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I knew that the trip would change my life. But I never even imagined that the gear would too.
The trip was a beginner’s rock climbing camp in Joshua Tree. Climbing instructor Matt Walker invited me after we met in a climbing lesson at Miraval resort in

This post originally appeared at Campaign for America’s Future (CAF) at their Blog for OurFuture. I am a Fellow with CAF.
Watch as GOP Rep. Jim Renacci (OH) is confronted at a local town hall meeting, asked what the heck he thinks he is doing saying he will vote to repeal the health care reform law. Renacci replies that he and fellow Republicans campaigned on reversing the “half a trillion dollars in cuts to Medicare.” (From Daily Kos.)
Republicans campaigned on protecting seniors from Medicare

The overthrow of President Ben Ali of Tunisia is being hailed as a potential precursor to similar revolts against repressive regimes elsewhere in the Arab world. Democracy enthusiasts dream of falling dominos throughout the Middle East comparable to the cascade of apparently impregnable dictatorships in eastern Europe and eventually the Soviet Union between 1989-92.
Certainly some elements of Tunisia’s so-called Jasmine Revolution parallel other upheavals. Mohammed Bouazizi, the street vendor who set himself on fire, became a symbol of heroism not unlike the Rev. Laszlo Tokes in Romania whose resistance to Nicolae Ceauseascu’s venality inspired thousands to take to the streets in

Arianna joined the CNN ‘Your Money’ panel this afternoon to discuss the fallout from the Arizona massacre, the overheated rhetoric that oftentimes pervades our national political conversation, and the rise of the Tea Party.
On the panel along with Arianna were former presidential speechwriter David Gergen and founder of the Memphis Tea Party Mark Skoda.
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I want to see the Tucson shooter suffer pain, be killed, executed. I feel the same way about the persons who raped and murdered that family in Connecticut. I am certain we could all list persons who committed outrageous and despicable crimes that we would want executed. Many of us want revenge, retribution and the ultimate punishment in those cases, but, nonetheless, I am opposed to the death

Did you hear that the PATRIOT Act is up for re-authorization? No? Well, perhaps the US intelligence services can still keep a secret.
President George W. Bush signed the PATRIOT Act into law on October 26, 2001. Nearly a decade later, some of its the most noxious provisions have burrowed their way deep into our legal system.
A year ago, President Obama signed a bill extending three provisions of the original Patriot

Washington, D.C. may be renowned for its uncurated collection of gladhanders and ideologues, but the nation’s capitol is less well-known as the home of numerous art, antiques and artifacts collections that aren’t housed in museums. All three branches of government have these collections — with curators in charge of them, to boot — that probably add more ambiance than cultural enlightenment to visitors. But, of course, who expects the Treasury Department to be a place of culture?
“We have 5,000-7,000 objects in the collection, depending on how you count objects,” Richard Cote, the Treasury Department’s curator,

The caller on my voice mail was clearly concerned: “So what’s going to happen to my personality, now that my sign is Ophiuchus? And, oh, how do you pronounce ‘Ophiuchus’ anyway?”
I figured it was a joke. The shift in the signs of the zodiac, whose constellations are the one-and-only basis for the tens of thousands of astrology forecasts routinely printed in newspapers and magazines, is a story old enough to be chiseled in stone. Despite the fact that it’s suddenly in the news, this bit of celestial mechanics was worked out by the Greek astronomer Aristarchus of Samos 23 centuries ago. I mean, that’s a pretty stale

Al Muteena Street in Deira, Dubai
Deira was Dubai’s most modern quarter. It still is, though it’s often referred to as “Old Dubai,” a generalization that only describes a stop on the Dubai visitor’s course. To see a gold souk, a fish market. To take an abra ride for no reason other than to take an abra ride.
The charm of the antiquated is an applied

The latest media frenzy is playing dangerously with a man’s life. By taking the golden toned Ted Williams from homeless and sleeping in shelters if he was lucky, to champagne and caviar at the Plaza, the money grubbers are doing Ted no favors.
Yes, Ted seems to be a nice guy and he has a very good voice, but he is probably on the streets for a reason. How much investigation into the reason for his homelessness did his benefactors actually do? Did they try to help Ted simply from good intentions, or was there a profit motive? And last but not least, did they bother to find out if Ted had a substance abuse problem, or a psychological problem, or exactly why he came to be homeless?
Too many people live life as if it was just one big movie. They might think they can empathize with Ted, but they have never walked in his

Something strange happened in the Soviet Union and the United States in the 1950s. During a period when both countries were focused intently on space, nuclear weapons, and post-war development, two environmental issues made national headlines. Even stranger, the places that attracted attention were thousands of miles from either of the political centers in Moscow or Washington, D.C. Against these odds, however, Lake Baikal and what later became known as the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge transcended politics and geography to emerge as powerful environmental

When I do these interviews, I have found myself just as interested, if not more so, with what informs our muses as I am with what they’re wearing. For example, it’s not a coincidence that Nina loves minimal color, clean silhouettes and photography with spare landscapes, and, as a result, has enough space in her head to read volumes of profound literature.

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President Obama’s memorial speech in Tucson on January 12 delivered a message of consolation and hope about the terrible killings four days earlier. Don’t we realize, the president asked, that we Americans are all neighbors, that we are something like the members of a family? And once we recognize that, shouldn’t we agree to respect each other and talk gently to each other? A decent sympathy becomes us, even in our disagreements.
This was a reiteration of Barack Obama’s Democratic National Convention Keynote Address of 2004. We are not red states and blue states, the president is saying once

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Time magazine arrived in my mailbox today. There are many ways to grace its cover. You can found Microsoft. You can date Taylor

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When people talk about the promise of social media, they often praise tools like Facebook, YouTube and Twitter for their ability to connect people, to remove barriers, to let us tell our own stories unfiltered and unmediated — to show us as we are. Yet Sarah Palin’s reliance this week on technologies like these shows us an ironic truth: making each of us our own broadcaster doesn’t necessarily make us more open, accessible or responsive to the outside world.
Jonathan Capehart nailed it when he said that Palin had “emerged from the protective cloak of Twitter and e-mails to Glenn Beck to speak directly to the American people” and answer the criticism that has come her way since last weekend’s shooting in Arizona. A social media channel as a shield from prying eyes rather than the modern incarnation of the panopticon? Not a portrayal we commonly hear of Web 2.0 (its potential to allow “oversharing” is a far more common critique), but one that can be just as accurate, particularly when we’re talking about public figures.
As much as self-publishing and online social tools let us show who we really are, they also let us act anonymously or insincerely in the public sphere. “No one knows you’re a dog” is just the start, since any dog able to manipulate a mouse could also construct a false persona (a chance to find out what life’s like as a cat,

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated leading a Living Wage Campaign in Memphis, Tennessee. In an address to strikers in Memphis on March 18, 1968, King stated, “Now our struggle is for genuine equality, which means economic

My friends we live in a country where a mentally deranged man may have access to a firearm and ammunition as easily as he may access getting a license for his dog. We have been afraid for too long to address the consequences of this. How many more Virginia Techs or Tucsons will it take before we wake up to the reality? This is not about finger pointing, it is about seriously disturbed individuals getting access to firearms.
It is not even about violent rhetoric. Actually it comes down to one key

As you prepare to watch the television event of the season, you may be experiencing some common concerns. How will you make sense of all the intense competition, sparkly dresses and complicated interview questions? How will you know what the contestants are secretly thinking? Fear not! The Huffington Post Unofficial Miss America Liveblog will guide you through, every step of the way.
Tonight, Saturday January 15th, 9pm EST.
If you are one of the mistaken few not planning to tune in, consider this: The Bachelor host Chris Harrison and Dancing with the Stars host Brooke Burke will be hosting.

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Recently, my wife and I saw “The King’s Speech.” We were both moved by the true story of a British royal with a stutter who was suddenly thrust into the role of king at the start of World War II. His perseverance in fighting to find his voice and commitment to lead a nation is beautifully portrayed in the movie.
Chances are high you won’t be called on to become king of a nation, but you are called to be the king or queen of your own life. Kabbalah’s Tree of Life associates kingship with speech and standing up for what you believe in. According to Kabbalah, kingship (or queenship) is the culmination of everything swirling around inside of

When a respected psychology journal announced last week that it had decided to accept a research report offering empirical support for the existence of extra-sensory perception, there was quite a kerfuffle. The Journal of Personality and Social Psychology will publish the paper about the apparent ability of college students to accurately sense random events. Daryl J. Bem, an emeritus professor at Cornell University, worked with 1,000 students and has been doing this work for more than a

If you’re a woman, a close female friendship is one of the constants that keeps you sane and helps you live your life well. Whether you’re a stay-at-home mom or a high powered career woman, your female friendships are important to your health. The good news is that you don’t need to have 50 BFFs as we are led to believe; even one good friend can lead you on the path to living a healthier life. Personally, I would hate to not have my best friend Michelle in my

Last week’s gushingly reported study, “Researchers Show Women’s Tears Turn Men Off!” felt like another nail in the coffin of civilization. Offered up like a cautionary tale in headlines around the world–from The New York Times, “In Women’s Tears, a Chemical That Says, ‘Not Tonight, Dear’” to Business Week’s “Women’s Tears Dampen Men’s Sexual Arousal”–most reports barely scratched the surface of the study’s findings. Why did no one write, “Even Tears Fail to Move Men to Empathy”? This is, after all, what researchers found.
The study proves that tears communicate on a chemical level, but it’s what those tears don’t convey that surprised. According to researcher Noam Sobel, the standardized questionnaire they used in their research only incidentally included a question about sexual