Arnold Ahlert

More Secrets From Huma Abedin

Huma Abedin, former Secretary of State Hillary's Clinton's long time aide with extensive ties to Muslim Brotherhood groups, was granted an arrangement by the State Department to do outside consulting work, even as she remained a top advisor in the Department.

Pro-Life Groups Confirm: IRS Targeting Began in 2009

The list of categories included in the IRS's effort to target conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status continues to widen. On Wednesday, the Thomas More Society, a Chicago-based public interest law firm, announced that cases they handled "demonstrate the agency's abuse of pro-life organizations in addition to those identified as 'tea party', 'patriot', or 'government spending' groups."

Desperate Holder Throws Underlings Under the Bus

In testimony before the House Judiciary Committee yesterday, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder reinforced the notion that he is unfit to remain in office.

Eric Holder: The Culture of Corruption Enforcer

Just as the Obama administration’s IRS-targeting scandal has started to metastasize, a new controversy has erupted over the government’s monitoring of one of the nation’s largest press bureaus. Using a series of broad subpoenas, the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) secretly obtained two months of telephone records belonging to reporters and editors working for the Associated Press (AP).

Obama’s MSNBC Whore

Yesterday, administration was involved in a cover-up. "If this was some effort on our part to try to downplay what had happened or tamp it down, that would be a pretty odd thing that three days later we end up putting out all the information," Obama said. "Who executes some sort of cover-up or effort to tamp things down for three days? So the whole thing defies logic." Equally willing to defy logic was Obama's MSNBC # Chris Matthews, who has been more than eager to carry water for the Obama administration. Indeed, Matthews' coverage of the unrelenting Benghazi scandal has distinguished itself as being particularly loathsome. Last Thursday, Matthews was in fine form. After acknowledging that Greg Hicks, former deputy chief of mission in Libya, had testified before the House that he had spoken with Hillary Clinton on the night of the attack and that Clinton's Chief of Staff tried to intimidate him into silence, Matthews downplayed the egregiousness of the former secretary of State's scandalous behavior.

The Taxman Cometh—For Obama’s Enemies

On Friday, an Obama administration with an already appalling track record of scandals added an equally egregious revelation to the list. The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) apologized for what they characterized as an "inappropriate" targeting of tax-exempt conservative organizations, whose names included "Tea Party" or "Patriot," during the 2012 election campaign. Adding to severity of the debacle, the Washington Post reported Friday that the IRS division head "had no plans to release the information publicly, despite the confirmed wrongdoing."

Blow-by-Blow: How Obama & Hillary Left Americans to Die

Wednesday on Capitol Hill, three impeccable witnesses offered the clearest evidence to date that the Obama administration's response to Benghazi before, during and after the terrorist attack that claimed the lives of Ambassador Christopher Stevens, State Department employee Sean Smith, and former Navy SEALs Glen A. Doherty and Tyrone S. Woods, was a deadly combination of ineptitude, political calculations, and outright lying.

A Federal Takeover of Elections?

On March 28, President Obama issued Executive Order 13639, establishing a Presidential Commission on Election Administration "in order to promote the efficient administration of Federal elections and to improve the experience of all voters." The ostensible premise behind this effort is the idea that some voters were forced to wait too long in line to cast their ballots. Yet a growing number of critics see something entirely different: they see this as an attempt to initiate a federal takeover of elections.

Amnesty & the Bankrupting of America

A report released by the conservative Heritage Foundation threatens to blow a big hole in the so-called Gang of Eight's attempt to implement comprehensive immigration reform. An analysis of the costs associated with granting amnesty to 11 million illegal aliens is staggering: according to the report, taxpayers would be forced to shell out $6.3 trillion, even when the 10-year barrier preventing newly legalized individuals from seeking government benefits is factored into the equation.

Obama & Clinton’s Benghazi Lies Exposed

A searing new Interim Progress Report released by the GOP chairmen of five House committees reveals the disturbing extent of the Obama administration's deceit and manipulation over the Sept. 11, 2012 terrorist attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya. As the 43-page document details, not only was gross incompetence to blame for the success of the attack that cost four Americans their lives, but a concerted effort at the highest levels of government was undertaking to cover up the debacle, deceive the public and shield officials, including then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and President Obama, from responsibility.

Unravelling the Boston Terror Plot

On Wednesday, criminal complaints were filed against three college friends of alleged Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. Two Kazakh nationals, Azamat Tazhayakov and Dias Kadyrbayev, were charged with conspiring to obstruct justice, and U.S. citizen Robel Phillipos was charged with making false statements.

Economic Misery: The New Normal

The weakest recovery in the nation's history continues. On Wednesday, payroll processing firm ADP reported that private sector businesses created a disappointing 119,000 jobs in the month of April. Once again, to use a word that should embarrass those who support the Obama administration's Keynesian economic policies, this meager total was "unexpected."

Obama Vacations While Economy Tanks

One in five Americans are on food stamps. The number of Americans in the labor force fell to its lowest level since 1979 in March, when another 500,000 Americans simply gave up hope of finding a job. Median household income has declined 5.6 percent since 2009, when the so-called economic recovery began.

National Security at Risk with Left at Helm

Last Thursday, adding insult to injury in the wake of the Boston Marathon bombing, the administration of Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick stonewalled efforts by the Boston Herald to determine the extent of government benefits provided to the Tsarnaev brothers, particularly attack mastermind Tamerlan Tsarnaev.

Obama & Clinton’s Benghazi Lies Exposed

A searing new Interim Progress Report released by the GOP chairmen of five House committees reveals the disturbing extent of the Obama administration's deceit and manipulation over the Sept. 11, 2012 terrorist attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya.

Plot Thickens in Saudi National Case

Radio talk show host Glenn Beck is continuing to investigate Abdul Rahman Alharbi, the Saudi national initially identified as a "person of interest" in the Boston Marathon bombing atrocity.

The Human-Hating Roots of the Green Movement

Monday was the 43rd celebration of Earth Day, an event hailed as an effort to promote responsible stewardship of the environment. Fittingly, it is also the birthdate of Communist Party creator Vladimir Lenin, a reality that the radical environmentalists responsible for the creation of Earth Day dismiss as a mere coincidence. Yet there is little question that under the guise of "saving the planet," the earth-firster crowd would be more than willing to impose the same kind of totalitarian control over the masses envisioned by Lenin.

Gotcha!

Just before 9 p.m. EST, the long ordeal suffered by the city of Boston and a grieving nation came to an end when 19-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the second suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing, was captured alive by police. He was taken from the scene by ambulance after hiding for hours in a community resident’s boat located in a private backyard. Reportedly wounded in last night's exchange of gunfire with police, Tsarnaev’s condition was described as “serious,” but not life-threatening. He is now in custody.

Obama’s Futile Tantrum over Gun Bill

During his 2008 presidential campaign, Barack Obama ran as a great uniter. "I don't think there is anybody in this race who's able to bring new people into the process and break out of some of the ideological gridlock that we have as effectively as I can," he said at the time.

Toxic Government by Democrats: Detroit

Editor’s note: The following is the fourth in a series of articles that will expose the misery of life in America’s poorest cities, all of which have one thing in common: they are controlled exclusively by Democrats. Each article presented by FrontPage will reveal how the production of mass urban poverty is much more than just a failure of leadership, but a means of political survival for the Left. To read the background pamphlet by David Horowitz and John Perazzo, “Government Versus The People,” click here. Perhaps no other city in America illuminates the failure of Democratic Party policies more brightly than Detroit. Two stories, separated by only four, days are emblematic. On March 11, former Mayor Kwame Kilpatick was found guilty of 24 of 30 charges leveled against him, including fraud, racketeering and extortion. Four days later, Michigan Governor Rick Snyder appointed attorney Kevyn Orr as the city’s emergency financial manager, in a last ditch effort to avoid what would be the largest municipal bankruptcy in the nation’s history. From 1961 to the present, the tragic history of Detroit itself has been written entirely by Democrats such as these individuals.