by Lake on February 2nd, 2009

So far I’ve been accepted to four law schools, and each of my acceptance letters has been different. The most recent stands out far above the rest for something very minor - the dean’s handwritten note at the bottom. All correspondence I receive from schools seems to be signed by a dean or [...]

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by Lake on January 19th, 2009

“Come on!” a voice hollered from the doorway. “It’s dark outside, and it’s not safe to keep riding. That bike will still be there in the morning. Come inside!”
“Once more down the street, Mom. I’ll be right back!”
“Junior, get inside right now…” But he was already halfway down the street, [...]

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by Lake on January 2nd, 2009

Very few things seem to change with the advent of a new year. Thursday wasn’t all that much different from Wednesday.
But a couple things have changed in my corner of the blogosphere, and I thought I’d point those out.

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by Lake on December 31st, 2008

I’ve never been one to make New Years’ resolutions.  I always felt like I ought to have the motivation during the year to set and reach goals, so the first of January shouldn’t be anything special. But this year, thanks to encouragement from the words of J. P. Moreland in Kingdom Triangle, I’ve realized [...]

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by Lake on December 29th, 2008

“We have stretched our hand in peace many times to the Palestinian people. We have nothing against the people of Gaza,” Defense Minister Ehud Barak said. “But this is an all-out war against Hamas and its branches.”

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by Lake on December 26th, 2008

Over at The Huffington Post, Anita Thompson wrote a Christmas article entitled What Would Jesus Do? Ask Thomas Jefferson. Thompson’s message looks to the philosophy of Thomas Jefferson, who “took a pair of scissors to the King James Bible and scrapped the dazzling miracles….[Jefferson] boasted that he had extracted the ‘diamonds from the dunghill’ [...]

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by Lake on December 24th, 2008

“By understanding what my priorities are and never wavering, that’s how you influence people,” [Kurt] Warner said. “It isn’t standing on my chair with a Bible and yelling out scripture or condemning people for being sinners. It’s about living your life with a certain sense of excellence. And when people start to scratch their heads [...]

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by Lake on December 22nd, 2008

I’ve been calling the Global Warming crowd extreme for quite some time, and now the scientific community has publicly done the same.
While I think there are certainly some changes to the environment that are due to man’s existence, climate change has been shown to be cyclical.  If you look at 100 years, average temperature in [...]

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by Lake on December 16th, 2008

I spent the last hour emailing, texting, and otherwise messaging old and current students of mine. I tutored them, preparing them to take various tests, whether the LSAT and GMAT, or Algebra 2 and pre-calculus finals. In most cases, I checked in to see how their tests went and what future preparation help [...]

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by Lake on December 16th, 2008

Today President-elect Obama announced Arne Duncan as his nominee for U.S. education secretary. Duncan is currently the chief executive for Chicago Public Schools, but he will now move to a national position.
Unfortunately, the Harvard grad couldn’t live up to the constraints of the English language in his acceptance speech today. As Michelle Malkin [...]

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