The Forsyth County commissioners that want Christian prayers before meetings [Forsyth prayer vs. NC gambling; staff editorial; March 3, 2010] should read the Bible. According to the New Testament Jesus said that people who pray in public are hypocrites.

Why is it that we expect when people get out of prison that they will turn their life around and become productive citizens? We are told to think of prison as rehabilitation but yet when people get out of prison we continue to look at and treat them like criminals.

Dear Editor, This luxury hotel to be built will not benefit the entire community as a whole. It only benefits, like many other hotels downtown, a certain class of people. For example,the average working man cannot afford to stay, especially in this economy, in a hotel which cost $200 per night unless he wins the lottery.

One of Greensboros three assistant police chiefs has been suspended for some reason, but the people of Greensboro will never know why. If a governmnet employee does something illegal, or unethical then he should be fired. If he isnt fired, then the people should at least know what he did wrong.

The interview with Nancy McLaughlin of the News Record was done with the notion that proper recognition would be given to some of the participants of the Feb. 1 Sit-In Movement and that we could stem the tide of some of the revisionist history so frequently presented to us.

On another subject you have in past issues used words that in some articles would not be used in the public forum. This is another sad situation that shows a lack of vocabulary and/or lack of respect and common decency. I would suggest that either you get a dictionary and thesaurus or give Miss Manners a call.

Whatever happened to the idea of innocent until proven guilty? And, shouldnt a full-body scan of a child be considered child pornography? A full-body scan is an unresonable search and an invasion of privacy. Innocent Americans (especially children) shouldnt be forcibly scanned, X-rayed, photographed or strip-searched.

Dear Editor, Anyone who uses these aniti-smoking programs called cessna programs should read the warning labels very carefully as these programs can have some very dangerous side effects. There is one call Chantix which has a side effect which can literally cause an invidiual to have suicidal tendencies.

Dear Editor, The elderly in this country are being singled out unfairly by this so-called Healthcare Reform Bill. If this bill passes and I hope it does not, as it is nothing more than another tax bill, the elderly will face dire straits. It is hard enough for the elderly to choose between medicine and food as it is now.

The man he bowed to is the son of Hirohito. He was a "god-king." Many Japanese people worshipped him as a god, and would have followed any order he gave. Hirohito's Japan helped form the original "Axis of Evil" with Nazi Germany and fascist Italy. And of course there was the attack on Pearl Harbor, the rape of Nanking, the Bataan Death march, etc.