Arnold Ahlert

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.

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.

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.

Can Americans Be Trusted to Oversee School Lunches Themselves?

The current standards took effect in 2010, when President Obama signed the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act. Its requirements included more fruits, vegetables and whole grains to be served to students, while setting limits on sugar, sodium and fat. It also set a limit of 850 calories per meal.

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."

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

'The Hornet's Nest': A Real Look at America's Heroes

A can’t-miss film chronicling the true sacrifice of our soldiers.

Veterans Affairs and Death by Bureaucracy

There may finally be a scandal engulfing the Obama administration that even Democrats and their media collaborators can't obfuscate. What happened at the VA facility in Phoenix, AZ, where employees created two sets of waiting lists to make it seem patients were being treated in a timely manner--and as many as 40 veterans allegedly died while languishing on the secret list--is an anomaly.

Comprehensive Con Job

Words are slippery things, and perhaps the most slippery words on the planet at the moment are “comprehensive immigration reform.”

A New Level of Illegal Immigration Chaos

A bombshell report by the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) is difficult to construe as anything other than the Obama administration's contempt for the rule of law. An internal Department of Homeland Security (DHS) document obtained by CIS reveals that in 2013, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) released from detention 36,007 convicted criminal aliens awaiting the outcome of their deportation proceedings--including 193 individuals convicted of murder, 426 convicted of sexual assault, 1,075 convicted of aggravated assault, and 303 convicted of kidnapping.

ObamaCare's Abysmal Numbers

The ongoing efforts by the Obama administration and their media apparatchiks to boost the "soaring" enrollment figures of ObamaCare have hit another bump in the road. Despite administration's highly dubious figure of eight million enrollments, the latest McKinsey survey tracking the health insurance market's first open enrollment period reveals that a staggering 74 percent of those who signed up for the plan were previously insured.

Feverish Little Brains

The Patriot Post In the movie “All About Eve,” Bette Davis wonders aloud what is going on in the “feverish little brain” of wannabe career usurper Ann Baxter. Last week, I also wondered what goes on in a number of feverish little brains, courtesy of people who exhibit a combination of cluelessness and self-absorption that would be truly disturbing in a better world. Unfortunately in this world, it’s business – or is that brainless – as usual.

Judge Blocks Anti-Conservative Witch-Hunt in Wisconsin

The relentless efforts by Wisconsin leftists to undermine Gov. Scott Walker and his fellow conservatives--by any means necessary--has taken another hit. In a 26-page decision, U.S. District Judge Rudolph Randa granted a preliminary injunction halting a politically-motivated John Doe investigation that probed campaign spending and fundraising by Gov. Scott Walker's campaign, Eric O'Keefe, his Wisconsin Club for Growth (WCFG), and other conservative entities. "The Defendants must cease all activities related to the investigation, return all property seized in the investigation from any individual or organization, and permanently destroy all copies of information and other materials obtained through the investigation," Randa wrote.

Dying in the Hands of Veterans Affairs

The disturbing and ongoing machinations occurring at the Veterans Affairs Department (VA) are reaching critical mass. At a House hearing last month, lawmakers from both parties accused VA officials of allowing veterans to die, due to delayed or withheld medical treatments at VA facilities. Moreover, the VA is stonewalling the follow-up investigation that has been conducted by the Veterans Affairs Committee for more than a year.

New Democracy Alliance Donors Revealed

The highly secretive Democracy Alliance (DA), which takes great pains to keep its work disbursing millions of dollars to left-wing causes beyond public scrutiny, has made a foolish mistake.

Benghazi Smoking Gun Exposed

The idea that the Obama administration willfully orchestrated a disinformation campaign with regard to the attacks in Benghazi has now been confirmed.