Tag Archives: Big Government

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 […]

Posted in America, Big Government, Health Care | Also tagged 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

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.

Posted in America, Big Government, Black Lives Matter, Democrats, Jew-haters, Jew-hatred | Also tagged Abigail Adams, Barack Obama, Democrat Party, Education, Hillary Clinton, Liberal Fascism | 9 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 […]

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

Private vs. Government Investment

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

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Xg4Uq1W4L8&feature=em-subs_digest[/youtube] From transportation to energy, and everything in between, should the government invest money in as many promising projects as possible? Or would that actually doom many of those ventures to failure? Burt Folsom, historian and professor at Hillsdale College, answers those questions by drawing on the fascinating history of the race to build […]

Posted in Prager University | Also tagged Capitalism, Free Enterprise, Government Works, Liberty, Private Investment | 4 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 […]

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

John Wayne: American

By Robert J. Avrech | Published: May 2, 2014

Scott Eyman’s superb new biography, “John Wayne: The Life and Legend” is an exhaustive look at Wayne’s long life and career as Hollywood’s most iconic star. Eyman points out time and again that Duke—no one called him John, Jack, or his birth name, Marion—was not just Hollywood’s greatest star, but a symbol of America and […]

Posted in America, Book Reviews, Books, Hollywood, Hollywood Stars, John Wayne | Also tagged Acting Technique, College Professors, Jane Fonda, John Ford, John Wayne's philosophy, Lauren Bacall, The Searchers, The Shootist, Tom Hayden, Vietnam | 15 Responses

ObamaCare and IRS in Action: American Citizen + Cancer – Insurance = Enemy of the State

By Robert J. Avrech | Published: December 3, 2013

ObamaCare was never about health, never about insurance, and never concerned with the poor and disadvantaged. Those are simply the rhetorical means by which the Democrat party seized and continues to seize unprecedented levers of power. Democrats achieve their aims by taxing the middle class—calling them rich— and creating a whirlwind of oppressive laws and […]

Posted in Big Government, IRS, Obama Watch, Obamacare | Also tagged Bill Elliot Cancer Victim, Cancer with no insurance, Chanukah, Democrat Fascism, Fox News, IRS Abuse by Obama, Liberal Fascism, Mark Steyn, Megyn Kelly, Obama Abuses the IRS, Orwellian State | 1 Response

ObamaCare: The War Against the American People

By Robert J. Avrech | Published: December 2, 2013

We keep hearing that ObamaCare will collapse. Some pundits suggest that because the law is so flawed, such an unworkable Leviathan, it will implode through its own imperfections. We the people don’t have to do anything but sit on the sidelines and watch. Seriously?

Posted in IRS, Obama Watch, Obamacare | Also tagged Government Coercion, IRS, Liberal Facism, ObamaCare will implode | 18 Responses

Obama: The Government Is Us…

By Robert J. Avrech | Published: July 9, 2013

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhj9Rf1p868[/youtube] Obama: “We can’t just take comfort in being cynical. We all have a stake in government success, because the government is us, and we’re doing things right.” Of course, this is consistent with Obama’s infamous “You didn’t build that” lecture.

Posted in Big Government, Obama Watch | Also tagged Liberation Trilogy, Marxism, Nazi Germany, Rick Atkinson, Socialism | 9 Responses

Passover 2013: Of Slaves, Slavery, Judenrat, Kapos and America

By Robert J. Avrech | Published: March 25, 2013

Tonight 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 a […]

Posted in Obama Watch, Obamacare, Passover, Taxes | Also tagged Democrat Fascism, Judenrat, Kapos, Lielle Meital, Slavery, Soft Tyranny | 9 Responses

The Seraphic Secret Study of Fat Lesbians

By Robert J. Avrech | Published: March 13, 2013

Yesterday, Seraphic Secret reported that the Obama administration is going to spend $1.5 million tax dollars to find out why lesbians are fat. This is, after all, a burning social issue that demands attention by the federal government. Because we are concerned, patriotic citizens, Seraphic Secret has conducted its own study of fat lesbians—at no […]

Posted in Obama Watch, Obamacare | Also tagged Fat Lesbians, Karen Singer Avrech, Lesbians, NIH, Psychology, Sexual Politics, taxes | 10 Responses

Obama to Spend $1.5 Million to Find Out Why Lesbians Are Fat

By Robert J. Avrech | Published: March 12, 2013

Okay, Seraphic Secret admits that $1.5 million is not a lot of money. Not anymore. President Obama and the Democrats have so redefined the concept of money and debt, that anything below trillions and billions, is barely worthy of note. But this $1.5 million dollar grant—your tax dollars at work—to answer the burning question: why […]

Posted in European Union, Obama Watch, Obamacare, Taxes | Also tagged Fat Lesbians, NIH, Radical Democrats, taxes | 21 Responses

We The Government

By Robert J. Avrech | Published: February 13, 2013

Obama’s SOTU in brief: Raise the minimum wage. This is a job killer. Spend more in infrastructure. Higher taxes. We’ve been here before. It was called shovel-ready jobs. Which Obama famously yucked-up as not-so-ready.

Posted in Economy, Obama Watch, Second Amendment | Also tagged Climate Change, Democrat Socialist, Global Warming, Marco Rubio, Marxism, Minimum Wage, taxes | 35 Responses

Days of Heaven

By Robert J. Avrech | Published: November 5, 2012

There was a moment on my walk this morning, at about 5:30 a.m., when I just stopped dead in my tracks and watched the horizon change from blue-black to blushing violet. In the movie industry, this stretch of time is known as magic hour. Cinematographers who shoot in these few precious moments, if they know […]

Posted in 2012 Election, Mitt Romney, Movies, Obama Watch, Screenwriting | Also tagged Days of Heaven, Haskell Wexler, Magic Hour, Nestor Almendros, Terence Malick | 18 Responses

Let’s Ban Fat People

By Robert J. Avrech | Published: June 5, 2012

The progressive playbook goes like this: create a national emergency and then fix it through government intervention. In my lifetime the left has brought us: 1. Global Overpopulation — Solution: abortion and higher taxes for couples who choose to have more than one child. 2. Global Freezing — Solution: higher taxes that fund Byzantine […]

Posted in High Speed Rail, Politics | Also tagged Ban on Plastic bags, Big Gulp Ban, Fat People, High Speed Rail, Michael Bloomberg, North Korea | 19 Responses

Purim for Catholics

By Robert J. Avrech | Published: March 7, 2012

Today is the Fast Of Purim. And tonight we read the Book of Esther. Once upon a time, in the ancient Persian kingdom, there arose a government bureaucrat named Haman, a power-hungry Jew-hater who used the machinery of big government to contrive a genocide of the Jewish people. He told King Achashverosh that the Jews […]

Posted in 2012 Election, Iran, Obama Watch, Obamacare, Purim | Also tagged Cardinal Timothy Dolan, Catholics, Esther, Genocide, Haman, Mordechai | 12 Responses

Child’s School Lunch Confiscated By Government Official

By Robert J. Avrech | Published: February 15, 2012

They are doing it because it’s good for you. They are doing it because it’s good for society. They are doing it because it’s cost effective. They are doing it because they have a degree in it. They are doing it because like Plato’s philosopher king they think long and hard about it while you […]

Posted in Obama Watch, Obamacare | Also tagged Decline of America, Left Wing Facism, Slavery, Socialism | 21 Responses

Honesty Is Not The Best Policy — If You’re A Liberal

By Robert J. Avrech | Published: December 27, 2011

Karen alerted me to this TV and radio propaganda by Let’s Move, Michelle Obama’s—c/o your tax dollars—fitness campaign. Outraged and disgusted, we sat down and wrote this post together. As you will see the message of the Let’s Move commercial is quite simple: Lying to your children is fine because, y’know, it’s good for them. […]

Posted in Obama Watch, Obamacare | Also tagged Let's Move, Liberal Stalinism, Michelle Obama | 15 Responses

Obama’s War Against America

By Robert J. Avrech | Published: September 6, 2011

On Monday, Teamsters union President Jimmy Hoffa, Jr., described the Tea Party and congressional Republicans as “sons of bitches” and called for a war against them. Hoffa, a thuggish demagogue, worked up the crowd for Obama by saying: “President Obama, this is your army. We are ready to march. Let’s take these sons of bitches […]

Posted in Obama Watch, Tea Party | Also tagged Founding Principles, Jimmy Hoffa Jr., Limited Government, Welfare State | 15 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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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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