Keyword: determination
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Many leading Republicans and conservatives want someone other than Donald Trump to run for President in 2024. But this judgment requires an assessment of Trump’s vices and virtues in the context of our current political and cultural circumstances, as well as an assessment of other prospective Republican presidential candidates. Tom Klingenstein, Chairman of the Claremont Institute, explains Trump's Virtues.
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Improvements in the registration of the sex of minors are urgently needed. The BDKJ Federal Board supports the aim of the Federal Government to replace the discriminatory Transsexual Act (TSG) with the Self-Determination Act (SBGG) and to strengthen the gender self-determination of affected persons. "The de-bureaucratisation and recognition of gender diversity by law is urgently needed to ensure trans*, intersex and non-binary persons the acceptance of their gender identity also formally and to break down patriarchal thought patterns,"
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The movie is free at the link until June 2.
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Mike Lindell, the founder of MyPillow, opened up about how he overcame his lifelong battle with addiction on the latest episode of Life, Liberty & Levin on Fox News Sunday night. Lindell was a crack addict who started drinking and got into hard drugs when he was just a teenager. He recalled showing up for his five-year high school reunion drunk and envying his old friends for doing things like going to college and starting families. All in all, Lindell says, he suffered through about “40 years of addiction” between alcohol, powder cocaine and crack. All that started to change...
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State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki told Matt Lee of the Associated Press Tuesday that the U.S. had “determined that we do not need to make a determination” over whether or not the ousting of Mohamed Morsi in Egypt was a coup. Sen. John McCain (R., Ariz.) called it a coup Tuesday, but the Obama administration has deliberately avoided using the word:
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With all the acrimony about race flooding the news & internet, this should provide a much needed change in perspective. http://www.wimp.com/designscomponents/
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Jesse was adopted by Ron and Anne Landry when she was just 2 days old. [snip] “I started playing basketball when I was about 3,” she said. “I started to really like it a few years later, and my brothers would work with me. They didn’t go easy on me. They knew I had to work harder than everyone else.” [snip] “She was always so determined,” Anne said. “You couldn’t tell her that she couldn’t do anything.” Nimitz coach Debbie Jackson caught her first glimpse of Jesse when she was playing for the Teague Middle School eighth-grade team. One of...
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EGLIN AIR FORCE BASE, Fla., Aug. 11, 2010 – Waking up alone and bleeding on sun-baked granite after falling 50 feet face-first from the top of a mountain is where Air Force Academy Cadet David Garay found himself June 2, 1997, only one day after his 19th birthday. Garay, now a major, lived through the fall and recovered, but the incident changed the course of his life forever. "I rarely think about it at all now," said Garay, executive officer for the Air Armament Center commander here. "But for the first five years, I thought about it all the time...
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Keep the Course by Ari Bussel and Norma Zager “And I have given Jacob to condemnation, and Israel to reviling.” Isaiah 43:28 President Obama and Prime Minister Netanyahu are expected to meet in Washington, DC, next week. By then, the President’s effort to completely overhaul the healthcare system in the United States in one fell swoop would either have passed another hurdle, and bring us closer to the brink of economic destruction, or serve as a reminder that humility is a necessary ingredient in governance. The President, in a public debate, reminded Senator McCain that the election period is over....
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Even when half your skull is missing, life goes on. For ex-soldier Erik Castillo, gravely wounded by mortar fire in Iraq in 2004, life is going better than expected. Five years have passed since he woke up drooling and paralyzed in an Army hospital with a coconut-sized hole in his cranium — an injury from which doctors said he would never fully recover. The road back to some sort of normalcy has been rife with pain and indignity. He's been stared at by strangers, coped with countless surgeries and infections, and battled rage, self-pity and depression. Through it all, he...
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LEWISTON, Maine — Army and Navy recruiters took one look at 330-pound Ulysses Milana and told him to forget about joining. "You've got to lose weight," Milana remembers them saying. But Marine recruiters were willing to work with him as he began his weight-loss journey in December 2007. Now, 11 months later, Milana is 140 pounds lighter as he leaves Monday for Parris Island, S.C., to begin boot camp.
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MARINE CORPS BASE CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. (Jan. 28, 2008) -- Sgt. Jeremy F. Boutwell, a 23-year-old Marine, knows a thing or two about “honor, courage and commitment.” Boutwell, an intelligence specialist with Headquarters and Service Company, 1st Battalion, 9th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division, II Marine Expeditionary Force, is planning for an upcoming deployment to Iraq after sustaining severe injuries during an attack in Al Anbar Province, March 14, 2004. Boutwell was an MK-19 machine gunner with Weapons Company, 3rd Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, I Marine Expeditionary Force (forward), when the attack occurred during a motorized routine...
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Perhaps it is one of the fruits of the “self-esteem” emphasis in our schools that so many people feel confident to voice strong convictions about things they know little or nothing about — or, worse yet, are misinformed about. One of the hardest things for anyone to be informed about is the value of someone else’s productivity. Yet there are cries from all directions that some people are being paid “too much” and others “too little.” Judging Worth Who can possibly be better informed about the value of what someone else produces than those who use the goods or services...
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CAMP HANSEN, OKINAWA, Japan (Nov. 22, 2006) -- Since 1st Lt. Patrick Cleburne "Clebe" McClary, III was told by doctors he would never walk again due to wounds he received during the Vietnam War, he has run marathons and set treadmill test scores that members of the Dallas Cowboys have been unable to beat. The highly decorated Vietnam veteran turned world-renowned motivational speaker visited Okinawa Nov. 1-7 to share his story with service members and, more importantly to him, thank them for keeping the United States a free nation during this time of war. During the visit, the Silver Star...
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FORT HUACHUCA — Determination. If anything can be said about Melissa Anderson, it is that she has a specific goal in mind and the drive to achieve it — in a word the 24-year-old woman has determination. Just ask Army Lt. Col. Jim Gallagher, who found himself on the defensive when he questioned the mother of four and wife of a Fort Huachuca soldier if she knew the difficulties of not only being a university student, but one who was seeking to enter the military Reserve Officers Training Corps Program at the University of Arizona. Although Anderson has more than...
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FOB KALSU — “Iraqis helping Iraqis” was the theme in Baghdad's Rasheed district Aug. 25-28 as local residents helped patch together a road that had been blown apart by terrorists. In the past, numerous roadside bombs were detonated on the streets between Adwaniyah and Hawr Rajab, leaving huge craters and nearly impassable roads.Now, in a move as symbolic as it was utilitarian, local contractors disregarded terrorist threats and ventured out to repair thoroughfares throughout the area, opening the way for uninhibited travel by members of the community. “The workers did a great job and worked very hard for two days...
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U.S. Marine Corps Pfc. Matthew Pielmeier Marine Overcomes Adversity with Heart, Determination By Lance Cpl. Scott M. Biscuiti, Marine Corps Base Camp Butler OKINAWA, Japan, July 17, 2006 -- “My friends said I couldn't do it - that I was too short, and the Marine Corps would tear me apart,” said Pfc. Matthew Pielmeier. The 4-foot-9-inch native of Altoona, Pa., might appear diminutive in stature, but his spirit and resilience abound. “I was in seventh grade when I found out that I had a growth hormone deficiency, and I would be short for the rest of my life,” said...
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Local religious, political and military leaders united against terrorism and instability in their district at the Civic Unity Conference held in the Huteen Establishment of Iskandariyah, April 8, 2006. U.S. Army photo by Spc. Rodney Foliente City Leaders Voice Hope, Determination, Unity More than 150 religious, political and military leaders, took turns voicing their hopes and their concerns for Iraq. By U.S. Army Spc. Rodney Foliente 4th Infantry Division ISKANDARIYAH, Iraq, April 17, 2006 — In a room crowded with more than 150 religious, political and military leaders, speakers took turns April 8 voicing their hopes and their concerns...
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This a video I did a while back.
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With budgets getting tighter every year, the U.S. Forest Service plans to raise up to $800 million in much-needed cash by selling off 200,000 acres of land across the country... The proposed land sale would be authorized under a Congressional amendment to the 2,000 Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act. The law is intended to help rural communities that have seen National Forest logging-based revenue drop as timber cutting dwindled across the country. The list is based in part on land ownership adjustment analyses that designate lands suitable for disposal. Most of the lands to be sold are parcels...
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