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By Robert J. Avrech | January 29, 2018

The Second Civil War

Last Sunday, my friend Daniel Greenfield delivered a brilliant speech to the South Carolina Tea Party Coalition Convention.

Daniel explains that no matter how many elections Republicans win, the Democrats, which is to say the radical left, always nullify the election by waging a ruthless a culture war that is a toxic mix of Orwellian Newspeak, and Bolshevik ruthlessness.

As the late great Andrew Breitbart said: “Politics is downstream from culture.”

Daniel is one of the smartest people I know. Thus, I hope that you will take the time to watch this video, or if you prefer, read the transcript below.

Posted in America, Conservatism, Culture Wars, Democrat Fascists, Democrat Racists, Democrats, Donald Trump, Illegal Immigration | Tagged Civil War, Culture Wars, Daniel Greenfield, Democrat Fascists, Elections, Politics, South Carolina Tea Party | 7 Responses

By Terry Trippany | January 27, 2018

Sorry For the Silence

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My computer is having a nervous breakdown, hence the silence these past few days. I’ve been consulting with computer people all over the place but my little laptop seems to have gone blooey. Thanks for all your concerned emails, comments, and for your patience. I’m hoping to be back online in a few days.

Posted in Admin, Remembering Ariel | Tagged computer problems | 7 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | January 19, 2018

Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

“She didn’t want to be famous. She wanted to be happy.”
—Clark Gable on Jean Harlow

Posted in Design, Hollywood, Hollywood Stars, Hollywood Still Photography, Jean Harlow, Painting, Photography, Quotes, Rita Hayworth, Screenwriting | Tagged Alma Rubens, Audrey Hepburn, Charles Sheeler, David Moore, Dolores Del Rio, Erwin Blumenfeld, Francis Luis Mora, François Kollar, Grant Wood, Gun Crazy, Hermann Landshoff, Horst P. Horst, Montblanc, Murillo, Nicolas De Stael, Richard Avedon, Rita Hayworth, Robert Klippel | 8 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | January 18, 2018

IslamoNazi Abbas Digs His Own Grave

Dr. Mordechai Kedar, who knows more about the Arab-Muslim world than most Arab-Muslims, explains the two-and-a half-hour rant delivered by Mahmoud Abbas.

World leaders seemed shocked, just shocked by the sheer looniness and Castro-like length of the Abbas rant. But these overbred, overeducated members of the diplomatic corps have conveniently ignored Abbas’ infamous history: he received his, ahem, Ph.D from Moscow Central with a dissertation denying the Holocaust. During the 60s and 70s he was the bag man for various Islamist terrorist activities, most prominent, the Munich massacre. He’s as corrupt as the rest of the PA, stealing millions from international aid and enriching his clan.

In short, Abbas is an IslamoNazi who should have been put in the ground a long time ago.

Posted in Donald Trump, Islam, Islamic Terror, IslamoNazis, Israel, Israel Defense Forces, Jerusalem | Tagged Arab Curses, Hamas, IslamoNazis, Mahmoud Abbas, Oslo, PLO, President Trump, UNRWA | 3 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | January 17, 2018

The Inconvenient Truth About the Republican Party

When you think of the Republican Party, what comes to mind? If you’re like many Americans, you may associate the GOP with racism, sexism, and general inequality. It’s a commonly pushed narrative by left-leaning media and academia, but as former Vanderbilt Professor of Political Science Carol Swain explains, the Republican Party was actually responsible for nearly every advancement for minorities and women in U.S. history—and remains the champion of equality to this day.

Posted in America, Democrat Fascists, Democrat Racists, Democrats, Republican Party | Tagged Carol Swain, Politics, Prager University | 2 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | January 15, 2018

Protests in Iran Undermine a Key Premise of the Nuclear Deal

I’m pretty sure that most of us agree that a nuclear North Korea is a global threat.

Four American administrations and the best and the brightest in the State Department have misread and mishandled the North Koreans at every step. Instead of accepting the obvious fact that some cultures do not share the same values we in America cherish, the chattering classes have chosen a delusional belief that our Democratic values are, um, universal.

Barack Obama and his gang of overbred, overeducated leftists pursued the exact same course with the IslamoNazis of Iran, arguing in favor of, get this, “rational anti-Semites.”

The only thing worse than a nuclear North Korea is a nuclear Iran.

My good friend David Gerstman explains why the current riots in Iran—23 Iranians have been murdered by the regime so far—are proof that the Obama-Iran nuclear deal is foolish.

Posted in America, Barack Hussein Obama, Iran, IslamoNazis, Israel, Jew-haters, Jew-hatred, North Korea | Tagged David Gerstman, Nuclear Iran, Obama | 2 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | January 12, 2018

Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

“I don’t think much of most of the films I made, but being a movie star was something I liked very much… My film career faded. A man can go on playing certain roles till he’s sixty. But not a woman… The golden age is gone, and with it most of the people of great taste. It doesn’t seem to be any fun any more.”—Joan Bennett in a 1984 interview

Posted in Ann Blyth, Ginger Rogers, Hollywood, Hollywood Stars, Hollywood Still Photography, Joan Bennett, Movie Posters, Painting, Photography, Quotes, Screenwriting | Tagged Andy Galsworthy, Ann Blyth, Anna May Wong, Cecil Beaton, Corneille de Lyon, Edward Hopper, Elizabeth Taylor, Eric Swayne, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Gun Crazy, Horst P. Horst, Jacob Lawrence, Joan Bennett, Kept Husbands, Livia Yarden, movie posters, Peggy Cummins, Ralston Crawford, Richard Avedon, Vintage Cars, Yiddish Posters | 3 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | January 10, 2018

The Murder of Rabbi Raziel Shevach, z’l

Rabbi Raziel Shevach with his family.

Rabbi Raziel Shevach was murdered by IslamoNazis on Tuesday night in the land of Israel. The 35 year old father of six was driving on a highway when his car was sprayed with bullets.

The Arab Muslims who call themselves Palestinians—a faux nationality dreamed up by the KGB during the Cold War—are publicly celebrating the slaughter of another Jew.

The murderers will soon be arrested because:

Posted in Islam, Islamic Terror, IslamoNazis, Israel, Israel Defense Forces, Jew-haters, Jew-hatred | Tagged Islamic Jew Hatred, Israel, Jew-hatred, Raziel Shevach | 2 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | January 9, 2018

Democrats Go Full Soviet Medical

Communist regimes have aways made common cause with useful idiot intellectuals to oppress the enemies of the state.

The old Soviet Union routinely used morally pliable psychiatrists to make the case for the “insanity” of their opponents. In this way dissidents were imprisoned and, um, treated, which is to say tortured, by state psychiatrists.

Posted in America, Democrat Fascists, Democrats, Donald Trump | Tagged Democrat Fascists, President Trump, Psychiatrists, Soviet Union | 2 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | January 8, 2018

How to Turbocharge the American Economy

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?

Posted in America, Big Government, Taxes | Tagged Economy, Free Enterprise, Prager University, Small Business, taxes | 4 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | January 5, 2018

Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

“It wasn’t the way I looked at a man, it was the thought behind it.”
—Gloria Grahame

Posted in Art, Dovima, Glenda Farrell, Gloria Grahame, Hollywood, Hollywood Stars, Hollywood Still Photography, Marlene Dietrich, Movie Posters, Norma Shearer, Painting, Photography, True Hollywood Confessions | Tagged Blonde Venus, Charles Sheeler, Dovima, Everett Shinn, Glenda Farrell, Gloria Grahame, John White Alexander, Norma Shearer, Richard Avedon, Thomas Eakins | 13 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | January 3, 2018

Iran and the Moral Cowards of the Left

This dumb tweet blaming Trump is typical of the left. There are no reformers in the Iranian government. That was a fiction cooked up by the failed fiction writer Ben Rhodes.

Former members of the Obama administration are lining up to lecture President Trump and the rest of us that the best thing to do in support of the oppressed Iranian people is… silence.

Was that their position when it came to apartheid South Africa?

Of course not.

Posted in America, Iran | Tagged Donald Trump, Iran, John Brennan, Obama | 1 Response

By Robert J. Avrech | January 1, 2018

New Year, Old Hollywood: 2018

Livia Yarden wishes all our readers a Happy New Year.

After one year of the Trump presidency we are hopeful and optimistic.

Obama’s JV team, ISIS, has been nearly wiped out. Neil Gorsuch sits on the Supreme Court. The Keystone pipeline is, at last, open. The individual mandate is gone. Which spells the beginning off the end for Obamacare. More and more federal lands are being privatized. Trump is rolling back government regulations at a steady clip. The economy is humming along, and the GDP promises to continue rising. Unemployment is at a record low. The DJIA and the NASDAQ are at record highs.

Here’s a simple truth: the more capital in the private sector, the better for all American citizens, which then translates into growth for the world economy.

Trump is doing what he can with an impossible situation in North Korea. As for Iran, we are learning more about Obama’s duplicity regarding the Iranian deal, best summed up in one infamous word: appeasement.

Meanwhile, Israel and America have reached a secret security agreement regarding nuclear Iran. It’s about time.

Posted in Donald Trump, Hollywood, Hollywood Stars, Hollywood Still Photography, Lizabeth Scott, Marilyn Monroe, Mary Pickford, Movies, Myrna Loy, New Years | Tagged Betty Grable, Buster Keaton, Greta Herwig, Holiday Inn, Janet Leigh, Joan Crawford, Lady Bird, Laurie Metcalf, Lizabeth Scott, Loretta Young, Marilyn Monroe, Mary Pickford, Myrna Loy, Saoirse Ronan, Shirley Temple | 4 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | December 29, 2017

Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

“The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.” —Audrey Hepburn

Posted in 2016 Election, Art, Audrey Hepburn, Cary Grant, Hollywood, Hollywood Stars, Hollywood Still Photography, Movie Posters, Photography, Quotes, Screenwriting, True Hollywood Confessions | Tagged Cary Grant, Dark Passage, Elissa Landy, Francesco Ubertini, Frank Weston Benson, Horst P. Horst, Irene Sharaff, Irving Penn, Jews of Yemen, Juan Usle, Louis Faurer, Marsha Hunt, Mary Cassatt, Nina Leen, Raw Deal, Tyrone Power, Vintage Cars, Vivian Maier, William Chase Merritt | 8 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | December 27, 2017

Berniacs Get Burned by Republican Tax Plan

Would Progressives support the Republican tax bill if they thought it was really a Bernie Sanders proposal? That’s the question filmmaker Ami Horowitz asks in his latest man-on-the-street style interview short. This time he queries passersby in New York’s East Village, a “liberal Mecca,” to see how uninformed and biased people are about the GOP tax plan.

Posted in America, Donald Trump, Taxes | Tagged Ami Horowitz, Bernie Sanders, Democrat-Socialists, Dumb Progressives, GOP, Republican Tax Plan | 4 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | December 26, 2017

Where Does the Federal Government Get All That Money?

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.

Posted in America, Big Government, Prager University | Tagged Prager University, taxes | Leave a comment

By Robert J. Avrech | December 24, 2017

Flashback: When Hollywood Celebrated Christmas

Mary Pickford helps Hollywood celebrate Christmas, 1920s.

There was a time when Hollywood openly and joyously celebrated Christmas. Now, among the Hollywood elite, the greeting I hear is “Happy Holidays.”

Look, we at Seraphic Secret are Orthodox Jews. This is not our holiday.

But we want our Christian friends to celebrate Christmas. The politically correct Happy Holidays shtick is another nail in the coffin of American culture; another instance where a minority of obnoxious liberals bully the larger culture into secular nothingness.

American Christianity is a unique force for good in world history. It is not the Christianity of Europe that is poisoned with genocidal Jew-hatred.

Hollywood used to celebrate Christmas using every tool in the cinematic playbook.

Posted in Anita Page, Anna May Wong, Carole Lombard, Christianity, Christmas, Clara Bow, Fay Wray, Hollywood, Hollywood Stars, Hollywood Still Photography, Jean Harlow, Joan Crawford, Marceline Day, Mary Pickford, Rita Hayworth, Shirley Temple | Tagged Anita Page, Anna May Wong, Carole Lombard, Christmas, Clara Bow, Fay Wray, Jean Harlow, Marceline Day, Mary Pickford, Myrna Loy, Rita Hayworth, Shirley Temple | 5 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | December 22, 2017

Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

“How many women do we know who were continually kissed by Clark Gable, William Powell, Cary Grant, Spencer Tracy and Fredric March? Only one: Myrna Loy… And to meet whom did Franklin D. Roosevelt find himself tempted to call off the Yalta Conference? Myrna Loy. And to see what lady in what picture did John Dillinger risk coming out of hiding to meet his bullet-ridden death in an alley in Chicago? Myrna Loy, in Manhattan Melodrama.”
—Lauren Bacall on the greatness of Myrna Loy

Posted in Art, Donna Reed, Hollywood, Hollywood Stars, Hollywood Still Photography, Joan Fontaine, Kirk Douglas, Madge Evans, Marlene Dietrich, Movie Posters, Movies, Myrna Loy, Painting, Quotes, Screenwriting, Spencer Tracy, True Hollywood Confessions, Wisdom of Hollywood Screenwriters | Tagged Cartier, Donna Reed, Federico Zandomeneghi, Francis Ford Coppola, Irving Penn, John White Alexander, Madge Evans, Mario Puzo, Marlene Dietrich, Rick McGinnis, Spencer Tracy, The Godfather, Tobi Kahn, Vilhelm Hammershøi | 7 Responses

By Robert J. Avrech | December 20, 2017

Why the International Community Should Follow Trump’s Lead on Jerusalem

President Trump in Jerusalem, at the Western Wall, remnant of the Second Temple which was destroyed by the Romans in 70 ACE.

President Trump has fulfilled a promise that, frankly, I did not believe he would keep.

But by recognizing Israel’s capital as Israel’s capital he has proven himself a friend of Israel and the Jewish people in a manner that is unique among American presidents. It would be interesting to discover how Trump arrived at this important decision, but ultimately it is Trump’s decision and he should be applauded by those who cherish truth and by those who hate the default Islamic appeasement that has taken hold of the chattering classes in the West.

Lt. Col (res.) Dr. Mordechai Kedar, a man who knows the Arab world inside out, has written a valuable guide to Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s eternal capital.

Posted in Islam, Islamic Terror, IslamoNazis, Israel, Israel Defense Forces, Jerusalem | Tagged Dr. Mordecuai Kedar, Israel, Jerusalem, Jordan | 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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Fourteenth: June 11, 2016
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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