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I got the following in an email from a good friend: Meghan Kinney’s achievement-packed life took a bit of a turn recently, offering a up a tough, new challenge, which she’s faced with her typical determination. A member of the 2008 US Olympic Synchronized Swim Team, and the captain of the current team in training for [...]

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It would be so nice if my children had inherited only my best qualities, plus their father’s best qualities too.  Then, they would have been brilliant, talented and gorgeous.  But that’s not how it worked out.  For one thing, they’ve got qualities, such as athleticism and self-discipline, that neither my husband nor I have.  (We’re [...]

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I hear ads for Esteem on the radio all the time. Now I know that it really works: More here.

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Here’s the video of a speech Obama gave at the Transition Ceremony for the Joint Chiefs of Staff.  You need only watch the first 40 or so seconds. Here’s my transcript of those seconds: Thank you very much.  Secretary Panetta, thank you for your introduction and your extraordinary leadership.  To Members of Cong, Vice President [...]

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My friend Navy One made the statement that is my post title.  The statement appears in a post he wrote about Anwar al-Awlaki, a subject I probably should have covered, but didn’t.  Now, of course, having read Navy One’s post, which is better than anything I could have written on the subject, I feel that [...]

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