on us and we get no information about Government actions, even when they affect us? 17.48 - Big business benefits from and lobbies for big Government to the detriment of the consumer, the competitor and the tax payer.  20.28 – Technology could be our undoing or it could be our liberation. We'll have to wait and see. 22.31 – To read Tim's articles, head to www.WashingtonExaminer.com and his Fellowship is with the American Enterprise Institute: www.AEI.org    Mentioned in this episode The Big Rip-Off by Tim Carney Obamanomics by Tim Carney www.AEI.org www.WashingtonExaminer.com

Tim Carney has been a senior political columnist for the Washington Examiner since 2010. He is an experienced journalist with over a decade of experience in the fields of politics and economics. He sits down with Jason today on the Commercial Investing show to talk about regulation, lobbyists, and his book entitled Obamanomics.    Key Takeaways: 3:10 – Left and right politics is like a big wrestling match – it's fake.  6:20 – Who represents the little guy in business?  10:20 – Regulation makes it harder for small business to start up.  11:40 – What are some actions steps we can take? Tim explains in this segment.  14:20 – The lobbyists aren't the problem, it's the incentives that the lobbying industry creates that causes problems.  18:16 – Why aren't lobbyist meetings recorded? Congress meetings are.  19:40 – Tim talks about Obama and a little bit about Tim's book entitled Obamanomics.  22:10 – Tim believes people will be able to live their own lives without being dependent on big companies and company monopolies.  23:10 – If innovation and experimentation are allowed then the economy and new businesses will do well.    Mentioned In This Episode: Uber Obamanomics by Timothy Carney.  The Big Ripoff by Timothy Carney.  http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/ http://www.aei.org  

Jason Hartman brings in a real estate focus to the introduction of today's Creating Wealth Show by explaining exactly how you can work out your rent-to-value ratio. As this is one of the most important figures a real estate investor need to keep in mind, there's no excuse for deceiving yourself.   Later, he invites Tim Carney, author of The Big Rip-Off and Obamanomics and writer for the Washington Examiner to come on the show and give his thoughts about the huge and potentially irreversible impact that big business and big Government are having on America. They also discuss topics such as human rights to information and what you say when Goldman Sachs offers you a position.   Key Takeaways 03.14 – In some markets, you can't control the rent-to-value ratio, but you really want to aim for 1% per month or above. 10.35 – Seemingly, the bigger you get, the more you can get away with. 14.18 – Tim Carney provides some examples where regulation seems to have an alternate outcome to what was hoped. 18.12 – A look at the options of how we can possibly dislodge the power of big business and government.  19.19 – Politics and the economy are starting to work together because fewer people are now gaining from a specific policy. 21.50 – Government agencies don't even have to worry about subtlety; if they want you they'll do what they can to get you. 23.34 – Why is it that they can spy on us and we get no information about Government actions, even when they affect us? 25.15 - Big business benefits from and lobbies for big Government to the detriment of the consumer, the competitor and the tax payer.  27.44 – Technology could be our undoing or it could be our liberation. We'll have to wait and see. 30.02 – To read Tim's articles, head to www.WashingtonExaminer.com and his Fellowship is with the American Enterprise Institute: www.AEI.org    Mentioned in this episode The Big Rip-Off by Tim Carney Obamanomics by Tim Carney www.AEI.org   www.WashingtonExaminer.com

"The emperor has no clothes!"  That was the cry of a small child in the Hans Christian Andersen tale as the emperor made his way past, entirely unclothed, while no one had the nerve to speak up. That's pretty much the situation today.  With the recent exception of Maureen Dowd's scathing critique of Obama's convention acceptance speech ("My fellow citizens, you were the change...We were the change?"), there hasn't been much media criticism of the president.  Liberal commentators continue to gloss over the mistakes of the most partisan and inept administration in our history.   

"The emperor has no clothes!"  That was the cry of a small child in the Hans Christian Andersen tale as the emperor made his way past, entirely unclothed, while no one had the nerve to speak up. That's pretty much the situation today.  With the recent exception of Maureen Dowd's scathing critique of Obama's convention acceptance speech ("My fellow citizens, you were the change...We were the change?"), there hasn't been much media criticism of the president.  Liberal commentators continue to gloss over the mistakes of the most partisan and inept administration in our history.   

Barack Obama is an odd bird in American presidential politics.  Not because he's black, but because he is so far out of the norm that he doesn't instinctively follow all the standard moves.  American politicians have a certain standard set of rituals, just as American baseball players do.  A Russian shot-putter who switched to baseball would just look different. The examples of Obama's subtle oddities are many.  The biggest ones are his deep, public bows to foreign potentates, an act that alienates him from more than two centuries of American public behavior.  Those showy bows were not accidental. Tune in Join the Discussion!

Barack Obama is an odd bird in American presidential politics.  Not because he's black, but because he is so far out of the norm that he doesn't instinctively follow all the standard moves.  American politicians have a certain standard set of rituals, just as American baseball players do.  A Russian shot-putter who switched to baseball would just look different. The examples of Obama's subtle oddities are many.  The biggest ones are his deep, public bows to foreign potentates, an act that alienates him from more than two centuries of American public behavior.  Those showy bows were not accidental. Tune in Join the Discussion!

"Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher once said that the problem with socialism is that eventually you "run out of other people's money." And it's not just tax dollars she was talking about, as the Obama presidency has shown."   Gore Vidal, the elegant, acerbic all-around man of letters who presided with a certain relish over what he declared to be the end of American civilization, died on Tuesday at his home in the Hollywood Hills section of Los Angeles, where he moved in 2003, after years of living in Ravello, Italy. He was 86. Milton Friedman, who would have turned 100 on Tuesday, helped to make free markets popular again in the 20th century. His ideas are even more important today.  

A striking clash between those who feel a profound duty to report that the young Obama was nurtured by Marxists, socialists, and Communists and those who think it is a better idea to erase this information from the public record is on display in two current books.  One book provided key politically significant details of a heated debate I had with the young Marxist-Leninist Obama over Christmas break 1980.  The other book only confirmed that young Obama and his roommate were both in my vicinity at the time.  The gap between how Paul Kengor covered Obama's Christmas break in The Communist and how David Maraniss covered this same moment in Barack Obama: The Story is chilling.  

Another mass homicide, and another round of the usual media drivel.  It was a "senseless tragedy."  "Shocking."  The suspect was "quiet" and a "loner."  He "must've just snapped."  More pictures from the suspect's high school yearbook, more predictable cries for gun control. Yawn.  Frankly, I'm sick of it.  Guess what, people!  Evil exists.  That's E-V-I-L, and people freely choose to commit it.  They always have, and they always will. By Michael Filozof

Based on Paul Harvey's seminal essay, “If I were the devil,” Free Market America's provocative video-letter to America rings with the same thoughtful intensity. “If I wanted America to fail” addresses the perilous side-effects of hitching our nation's economic well-being to the bandwagon of environmental extremism. VIDEO LINK: http://freemarketamerica.org The video has become an Internet phenomena with over one million views in just five days, and there have been numerous requests for its publication as a guest column. The video is the launch of Free Market America, a project of Americans for Limited Government and Citizens for Lower Taxes and a Stronger Economy.

  Obama's Socialist Mantra: Risk Takers Are Free Riders Ideology: In his war on American exceptionalism, President Obama has turned the sights on exceptional Americans. If you've built a successful business, it wasn't your dream or your sweat — somebody else made it happen. The unbridled disdain President Obama has for the entrepreneurs who work hard and risk everything was made plain when he told supporters in Roanoke, Va.: "If you've got a business — you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen."

If I Wanted America to Fail…” Exposes Democrat Plan to Destroy America Based on Paul Harvey's seminal essay, “If I were the devil,” Free Market America's provocative video-letter to America rings with the same thoughtful intensity. “If I wanted America to fail” addresses the perilous side-effects of hitching our nation's economic well-being to the bandwagon of environmental extremism.  

On July 5, Fox News ran a piece documenting the "fresh scrutiny" Barack Obama has faced since the June publication of David Maraniss's new book, Barack Obama: The Story.  "By some counts," Fox's James Rosen reported, "The Story presents more than three-dozen instances of material discrepancy where [Dreams from My Father] fails to align with the facts as Maraniss reports them." Although Rosen tried to determine whether Obama was justified in prevaricating as he did in his 1995 memoir, he did not assess the real cost of that prevarication.  Neither did those he interviewed.  

There is a compelling divergence regarding President Obama's reelection chances when we consider what the poll numbers are telling us versus what the boots on the ground are indicating. A Wall Street Journal/NBC News nationwide poll taken during June 20-24 shows that Obama still leads the presumptive GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney 47% to 44%.  These results are within the poll's margin of error and are also close to the Real Clear Politics aggregation of major polls which finds Obama leading Romney 47.5% to 43.8%.  

Psychological denial is a defense mechanism that is used by everyone at different times in their life to cope with an unacceptable reality. It becomes pathological when it persists for more than a brief time. Denial can either allows the user to come to grips with the pain by temporarily modulating it; or it can usher the user into fantasyland. Tonight We shall present some recent examples of the fantasyland variety:

  It is time to call the 2012 election.  President Obama cannot win.  He will likely lose big, in a very lopsided election.  Pundits will claim to be surprised when the outcome becomes apparent.  They should not be, as the signs of such a result are everywhere, despite the mainstream media's attempts to suppress them. There are numerous reasons why Obama will lose.  Incompetence, likeability, and duplicity are a few.  Obama has alienated too many in the electorate, including large numbers who supported him the first time.  In 2012, many will vote against him or (even better) just stay home.  

  The Washington Postheralded the election of François Hollande in France as the dawn of a new era, and the birth of a new breed of socialism.  It is described as "free-market social democracy -- a pragmatic ideology in which nationalizations, clenched fists, and hammer and sickle are things of the past."    

If you have a young boy, you've probably watched Disney's Cars 2 about a thousand times.  For those who don't know, at the movie's end (an obligatory spoiler warning here), Sir Miles Axlerod is exposed as a fraud when he's forced to open his hood by Mater, the hayseed hick.  Hold that thought.  

  Why are seemingly very intelligent people drinking the Barack Obama Kool-Aid? It seems for some that it is enough that he is not Hillary Clinton, viewed by many Democrats as a loser in a general election contest, and not very likable or warm in any case.  But why the rapture over   an inexperienced mistake-prone former State Senator (3 years removed), who broke his promise that he would complete his US Senate term  and not run for higher office. Incidentally, why is this broken promise overlooked by those who think he is elevating our politics?

  Why are seemingly very intelligent people drinking the Barack Obama Kool-Aid? It seems for some that it is enough that he is not Hillary Clinton, viewed by many Democrats as a loser in a general election contest, and not very likable or warm in any case.  But why the rapture over   an inexperienced mistake-prone former State Senator (3 years removed), who broke his promise that he would complete his US Senate term  and not run for higher office. Incidentally, why is this broken promise overlooked by those who think he is elevating our politics?

A second term for Barack Obama will be a tragedy.  His farcical first term barely hinted at the disaster awaiting America in Barack II.  Hobbled by a staggering lack of judgment and competence, and his ever-present reticence to make decisions that might impede his re-election, his first despicable term was a joke, despite a dearth of mirth.  If given four more years without worry of electoral reprisal, he will wreak havoc upon the nation in ways that Barack, back in Barack I, only dreamed of. I  

There were several hundred "training sessions" around NYC, as they tell it, over the past weeks, presumably to prepare the raucous and ready to protest the terrible, evil 1% who so bedevil America that average people become unhinged at the thought that the 1% are getting more than they "deserve."  They are not!  Paying!  Their "fair share," they hammer at us, ignoring the stats and the vast overpayment by the wealthy over their less moneyed confrères. At the meeting on the Upper East Side, a three-hour slot on a weekend that replicated dozens elsewhere, we are told, there were three large newsprint sheets on the wall to remind us of what we were fighting for:  

Karl Marx said history repeats itself, "first as tragedy, then as farce."  Barack Obama has reversed that.  His first term was certainly farce; his second will be tragedy.  

Two Weeks AgoPresident Obama launched an attack upon the Supreme Court justices critical of the constitutionality of a 2,400-page health care bill passed exclusively by Democrats.  Few if any of these Democrats actually read the bill in its entirety before voting for it.  The president nevertheless wonders at how the Supreme Court justices, an "unelected" group of people," might muster the temerity to take such an "unprecedented and extraordinary step" as to "overturn a duly constituted rule of law ... passed by a majority of members in the House and Senate."  I note in passing that the president ordered Holder's Justice Department to cease its defense of the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" law passed by a bipartisan Congress.

Karl Marx said history repeats itself, "first as tragedy, then as farce."  Barack Obama has reversed that.  His first term was certainly farce; his second will be tragedy.  

President Obama knows that every public statement he makes is recorded and lives forever on the internet.  That is cause for serious worry.  The best campaign ad to run against Obama is one that uses his own words -- and those of the officials he has empowered -- against him.  When it comes to high gasoline prices, this is a target-rich environment.  

Ever wonder why Obama looks so sharp in a dark suit?  Ever wonder about that ear-to-ear professional grin he's got?  About those little dramatic pauses before he drops a well-rehearsed line?  Ever wonder where he keeps his high hat and magic wand? Well, you don't have to wonder any longer.  We're due to see another magic campaign by The Great Obimi.  It'll be one stunt after another, like those styrofoam Greek columns at his victory rally in Denver. Now that the GOP race is settling out, Obama is starting his real campaign.  That messianic halo is beginning to hover over his head again.  People are beginning to faint at his performances.  The other day he asked his audience to stay calm and let that fainting lady or gent be treated by the medics.  

Obama, the Other Huey Long The president is more like the Depression era's populist Louisiana governor than like FDR. The “Obama as FDR” meme emerged immediately after the elections. The November 20 issue of TheEconomist noted, in an article critical of the comparison: Washington is currently buzzing with talk of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Members of Mr. Obama's inner circle are reading up on FDR's first 100 days. No political conversation is complete without a knowing reference to the squire of Hyde Park. Both Time (on the cover) and the New Yorker (on an inside page) feature pictures of Mr. Obama as FDR, smoking a cigarette, driving an open-top car and looking very much as though he has nothing to fear but fear itself.

  President Obama seems to be downsizing the American Dream. In an insufficiently noticed January 25th speech in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, he said: "Folks don't have unrealistic ambitions. They do believe that if they work hard they should be able to achieve that small measure of an American Dream."   "Unrealistic ambitions" -- is he serious?  "Small measure of an American Dream" -- it sounds like he's conceding that the Lefts' version of "utopia" is really just settling for the crumbs that the elites drop on the floor.  Is this the new normal?  I'm sure glad Steve Jobs didn't act on this kind of advice -- I really do enjoy my iPhone.  And I'm glad I didn't act on such tripe as well.  

Obama is not the cool, calm, and collected guy that he portrays publicly; he's far from it.  Obama is described privately as a thin-skinned hot-head when it comes to questioning his policies, or anything else, for that matter. Though there has been a slight shift upward in Obama's poll numbers, Obama knows the real temperature of the American people.  Here are 10 indicators as to why Obama will have sleepless nights leading up to the election of 2012:  

Ohio looms large on Super Tuesday. Can Romney increase his delegate lead?   A win in Ohio on Super Tuesday could restore Mitt Romney's clear front-runner status. But senior Republicans are decrying the toxic nature of the campaign, and some prominent conservative commentators doubt that either Romney or Rick Santorum could beat Barack Obama.

Son of Islam?  Let's get real. Aside from his childhood attendance at a Muslim school in Indonesia, a school that was selected for him by his parents, Obama has never shown much interest in Islam.  Nor, some would say, has he demonstrated a sincere interest in Christianity. Obama's attendance at Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago may have had more to do with political opportunism than religious devotion.  In reality, there's little evidence that Obama as an adult has shown much interest in any religion.  

  GET IT       Patrick J. Buchanan's defenestration by MSNBC continues to stir comment across the blogosphere, as well as on AT's comment page.     Over the weekend, our friends are PJM posted a piece by Ron Radosh on Buchanan. Radosh links to most of the commentary, including Andrew Sullivan's defense of him.  MSNBC's own hosts and commentators, Chris Matthews, Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski, have all posted or commented on air about this. All criticize the decision to not keep Buchanan on the air at MSNBC.

  We have witnessed President Barack Obama, and his administration, issue edicts, work against and/or ignore the US Constitution and Congress, and be inconsistent when it suits him.  The question now becomes, "What will Obama do next?"  

Georgia is home to some brave citizens who dared to challenge, under state law, President Obama's constitutional eligibility to run for a second term. The three cases stipulated that Obama was not qualified as a "natural born" citizen because his father was not a US citizen.  As reported here on American Thinker in a series of columns, the administrative judge found for the defendant, and last week, Georgia's Secretary of State Brian Kemp upheld the ruling -- that Obama's name should appear on Georgia's 2012 ballot.  

History is replete with great men like Barack Obama -- transformational leaders of wide renown, seeking to shape history in their own image, never realizing it is not great men who make history; it is history which makes great men.   Our president has never been more than an epigone of a great man.  And the cold glare of history will see Barack Obama for the man he truly is -- and it will not matter what the meaning of "is" is.  

Barack Obama has gone from the "one we've been waiting for" to the one we can't wait to kick out.  No one ever thought one man could bring the nation to its knees, but here he is living in the White House.  And on our knees we have been, praying for the day when he leaves.  The audacity of a president hell-bent on destroying our great nation has truly been a stunning spectacle to observe.  No lie is too ridiculous to tell about anyone who opposes him.  With a compliant media behind him, the smears this demagogue-in-chief promises to unleash on his opponent this fall could divide the county so badly that it becomes ungovernable.  

Barack Obama has gone from the "one we've been waiting for" to the one we can't wait to kick out.  No one ever thought one man could bring the nation to its knees, but here he is living in the White House.  And on our knees we have been, praying for the day when he leaves.  The audacity of a president hell-bent on destroying our great nation has truly been a stunning spectacle to observe.  No lie is too ridiculous to tell about anyone who opposes him.  With a compliant media behind him, the smears this demagogue-in-chief promises to unleash on his opponent this fall could divide the county so badly that it becomes ungovernable.  

Is President Obama the mastermind of the radical-left movement or merely its symbol?  Actually, it doesn't matter.  What matters is that the socialist project, which had been nearly a century in the making, in 2008 came to fruition, winning the presidential election and seizing power.  And whether the face of the movement, Barack Obama, is indeed its leader or just a puppet of a revolutionary cabal is purely academic.  Still, trying to divine the truth is an intriguing proposition.  So let me take a stab at this intellectually stimulating game.  And no, I'm not going to indulge in guesswork, trying to penetrate the veil of mystery surrounding Obama, a man without a past.  My intention is to arrive at an answer by induction from what is a matter of public record and what is in plain view.  

Is President Obama the mastermind of the radical-left movement or merely its symbol?  Actually, it doesn't matter.  What matters is that the socialist project, which had been nearly a century in the making, in 2008 came to fruition, winning the presidential election and seizing power.  And whether the face of the movement, Barack Obama, is indeed its leader or just a puppet of a revolutionary cabal is purely academic.  Still, trying to divine the truth is an intriguing proposition.  So let me take a stab at this intellectually stimulating game.  And no, I'm not going to indulge in guesswork, trying to penetrate the veil of mystery surrounding Obama, a man without a past.  My intention is to arrive at an answer by induction from what is a matter of public record and what is in plain view.