Arnold Ahlert

Welfare State Madness

Another dubious record has been set during the Obama administration. As of the end of December, a staggering 10,988,269 Americans were receiving federal disability benefits, a number that exceeds the entire population of Greece.

Amnesty: A Disaster for the American Worker

Ninety two million Americans have left the workforce. Another 50 million live below the poverty line. One-in-five American households are on food stamps.

Clinton “Regrets” Benghazi

At a keynote appearance before the National Automobile Dealers Association on Monday, Hillary Clinton began laying the groundwork for how she will respond to the Benghazi scandal during her likely 2016 presidential run.

Downgraded: Insurance Companies Taste Wrath of ObamaCare

Another day, another dose of bad news for ObamaCare. On Thursday, Moody's Investor Service announced it was downgrading its outlook for America's healthcare insurance sector from "stable" to "negative," due to ObamaCare.

Food Stamp Explosion

Another dose of reality has trumped the Obama administration's economic happy talk. According to data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), one-in-five Americans were on the food stamp program in 2013. A staggering 23,052,388 households needed supplemental food assistance in FY2013, an increase of 722,675 households compared to FY2012.

America's Dying Economic Freedom

For the first time in the 20 years the Heritage Foundation and the Wall Street Journal have complied their annual "Index of Economic Freedom," the United States no longer occupies a spot among the top ten nations.

Israel Bash-Fest Comes to Washington

A press release published by Reuters has announced that America's first National Summit to Reassess the U.S.-Israel "Special Relationship" will be held on March 7 at the National Press Club in Washington, DC. In reality, the conference will be little more than an Israeli bash-fest. It is being organized by a host of virulently anti-Israel entities, including the Council for the National Interest Foundation (CNIF), If Americans Knew (IAK), the Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy (IRmep), and the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs (WRMEA).

ObamaCare's Attack on the Elderly

In October of 2012, the Daily Mail exposed the highly disturbing realities of the Liverpool Pathway (LCP), the series of guidelines for treating terminally ill patients developed for Britain's National Health Service (NHS).

Obama IRS's Crimes Against Americans to go Unpunished

While the media hypocritically train their focus on New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's bridge-closing scandal, the Obama administration is quietly sweeping its IRS scandal, in which officials terrorized citizens for years with invasive investigations, audits, burdensome litigation, and threats of criminal prosecution, under the rug.

The Left's Disdain for the Will to Live

Lisa Bonchek Adams is a 43-year-old woman with three children and Stage IV metastatic breast cancer. In the seven years since she was first diagnosed, Adams has dedicated an enormous amount of time and energy to chronicling her battle with the disease, via hundreds of thousands of tweets and a blog.

New Declassified Docs Expose Obama's Benghazi Lies

Newly declassified documents reveal that high-ranking members of the Obama administration were aware that the September 11, 2012 assault on the American consulate in Benghazi was a "terrorist attack" only minutes after the battle began.

The Long-Term Unemployment Crisis

Last Friday, yet another one of those "unexpected" developments that baffle economic "experts," reared its ugly head. Job creation plummeted in December, with only 74,000 Americans gaining employment, matching the weakest gain since January 2011.

Semper Fail

Reality and social engineering recently collided, and reality lost. Beginning in 2014, female U.S. Marines were supposed to meet a minimum standard of three pull-ups for their annual physical fitness test. Unfortunately, when that standard was tested at the Marine Corps Recruit Depot in South Carolina last year, only 45 percent of the women could meet it.

Robert Gates Confirms 'Party of Defeat' Narrative

In 2008, authors David Horowitz and Ben Johnson released their book, "Party of Defeat." It chronicled the Democratic Party's duplicitous efforts regarding its initial support for the Bush administration's prosecution of the war in Iraq, followed by their attempts to undermine it--for nothing more than crass political considerations. In a his new book, "Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War," former defense secretary Robert M. Gates, who served in both the Bush and Obama administrations, delivers a devastating confirmation of Horowitz's and Johnson's arguments.

Obama's Attack on Workers

Democrats and President Obama aim to make raising the minimum wage and focusing on growing inequality their main agenda for the 2014 mid-term election campaign.

Will 2014 Be the Year of Amnesty?

House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) seems determined to undo the political advantage the GOP has gained from the disastrous implementation of ObamaCare.

The Year of ObamaCare

As of January 1, ObamaCare is the law of the land. Or more accurately, those parts of ObamaCare that weren't unilaterally changed or delayed to serve the interests of the Obama administration and the Democratic Party heading in the 2014 election.

Duck Dynasty and a Christmas Creche

The A&E/Duck Dynasty circus and an effort in South Florida to denigrate a Christmas creche display are both driven by the same components. They are classic examples of political correctness run amok, coupled with the idea that the whiners of the world are somehow entitled to special consideration, even when that consideration amounts to nothing more than the tyranny of the minority.

The DOJ's Curious Foray into the 'Knockout Game' Fray

Twenty-seven-year-old Conrad Barrett of Katy, Texas, has been charged with a hate crime by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) for allegedly targeting a 79-year-old black man as his "knockout game" victim.

A Taxpayer Bailout for ObamaCare

An American public already reeling from the catastrophic rollout of ObamaCare will more than likely be hearing an unfamiliar term being bandied about in the new year. "Risk corridor" refers to a provision in the law that allows the government to "stabilize" premium costs for insurance companies during the first three years of the healthcare rollout.