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By Robert J. Avrech | July 24, 2017

How to Be a Conservative

“Sir Roger Scruton, a formally trained political philosopher, talks about his life and the events he’s witnessed that led him to conservatism. He first embraced conservatism after witnessing the leftist student protests in France in May 1968. During the ensuing riots in Paris, more than three hundred people were injured. Scruton walked away from this event with a change in worldview and a strong leaning toward conservatism. Visits to communist- controlled Poland and Czechoslovakia in 1979 cemented his preference for conservatism and his distaste for the fraud of communism and socialism, initiating a desire to do something about it. From thereon he dedicated himself to helping organize underground seminars for the young people oppressed behind the iron curtain.

Posted in America, Books, Christianity, Communism, Conservatism, Constitution, Economy, Europe, Politics | Tagged Europe, Margaret Thatcher, Philosophy, Sir Roger Scruton | Leave a comment

By Robert J. Avrech | July 21, 2017

Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

“I’ve had a beautiful life, I’ve tumbled into the most beautiful life in the world. I’d never change it.”
—Mary Nolan
In 1948, Nolan’s body was discovered in her shabby Los Angeles bungalow, dead from an overdose of Seconal. It was never determined if death was accidental or by design. She was 46 years old.

Posted in Art, Hollywood, Hollywood Stars, Hollywood Still Photography, Jimmy Cagney, Marlene Dietrich, Movie Posters, Movies, Painting, Photography, True Hollywood Confessions | Tagged Cindy Sherman, Doris Day, Fashion, Georgia O'Keeffe, Irving Penn, James Cagney, Leonardo Da Vinci, Marlene Dietrich, Mary Nolan, Milton Greene, Nat Farbman, Pablo Picasso, Picasso, Polish Movie Posters, Rick McGinnis, Vintage Cars, Zsa Zsa Gabor | 4 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | July 19, 2017

Propaganda in the Jury Room

First Street Courthouse, downtown Los Angeles.

A few days ago, a close friend, a good citizen, responded to a summons for jury duty.

My friend was dismayed when, in the jury assembly room, CNN was switched on the big screen TV. The nonstop barrage of anti-Republican, hate-Trump propaganda was, to say the least, inappropriate for potential jurors. This kind of bias has no place in our courts.

My friend penned a letter to the Court Clerk.

Posted in America, Jury Service, Propaganda War | Tagged CNN, Jury Duty, Leftist Propaganda | 4 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | July 17, 2017

Government Can’t Fix Healthcare

Why is the government so bad at healthcare? Why did Obamacare make it more expensive than it already was? Is there a solution? Former Member of Congress Bob McEwen explains.

Posted in Big Government, Obamacare | Tagged Economics, Government, Government Waste, health care, Health Insurance, Prager University, Third Party Purchases | 6 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | July 14, 2017

Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

Barbara Stanwyck and Billy Wilder on the set of Double Indemnity.
“The very best screenplay I was ever sent was `Double Indemnity.’ It’s brilliant, but what’s amazing is that not one word was changed while we were shooting. Billy had it all there, and I mean all – everything you see on the screen was in the script. The moves, the business, the atmosphere, all written. When I mention `atmosphere’ in `Double Indemnity’ – that gloomy, horrible house the Dietrichsons lived in, the slit of sunlight slicing through those heavy drapes – you could smell that death was in the air, you understood why she wanted to get out of there, away, no matter how. And for an actress, let me say that the way those sets were lit, the house, Walter’s apartment, those dark shadows, those slices of harsh light at strange angles -all that helped my performance.”
— Barbara Stanwyck

Posted in Art, Barbara Stanwyck, Billy Wilder, Hollywood, Hollywood Stars, Hollywood Still Photography, Judaica, Judaism, Marilyn Monroe, Movie Posters, Painting, Photography, True Hollywood Confessions | Tagged Arthur Tress, August Sander, Barbara Stanyck, Billy Wilder, Edward Hopper, Eva Marie Saint, Fred MacMurray, Marilyn Monroe, Michelangelo, Mitzi Gaynor, Paul Revere, Polish Movie Posters, Rick McGinnis, Stanley Kubrick | 9 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | July 13, 2017

Mary Nolan

Mary Nolan (1902 – 1948) b. Mary Imogene Robertson, was a Ziegfeld girl at the tender age of 15. Her nickname was Bubbles — which gives some insight into young Mary’s reputation. She gained notoriety for a very public affair with Frank Tinney, a popular vaudeville star who was married. She was fired from the Follies and moved to Germany where she worked in the film industry. In 1927, she returned to America and made her way to Hollywood where she adopted the stage name Mary Nolan. In 1928 she co-starred in West of Zanzibar, directed by Tod Browning. The film stars Lon Chaney and Lionel Barrymore, with Nolan cast as Chaney’s defiled daughter Maizie. The film was a hit and Nolan’s performance is superb.

Posted in Hollywood, Hollywood Stars, Hollywood Still Photography, Mary Nolan, Photography, Silent Movies | Tagged Frank Tinney, Mary Nolan, Silent Movies, Ziegfeld Girl | 2 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | July 12, 2017

Brigitte Bardot Decries Islamic Invasion of France

Brigitte Bardot in Babette Goes to War, 1959

Any excuse to post a picture of BB.

Via Truth Revolt

Brigitte Bardot, French actress and sex symbol the world over, can’t silence her contempt for the Islamic invasion of her home country. Six times she has been charged with speech “crimes” for “inciting hatred” against Muslims and yet that hasn’t deterred the blonde bombshell from dropping truth bombs.

In a recent interview with a French magazine, Bardot said the Muslim invasion in France is “inadmissible” as the migrants refuse to assimilate. A translation of the interview was published at PamelaGeller.com:

Posted in Brigitte Bardot, Islam, Islam Denial, Islamic State, Islamic Terror, IslamoNazi Kidnappings, IslamoNazis | Tagged Brigitte Bardot, France, Muslim Invasion | 4 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | July 10, 2017

Jihad and the Democrat Party

IslamoNazi Linda Sarsour, the Democratic Party’s flavor of the month, gained legitimacy when Barack Obama invited her to the White House for some face time with the Dear Leader.

She has been all over the place ever since, leading the so-called resistance against President Trump: accusing him of being a white supremacist and an Islamophobe, and, I assume, of having cooties.

In a sane world, Sarsour would be recognized for what she is: a sharia-yearning IslamoNazi who seeks to undermine the foundations of western civilization.

Posted in Islam, Islam Denial, Islamic State, Islamic Terror, IslamoNazis, Jew-haters, Jew-hatred, Jihad Watch | Tagged Anti-American Democrats, IslamoNazis, Jihad, Linda Sarsour | 1 Response

By Robert J. Avrech | July 7, 2017

Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

“It’s the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time.”
—Tallulah Bankhead

Posted in Art, Hollywood, Hollywood Stars, Hollywood Still Photography, Judaica, Judaism, Painting, Photography, Quotes, True Hollywood Confessions | Tagged Audrey Hepburn, Joseph Cotten, Polish Movie Posters, Raphael, Rick McGinnis, Tallulah Bankhead, Vintage Cars, William Holden | 6 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | July 6, 2017

Iran, North Korea: Not Learning From History

As Syria and Iraq continue to spiral into Hobbesian tribal conflict we can all be grateful that Israel denied these two cruel states nuclear weapons.

Operation Babylon, was a surprise Israeli air strike carried out on June 7, 1981, which destroyed an Iraqi nuclear reactor under construction 10.5 miles southeast of Baghdad. What’s less well known is that the Iranians had tried, unsuccessfully, to put the Iraq nuclear facility out of commission a year earlier. The Iranians caused some minor damage which was quickly repaired by French technicians. Vive la France!

Posted in Iran, Iraq, IslamoNazis, Israel, Israel Defense Forces, North Korea, Syria | Tagged Human Nature, Iran, North Korea, Nuclear Weapons | 4 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | July 5, 2017

Where Are the Moderate Muslims?

After every terrorist attack, politicians and pundits reassure us that the atrocity does not represent the true beliefs of the “moderate Muslim majority.” But how many moderates are there? And what exactly does “moderate” mean? Military instructor and researcher Hussein Aboubakr explains.

Posted in Islam, Islam Denial, Islamic State, Islamic Terror, IslamoNazi Kidnappings, IslamoNazis, Israel | Tagged Bad Ideas, Islamist Terror, Prager University | 1 Response

By Robert J. Avrech | July 2, 2017

July 4th Flashback: When Hollywood Loved America

Betty Grable wishes America a happy and meaningful July 4th. G-d Bless America.

A long time ago, in a universe far, far away, in a place called Hollywood, the movie studios and the actors who flourished in the dream factories, celebrated their love of America and enthusiastically indulged in overt displays of patriotism.

L.B. Mayer (b. Lazar Meir) the powerful head of MGM, was a pioneer of the motion-picture industry, and the man who invented the star system. Mayer adopted July 4th as his birthday. Scores of Hollywood historians get all snarky about Mayer’s birthday, claiming that he conveniently changed his birthday in order to cash in on a public identification with America.

What these historians fail to recognize is that Mayer probably did not know the date of his birth.

Posted in America, Hollywood, Hollywood Stars, Hollywood Still Photography, July 4th | Tagged Ann Blythe, Ava Gardner, Bette Davis, Betty Compson, Betty Grable, Colleen Moore, Debbie Reynolds, Elizabeth Taylor, Helen Twelvetrees, Jean Harlow, Joan Crawford, Lana Turner, Leila Hyams, Madge Evans, Marian Marsh, Marilyn Monroe, Mary Doran, Rita Hayworth | 12 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | June 30, 2017

Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

…the discussion of security prompted actress Ginger Rogers to tell the group and the President, “Oh, I get scared for him”, and turning to Reagan, she said “because I love you so much, and we who love you get scared for you.” “I think the press is terrible, she said. “They’ve not been very nice to our president.”
—Ginger Rogers
From a 1983 Washington Post article: “Reagan on the Press,” by Daniel Radcliffe.

Posted in Alfred Hitchcock, Art, Betty Grable, Cary Grant, Design, Dovima, Family, Friday Fotos, Ginger Rogers, Great Dialogue, Hollywood, Hollywood Stars, Hollywood Still Photography, Ingrid Bergman, Joan Blondell, Judaica, Judaism, Lielle Meital, Movie Posters, Movies, Myrna Loy, Painting, Photography, Quotes, Rita Hayworth, Ronald Reagan, Screenwriting | Tagged Albrecht Durer, Ben Hecht, Betty Grable, Bugatti, Celia, D Day Synagogue Services, Dovima, Erwin Blumenfeld, Ginger Rogers, Giuseppe Cesari, Groucho Marx, Hispano-Suiza, Jacob Riis, Joan Blondell, July 4th Hollywood, Karen Singer Avrech, László Moholy-Nagy, Lee Miller, Lielle, Movie Posters from Poland, Myrna Loy, Ralph Lauren, Ralph Lifshitz, Rena, Renaissance, Rick McGinnis, Ronald Reagan, Sofonisba Anguissola, Theodore Chassériau, Truth About Youth | 15 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | June 28, 2017

Jew-Hating Dykes

If you are Jewish and homosexual, you will be persecuted — not by your local shul, but by Jew-hating leftist homosexuals.

Once same-sex marriage became the law of the land, we wondered what cause leftist homosexuals would dredge up in order to keep their social-justice train running.

Now we know: making their ranks Judenrein.

Big surprise, huh?

Posted in Homo Fascism, Israel, Jew-haters, Jew-hatred, Zionism | Tagged Anti-Zionism is Jew-Hatred, Chicago Dykes, Jew-hatred, Jewish Homosexuals, Lesbians, Progressive Jew-Hatred, Zionism | 2 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | June 27, 2017

The True Diplomatic Legacy of 1967

Unfortunately, it’s common in political discussions to hear pundits and commentators say: “Israel must withdraw to the 1967 borders.” There’s only one problem with that analysis: There are no 1967 borders. The line that Israel inherited from the War of Independence is the Armistice Demarcation Line of 1949, which is different from the international boundaries that exist elsewhere in the world.

Posted in Ariel Sharon, Islamic Terror, IslamoNazis, Israel, Israel Defense Forces | Tagged 1967 Lines, 1967 Six Day War, Ariel Sharon, Dore Gold, George W. Bush, Israel, Jordan Valley, President Reagan, Resolution 242, U.N., Yitzchak Rabin | 3 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | June 26, 2017

Why Abbas Cannot Stop Funding Terrorists

The welfare witches who call themselves Palestinians have been sponging off U.S. and European taxpayers for several generations. Most of the money that they received — amounting to billions of dollars — has been used to line the pockets of various corrupt tribes.

We must remember that the Arab Muslim world is, first and foremost, a mob of warring tribes and clans. Tribal warfare is the natural Hobbesian state of the Arab Muslim world, and the Westphalian-style state that the West imposed after World War I is disintegrating before our eyes.

Meanwhile, a few donor states are waking up to the fact that their do-gooder money is not being used to feed orphans and widows, but to buy more weapons for IslamoNazi jihadists. Hence Trump’s demand that the IslamoNazis who call themselves Palestinians stop funding terrorists.

It’s a comical notion, really, since the only thing a Palestinian state stands for is the elimination of Israel — and all Jews, wherever they may be.

Posted in Donald Trump, ISIS, Islam, Islam Denial, Islamic State, Islamic Terror, IslamoNazi Kidnappings, IslamoNazis, Israel, Jihad Watch | Tagged Abbas, Bassam Tawil, Israel, PA Blood Money | Leave a comment

By Robert J. Avrech | June 23, 2017

Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

Lucille Ball in a dress by Edith Head, 1949, photo by Laszlo Willinger
“Edie knew the truth about all of us. She knew who had flat fannies and who didn’t – but she never told.”
—Lucille Ball

Posted in Art, Automobiles, Constance Bennett, Costume Design, Design, Edith Head, Friday Fotos, Glamour, Hollywood, Hollywood Stars, Hollywood Still Photography, Judaica, Painting, Photography, True Hollywood Confessions, Vintage Cars | Tagged BB, Brigitte Bardot, Constance Bennett, David Des Granges, Edward Hopper, Fred Stein, Georges Dambier, Harpo Marx, Hokusai, James Nares, Lucille Ball, Maud Lewis, Patek Philippe, Petrus Christus, Pierce Arrow Motor Car Company, Polish Movie Posters, Rick McGinnis, Stanley Kubrick, Stanley Tucci | 6 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | June 22, 2017

Gloria Grahame: Marriage Hollywood Style

Gloria Grahame

Before Woody and Soon-Yi there was Gloria and Anthony.

In June 1948, the day after that she divorced her first husband, actress Gloria Grahame (1923 – 1981) wed director Nicholas Ray.

The marriage was troubled right from the start and ended when Ray walked in on Grahame while she was in bed with another man.

Actually, a boy.

He was 13-year-old Anthony Ray, Nick’s son from a previous marriage.

Posted in Gloria Grahame, Hollywood | Tagged Anthony Ray, Gloria Grahame, Marriage, Nicholas Ray, Soon-Yi Previn, The Bad and the Beautiful, Woody Allen | 9 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | June 21, 2017

WATCH: Netanyahu Makes Emotional Visit to Family of Terror Victim Hadas Malka

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara pay a shiva (condolence) call to the family of Hadas Malka, the 23-year-old Border Police officer stabbed to death while standing guard in Jerusalem this past Friday evening.

Staff Sergeant Hadas Malka, who was murdered by IslamoNazis on June 16, 2017.

Posted in Benjamin Netanyahu, IslamoNazis, Israel, Israel Defense Forces, Zionism | Tagged Benjamin Netanyahu, Children of Mao, Evergreen College, Hadas Malka, IslamoNazis | 2 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | June 19, 2017

Endless Love: Happy 40th Anniversary

Karen and I were married in 1977. Today is our 40th anniversary.

But the truth is I have been in love with Karen since I was nine years old. Which is to say I have been helplessly, hopelessly in love with Karen for most of my life.

I’m publishing the first chapter of my eBook How I Married Karen as a tribute to my wife without whom I am nothing.

Chapter 1

Great Expectations

Jean Simmons as Estella, “Great Expectations,” 1946.

She crosses my vision like a moon; nothing seems to touch her.

The new girl has thick black hair; dark eyes that seem to look right through you. She has just transferred from Yeshiva Ohel Moshe to Yeshiva of Flatbush. Her father is a rabbi in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn.

Karen Singer is her name.

Posted in How I Married Karen | Tagged Karen Singer, Yeshiva Flatbush | 8 Responses

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About Me
Robert J. Avrech
Los Angeles, California
I'm an Emmy Award winning screenwriter. I'm also an observant Jew, a religious Zionist, a conservative Republican, and a member of the NRA. I've been writing and producing in Hollywood for over twenty-five years. But the focus of my life is my family: my radiant wife, Karen—with whom I have been in love with since I was nine years-old—and my two daughters, who, thankfully, look like Karen. Not too long ago, we had three children. But our son, Ariel, died at the age of twenty-two from cancer. We miss him terribly. We think about him practically every minute of every day. People tell us that time heals, but Karen and I know this is not true. Time grinds away doing its terrible work. Ariel is gone. Yet absence becomes presence.

Ariel Chaim Avrech, ZT'L, May His Righteous Memory be a Blessing.
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Daniel Greenfield: “Fighting Anti-Semitism and Defending Israel in the Age of BDS.”

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Thirteenth: May 22, 2016
Ben Shapiro: “How You Can Save Israel”

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Twelfth: June 7, 2015
Larry Elder: “The New Black Anti-Semitism”

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Eleventh: June 8, 2014
Michael Medved: “Shifting Alliances: Why Liberals No Longer Reliably Support Israel — And Conservatives Do.”

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Tenth: June 9, 2013
David Horowitz: “The War Against Judaism on the University Campus.”

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Ninth: June 3, 2012
Joel B. Pollak: “The Mainstream Media’s Betrayal of Israel.”

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Eighth: June 5, 2011
Yossi Klein Halevi: “What is Expected of a Survivor People: Lessons My Father Taught Me.”

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Seventh: June 13, 2010
Dennis Prager: “Happiness is a Mitzvah, Not an Emotion.”

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Sixth: June 21, 2009
Rabbi Steven Pruzansky: “Conformity in Jewish Life: Vice, Virtue or Affectation?”

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Fifth: June 15, 2008
Rabbi Dr. Gil S. Perl: “What Was the Rosh Yeshiva Reading: Intellectual Openness in 19th Century Lithuania.”

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