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... Supreme Court Will Hear ‘Dreamers’ Case Demonstrators marching in New York in 2017 in support of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, program, whose fate now rests with the Supreme Court. Image WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court will decide whether the Trump administration may shut down a program that shields some 800,000 young, undocumented immigrants from deportation, the court said on Friday. The court will hear arguments in the case during its next term, which starts in October, and will probably issue its decision in the spring or summer of 2020, ensuring a fierce immigration debate over the outcome in the midst of the presidential campaign. Mr. Trump tried to end the program in 2017, when he called it an unconstitutional use of executive power by President Barack Obama and revived the threat of deportation for immigrants who had been brought to the United States illegally as young children. But federal judges have ordered the administr...

"Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.' The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in." Isaac Asimov  The Reality You Must Face to Actually Live the Life You Want One of my earliest memories in life was me reading stories to my parents. You read that right, instead of my parents reading me bedtime stories, I read to them. As early as I can remember, I loved being the narrator, the talker, the pontificator (is that even a word? who cares). They were illiterate imagrants to this country, I was the educated one.   In grade school, when it was time to read out loud, the other kids in the classroom always pointed to ...

People come  in  your life for two reasons ..they are either a blessing or a lesson. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. The whole is more than the sum of its parts. The end of labor is to gain leisure. Aristotle’s Philosophy of Friendships Still Matters Today So many of our relationships are accidental. Here’s how to develop friendships that matter. A ristotle is widely regarded one of the most brilliant and prolific among the Western philosophers. It’s impossible to say how much he wrote, but the fraction of his work still around today is stunning in scope. Every field, from astronomy and physics to ethics and economics, has been influenced by his thinking. For more than 2,000 years, he’s remained one of the most widely read and quoted thinkers in history. While Aristotle’s impact can still be felt in many disciplines, one of his most enduring observations relates to friendship. He saw ...

..Get your copy of The Character Most Writers Get Wrong (And How To Fix It) guide now.  Instant access for writers >> Are You Really a Writer? Find Out For Sure with The Charles Bukowski Method FICTION Save ARE YOU A WRITER? Have you tried to quit writing? Novelist and poet of the American lowlife vangabond around town,  Charles Bukowski , thinks you should. But what the hell does he know? Bukowski’s poem “ So You Want to Be a Writer? ” tickles my rebellious streak. And thank goodness my rebellious streak is stronger than my  perfectionistic fear of failing or is it falling (after my hit-n-run got that rundown feeling and it jas morphed to vertigo, today). Because nothing gets me writing like Charles Bukowski. Press play below to hear Tom O’Bedlam from Spoken Verse read Bukowski’s “So You Want to Be a Writer?” in his deep and delicious voice. Then tell me if you feel this too. This poem gets me writing, not because I’m in...