body {font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: #ffffff; color: #000}
	#wrapper {background-color: #ffffff;min-width: 500px}
		#column-1, #column-2 {border-right: 1px solid #bbb;}
		a {color: #000}
		a:visited {color: #000}
		#header .header-nav a  {color: #000}
		.header-nav li, #menu-main-nav {background-color: #eeeeee; font-size: 14px}
		#menu-main-nav li {border-right: #ffffff 2px solid}
		h2.widget-head  {color: #000; font-size: 14px;
		font-weight: bold; }
		a.headline-link, .cat-item a {font-size: 14px;}.link-col a {text-decoration: underline}
		#featured a {text-decoration: underline}
		.link-col a:hover, #featured a:hover {text-decoration: none}
		.the-content, .the-content .link-content, #the-comments {font-size: 14px}
		.link-col .link-content, a.comment-link, #featured p, #footer, .textwidget {font-size: 14px}
		#main-content h1, #main-content h2, #main-content h3, #main-content h4, #main-content h5, #main-content h6, .home-link, .post-navigation, #logo-or-name {font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif}
		#wrapper #featured, #wrapper #featured h2, #wrapper #featured p {font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif}
		#wrapper #featured .link-content {text-align: center}
		#featured a.headline-link {font-size: 30px}
	.widget-box {border-bottom: 1px solid #bbb;}
	#respond {background-color: rgb(235,235,235); border: 1px solid rgb(195,195,195)}
	#commentform input[type=text], #commentform textarea {border: 1px solid rgb(195,195,195)}
	.posts-list li.border, ul.border li, .commentlist li {border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(195,195,195)}
	#the-comments {border-top: 1px solid rgb(195,195,195)}@charset "UTF-8";
/* 
CSS for the "tight" spacing option
*/

/*** universal styles ***/

.spacing-tight .alignleft {margin: 0 5px 5px 0;}
.spacing-tight .alignright {margin: 0 0 5px 5px;}
.spacing-tight .aligncenter {margin: 6px auto}
.spacing-tight .children {padding: 6px 0 0 10px}

.spacing-tight p {padding: 0.2em 0;}

/*** header.php styles ***/

.spacing-tight #header {padding: 5px 0 0;}

.spacing-tight #tagline {padding: 0 0 10px;}
.spacing-tight .header-nav {padding: 6px 0;}

.spacing-tight #featured {padding: 8px 0 16px;}
.spacing-tight #featured h2 {margin: 0 0 6px;}

/** link list  page **/

.spacing-tight #content-wrap {padding: 6px 0;}
.spacing-tight.link-col .sub-menu  {padding: 8px 0 2px 20px}

.spacing-tight .widget-box {margin: 0 10px 3px; padding: 3px 0;}
.spacing-tight h2.widget-head {margin: 0 0 10px}
.spacing-tight .widget-box li {margin: 0 0 0.4em;}

.spacing-tight a.headline-link {margin: 0 0 4px}
.spacing-tight .link-content {margin: 0 0 4px}

.spacing-tight .posts-list li {margin: 0 0 0.7em;}
.spacing-tight .posts-list li a, .spacing-tight .posts-list li p, .spacing-tight .textwidget p, .spacing-tight .textwidget li, .spacing-tight .textwidget a, .spacing-tight .textwidget strong, .spacing-tight .textwidget em, .spacing-tight .link-content {line-height: 1.2em}
.spacing-tight .posts-list li img {margin: 4px 0;}
.spacing-tight .links-list li {padding: 0 0;}

.spacing-tight .wpd-subscribe img {margin: 0 4px 4px 0}

/*** single page or post styles ***/

.spacing-tight .home-link {padding: 5px 0;}
.spacing-tight #main-content h1 {margin: 10px 0 10px 0; line-height: 1.1em}

.spacing-tight .the-meta {margin: 0 0 14px}

.spacing-tight .the-content h2, .spacing-tight .the-content h3, .spacing-tight .the-content h4, .spacing-tight .the-content h5, .spacing-tight .the-content h6 {line-height: 1em}
.spacing-tight .the-content h2 {margin: 12px 0 6px}
.spacing-tight .the-content h3 {margin: 10px 0 5px}
.spacing-tight .the-content h4 {margin: 6px 0 4px}
.spacing-tight .the-content h5 {margin: 4px 0}
.spacing-tight .the-content h6 {margin: 4px 0}
.spacing-tight .the-content p, .spacing-tight .the-content blockquote, .spacing-tight .the-content p strong, .spacing-tight .the-content p em, .spacing-tight .the-content p b, .spacing-tight .the-content p i, .spacing-tight .the-content p a, .spacing-tight .the-content p span {line-height: 1.2em}
.spacing-tight .the-content ul, .spacing-tight .textwidget ul, .spacing-tight .the-content ol, .spacing-tight .textwidget ol {padding: 4px 0 0 40px; }
.spacing-tight .the-content li, .spacing-tight .textwidget li {margin: 0 0 0.2em 0; line-height: 1.2em; }
.spacing-tight .the-content blockquote {padding: 6px 14px; line-height: 1.4em}

/** Comments **/

.spacing-tight #the-comments {padding: 10px 0; margin: 10px 0;}
.spacing-tight #the-comments h6 {margin: 0 0 28px; padding: 12px 0;}

.spacing-tight .commentlist {margin: 0 0 10px; padding: 10px 15px 15px 15px}
.spacing-tight .commentlist li {margin: 0 0 10px; padding: 0 0 10px; }
.spacing-tight .commentlist li .the-meta {margin: 0 0 5px}
.spacing-tight .commentlist li p {line-height: 1.2em; padding: 0 0 0 15px}
.spacing-tight .commentlist li img {float: left; margin: 0 12px 8px 0}

.spacing-tight #respond {padding: 12px; width: 490px; margin: 0 auto; -webkit-border-radius: 5px; -moz-border-radius: 5px; border-radius: 5px;}
	.spacing-tight #reply-title {font-size: 1.6em; margin: 0 0 10px }

.spacing-tight #commentform p {padding: 12px 0;}
.spacing-tight #commentform input[type=text], #commentform textarea {padding: 12px;}
.spacing-tight #commentform textarea {height: 180px}

/*** search results and archive ***/

.spacing-tight .results {padding: 18px 0 28px 30px;}
.spacing-tight .results .result {margin: 0 0 28px}
.spacing-tight .results .result h2 {line-height: 1.6em;}

.spacing-tight .post-navigation .alignleft, .post-navigation .alignright {padding: 16px}

/*** footer styles ***/

.spacing-tight #footer {padding: 8px 0}
.spacing-tight .navigation {margin: 0 0 6px;}

/** advertising **/

.spacing-tight .banner-container, .spacing-tight .banner-site-top, .spacing-tight .banner-content-top, .spacing-tight .banner-site-bottom {padding: 12px 0}

		/* side bar NEWS RESOURCES */
#news-sources a{line-height: 1em !important;}

/* TAG CLOUD SPACING */
.tagcloud{margin-bottom: 10px;}
.tagcloud a{color: #348fea;}

/* COMMENTS */
.link-content{background-image: url(http://www.chinaversusa.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/24_comment.png);
background-position: left; 
background-repeat: no-repeat;
}
.link-content a{text-decoration: none !important;padding-left: 30px;}

/* CATEGORY SIDEBAR IMAGES */
.categorySidebarImage{margin-bottom: 20px;}

/* ARCHIVE / CATEGORY COLUMN 1 */
.archiveColumn1{width: 66% !important;}
.archiveColumn2{float: left; width: 33% !important; text-align: center;}

/* ADVERTISEMENTS */
.advertisement{font-size: 11px; color: #999;margin-top: 5px;}

/* put more custom css here */