One-Handed Basketball Player Inspires Others
Just a bit of weekend inspiration for you: Fox 8 Cleveland reports on a couple physically challenged teenagers who not only succeed at sports but use their success to inspire others. Zach Hodskins was...
View ArticleFormerly Paralyzed Man Attempts Ironman Triathlon
Englishman Paul Stewart is completing an Ironman Triathlon on an extended timeline–what he calls the IronSpine Challenge–after being told he would never walk again. Stewart was paralyzed in a 2008...
View ArticleAfter Crash, Violinist Shares Her Recovery Through Music
Since August 2011, Michigan Violinist Alicia Doudna has suffered from Traumatic Brain Injury [an injury near and dear to the hearts of Iraq and Afghanistan vets] after a collision with a semi trailer....
View ArticleSarah Kureshi
Your inspiring story of the day comes from Sarah Kureshi, a Pakistani-American doctor living in Washington, DC. Sarah has contributed to global society in a whole host of ways. One of her formative...
View ArticlePaul Stewart Completes the IronSpine Challenge
Paul Stewart, who I introduced in a recent post, has completed his extended Ironman after a skiing accident left him paralyzed below the knees. He tweeted the news today: Day 11, I am now an IronMan, i...
View ArticleDemocracy and Disrespect
Readers are probably already familiar with Indiana representative Marlin Stutzman’s quote in a Washington Examiner article on the GOP’s strategy for navigating the ongoing government shutdown: “We’re...
View ArticleA Security Sector Professional
Michael Hayden isn’t going to wait till our basest emotions are brought out in one of our most vulnerable moments to aggressively exploit them: I think some of the right things with regard to the [NSA]...
View ArticleAndrew Sullivan Apologizes
You don’t see a lot of this in public discourse: I don’t think I had fully reflected upon the grotesque indignity the state of Texas has enforced on this woman, or the extreme pain the family must...
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