September 3, 2010 @ 3:49 am by Carole Jackson, Ed.
Granville County’s Representative in Congress, G. K. Butterfield, is under investigation by the House Ethics Committee for allegedly misspending government funds for travel.
An article in the Wall Street Journal says that Butterfield used daily cash stipends to cover expenses that appeared to be unauthorized by House rules. An independent ethics board has referred the matter to the House ethics committee.
Butterfield is up for re-election on November 2, opposed by Republican Ashley Woolard.
Unfortunately, the results of the investigation will not be made public until after the General Election.
Read more: The Daily Dispatch – Butterfield facing questions about travel pay
September 3, 2010 @ 12:05 am by Carole Jackson, Ed.
To everyone who knows what it is like to work for a living, we wish you a relaxing and safe Labor Day Weekend.
September 3, 2010 @ 12:03 am by Carole Jackson, Ed.
Obamacare is going to save us all a lot of money by requiring medical care providers to switch to paperless record-keeping.
To help defray the cost, the feds will hand out $19 billion in stimulus money. A total of $27 billion is expected to be spent over 10 years
So how much is this use of $19 billion in stimulus money costing you? Click here to find out by using Fox News’ Taxpayer Calculator. Just type in your income and it calculates your share of the cost. You can also vote and tell Congress if you think this is a wise use of your money.
September 2, 2010 @ 12:02 am by Carole Jackson, Ed.
The Traces WWII mobile museum will be in the parking lot of the Richard H. Thornton Library at 208 E. Industry Drive in Oxford today, Thursday, September 2, 2010 from noon until 6 p.m. Admission is free.
During WWII the United States was home to approximately 660 prisoner of war camps. Tens of thousands of the 380,000 Germans imprisoned across the U.S. during WWII were held on the East Coast, part of the millions of Axis and Allied prisoners held across the world. These prisoners embody ageless and timely themes of war and peace, justice during times of war, human rights, international reconciliation and potential lessons for avoiding future conflicts.
Housed in a bus made into a mobile museum with a 21-seat theater, “HELD ON THE HOMEFRONT”, illustrates this unknown story through narrative texts, artifacts & media.
You might also like to read about the POWs who were housed at Camp Butner on Home in Henderson. Be sure to read the comments as several people have posted about their interesting experiences with the POWs who were members of work crews in Vance and Granville County during WWII.
If any of YVIO’s readers remember this time, please share your experiences in the comment section for this post. We’d enjoy hearing about them!
September 2, 2010 @ 12:01 am by Carole Jackson, Ed.
Last week, the Obama State Department submitted a report to the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights on the supposed human rights violations taking place in the United States. According to the Washington Times, the report describes how the United States discriminates against the disabled, homosexuals, women, Native Americans, blacks, Hispanics and those who don’t speak English. There is the expected pandering to Muslims…the report notes that until recently, the U.S. engaged in torture, unlawfully detained terrorist suspects and illegally spied on Americans communicating with terrorists … but the report assures readers that Mr. Obama been putting a stop to all that.
Beyond the outrage felt by Governor Jan Brewer, whose move to protect Arizonans’ human rights was offered up as an example of an abuse of human rights by Mr. Obama’s State Department report (gotta protect those drug cartel murderers!), for many citizens, this report is a rank anti-American manifesto and the last straw.
