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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:

Progressivism Has Been “Outed”

Many Americans, perhaps for the first time in their lives, are beginning to recognize the contemptible nature of progressivism. How does one defend the total abandonment of the democratic process, occurring first in Wisconsin and then in Indiana, where Democrats legislators have literally run away from their responsibilities? One can't--without revealing the bankruptcy of one's own convictions. The most satisfying aspect of it all? Americans are getting a daily dose of progressivism's only unalterable tenet: the ends justify the means.
- Saturday, February 26, 2011

Left attempt to usurp 2010 election results in Wisconsin

Anyone wondering just how far unionized public sector employees are willing to go to get their way can stop wondering. What is going on in Wisconsin is nothing less than an attempt to usurp the results of the 2010 election, using Democrat- and union-organized intimidation as the vehicle of choice. Yet when one cuts through all of the orchestrated outrage by union thugs and their co-conspirators in the media and Democrat party, one inarguable fact emerges: the progressive agenda was thumped on November 2, 2010 by the Wisconsin electorate. Not nipped. Hammered.
- Friday, February 18, 2011

Getting Back on the Bicycle

The human condition produces three types of individuals: the Givers, the Takers and the Fence Sitters. The human condition also produces, with extremely rare exceptions, one over-riding motivation for all that people do: self-interest. Self-interest, despite our best intentions, is usually dominated by two emotions: greed and fear. The best system for keeping a society healthy, wealthy and wise is one which pushes the Fence Sitters in to the Givers camp, by promoting a sense of self-interest that greatly mitigates the emotions of greed and fear. By any reasonable measure, progressivism, in any of its various incarnations, isn't that system.
- Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Capitalism—Minus the Cronies

The revelation that the American taxpayer is now the World's Banker of Last Resort, as revealed by the new FinReg bill (yet another assault on real, as opposed to crony capitalism), means Americans must face the disturbing reality that our national sovereignty is being completely undermined. And those undermining it have only one over-riding loyalty: a level of naked self-interest beyond anything the world has ever witnessed.
- Thursday, December 2, 2010

The Ghost of Thanksgiving Yet to Come

"Winston, come into the dining room, it's time to eat," Julia yelled to her husband. "In a minute, honey, it's a tie score," he answered. Actually Winston wasn't very interested in the traditional holiday football game between Detroit and Washington. Ever since the government passed the Civility in Sports Statute of 2017, outlawing tackle football for its "unseemly violence" and the "bad example it sets for the rest of the world," Winston was far less of a football fan than he used to be. Two-hand touch wasn't nearly as exciting.
- Wednesday, November 24, 2010

The Frogs Finally Notice the Water is Boiling

..."but what we're doing, what we're putting up with, what we're accepting at this airport is so symbolic of us just not standing up and saying 'enough is enough.'"--Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) Maybe it really did need to come to this. Maybe Americans had to literally have their privates groped by a government bureaucrat to finally realize that they have been the proverbial frogs sitting in a pot of water, unaware that they are being incrementally boiled to death. For those of you who still don't get it, let me make it clear:
- Thursday, November 18, 2010

Voters Own the Choices They Make

Despite massive rejection of the progressive agenda throughout the nation last Tuesday, two states, New York and California, remained virtually immune to the groundswell. Voters in both states elected or re-elected liberal Democrats by healthy margins. Unlike my liberal counterparts, who characterize voters as "remarkably insightful" when they embrace the progressive agenda and "fearful and uninformed" when they reject it, I will not question the wisdom of the electorate.
- Monday, November 8, 2010

The PC Strategy for Dealing With Terrorism?  Stay Lucky

Who wants to die for political correctness sake? No doubt many will think the question is absurd, but is it? Apparently we have dodged yet another Islamic terrorist bullet when ink cartridges filled with explosives and put on planes were discovered before they could do any damage. That means only one thing: the insufferable, PC status quo will remain virtually unchanged. Here's some questions for the politically correct among us, for whom no threat ever alters their perceptions, no matter how removed from reality those perceptions are:
- Sunday, October 31, 2010

“If You Don’t Know What’s Going On, Don’t Vote”

Dear Fellow Americans: Actually, not all of my fellow Americans. This letter is directed at a particular subset of Americans who manage to weave their way through life without the slightest concern or knowledge about the critical issues facing the country today. For you, "news gathering" consists of watching John Stewart's "The Daily Show," even as you remain undeterred by the fact that the network which broadcasts it is called Comedy Central. Some of you are the kind of people who voted for Barack Obama because, as one of your herd put it to me, "all my friends voted for him."
- Thursday, October 28, 2010

Juan Williams: Victim or Enabler?

image"Well, now that I no longer work for NPR let me give you my opinion. This is an outrageous violation of journalistic standards and ethics by management that has no use for a diversity of opinion, ideas or a diversity of staff (I was the only black male on the air). This is evidence of one-party rule and one sided thinking at NPR that leads to enforced ideology, speech and writing. It leads to people, especially journalists, being sent to the gulag for raising the wrong questions and displaying independence of thought."--Juan Williams on his firing from National Public Radio
- Friday, October 22, 2010

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