Category: Enlightenment Warrior

This is a letter to the editor I published at the Daily Advance. Posted here for posterity, since they have no online archive: In just the last four years, the ACLU has filed over 20 lawsuits defending the rights of Christians to express themselves publicly. This includes the rights of students to wear T-shirts baring…

This is a letter to the editor I published at the Daily Advance. Posted here for posterity, since they have no online archive: The more than 100 people attending Currituck’s Board of Education meeting in opposition to Ms. Danielle Smiley’s efforts to establish a Gay-Straight Alliance in her school is exactly why such a club…

This is a letter to the editor I published at the Daily Advance. Posted here for posterity, since they have no online archive: Attempt to enact broad legislation to prevent illegal immigrants from entering the country? Check. Attempt to amend the Constitution to ban flag desecration? Check. Attempt to amend the Constitution to ban homosexual…

This is a letter to the editor I published at the Daily Advance. Posted here for posterity, since they have no online archive: I need to challenge an assertion made in last week’s interview with music industry veteran Jerry Heller that gangster rap artists are portraying the “reality of their way of life.” Of NWA’s…

This is a letter to the editor I published at the Daily Advance. Posted here for posterity, since they have no online archive: Now that Israel has withdrawn from Lebanon after inflicting $3.6 billion dollars worth of damage and leaving hundreds of civilians dead, Hezbollah, apparently funded by Iran, now takes up the cause of…

This is a letter to the editor I published at the Daily Advance. Posted here for posterity, since they have no online archive: Shirely Powell recently wrote, “The well-being of a few water moccasins shouldn’t be put above that of our people,” referring to flood problems that cannot be alleviated because the EPA may be…

This is a letter to the editor I published at the Daily Advance. Posted here for posterity, since they have no online archive: I am outraged at the International Astronomical Union’s ridiculous decision to demote Pluto to the status of “dwarf planet.” The new criteria defining planets, that the celestial object has a clear orbital…

This is a letter to the editor I published at the Daily Advance. Posted here for posterity, since they have no online archive: Imagine if Norfolk were to hold Elizabeth City responsible for a homicide committed against one of its citizens by someone from Sawyer Town. Norfolk simultaneously demands EC crack down on Sawyer Town’s…

This is a letter to the editor I published at the Daily Advance. Posted here for posterity, since they have no online archive: I’m trying to understand why people consider landfills such horrible things. I grew up in the shadow of the Virginia Beach landfill, which was simply a great big grassy hill on the…

This is a letter to the editor I published at the Daily Advance. Posted here for posterity, since they have no online archive: The city Planning Commission’s approval to rezone River Road, allowing a gated-community, while denying a rezone request for a Homeless Shelter on Herrington Road does not bode well for this area’s future.…

This is a letter to the editor I published at the Daily Advance. Posted here for posterity, since they have no online archive: Dear Elizabeth City Residents, It’s time to take down the “No Trespassing” signs. Property lines are pretty obvious. People should know it’s wrong to enter a house that’s not theirs. If people…

I’ve been put in the uncomfortable position lately. See, I wholly agree with the idea of protecting our borders. America needs to keep illegal immigrants from coming into the country. Undocumented workers artificially bring down our standard of living and our minimum wage through their circumvention of the system. Undocumented people living in America do…