I want to point anyone who is interested in the current abortion debate in America to these two recent articles:

Stand to Reason: Biden's Blunder Redux - Commentary on recent comments made about stem cell research by Democratic Vice Presidential Candidate Joe Biden. While this blog post does not explicitly deal with the abortion issue, this is written by a staunchly Pro-Life author who argues that Biden made a critical logical error in his criticism of the Republican Pro-Life position of opposing embryonic stem cell research which ties into the next article.

I recently took the online personality assessment test from the book StrengthsFinder 2.0 which attempts to focus one on improving their strengths (hence the book title) rather than focusing on their weaknesses. While I don't find this book ground-breaking, it does provide a pretty good method for re-evaluating yourself so that you can keep in mind the important things to focus on in your life.  Here are my top five strengths, and what I plan to work on this year to better myself:

Ideation
Strategic
Maximizer
Analytical
Learner

Here are how I plan to work on what I consider to be my top 3 strengths, and the areas in those strengths that I can best capitalize on in the coming year: