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When You Lie Down With Dogs, You Get Up With Fleas

Why do the powerful turn a blind eye to the flea bites and plagues inflicted on the United States by the Chinese Communist Party?
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When You Lie Down With Dogs, You Get Up With Fleas
Chinese Communist Party flag displayed displayed at the Beijing Exhibition Center on Oct. 10, 2017. Wang Zhao/AFP via Getty Images
Jeff Minick
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“For as they that write of poisons, and of creatures naturally disposed to the ruin of man, do as well mention the flea as the viper, because the flea, though he kill none, he does all the harm he can.”

Jeff Minick
Jeff Minick
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Jeff Minick has four children and a growing platoon of grandchildren. For 20 years, he taught history, literature, and Latin to seminars of homeschooling students in Asheville, N.C. He is the author of two novels, “Amanda Bell” and “Dust on Their Wings,” and two works of nonfiction, “Learning as I Go” and “Movies Make the Man.” Today, he lives and writes in Front Royal, Va.