They need to separate these issues. We don't want to encourage another country or another entity or another group to actually take Americans and then sit down across the table and, you know, use those Americans as negotiating chips. We absolutely want to discourage that.

Richard Grenell

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Very few teachers or leaders in my small Michigan community ever discussed the issue of 'The Catcher in the Rye,' and certainly no one came to the 1951 Novel's defense.

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Between 1961 and 1982, 'The Catcher in the Rye' was the most censored book in high schools and libraries in the United States. But all the talk about banning it made me rush out to find it.

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'The Catcher in the Rye' was targeted by some schools as a book too risque to read and certainly not appropriate for young minds. My parents certainly would not have approved of the book, but I secretly read it when I was in 7th grade. I felt so rebellious, and my young mind loved it.

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One of the reasons the American public holds unelected government officials in such low esteem is that they are never held accountable for their failures.

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Presidents and cabinet officials could send a strong message of accountability if they held senior appointees responsible for their performance.

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The Obama administration has been unable to call Jerusalem the capital of Israel because the Palestinians want to claim it as their capital in a future state.

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The next time a news outlet complains about the state of our political rhetoric or the uninformed U.S. voter, we should promptly point them to the video of Ashley Parker raucous in a Polish cemetery or Philip Rucker's diatribes on party invitations.

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The case against Susan Rice has been building for years with little fanfare. Not surprising, the mainstream media reporters based at the U.N. have either ignored her mistakes or strategically covered them up.

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Speaking out and challenging the status quo is seldom cheered at the UN.

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Nominating Susan Rice for Secretary of State is a mistake not just because of her Sunday show deceptions but because her tenure as America's representative to the U.N. has been unworthy of a promotion.

Richard Grenell
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Hillary Clinton's Russian re-set policy gave Moscow permission to go from privately challenging U.S. foreign policy to publicly moving military hardware into Syria to prop up Bashar al-Assad and annexing Crimea from Ukraine. And Donald Trump seems to support the idea that Putin will be Putin. It's enough to leave America's allies confused.

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The Russian propaganda machine, even in the U.S., is not to be di... by Richard Grenell

The Russian propaganda machine, even in the U.S., is not to be discounted.

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