Christians often refer to the Bible as the “Good Book,” and they’re right. Actually it’s a great book, full of expressive prose, parables and metaphors. Some of its messages are also inspirational, but let’s not forget that those words were written by flesh-and-bone humans, not by some deity.

The North Carolina General Assembly is back in session, so you’d think they’d be tackling really serious issues, like setting tax policies that would penalize greedy corporations who lay off people here and open plants in slave-wage countries. Or standing up to health-insurance monopolies and enforcing a cap on premiums.

Fantasy football is, by some accounts, the fastest growing pastime in the nation, in which more than 37 million adults pretend to draft, manage, coach and trade real-life professional football players. There are fantasy football parties, playoffs and championships.

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But NRA gun nuts don’t see it that way. No sooner had the president announced his plan and enacted 23 Executive Orders than the NRA posted a web commercial, calling Obama an “elite hypocrite.

Immediate public shock and outrage ensues. There’s wall-to-wall cable news coverage with wrong information being updated minute by minute because reporters jumped the gun trying to get the scoop. Telegenic psychologists are trotted out to give opinions about a shooter they’ve never met.

Here in the Piedmont, nearly every household owns a TV set, and each day, the majority of them get their news and information primarily from television. In this region, the four network affiliates who provide that local news and information are WFMY (CBS), WXII (NBC), WGHP (Fox) and WXLV (ABC).

Last week, award-winning sports broadcaster and long time voice of the Carolina Tarheels, Woody Durham, stopped by the ABC45 studio to appear on my “Triad Today” television program. It was the first time we had seen each other in 35 years, since hav ing worked together at WFMY-TV back in the mid 1970s.

In criticizing how radical and mean spirited the tea party Republicans have become, President Barack Obama likes to say that if Ronald Reagan were running for president today, he would never make it through a GOP primary. Unfortunately, he’s probably right.

Current News2 anchor persons served as our tour guides, giving us a peek at new technologies and innovations, including a complex, computerized weather department. Back when I was doing the 11 p.m.