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The Obama Administration’s announcement that it would review, on a case-by-case basis, the approximately 300,000 pending deportation cases in immigration courts to weed-out non-criminal immigrants and focus on deporting felons was greeted with both high praise and wild alarm.
A wave of celebration broke out yesterday among undocumented kids and their supporters as the relentless Federal deportation campaign has seemingly been stopped.
Meanwhile, anti-immigrant groups, coming off their successes at enacting racist, anti-immigrant laws in Arizona, Georgia and Alabama, proclaimed the end of the Republic.
They’re both wrong in their respective celebrations and lamentations.
For the Dreamers, the national group of star students, brought to the United States as undocumented children, now seeking to fully join American society through service in the armed forces or by attending college, this new policy feels like a tremendous

A new Republican primary narrative may be taking shape in the coming weeks and here is how it could play:
Rick Perry is having significant impact on the race and while he may scare some moderate Republicans, he knows how to fight and is attracting the base. Can we win the nomination? You bet.
Perry threatens both Michelle Bachmann and Mitt Romney but Bachmann will be in serious trouble in the coming months maintaining her traction with a competitor like Perry stealing her spotlight. And Perry is more electable than Bachmann is in a general. Bachmann simply cannot win the general election against Obama and the primary voters know

A month ago a breastfeeding doll from Europe made a controversial splash in the U.S., erroneously accused of “sexualizing” children. A week ago the CDC issued a report that hospitals don’t support nursing mothers. And yesterday, a teacher in Colorado claimed she was fired for pumping on the job.
Our medical institutions are in agreement that breastfeeding provides significant health benefits to babies and

What does it take to stay married to one person, under one roof, for the rest of your life?
I was so interested in that question that I wrote a book attempting to answer it. Over the course of my research, I interviewed 200 women who had been married 15 years or more — sometimes many, many more — about how they sustain their relationship. Though these wives came from diverse backgrounds and described themselves in varying stages of marital joy or distress, the strategies they shared for going the matrimonial distance were strikingly similar:
-Have close women friends and men friends with whom to vent (and drink).
-Have a strong sense of self beyond your marriage. Longterm bliss is possible if each partner is blissful apart from the other.
Through their raw, real reflections, the women I spoke to helped me better navigate my own 23-year-old marriage, and I’m proud of the book that emerged from my interviews with them, ‘The Secret Lives Of Wives.’
But I also appreciate what good company the book

For months now, the world has witnessed an acceleration of deadly violence in Syria, as the Assad government has resorted to increasingly brutal methods in an effort to smash a mass uprising in the country. While the government maintains that it has offered the protesters a range of reform proposals, their heavy-handed and lethal repression of largely peaceful demonstrations has called into question the seriousness of their intention to change their approach to governance. Negotiations between the regime and the opposition leading to a transition to democracy may have been possible at one point, but given the harshness of the government’s behavior, that moment has long passed. As a result, the protesters have sharpened their resolve, now demanding that the regime be

The Pranks
When Isa Prevost looked out her window on her birthday she found a “gift” sitting in her driveway, placed there by her ex-spouse Dany Lariviere. Dany had taken it upon himself to dump a 20-ton boulder in front of her house, in her driveway blocking access to same. Spray-painted in fluorescent orange was the following message: “Happy Birthday, Isa” and atop the rock was a pretty pink bow.
Pranks between ex-spouses who are in the process of obtaining a divorce are not a rare

Why is it that the Democratic Party faithful storming GOP town halls come up with better talking points for the tax debate than their own leaders?
Raising taxes on the rich – or, better said, making them pay what they paid before George W. Bush – is actually a popular notion according to polls, even among Republicans.
But too many Democrats in Washington fear “class warfare” attacks and are themselves so beholden to big money that they cannot muster the winning words that town hall protesters put together.
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Among “herbal” remedies for sleep, perhaps none has raised more questions over recent years than kava. Concerns about its safety have prompted extensive scientific study — and according to a recent large-scale review, we still don’t have answers to some basic questions about the risks associated with kava use.
In the roughly two decades it has been in popular use in the West, kava — a plant native to the South Pacific — has had a contentious and confusing history. Kava first became popular in the 1990s as an herbal remedy for sleep and anxiety. Within a few years, several cases of liver damage — and in some cases, liver failure — in the United States, Canada and European countries had been linked to kava

Repeat after me: Workers are consumers. Consumers are workers.
We’re slouching toward a double dip, and the stock market is imploding, because consumers — whose spending is 70 percent of the economy — have reached their limit.
It’s not just the jobless who can’t spend. It’s mainly people with jobs. Median wages continue to

It’s silly season in the political world, once again. And this year — just like every year a Democrat occupies the White House — an old favorite of a story is making the rounds. It involves some very thinly-veneered outrage, which is completely fabricated and hypocritical in the extreme.
President Obama is on vacation. This fact is being subject to ridicule from Republicans, and their enablers in the

The president and the punditry seem perplexed that Republicans vote against their own proposals. The president in particular seems to believe that in a choice between voting for their constituents and exposing their hypocrisy, the Republicans will, in the end, vote for their districts.
That is wrong. Much more importantly, however, it “misunderestimates” Republicans’ devotion to their economic belief system, the alternative reality they constructed to maintain it, and the political, psychological and financial stakes they have invested in it.
When he fashions his jobs bill, therefore, President Obama should eschew calculations of what Republicans might

The Chinese people have the great fortune of possessing a long and illustrious civilization. Their achievements in science and the arts are a legacy that Chinese people should be rightfully proud of; however, in contemporary China the Han Chinese people share some of the same misfortunes as the Uyghur people of East Turkestan. They do not enjoy the privilege of electing their leaders, opposing the party-state or living in communities governed by the rule of law.
As the Chinese Communist Party shows no interest in governing through the will of the people, I believe that it is up to Han Chinese and Uyghur people themselves to seek a democratic future and to find permanent solutions for deep-rooted problems between

Believing that the Earth is our god, government, economy and culture — all wrapped into one big institution — that is simple common sense! When we draw our last breath together, all the functions of living will be mixed together in that one breath. There won’t be separate powers anymore.
Alarmist? Pessimistic? Radical? Are things so bad?
It’s not so bad if you ignore the upheavals and century storms and waves of extinctions. Most of us haven’t made a decision about what do to. The climate is changing and we get through another day.
Individuals in the media-saturated West have mostly made the decision to make no

Hey, all you headbangers! Are you guys ready to rock? I said, are you guys ready to rock? Ready for some dirty deeds done dirt cheap? Ready to get thunderstruck and shaken all night long? Are you ready to get down to the loudest sound around, the sound you need that makes your eardrums bleed, the thunder from Down Under? Then for those about to rock, we salute you. Let’s hear you make some noise for AC/DC!
That’s what I’m talking about, America. Get loud! Now that you’re rocking, you’re going to want to par-tay like a rock star, you know what I mean? You want to crank this mother up to 11 and throw it down heavy-metal style. And nothing says metal like a nicely chilled glass of sauvignon

Each week, ForYourArt highlights select events to help you PLAN ForYourArt. SEE, KNOW, COLLECT, and ENJOY the best of Los Angeles art and culture.
FRIDAY, AUGUST 19
Friday Night Wine Tastings
Barnsdall Art Park (Los Feliz)
5:30-8:30pm
There are only three more wine tastings left to go to this summer. Silverlake Wine will present four selections of boutique, small production, artisan wines from around the globe. Tickets are available online here.
Both Sides and The Center: A Literary Festival
MAK Center (West Hollywood)
7-9pm
Inspired by the architecture of

Skeletons in the closet? Try skeletons in the floorboards, or beneath them. In recent news the house for sale on the island of Gotland in the Baltic Sea going for 4.1 million Swedish kronor, or about $650,000, complete with visible skeleton in the cellar floor (Goths, eat your tell-tale heart out!), got me thinking about full disclosure laws for real estate. Should owners be required to disclose to potential buyers if their house is haunted?
Every state has its own laws regarding full disclosure of known deaths. In California, sellers are required to notify buyers if a death has occurred on the property within the last 3

Despair and anger are contributing to a feeling that people have no power to stop the destructive forces behind climate change, but the feeling can be reversed through personal hope and inner peace, an audience in Vancouver was told earlier this week by Buddhist monk, poet, peace and human rights activist, Thich Nhat Hanh.
In Vancouver for a week of teaching and lectures, Thich Nhat Hanh, sat down with Canada’s David Suzuki, a world-renowned authority on sustainable ecology, to discuss the path forward to a more sustainable way of living.
Their conversation, based on the premise that it is well-known that humans are harming the earth, destroying its ecosystems and disrupting the climate, focused on how to bring about the change in human behavior that is needed to put the world on a path that will ensure a healthy planet for future generations.
With contributions to the discussion from Vancouver’s mayor, Gregor Robertson, the audience listened for an hour to a thoughtful dialogue on tackling attitudes to climate change. The following clips provide a snapshot of the discussion. They will also be featured on the David Suzuki Foundation website and Plum Village, Thich Nhat Hanh’s website. A full version of the event is available for viewing

Agreement was reached on the debt ceiling crisis. Big deal, facetiously and, also, actually, for the Republicans actually agreed to cuts in the defense budget.
I worked for three years in Congress, and while that was a long time ago, even then they played that game of charades for political purposes, and we’ve almost lost count now, but, perhaps this exercise in political brinkmanship has occurred 78 times over the past half a century. While this masquerade is just another sign that our government must be broken, odd that only Denmark and the USA adhere to this practice, with the Danish wisely keeping their ceiling so high that it is never an issue. Let’s face it, this time the underlying reason for this drama was that the Republicans are trying to take over the White House by weakening President Barack Obama for the 2012 presidential election.
The primary problem reverts to voters and their total misunderstanding of economic

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Individual giving to charity is certainly easier these days. Support for the famine victims in Somalia is only a few clicks or a text message away. But more convenient giving does not necessarily translate to better or more sustained giving.
That’s where giving circles come

China’s environmental problems remain a cause for global concern as climate change continues to reduce agricultural production and create instability in world food prices, according to The Worldwatch Institute’s report Green Economy and Green Jobs: Current Status and Potentials for 2020. The report was co-authored with a research team at the Institute for Urban and Environmental Studies led by Dr. Pan Jiahuathe. It cites alarming facts about the status of China’s environmental stability, including the placement of seven Chinese cities on a list of the top ten most polluted places on

The 2011 adidas Nations completed play earlier this week in Southern California as the USA 2012 Blue squad won the title behind 6’11 Andre Drummond. It was an event well represented with top USA players from the 2012 and 2013 classes as well as international teams from Europe, Africa, Australia, Latin America and Asia. NetScouts Basketball has announced our All-Tournament Teams and Most Outstanding Players.
Most Valuable Player: Andre Drummond, USA 2012 Blue, 6’11, #2-rated, 2012. Drummond averaged 16.3 ppg and 9.5 rpg in leading his team to the

“We are enraptured prose-beings raised to the highest power”. – Walter Benjamin, On Hashish
Timothy Leary and Buckminster Fuller called themselves “performing philosophers”, using the power of media communication to spread galactic-sized ideas about the state of the species in relation to the wider universe. Timothy Leary used to say, “In the information age, you don’t teach philosophy as they did after feudalism. You perform

Just a few months ago, the Supreme Court made a historical ruling impacting the future of pay discrimination in this country. The court, in a five to four decision, ruled in favor of retail giant Wal-Mart against a group of its female employees. Wal-Mart was facing a possible class action lawsuit on behalf of its female workers who were not promoted and were paid less than their male counterparts for similar work. Not only does the ruling make it more difficult for women, minorities and other discriminated groups to find justice in the courts, it weakens the legal case for equal pay for equal work in this