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....The 17-year-old scholar-athlete's acceptance to all eight Ivy League schools on March 27 brought him international recognition and instant rock-star status in the corridors of his soon-to-be alma mater. But for his family, it was confirmation of the effort behind his many nights of studying, the support of his relatives and church, and the work ethic his parents have sought to instill.... Ebenezer Enin said he spent many hours teaching his son math and science from grade school through high school. He and his wife were strict, he said. And his son, who is set on becoming a physician, has...

For all the talk these days of how to revive our supposedly moribund American Dream, it took a college dropout-turned-actor to state the obvious. “I believe that opportunity looks a lot like work,” Ashton Kutcher recently said at the Teen Choice Awards. “I never had a job in my life that I was better than. I was always just lucky to have a job. And every job I had was a stepping stone to my next job, and I never quit my job until I had my next job. And so opportunities look a lot like work.” That such remarks...

To some it seemed impossible. A struggling division of an international corporation had not been able to negotiate even one contract in over 2 years. But, by the Grace of God, in less than four months, he had over 200 international corporations deploying his company’s latest technological offering around the Globe and 13 top tier consulting companies committing up to 21 Million dollars each plus their Directors in charge of Sales personnel, bringing in 12 Million dollars per rep each year, leading with his companies’ solution to their clients. How did this person achieve his first 100 Million dollar plus...

WASHINGTON, DC – The House ethics committee has announced charges against Democratic Congresswoman Maxine Water, who is from California. Waters used her congressional authority to meet with Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson on behalf of the Massachusetts-based OneUnited bank, in which her husband, as a former director, owned $250,000 of stock. OneUnited eventually received $12 million in federal bailout funds Here's what people are saying so far about the case, which comes as fellow Democratic Congressman Charlie Rangel is mired in his own ethics investigation.

Yep, its golf. Motorcade rolled from White House at 12:31 pm and headed to Fort Belvoir. Unfortunately press van number two was moved to the secondary motorcade for some unknown reason before we left, and so your pooler and the rest of his colleagues, along with the only White House press staffer in the motorcade, were separated from POTUS and the primary motorcade a block outside the gates, at 15th and Constitution.

[cross-posted] On the Muslim holiday Eid al-Adha ('Feast of the Sacrifice'), Muslims rejoice for the descending of the pilgrims back down to the earth. While Ramadan is a time of suffering and lack, where Muslims gouge themselves new wounds and cover themselves with blood in the streets after long fasting, Eid al-Adha is a time of fullness. A dark part of it, not frequently talked about with Westerners, is the torture and murder of innocent horses. The justification for the torture and murder of innocent horses is contained within Volume 3, Book 47, Number 744 of the Sahih Bukhari Hadeeths:One...

The archdiocese that covers our nation's capitol, has warned of new a new proposal that could cause the end of faith institutions. The proposed "Religious Freedom and Civil Marriage....

As yet more proof that Andree Mcleod not only has no respect for Alaskan law, nor the taxpayers wallets, this loser of human has now filed her sixth attempt to throw mud at Sarah to see if she can get anything to stick. To say hell hath no fury may be an understatement when it comes to this one... You might also recall Ms. Mcleod (photo to left) was also the same wacko that appointed herself the state government employees fashion facist... complaining there was just "too much cleavage" being shown by the staffers. Just a week before she walks...

British girls on holiday in New York put in orphanage after mother falls ill Two British schoolgirls went on a dream trip to New York with their mum - and ended up in a tough inner-city orphanage. Gemma and Katie Bray flew to the Big Apple with their mother Yvonne, 39, on a post-Christmas shopping trip. But just 24 hours after touching down at JFK airport their four-day break of sight-seeing and shopping was cut short after Yvonne was rushed to hospital with pneumonia. Stunned sisters Gemma, 15, and Katie, 13, were suddenly whisked away from their sick mother's bedside...

HOW PRO-CHOICE WOMEN SELL THEIR SOULS J. Grant Swank, Jr., POB l984, Windham ME 04062 Pastor, New Hope Church, Windham ME “Would you speak to our class on behalf of the pro-life position?” the public school teacher asked me over the phone. “Yes,” was my immediate, glad response. So there I was before the high school class, speaking on behalf of women, children, pregnancy, life, love, responsibility, hope, community, nurturing and family. It was my privilege. It was a speaker’s adrenaline rush. The students were very attentive, far more than I had expected them to be. The teacher sat at...

The Lost Boys Jan. 1, 2003 In Peter Pan, there were lost boys who fought off pirates and crocodiles before flying off to Never Never Land. In Sudan, thousands of lost boys fought off crocodiles and other dangers we can barely imagine and, as 60 Minutes II first reported 18 months ago, are happily flying off to a new life in the United States. Their incredible journey began 15 years ago, Correspondent Bob Simon reports, in the midst of Sudan's civil war in which two million people died. Their parents were killed; many of their sisters were sold into slavery....

Smoker Dave's Commencement Speech to the High School Class of '99 May 19, 1999 by "Smoker Dave" Kovach I know that all of you graduating today expect an uplifting speech on how you are this Country's Future. You ARE! However you have also been misled in the past 7 years by the Clinton Administration. If you listened to politics at all you think you are the most important people in this country. You know the mantra, "We must do it for the Children" Well "children" you are no longer children! Welcome to the real world, where getting a job after...