Category Archives: Big Government

The American Trinity: The Three Values That Make America Great

By Robert J. Avrech | Published: October 22, 2018

Nearly every country on Earth is defined by race or ethnicity. Not America. What makes the United States different? Dennis Prager outlines the values that have allowed the American people to flourish and, unlike immigrants almost everywhere else, transformed those who arrived from across the globe into full Americans—regardless of where they were born.

Also posted in America, Dennis Prager, Prager University | Tagged 1776, America, Dennis Prager, Equality, Ethnic Origins, European Values, In God We Trust, Liberty, Moral Values, Out of Many One, Prager University, Racial Identity, Values | Leave a comment

What’s Wrong with Government-Run Healthcare?

By Robert J. Avrech | Published: October 15, 2018

If you get sick or suffer a serious injury, you not only want medical care, you want quality medical care. What’s the best way to get it? Through a government-run program like Medicare for All or through our current free market system? Stanford policy expert Lanhee Chen has the answer in this video from Prager […]

Also posted in America, Health Care | Tagged Big Government, Biomedical Research, Bureacrats, Canada, Emergency Rooms, Freedom, health care, Illness, Innovation, Medicare, National Health Care, National Health Service, Prager University, Private Sector, Quality Health Care, Single Payer, taxes, United Kingdom, Utopia | 2 Responses

Who Is Karl Marx?

By Robert J. Avrech | Published: September 26, 2018

When writing The Communist Manifesto, Karl Marx thought he was providing a road to utopia, but everywhere his ideas were tried, they resulted in catastrophe and mass murder. In this video, Paul Kengor, Professor of Political Science at Grove City College, illuminates the life of the mild-mannered 19th Century German whose ideas led to the […]

Also posted in Marxism, Paul Kengor, Politics, Prager University | Tagged Brute Force, China, Communism, Communist Manifesto, Das Kapital, Democracy, Engels, Famine, Freedom, Karl Marx, Lenin, Mao, Mass Murder, North Korea, Pol Pot, Prager University, private property, Soviet Union, Stalin, Terror | 1 Response

What is Net Neutrality?

By Robert J. Avrech | Published: September 12, 2018

For months, it seemed nearly every media figure was in hysterics over the impending repeal of net neutrality. Then, net neutrality was repealed… and nothing much changed. So what exactly is net neutrality, and why do so many people have such strong opinions about something they don’t understand? Jon Gabriel, editor-in-chief of Ricochet.com cuts […]

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Left or Liberal?

By Robert J. Avrech | Published: September 3, 2018

Tell the average American you’re a liberal and they’ll assume you’re on the political left. Yet, leftists and liberals hold very different positions on key issues. In this video, Dennis Prager explains how the tenets of liberalism – like a belief in capitalism and free speech – have more in common with conservatism than […]

Also posted in America, Capitalism, Free Speech, Liberal Fascism, Prager University, Rascism | Tagged Abraham Lincoln, Alan Dershowitz, Borders, Capitalism, Dennis Prager, Free Speech, Hate Speech, Identity Politics, Judeo/Christian Civilization, Left, Liberal, Nationalism, Open Borders, Patriotism, Prager University, Racial Segragation, Socialism, Superman, Tech Companies, Western Civilization | 3 Responses

Brexit: Why Britain Left the European Union

By Robert J. Avrech | Published: March 12, 2018

Is the European Union good for Europe? Or would Europeans be better off without it? Nigel Farage, a leader of the United Kingdom’s Brexit movement, shares his view.

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How to Turbocharge the American Economy

By Robert J. Avrech | Published: January 8, 2018

Roughly half of the United States’ workforce depends on small businesses thriving. But high taxes and intrusive government regulations hurt these businesses and their workers. How would tax cuts for these small businesses benefit the U.S. economy and help just about everyone?

Also posted in America, Taxes | Tagged Economy, Free Enterprise, Prager University, Small Business, taxes | 4 Responses

Where Does the Federal Government Get All That Money?

By Robert J. Avrech | Published: December 26, 2017

Did you know that the U.S. federal government collects more than $3 trillion in taxes each year? Where does all that money come from? Find out in this short video.

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The Democrat Socialists of America

By Robert J. Avrech | Published: September 18, 2017

At last, the Democrat party reveals its socialist core. The only way to save Obamacare is through, you guessed it, socialism. You know like Cuba or Venezuela, where you have to bring your own sheets and aspirin to the government hospital Bernie Sanders, who spent his honeymoon in the totalitarian Jew-hating Soviet Union, has come […]

Also posted in America, Obamacare | Tagged Bernie Sanders, health care, Obamacare, Socialism | 2 Responses

Prager U: If You Live in Freedom, Thank the British Empire

By Robert J. Avrech | Published: September 13, 2017

Was the British Empire a good or bad thing for the world? To put it another way, is freedom a good or bad thing for the world? Historian and author H.W. Crocker III explains why we may want to rethink the British Empire’s bad rap.

Also posted in Prager University | Tagged British Empre, Freedom, Slave Trade | 9 Responses

The War on Cars

By Robert J. Avrech | Published: July 31, 2017

There is a war against cars in America. Regulators want Americans out of cars and onto trains, buses, and bicycles. Why? Because of what cars represent — freedom. Automotive expert Lauren Fix (“The Car Coach”) explains. Donate today to PragerU! http://l.prageru.com/2eB2p0h

Also posted in Prager University | Tagged Free Market, Government Regulations, War on Cars | 3 Responses

Government Can’t Fix Healthcare

By Robert J. Avrech | Published: July 17, 2017

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.

Also posted in Obamacare | Tagged Economics, Government, Government Waste, health care, Health Insurance, Prager University, Third Party Purchases | 7 Responses

The Fascists of Black Lives Matter

By Robert J. Avrech | Published: August 17, 2016

Besides being a Jew-hating mob, BLM is, at the core, a leftist fascist organization that is generously funded by the Rockefeller Foundation. BLM have published their platform, and if you give it even a cursory read you will immediately recognize it as a Marxist-Leninist tract, which is to say, a call for fascism.

Also posted in America, Black Lives Matter, Democrats, Jew-haters, Jew-hatred | Tagged Abigail Adams, Barack Obama, Big Government, Democrat Party, Education, Hillary Clinton, Liberal Fascism | 9 Responses

Political Ideology in the Garden of Eden

By Robert J. Avrech | Published: July 27, 2016

by Karen Singer Avrech, Ph.D In Ameritopia, author Mark Levin points out that Leftist-Progressive ideology strives to create a utopian society. But utopia, Levin asserts, is incompatible with the ideals of individual liberty as formulated by the American Constitution. The schism between the goal of achieving a so-called perfect society where everyone receives an equal […]

Also posted in America, Bible, Constitution, Judaism | Tagged Adam & Eve, Free Will, Garden of Eden, Good and Evil, Mark Levin, Moral Relativism, Rabbi David Fohrman, The Tree of Good and Evil, The Tree of Life, Torah | 5 Responses

Black Lives Matter Unmasked

By Robert J. Avrech | Published: July 14, 2016

The MSM would have you believe that the BLM movement is leaderless, a respectable grass roots protest movement. In fact, BLM was co-founded by Alicia Garza a Marxist-Leninist, America-hating revolutionary. Take a look at her profile in Discover the Networks.Org. A guide to the political left. Born in 1981, Alicia Garza is a self-described “queer” […]

Also posted in America, Black Lives Matter | Tagged Alicia Garza, Angela Davis, Asset Shakur, Black Panthers, Communist Party USA, Freedom Road Socialist Organization., Muslim Brotherhood, Saul Alinsky | 6 Responses

The Wrong Side of History is Right

By Robert J. Avrech | Published: June 2, 2016

The Obama administration specializes in Orwellian Newspeak. As a true disciple of Communist agitator Saul Alinsky, Obama uses and abuses language to achieve social control over the American people. As Orwell said, “He who controls language controls thought.” Also an Alinskyite, Hillary Clinton exchanged letters with the Communist agitator, and in 1969, wrote an admiring […]

Also posted in America, Obama Watch, Obamacare | Tagged Fidel Castro, Hillary Clinton, Newspeak, Obama, Orwell, Radical Politics, Saul Alinsky | 11 Responses

From Ben Casey to ObamaToilet

By Robert J. Avrech | Published: May 17, 2016

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xjq1P5p3fso[/youtube] The opening credits to the Ben Casey TV series (1961-1966) were the only opening credits that my friends and I noticed and talked about. We were tweener Yeshiva students, enthusiastically devouring the fruits of popular culture even as were were steeped in Torah. We didn’t analyze our response to the Ben Casey credits. Our […]

Also posted in Hollywood, Marriage, Obama Watch, ObamaToilets, Sexuality | Tagged Ben Casey, Big Government, East Germany, Judea/Christian values, Loretta Lynch, ObamaToilets, Sexual Deviancy, Transgender | 11 Responses

Passover 2016: The Slave Learns to Love His Shackles

By Robert J. Avrech | Published: April 20, 2016

Friday night begins the holiday of Passover in which Jews celebrate deliverance from Egyptian bondage. In order to escape the shackles of slavery, the vast machinery of the mighty Egyptian state had to be crushed. Those who wielded absolute power were reduced to nothingness. G-d did this not only to diminish the physical power of […]

Also posted in America, Gun Control, IslamoNazis, Israel, Jew Without A Gun, Jews & Guns, Obama Watch, Obamacare, Passover, Second Amendment | Tagged Big Government, Daenerys Targaryn, Egyptian Bondage, Emilia Clarke, Freedom, Game of Thrones, George Orwell, Holocaust, Judenrat, Kapos, Second Amendment, Slavery, The Mentality of Slavery | 2 Responses

Book Review: The Scandal of Money by George Gilder

By Robert J. Avrech | Published: April 11, 2016

Seraphic Secret invited our good friend Jake Novak to review George Gilder’s important new book. Imagine you’re a carpenter who naturally relies on a good hammer to get your work done. But after years of reliable service, that hammer starts to act strangely. Sometimes it pushes the nail into the wood, and sometimes it doesn’t. […]

Also posted in Book Reviews, Books, Economy, Israel | Tagged Chrysler, Federal Reserve, Ford, George Gilder, GM, Jake Novak, Money, non-functioning money, profit motive, Silicon Valley, The Iron Horse | 4 Responses

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Robert J. Avrech
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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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Fifteenth: June 10, 2018
Jackie Danicki: “Confessions of a Convert: A Humbling, Joyful Journey to Judaism.”

Blog Post | Audio: (94 MB)

Fourteenth: June 11, 2017
Daniel Greenfield: “Fighting Anti-Semitism and Defending Israel in the Age of BDS.”

Blog Post | Audio: (100 MB)

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

Blog Post | Audio: (70 MB)

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

Blog Post | Audio: (100 MB)

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

Blog Post | Audio: (97MB)

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

Blog Post | Audio: (16MB)

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

Blog Post | Audio: (15MB)

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

Blog Post | Audio: (18MB)

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

Blog Post | Audio: (80MB)

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

Blog Post | Audio: (64MB)

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

Blog Post | Audio: (70MB)
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