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Arnold Ahlert

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

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Huckabee on God, Guns, Grits and Gravy

Mike Huckabee's latest book, "God, Guns, Grits, and Gravy" is an entertaining compendium of the former Arkansas Governor's take on a number of the salient political issues of the day. And as the title suggests, that point of view emanates from a proud member of "flyover country."
- Thursday, January 15, 2015

Cyber Insecurity

In a coincidence many Americans may see as emblematic of the administration's approach to global terror, President Obama was addressing the nation regarding cyber security Monday while hackers claiming to represent ISIS assumed control over the media accounts of the U.S. military's Central Command (CENTCOM). "ISIS is already here, we are in your PCs, in each military base. With Allah's permission we are in CENTCOM now," said one tweet sent from CENTCOM's account.
- Wednesday, January 14, 2015

Greek Radical Left on the March

Greece is once again at the center of the European Union storm. Following the failure of the Athens parliament to elect a president in late December, Syriza, aka The Coalition of the Radical Left, is poised to assume the reins of power.
- Friday, January 9, 2015

Boehner Survives

The ideological differences between the establishment GOP and the party's conservative wing became more evident yesterday during the latest election for Speaker of the House. Hours before the vote, a "dump Boehner" movement aimed at denying the Ohio Republican a third term appeared to be gaining momentum. "A fresh start often requires change, and I believe that change should start with the election of a new Speaker," wrote Rep. Jeff Duncan (R-SC) on his Facebook page.
- Wednesday, January 7, 2015

The ‘Good War’ Obama Surrendered

The ‘Good War’ Obama Surrendered
On Christmas Day at Marine Corps Base Hawaii, followed by a White House press release on Dec. 28, President Obama announced the end of the war in Afghanistan. "We've been in continuous war now for almost thirteen years--over 13 years," he said, "and next week we will be ending our combat mission in Afghanistan. Obviously, because of the extraordinary service of the men and women in the American armed forces, Afghanistan has a chance to rebuild its own country. We are safer. It's not going to be a source of terrorist attacks again," he added.
- Friday, January 2, 2015

Trouble in Berkeley, Missouri

Trouble in Berkeley, Missouri
Another seemingly justified police shooting near Ferguson, MO briefly followed a sadly predictable script. In nearby Berkeley, a white police officer, aged 34, fired three shots, killing black American Antonio Martin, aged 18. The officer was responding to a report of stealing at a Mobil on the Run gas station. Martin allegedly pulled a 9mm handgun on the six-year veteran, who stumbled backwards as he fired, striking Martin once. "He will carry the weight of this for the rest of his life, certainly for the rest of his career," said St. Louis County Police Chief Jon Belmar, referring to the unidentified officer. "There are no winners here."
- Thursday, December 25, 2014

Army Chaplain Punished for Mentioning Faith

Apparently, the Obama administration's ostensible determination to foster "diversity" in the military is a one-way street. Army Chaplain Joseph Lawhorn was disciplined for mentioning his faith and the Bible as part of a November suicide prevention training seminar with the 5th Ranger Training Battalion. "You provided a two-sided handout that listed Army resources on one side and a biblical approach to handling depression on the other side," wrote Col. David Fivecoat, commander of the Airborne and Ranger Training Brigade at Ft. Benning, Georgia, in an official Letter of Concern. "This made it impossible for those in attendance to receive the resource information without also receiving the biblical information."
- Wednesday, December 24, 2014

Obama's 'Operation Choke Point'

Almost unbelievably, the Obama administration is involved in another scandalous abuse of power, one that has largely escaped the public's attention. The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee released a report December 8 detailing the abuses by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), operating under the auspices of a program known as Operation Choke Point. Run by the Departments of Justice and Treasury, Operation Choke Point was supposed to target illegal businesses and prevent them from obtaining access to the U.S. financial system.
- Thursday, December 18, 2014

Taliban School Slaughter

Taliban School Slaughter, Islamic child sacrifice reaches grisly new low in Pakistan
The mind-numbing savagery of radical Islam plumbed new depths in Pakistan yesterday. Taliban terrorists shouting "Allahu akbar" attacked the Army Public School and Degree College in Peshawar, slaughtering 142 people, including 132 children between the ages of six and 16. Another 10 staff members, including the principal, were also murdered. "They didn't take any hostages initially and started firing in the hall," said Maj. Gen. Asim Bajwa, a military spokesman.
- Wednesday, December 17, 2014

Budget Battle Royale

Thursday was filled with chaos in the capital. By a razor thin margin, the Republican-controlled House voted in favor of the $1.1 trillion "CRomnibus" funding bill. House Majority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) was forced to cajole conservative GOPers to switch their votes after it appeared it was headed for defeat earlier in the day. All of the machinations were aimed at preventing a government shutdown beginning at midnight.
- Friday, December 12, 2014

The Senate CIA Report and Democratic Treachery

On Tuesday, the Senate Intelligence Committee released the 500-page executive summary of the report on the CIA's enhanced interrogation of terrorist detainees. Democrats, the media and Republican Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) are using it as an opportunity to hammer the CIA and the Bush administration, while American embassies, military units and other U.S. interests are preparing for possible reprisals. But adding further threats to Americans already in harm's way matters not. Beleaguered congressional Democrats are desperate for a political boon and have turned to an old standby: sabotaging national security and sacrificing American lives.
- Wednesday, December 10, 2014

Rushing the National Defense Authorization Act

A lame duck Congress is on the verge of sticking it to America's troops. Before they leave for recess they will attempt to pass the FY2015 version of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). It is a compendium of ill-advised ideas seemingly aimed at advancing the Obama administration's continuing effort to "fundamentally transform" the finest fighting force in the world into something more closely resembling a social-outreach organization. Sadly, Republicans, apparently oblivious to the mandate just handed to them by the electorate, are on board.
- Friday, December 5, 2014

Amnesty Showdown

Amnesty Showdown
On Tuesday, Republicans met behind closed doors to plot their response to President Obama's unilateral decision to grant de facto amnesty and work permits to five million illegal aliens. That response centers around the House's control of government spending, and according to sources that contacted Breitbart news, the GOP rank-and-file will be setting the agenda. "It's not just for show," said Rep. Matt Salmon (R-AZ). "[Party leaders] don't want to get something to the floor and then have some big rebellion, they really want to get it right the first time. And they've learned the hard way that the way to do that is to build everything from the bottom up instead of shoving it from the top down."
- Wednesday, December 3, 2014

Illegal Alien Benefit Free-for-All

Illegal Alien Benefit Free-for-All
Apparently President Obama's unilateral decision to grant de facto amnesty to five million illegal aliens was insufficiently outrageous. On Tuesday, a White House official told the Washington Post that many illegals now protected from deportation will be eligible to receive a "wide array" of government benefits, including Social Security and Medicare.
- Thursday, November 27, 2014

Obama and the Roots of the Ferguson Rage

Obama and the Roots of the Ferguson Rage
And so the whirlwind, cultivated by Barack Obama, Eric Holder, Al Sharpton, the mainstream media and the army of thugs they enabled, is now being reaped. As the result of a St. Louis County grand jury refusing to indict officer Darren Wilson for the shooting death of Michael Brown, Ferguson, MO, has become Ground Zero, in what irresponsible Missouri State Sen. Maria Chappelle-Nadali referred to on MSNBC as "St. Louis's race war."
- Wednesday, November 26, 2014

Uniting the Nation is Not the Impossible Dream

I am a conservative. The 2014 mid-term election marks the 20th year (at least) I’ve voted against something rather than for something, or as the phrase goes, “the lesser of two evils.” I’d like to blame Democrats for my predicament, but I can’t. They are what they are, and their downward spiral from the party of JFK, to the collection of divide-and-conquer, lying hacks who disdain America’s language, culture, traditions – and finally, our national sovereignty–has been evident for quite some time.
- Wednesday, November 26, 2014

Keystone Killed

The ongoing theatrics surrounding the Keystone XL pipeline continued in earnest Tuesday. Desperate Democrat incumbent Senator Mary Landrieu (D-LA) spent the afternoon trying to secure the critical 60th vote necessary for the filibuster-proof majority that would get the legislation through the Senate and onto Obama's desk, while her fellow Democrats weighed the pros and cons of alienating their radical environmentalist constituency. Democrats chose to stand with the radicals, defeating the bill by a 59-41 vote.
- Wednesday, November 19, 2014

Truthy: The Tax-Funded Speech Monitoring and Suppression Project

Truthy: The Tax-Funded Speech Monitoring and Suppression Project
Leftist speech suppressors are at it again, but this time they're apparently being subsidized by the American taxpayer. On Monday, House Committee on Science, Space and Technology Chairman Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX) sent a letter to the head of the National Science Foundation (NSF), demanding information about the nearly $1 million spent on the "Truthy" data-mining project that monitors political speech on Twitter.
- Friday, November 14, 2014

Bureaucracy Clouds Justice on Veterans Day

In a long-overdue effort, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Robert McDonald announced yesterday that the scandal-plagued agency would undergo the "largest reorganization of the Department of Veterans Affairs since its establishment," as he told CNN.
- Tuesday, November 11, 2014

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