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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:

Lynching the Koch Brothers: The Dems' Strategy for 2014

As George Orwell envisioned in "1984," statists need an enemy to distract people from the failures of their corrosive ideology. In that seminal novel, the enemy was Emmanuel Goldstein, and a period of "Two Minutes Hate" was staged by the ruling party to keep the public sufficiently distracted.
- Wednesday, March 12, 2014

The Parade of ObamaCare Lies Marches On

The Parade of ObamaCare Lies Marches On
Another round of inconvenient realities have gotten in the way of the ObamaCare rollout. A report issued by a major union accuses ObamaCare of exacerbating income inequality.
- Tuesday, March 11, 2014

GOP: Boycott the Mainstream Media

In 1981, S. Robert Lichter, then with George Washington University, and Stanley Rothman of Smith College, released a survey revealing that the political leanings of 240 highly influential journalists from New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Time, Newsweek, U.S. News & World Report, ABC, CBS, NBC and PBS were unabashedly liberal.
- Monday, March 10, 2014

The President’s Devious ObamaCare Delays

The President’s Devious ObamaCare Delays
A lawless and politically transparent Obama administration just became more so on both counts. The "imminent" decision to implement yet another delay of ObamaCare, reported by The Hill on Tuesday, became reality Wednesday.
- Friday, March 7, 2014


The Democrats’ War on the Two-Party System

While conservatives are divided on the political path forward, Democrats are showing themselves to be united in a war against the Republican Party--with one-party rule for America as the endgame.
- Tuesday, March 4, 2014

The Judicial Assault on American Flag T-Shirts

Last Thursday, a federal court unanimously determined that officials at Live Oak High School in California acted appropriately when they ordered students wearing American flag t-shirts to turn them inside out, or be sent home during a 2010 Cinco De Mayo celebration.
- Monday, March 3, 2014

Uganda's Anti-Gay Laws and Leftist Silence

On Monday, President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda signed into law harsh, anti-gay legislation. The law includes provisions that would jail repeat offenders for life, outlaw any promotion of homosexuality, and require the Ugandan people to denounce it. In the face of genuine persecution of gay people, of course, the LGBT community and their supporters are conspicuously silent. And while the Obama administration has released a statement criticizing the law, most black activists remain completely MIA as well, including the man leading the charge against the anti-gay marriage agenda in America, Eric Holder.
- Friday, February 28, 2014

Revenge: Obama's Targeting of Standard and Poor's

The federal government's lawsuit against ratings agency Standard and Poor's has been hit by a potential bombshell. In January, the Wall Street Journal reported that Harold McGraw III, Chairman and CEO of S&P's parent company, testified that after the agency downgraded the nation's triple-A credit rating, he received a telephone call from then-Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner saying the ratings agency would be "looked at very carefully."
- Thursday, February 27, 2014

Gutting the Army

On Monday, Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel recommended reducing size of the U.S. Army to its lowest level since before the nation's entry into WWII.
- Tuesday, February 25, 2014

Progressive Insanity and the Global Warming Cult

Progressives will do virtually anything to advance their agenda. In the arena of global warming, they have resorted to hysteria and angry denunciation of those who dare to question their infallible "wisdom." And as it is with every aspect of their agenda, such wisdom must be imposed at the expense of liberty.
- Friday, February 21, 2014

The Left-Wing Money Machine and the IRS's War on Conservatives

Of all the donors who contribute to political causes, no one is more vilified by the mainstream media than the Koch brothers for their "outsized" influence on the national debate. But according to OpenSecrets.org, which complied a list of the "Top All-Time Donors, 1989-2014," the Koch brothers didn't even make the top fifty. Meanwhile, none of the top ten donors and only two of the top 20 tilted toward Republicans, with the rest supporting Democrats and only a few on the fence. These findings are hardly surprising. As David Horowitz and Jacob Laksin revealed in their 2012 book, The New Leviathan: How the Left-Wing Money Machine Shapes American Politics and Threatens America's Future, the American right is severely outgunned by their leftist counterparts in the world of advocacy organizations. What is true of these groups is also true of political action committees and similar organizations, as OpenSecrets reveals. These facts only make the idea that IRS targeting of conservatives was "accidental" all the more ludicrous. (To order David Horowitz and Jacob Laksin's The New Leviathan: How the Left-Wing Money-Machine Shapes American Politics and Threatens America's Future, click here)
- Thursday, February 20, 2014

Refuting Robert Reich

Former Clinton Labor Secretary and lifelong leftist Robert Reich has put together a video for MoveOn.org explaining how America is conducting a "war" on poor and working families. "What are they really after?" Reich asks, never bothering to explain who "they" are. He proceeds to connect "seven dots" that together indicate that a cabal of class oppressors is drowning the poor with their opposition to big-government dependency programs.
- Friday, February 14, 2014

Income Inequality at the White House

In the midst of joblessness and deprivation for millions of Americans, another opulent White House party took place Tuesday night feting fellow socialist crusader Francois Hollande, the president of France. While the Obamas frequently decry the excesses of private-sector wealth, characterizing it as the product of ill-gotten gains, they have demonstrated time and time again that they have little difficulty emulating the same behavior when Americans are footing the bill. Meanwhile, incessant regulations, attacks on industry and on middle class paychecks through ObamaCare, are crushing ordinary Americans, with no end in sight.
- Thursday, February 13, 2014

The Lawless Presidency

In a move both transparently political and utterly contemptuous of the rule of law, the Obama administration has yet again made changes to the healthcare law. The Treasury Department issued a fact sheet Monday, outlining the new regulations (laughingly referred to as "final").
- Wednesday, February 12, 2014

Iran Answers Appeasement with Warships

Despite the alleged "good faith" negotiations taking place between Iranian foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and Secretary of State John Kerry, the world's foremost state sponsor of terror is now testing the United States' mettle. Iranian warships initially sent on their first trip to the Atlantic Ocean in January will now travel close to U.S. maritime borders. The move was revealed Saturday by a senior Iranian naval commander.
- Monday, February 10, 2014

Puerto Rico: The Next Detroit?

On Tuesday, credit ratings agency Standard & Poor's downgraded Puerto Rico's general-obligation bonds to BB+, a level that is considered junk status.
- Friday, February 7, 2014

ObamaCare: 'Liberating' the Workers

On Tuesday, a report by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) revealed that ObamaCare will have a "substantially larger" impact on the job market than the originally anticipated reduction of 800,000 full-time workers. Instead, the CBO predicts that the law will reduce the workforce by the equivalent of 2.3 million full-time jobs by 2021, and 2.5 million over the next decade.
- Thursday, February 6, 2014

Big Labor Burned by ObamaCare

Unions that undoubtedly believed they were part of the Obama administration's select group of "winners," have discovered otherwise. In a scathing letter addressed to Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Harry Reid (D-NV), the presidents of UniteHere and the Laborers' International Union of North America (LIUNA) declared they were "bitterly disappointed" that the proposed regulations to ObamaCare would be detrimental to their interests.
- Wednesday, February 5, 2014

Bracing for Amnesty

Unbelievable as it may be to their core constituency, House Republicans are now embracing comprehensive immigration reform. Late yesterday, the Hill obtained a one-page document outlining the GOP's "statement of principals," that endorses a path to legal status, once "specific enforcement triggers" have been achieved.
- Friday, January 31, 2014

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