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Robert J. Avrech: Emmy Award winning screenwriter. Movie fanatic. Helplessly and hopelessly in love with my wife since age nine.

Ronald Reagan

Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

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“Flops are a part of life’s menu and I’ve never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.”
—Rosalind Russell

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Friday Photos: True Hollywood Confessions

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…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.

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Storming the Barrycades

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A veteran and a patriot carries a Barrycade back to Barry.
A disabled vet and patriot carries a Barrycade back to Barry.

The U.S. government is not shut-down.

Approximately 83% of the Federal government is up and functioning.

Including the Obamacare website, which fulfills every prediction made by anyone with a lick of common sense about what happens when the federal government colonizes one-sixth of the American economy.

Just wait for Obamacare to be fully implemented. The medical care you or your loved one needs will be riddled with, um, glitches.

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Operation Pillar of Defense, Day Five: Hey, I’ve Seen This Movie Before

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Israeli soldiers in a tank unit with a Torah scroll and religious prayer books at a tank staging area on the Gaza Strip border, in southern Israel, 16 November 2012.  EPA/JIM HOLLANDER

Eight years ago, in conversation with a wild-eyed Israeli-American member of Peace Now who was forcefully advocating for the expulsion of some 8,000 Jews from Gaza, I argued that:

1. Jews have the right to live anywhere, Brooklyn, London, Paris, Cairo, Damascus, Oslo, and yes, Gaza. Once you agree that, for the sake of, ahem, peace, Area X must be cleansed of Jews, you are conceding that Jews have no rights anywhere. This is nothing less than national suicide.

2. Thus, the Jews of Gaza were defending the the Jews of Jerusalem and the Jews of Tel Aviv, together with the rights of Jews who live anywhere and everywhere in the world.

3. Finally, the conflict with the so-called Palestinians was not about land, not about national boundaries, not about so-called refugees, and most certainly not about so-called occupation. This is an existential conflict where one side, the Arab Muslims, has vowed to annihilate the Jewish state, and then finish the job that Hitler started. In short, the Jews seek peace, while the Muslim Arabs seek genocide.

The Israeli-American leftie scoffed at my thesis, stating:

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