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We often hear conservative complain about expansion of Federal power and it is usually contended that such encroachment on our individual rights is far beyond what our Founding Fathers envisioned when the U. S. Constitution and Bill of Rights were ratified.
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Barack Obama is a master of its use. Al Klemm and Alan Jordan are running a close second. What is it? It is the use of the Straw Man.
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The Beaufort County Board of Commissioners, at their regular monthly meeting March 11, 2013 voted 6-1 to ban roadside hunting in the County.
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Imagine this: Governor Pat McCrory issues orders to all of the local school systems in the state to insure that by year's end every child will be performing where they should be performing in math, science and reading and to do whatever it takes to see that this happens.
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The North Carolina Supreme Court handed down a decision Friday (3-8-13) that may well become a landmark precedent-setting case that will protect citizens, individual and corporate, from abusive municipalities and counties that try to use their taxation powers to control behavior rather than simply r
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The local mullet wrapper is pushing the Turnage again. It recently published an article about the bank putting the building on the market for sale.
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Our state's ferry system is truly a treasure and I would hate to see us mess up a good thing. There are two aspects to the ramifications of adding and increasing tolls on the ferry system -- impact on tourism and impact on the local economy.
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Rep. Julia Howard (R-Forsyth, Davie) has introduced HB 59. If it becomes law it will eliminate the mandatory safety inspection program in the state. It is now it the House Transportation Committee.
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The Washington City Council, in its regular monthly meeting Monday (2-11-13) adopted a "Comprehensive Plan." The vote was 4-1. Doug Mercer dissented.
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If the informal comments from Washington City Council members are taken to heart the County Commissioners need to recycle the decision made February 14 to build a new jail at the Industrial Park on U. S. 264 West.
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Everyone, except for the Yellow-dog Democrats, should pay close attention to what happens at the Republican precinct meetings Tuesday night. It will determine the future of Beaufort County for some time to come.
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The Carolina Panthers want a new stadium. They want the taxpayer to pay for a major chunk of the cost.
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Bob Woodward, the Washington Post editor with arguably the deepest inside connections in the White House published an article Friday (2-22-13) that in effect calls Barack Obama a liar. The issue is who is responsible for "sequester."
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In a surprise, and some would say "underhanded," move four members of the Beaufort County Commission voted February 14, 2013 to build a new jail in the Industrial Park several miles outside downtown Washington.
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This school board action, apparently initiated by Mrs. Winstead, is a good move.
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Today in Asheboro, Governor Pat McCrory signed his first bill into law since taking office.
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Now, nearly twenty months later, the county faces a major lawsuit over the incident, and may be involved in yet another one in the coming months according to reliable sources familiar with the case.
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The Beaufort County Commissioners voted Thursday (2-14-13) to build a new jail at the county's Industrial Park on U. S. 264 West. The vote was 4-3 with the three Democrats (Robert Belcher, Ed Booth and Jerry Langley) being joined by Republican Al Klemm.
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We have recently learned that the Federal Government has an assassination program that has been in operation for several years now.
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From time to time issues come up in local government that "fly under the public's radar" until it is too late.
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At the last County Commissioners meeting Commissioner Robert Belcher (D) made an impassion argument that firearm ownership should be restricted, in spite of the U. S. and N. C. Constitutions prohibiting such restrictions.
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What started out as a discussion of whether the boycott of the January 18, 2013 special meeting by the Democrat members of the Board of Commissioners (Langley, Booth, Belcher) was legal, turned out to be a raucous discussion of gun control.
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In John 3:19 we read: "...people loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil."
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Time was, although no longer true, that most children knew the moral of the fairy tale of Chicken Little and the Boy Who Cried Wolf. Not so with the Reverend Dr. William Barber, president of the N. C. NAACP.
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North Carolina Senator Bill Cook has sponsored two very important bills in the NC General Assembly, and our publishing friend, the Beaufort Observer, has published information to that effect.
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The government's case in the Tayloe Pharmacy drug bust appears to be unraveling. Charges against Lori Melton and Anna Moore were dismissed yesterday (1-23-13) in Federal Eastern District Court in Elizabeth City by Judge Terrence Boyle.
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The Beaufort County Board of Commissioners, on January 18, 2013, adopted a resolution calling for a constitutional convention to strengthen the Second and Tenth Amendments, among other things.
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The Beaufort County Board of Education changed officers at its January 15, 2013 meeting. Cindy Winstead was elected chair, replacing Mac Hodges and Terry Williams was elected vice-chair to succeed Winstead who had been serving as vice chair.
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Grass Roots North Carolina (GRNC) is taking aim at Sen. Kay Hagan for here tepid support of the Second Amendment.
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The Beaufort County (N.C.) Board of Commissioners adopted unanimously a resolution calling upon the N. C. General Assembly to take necessary measures to nullify any Federal action within the State that infringes on the Second Amendment's guarantee of the Right to Keep and Bear Arms.
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The Washington City Council voted unanimously Monday night (with Ed Moultrie absent) to apply for a half million dollar grant to renovate the old National Spinning building to accommodate an expansion of Spinrite, Inc. which is already operating out of part of that building.
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We have been hearing that Governor Pat McCrory, Speaker Thom Tillis and maybe some others are backing down from the idea of requiring a photo ID in order to vote in North Carolina.
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This article ranks among the most important we have ever posted on the Beaufort Observer. We urge you to not only read it in its entirety but to reflect upon what it presents.
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Concord legislator Sen. Fletcher Hartsell's campaign finance records show that he paid thousands to dollars from campaign funds to personal credit cards.
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