With Mel Gibson's drunken ramblings about Jews and Michael Richards' racial tirade at a California comedy club, 2006 will surely be remembered as a year of high-profile Hollywood racism. Both cases elicited universal condemnation, some of it appropriate but much, unfortunately, self-serving. As Americans ...
A good sign of a weak argument is the presence of a "straw man," which is used to pigeonhole and discredit the opposition. It is far easier to eviscerate a shallow caricature of the other position than to confront its substance. So it is when the White House labels its opponents "the cut 'n' run crowd," ...
I heard it for the first time in first grade and then again every single year from the fourth grade to the end of high school: "Drugs are bad. Drugs are addictive and destroy your life. Drugs will kill you."
The reason to fear drugs, we are told, is that they rob us of motivation and sense, that they destroy our ability to seize opportunities and make positive contributions to the world. And sometimes they do.
Frank Negron is literally nobody to George W. Bush, John Kerry, George Pataki or Michael Bloomberg. Born in Spanish Harlem to a family of drug addicts and dealers who, during his youth, defined his entire worldview, his first drug conviction came in 1975 at the age of 15. In 1979 he entered Attica State ...
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