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Arnold Ahlert

Arnold Ahlert was an op-ed columist with the NY Post for eight years.

Most Recent Articles by Arnold Ahlert:

Part-Time Nation

Obama's Part Time Nation
Last Thursday, an Obama-centric mainstream media trumpeted the creation of 288,000 jobs and the reduction in the unemployment rate from 6.3 percent to 6.1 percent. Lost in the manufactured euphoria are the sobering details: America is well on its way to becoming a nation where millions of workers can only find part-time, lower-paying jobs.
- Tuesday, July 8, 2014

ObamaCare: A ‘Signature Achievement’ of Unaccountable Bureaucracy

A little over a week ago, reports surfaced revealing that the so-called "back end" of the Healthcare.gov website remained months away from being completed. On Tuesday, the consequences of that ongoing fiasco were revealed. A pair of reports released by the Department of Health and Human Services' (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) reveal "internal" controls for evaluating healthcare applications are ineffective, and 85 percent of 2.9 million data "inconsistencies" on ObamaCare applications cannot be resolved, even after nine months of attempting to do so.
- Friday, July 4, 2014

The VA Scandal Gets Deadlier

The VA Scandal Gets Deadlier
A devastating oversight report from Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) reveals that the combination of malpractice and bureaucratic ineptitude infesting the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is far deadlier than previously acknowledged. "Over the past decade, more than 1,000 veterans may have died as a result of VA malfeasance, and the VA has paid out nearly $1 billion to veterans and their families for its medical malpractice," the report states.
- Thursday, June 26, 2014

Detroit: How the Left Made Water More Expensive Than Cell Phones

Detroit: How the Left Made Water More Expensive Than Cell Phones
The latest news from Detroit, the poster child for failed progressive policies that have dominated that city for more than a half-century, is not good. In March of 2014, the Detroit Water and Sewerage Department (DWSD) announced it would begin cutting off water service for customers at least 60 days overdue or more than $150 behind in their water bill payments. Activists outraged by the decision have taken their case outside the city--all the way to the United Nations.
- Tuesday, June 24, 2014

Saddam's WMDs: The Left's Iraq Lies Exposed

The recent turmoil in Iraq brought on by the rise of the Sunni extremist group known as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has ironically struck a blow to the American Left's endlessly repeated narrative that there were no weapons of mass destruction (WMDs) in Iraq prior to the war.
- Monday, June 23, 2014

Hope and Change Has Crashed and Burned

Hope and Change Has Crashed and Burned
A new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll reveals that President Obama's overall approval rating has cratered to 41 percent, tying the low-water mark of his presidency.
- Thursday, June 19, 2014

Who Lost Iraq?

Iraq's disintegration may be imminent, as the government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki appears incapable of stopping the advance of the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS). The terrorist offshoot of al Qaeda now has its sights set on the capital city of Baghdad. Adding to the chaos, the city of Kirkuk was overtaken by Kurdish soldiers absent any resistance by government forces.
- Friday, June 13, 2014


Taliban Rising

While Obama administration officials and their media allies are furiously attempting to spin the swap of U.S. Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl for five high-level Taliban terrorists in their favor, the other side of the equation is weighing in as well. Taliban leaders are expressing jubilation over the trade, hailing it as a major recognition of their status and boon to their cause.
- Saturday, June 7, 2014

Terrorist Groups Rise 58% Since 2010

One of the principal narratives of the 2012 Obama re-election campaign--as in al Qaeda has been "decimated" and put on a "on the path to defeat"--has itself been decimated. According to a study released yesterday by the RAND Corporation, there has been a 58 percent increase in the number of jihadist groups over the last four years.
- Thursday, June 5, 2014

Gitmo: Closing Up Shop?

Lost in the furor surrounding President Obama's decision to swap five high-level terrorists for Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl is a potential ulterior motivation for the deal lurking in the background: fulfilling the president's 2014 State of the Union promise to completely shut down the prison at Guantanamo Bay.
- Wednesday, June 4, 2014

Obama's Environmentalist Attack on America

Apparently the reality that America's economic output declined by 1 percent in the first quarter, retail and home sales are plummeting, and a record-setting 1 in 8 (or 10 million) American men in their prime working years between ages 25--54 aren't working or looking for work will be no impediment for a president determined to impose a radical environmentalist agenda on the nation.
- Tuesday, June 3, 2014

A Pathetic Prisoner Exchange

While Americans were busy with the weekend, a hopelessly corrupt Obama administration did a Saturday news dump that can be summed up in one succinct phrase: America now negotiates with terrorists. Five high-level Taliban thugs were swapped for American Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, who had been held by the Taliban for several years.
- Monday, June 2, 2014


Horror in Pakistan: Pregnant Woman Stoned by Family

Those looking for the real war on women--as opposed to the one promoted by the American left and their media enablers--should focus their attention on Pakistan and Sudan. In the former nation, a 25-year-old pregnant woman has been stoned to death by members of her own family, with her father dubbing the atrocity an "honor killing."
- Wednesday, May 28, 2014

The Race Card Is Still Maxed Out

Having been raised by an Irish Catholic mother and a lapsed Jewish father, I have often referred to an immortal phrase I heard from a comedian whose name I no longer remember. "I know guilt and shame," I've explained to many people with whom I've discussed family backgrounds. Oftentimes, I go further, explaining that while Irish and Jewish are the biggies, my family's background is comprised of so many other ethnicities (Lithuanian, Brazilian and French/Creole to name a few) that being prejudiced is a dangerous enterprise: I could end up hating myself.
- Tuesday, May 27, 2014

The Meaning of the European Elections

A series of stunning election results for the European Parliament have rocked the continent's political establishment. In France, Marine Le Pen's National Front (FN) scored its first victory in a nationwide vote over both the center-right UMP and President François Hollande's ruling Socialist party.
- Tuesday, May 27, 2014

The VA Scandal: A Shadow over Memorial Day

As many thoughtful Americans will spend some part of today remembering the enormous sacrifices made by our veterans, this particular Memorial Day can hardly remain removed from the series of highly disturbing revelations surrounding the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) scandal.
- Monday, May 26, 2014

Hillary Stacks the Benghazi Select Committee

On Wednesday, Democrats deigned to join Republicans on the House Select Committee investigating Benghazi, primarily to protect Hillary Clinton's reputation in particular, and the Obama administration's in general. Toward that end they will likely do what they always do whenever their party is threatened: denigrate the investigation as it unfolds and obstruct it as much as possible.
- Friday, May 23, 2014

Amnesty By Any Means Necessary

The Obama administration is determined to continue mocking the separation of powers concept contained in the Constitution. Thus, the president is contemplating another unilateral move with regard to illegal immigration, allowing some illegal aliens brought here as children to serve in the United States military.
- Thursday, May 22, 2014

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