Happy One Hundredth

Kirk Douglas, born this day, 1916. Who has said the moment in his career that made him proudest: giving Dalton Trumbo screenwriting credit for "Spartacus," which ended the blacklist's hold over Hollywood.

In September, he wrote this column―

A few weeks ago we heard words spoken in Arizona that my wife, Anne, who grew up in Germany, said chilled her to the bone. They could also have been spoken in 1933:

"We also have to be honest about the fact that not everyone who seeks to join our country will be able to successfully assimilate. It is our right as a sovereign nation to choose immigrants that we think are the likeliest to thrive and flourish here…[including] new screening tests for all applicants that include an ideological certification to make sure that those we are admitting to our country share our values..."

These are not the American values that we fought in World War II to protect.
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Until now, I believed I had finally seen everything under the sun. But this was the kind of fear-mongering I have never before witnessed from a major U.S. presidential candidate in my lifetime.

And you don't even need to have lived to one hundred, to know it.