Director’s Commentaries
Raleigh News and Observer
- A Baby's Blood Cries Out, July 21, 2007
The website justice4jenna.org describes "an amazing and wonderful" young woman who was a "talented pianist, dancer and singer." The site's photo gallery shows a series of pictures of Jenna Nielsen, 22, as playful and humorous -- someone who obviously relished in being a wife and mother. Read More
- A God Given Right to Safety, June 5, 2007
No one is an island to himself. We may deny this truth in various ways, but the fact is we are social beings, inseparably interdependent upon each other. It is a law of life that even our personal and private acts have their social consequences. Nowhere is this better demonstrated than by the smoker's secondhand smoke. Read More
- Out-of-Bounds Campus Drinking, June 28, 2006
In his book Dying to Drink, Henry Wechsler, director of the Harvard School of Public Health College Alcohol Study, quoted a law school student: "In the university, we have entire generations that are learning to consume alcohol in an institutional way." Wechsler notes that alcohol is very much a part of the college scene, but it has a very dark side. Read More
- Better Living Through a Higher Cigarette Tax, March 23, 2005
Henry and Alice loved country-line dancing and were doing the two-step on the floor of the Longbranch in Raleigh, celebrating their 39th wedding anniversary, when suddenly Henry stiffened and fell backwards to the floor. It was sudden death! Read More
- Gaining Ground on Tobacco, September 23, 2004
In the early 17th century, England's King James I had a different take on tobacco use. "Smoking," said the king, "is a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black, stinking fume thereof, nearest resembles the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless." Objective consideration of today's health statistics would incline one to believe tobacco use is more hell spawn than a gift from heaven. Read More
- No Way to Address Wine Sales, June 27, 2003
In 1981, the General Assembly enacted an exception to North Carolina's three-tiered system of alcohol control. Under that exception, North Carolina wineries were allowed to sell and ship wine directly to North Carolina consumers. This exception did not extend to out-of-state wineries. Read More
- Growers Problem is Rolling Overseas, April 1, 2003
Someone once said, "Beware of the man who continues to tell you he's on your side. So is appendicitis." North Carolinians are very familiar with the standoff that recently took place between Washington, D.C., police and Dwight Watson, a Nash County farmer, who drove his tractor into a pond at the National Mall. Using an inverted American flag to signal his distress, Watson, a former military policeman in the 82nd Airborne in the mid 1970s, claimed to have explosives. He said he was on a "mission" to get a message to the American public that he and other tobacco farmers were being forced out of business by unfair government policies. Read More
- UNC's Doctrine, August 7, 2002
As has been widely reported, three students, along with two leaders of the Virginia-based Christian organization The Family Policy Network, are plaintiffs in a lawsuit against UNC-Chapel Hill. The suit opposes a summer reading requirement that incoming freshmen and transfer students read "Approaching the Qur'an: The Early Revelations" by Michael Sells. Read More
- Destructive Sex Education, April 5, 2002
The Wake County School Health Advisory Council recently voted to recommend to the school board that the county's sex education program, which is taught in grades seven through nine, be changed from "abstinence-only" to "comprehensive" sex education. Under a comprehensive program children would be presented with the "safe-sex" message. Read More
- NC Lottery Nonsense, June 25, 2002
Mark Erwin's "Bring lottery dollars back to N.C. schools" (Viewpoint, June 19) reminds me of the old saying, 'There's nothing wrong with making a mistake, just don't respond with an encore." Never has an argument for a state-operated lottery and its so-called benefits for education been more mistaken. Do state-operated lotteries help education? Hardly! Read More
- No Mischaracterization of the Issue, (March 5, 2003)
Recently, Sen. Charlie Albertson (D-Beluaville) introduced SB — 19 Township ABC Elections which revises GS 18B-600(f). Simply put, the measure is aimed at giving the western side of Harnett County (where many people live but there are no incorporated towns) the opportunity to choose whether or not to have alcohol sales. The bill would allow the people to vote not just on beer and wine sales from grocery stores, but also on whether to have fortified wines, liquor stores and liquor-by-the-drink. Currently, no such elections are allowed. Read More
- Prohibition failed, other alcohol myths, (December 19, 2006)
Plato once said: "We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light." When it comes to the subject of alcohol and drinking, an unwillingness to address alcohol policy myths leaves little hope for success in significantly reducing alcohol-related problems. Unfortunately, editor of The Herald Sun, Bob Ashley's recent column, Is It Time to Lower the Drinking Age? disseminates more myth than light. Read More
- Universal Health Care -- Unbiblical Socialism, (March 21, 2007)
The prospect of government-funded universal health care is another example of America's departure from its strong Judeo-Christian roots and its love affair with socialism. Economic systems that perpetuate or construct dependence or reward sloth strike at the very heart of what it means to be human. Read More
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- Lessons from America's Humble Beginnings, November 22, 2006
According to all four Gospel narratives, the people were hungry and a young boy surrendered his lunch of five loaves and two fishes. But what was that among a multitude of more than 5000 men, not counting the women and children? Still as Matthew Henry states: "Those who have but a little, yet when the necessity is urgent, must relieve others out of that little, and that is the way to make it more." Read More
- In Defense of Pat Robertson, November 19, 2005
The news media reported it widely. On a recent broadcast of the Christian Broadcasting Network's 700 Club, Pat Robertson strongly rebuked the citizenry of Dover, Pennsylvania for voting out eight public school board members who favored the teaching of intelligent design. Robertson said, "I'd like to say to the good citizens of Dover. If there is a disaster in your area, don't turn to God; you just rejected Him from your city. And don't wonder why he hasn't helped you when problems begin, if they begin. I'm not saying they will, but if they do, just remember you just voted God out of your city. And if that's the case, don't ask for His help because he might not be there." Granted, Robertson's statement was strong. Read More
- My, Oh My, Doesn't the Church Look Silly, (Date of Posting Lost)
(Special to EP News) — Back in 1999, Mississippi Governor Kirk Fordice said, "America is a Christian nation." For his comments the governor was castigated by media pundits as an intolerant bigot. Yet, as Gary DeMar writes in America's Christian History: The Untold Story, the governor was right about America's origins and first 250 years. Read More
- Is Cremation Christian, March 13, 2002
One of the great Bible doctrines which has almost been forgotten in recent years is the sanctity of the Christian's body. The Scripture says, "Know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?" This passage and many other Bible statements clearly set forth the truth of the divine ownership and sanctity of the Christian's body. Read More
