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

China

China: Friend or Foe?

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With the help of the United States and other western powers, China has become an economic powerhouse. The idea was that prosperity would persuade China to align its interests with the other free nations of the world. But that’s not what happened. Former US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley explains why.

Putting the Cool In Coolidge

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Calvin Coolidge shakes hands with Walter “The Big Train” Johnson, 1924.
Calvin Coolidge shakes hands with Walter “The Big Train” Johnson, 1924.

Yesterday, Congress passed a bill which will:

1. Increase taxes on everyone.

2. Increase the national debt.

3. Increase the size of government.

The politicians are slapping themselves on the back, boasting that they have avoided the so-called fiscal cliff. But what they have really done is place America on the road to serfdom. A road that leads directly through China, a Communist country that is merrily financing America’s crushing debt, an amoral tyranny that owns the future of your children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren.

Which brings us to Calvin Coolidge.

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Israel and China React to the Massacre of the Innocent at Sandy Hook

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A friend of Ms. Soto posted this picture of Vicki and wrote: “When the shooting started Vicki hid her kids in closets and when the gunman came into her room she said the class was in gym. She was then murdered. Not one of her students were harmed. Words can not express how heartbreaking and tragic this is. I will miss you dearly."
A friend of Victoria Soto posted this picture and wrote: “When the shooting started Vicki hid her kids in closets and when the gunman came into her room she said the class was in gym. She was then murdered. Not one of her students were harmed. Words can not express how heartbreaking and tragic this is. I will miss you dearly.”

The following is the text of the letter that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sent to US President Barack Obama:

Dear President Obama,
I was shocked and horrified by today’s savage massacre of innocent children and adults at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut. We in Israel have experienced such cruel acts of slaughter and we know the shock and agony they bring. I want to express my profound grief, and that of all the people in Israel, to the families that lost their loved ones. May you and the American people find the strength to overcome this unspeakable tragedy.

With my deepest condolences,
Benjamin Netanyahu,
Prime Minister of Israel

And from the People’s Republic of China:

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