Eric Fettmann

Retired journalist, active historian and heterodox. Owner of foremost private newspaper history collection. Co-author: FDR's Deadly Secret.

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Note to my followers: Having finally retired, I will no longer be actively tweeting and have drastically cut the list of those I've been following. Thanks all, and please don't take personally. Catch you on Facebook.

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@DefiantLs He likely can't win either a Dem or GOP primary, but remains popular with PA voters. Best move would be to run in the general as an independent.

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@For_Film_Fans Actually, it's in the original play by Jean Anouilh.

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@DannyDrinksWine A gorgeous film with an equally gorgeous score by Ennio Morricone.

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@SquarePegDem So when the city is the landlord, ongoing maintenance costs justify hefty rent increases?

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@StoliarSteve That $2,500 is the equivalent of $28+k today. Not bad for a 13-year-old.

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@buitengebieden Ish Kabibble. IYKYK.

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@tonywendice1954 I met her once in the mid-'70s backstage at -- of all places -- a United Jewish Appeal telethon. For some reason, Shelly Winters was not happy to see her.

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@ianmSC Los Angeles is the city of miracles.

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@RoseElla1234 Great film, but it's a lot more fictionalized than it claims to be.

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@SquarePegDem @lawler4ny At least he ain't from my part of Jersey.

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@SquarePegDem There is nothing about that "coalition" that even hints at diversity.

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@shipwreckedcrew Two of the people on that list were vastly overrated.

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@HenMazzig I'm sure there must be plenty of "Juden sind hier nicht erwünscht" signs in Bavaria left over from the '30s.

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@Dailymeoww1 Which explains the smirk on her face.

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@JonathanTurley Paul Krugman is living proof that some Nobel Prizes are vastly over-rated.

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@flapprdotnet Followed closely by Whoopi's declaration that if she doesn't go to a hospital or get sick during any given year, her health insurance premiums should be refunded .

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@ArthurLHerman Not to mention the sadly forgotten Sad Sack, which originated during WWII and continued afterward.

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@nicolegelinas The problem is Curtis -- and the fact that there is no longer a functioning Republican Party in NYC (or State, for that mater) capable of finding genuine candidates.

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@RedWavePress Those GOP governors of Massachusetts were all very liberal.

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@MyronMagnet @dlondonwortel But Lichtman's Bakery was the center of the universe.