By Eli Cahan Kaiser Health News April 27, 2021 Alcoholism-related liver disease was a growing problem even before the pandemic, as 15 million people suffer with the condition around the country, and as hospitalizations have doubled over the past decade. But the pandemic has dramatically added to the toll. Although national figures are not available, […]
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Samaritan’s Purse Sets Up Field Hospital in Western North Carolina
By L.A. Williams Christian Action League January 7, 2021 Samaritan’s Purse is carrying out its mission of providing “Christian relief to a hurting world” much closer to home than usual these days, serving patients suffering from COVID-19 in Lenoir. Headquartered in nearby Boone, the nondenominational evangelical organization led by Franklin Graham erected a 30-bed emergency […]
How a Stint with COVID Changed My Perspective
By Amy Holmquist Charlemagne Institute December 29, 2020 I was stricken with COVID last month. You probably expect me to now explain how awful it was, how I laid around in bed, suffering in agony, and was nearly carted off to the hospital. But that would be a lie. The real story? I had some […]
Governor Roy Cooper Orders Up Curbside Cocktails in Latest Executive Order
By Hunter Hines Christian Action League December 21, 2020 Today Governor Roy Cooper issued Executive Order No. 182, which authorizes and instructs the ABC Commission to allow certain mixed beverage permittees (restaurants, hotels, private clubs, private bars, and holders of distillery permits) to sell and deliver mixed beverages for off-site consumption. According to the Governor’s […]
U.S. House Votes to Legalize Marijuana, But Senate Not Likely to Take it Up
By M.H. Cavanaugh Christian Action League December 10, 2020 The U.S. House of Representatives voted to remove marijuana from the federal list of controlled substances, Friday, December 4. The vote was historic in that this is the first time Congress has voted on the matter. The Senate is not expected to take up the legislation. […]
Is COVID-19 Vaccine Safe and Effective, and Should You Get It?
Don Boys, Ph.D., Guest Columnist Christian Action League November 27, 2020 The world is spinning, staggering, and struggling from the Chinese coronavirus now called COVID-19 to conceal the fact that it came from China. The jury is still out whether it was manmade or natural and whether it was released accidentally or used by the Chinese Communist […]
The Pandemic and the Fear of Death
By Dr. Mark Creech Christian Action League November 20, 2020 Peggy Noonan, a former correspondent for CBS News and a speechwriter for Presidents Reagan and Bush, once said: “I think we have lost the old knowledge that happiness is overrated – that, in a way, life is overrated. We have lost, somehow, a sense of […]
Panic, Stress, and Fear
By Jeff Larson, The Back Pew “The uncertain election results, the pandemic, and unrest around the country have many people worried. Maybe you are anxious. Milton Berle once said that when he was in his twenties, he used to always worry about his girlfriend in the big city. One day he went to visit her. […]
The New Feudalism
By Jeffrey A. Tucker Guest Columnist Christian Action League October 27, 2020 On February 28, the idea of locking down and smashing economies and human rights the world over was unthinkable to most of us but lustily imagined by intellectuals hoping to conduct a new social/political experiment. On that day, New York Times reporter Donald […]
Put on the full Armor of God 2020 +CDC Guidelines
By Jeff Larson, The Back Pew “I have a cartoon in my office which shows a hospitalized man on a bed. He’s green in the face, looking haggard, with several tubes and IVs attached to his body. A preacher stands over him with a Bible in one hand while pointing toward heaven with the other, and […]