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• Confessions of a Home Town Boy

  Created: Tuesday, April 20 2010 08:17 Author: Giles County Observer

  I am one of those people who moved away from my home town soon after high school graduation. Yes, I am guilty of having left the place I called home for most of the first 20 years of my life. I left at first to attend college, so that wasn’t too much of...

• Pulaski Community Hospital - New River Valley Cancer Care Center

  Created: Saturday, February 27 2010 11:55 Author: Giles County Observer

  I have been transporting my best friend to the New River Valley Cancer Care Center for almost two months for treatments. He has received radiation and chemo-therapy during this time and I have been so very impressed with everyone whom has administered his...

• Non-Resident Payroll Tax

  Created: Saturday, January 30 2010 14:50 Author: Giles County Observer

  Should non-residents be required to pay a payroll tax to the locality where they work? If not, is this fair to residents of the locality who pay taxes for all of the infrastructure used by the employed non-resident?...

• American Cancer Society

  Created: Sunday, January 24 2010 11:49 Author: Giles County Observer

  What is the mission of the American Cancer Society (ACS)? How much true progress in cancer research can be attributed to funding provided by the ACS? Should donors be concerned about their millions of dollars that pay the huge salaries of ACS executives...

• Disappearance of Young Women

  Created: Sunday, January 24 2010 08:09 Author: Giles County Observer

  The well-publicized disappearance of various beautiful young women across our country reveals some commonalities. Blond hair, beautiful facial features, excellently proportioned bodies, age 18-21, a degree of naiveté, and adventuresome personalities. All...

• Financial Reparations for African-Americans

  Created: Tuesday, December 15 2009 07:20 Author: Giles County Observer

  On January 6, 2009 Rep. John Conyers introduced H.R. 40, which proposes a Commission to Study Reparation Proposals for African-Americans Act. A brief description of the bill follows:...

• People: Afraid of What They Don’t Understand

  Created: Sunday, December 13 2009 17:35 Author: Giles County Observer

  From Big Foot to the Loch Ness monster, people are afraid of the unknown. The next door neighbor who spends his time behind locked doors is feared because he is unknown. The contents of an envelope stamped Past Due evokes fear of the contents. The face be...

• Life is Fleeting

  Created: Tuesday, December 08 2009 08:10 Author: Giles County Observer

  Oh sweet smell of earth, where have you gone since awakening my senses to your presence?You taught me......

• Lost Freedoms

  Created: Thursday, December 03 2009 10:39 Author: Giles County Observer

  We live in an era of increasingly lost freedoms. The computer age and other advanced technologies make it easier for our government to track our every move. Your movements, whereabouts, travels, purchases, conversations, computer activity, and what you th...

• God Spoke to Me; Or did He?

  Created: Sunday, November 29 2009 11:26 Author: Giles County Observer

  Christmas of 2006 found me reading a local newspaper article about a young girl in Mexico that wanted to come to the United States to get her education. I was very touched by her words and the photograph that showed tears running down her face. I had just...

• Racist: “hatred or intolerance of another race or other races”

  Created: Saturday, November 07 2009 11:38 Author: Giles County Observer

  I no longer know what is politically or socially correct when it comes to the subject of racial reference. When I was a youngster growing up in Giles County, it was correct to use the term “colored” when making reference to people with skin of a dar...

• How Oft Must Death Knock at Thy Door?

  Created: Thursday, October 29 2009 06:48 Author: Giles County Observer

  We come to this life with innocence and purity. A ray of hope for the future. Unstained by darkness, sin, deceit, and evil. Life leads us down a winding path of experiences, some good, some bad. We learn that within us we harbor emotions that must be expe...

• Obama: Paralysis by Analysis

  Created: Tuesday, October 27 2009 12:17 Author: Giles County Observer

  I’m not in favor of knee jerk decisions, or decisions made without appropriate consultation, but Obama seems to suffer from that old syndrome, “Paralysis by Analysis”. Obama appointed General McCrystal as his new Commander in Afghanistan, yet he has...

• Obama: Excerpts from His Book, “Dreams from My Father”

  Created: Sunday, October 18 2009 10:54 Author: Giles County Observer

  This book was written several years (1995) before Obama campaigned for President of the United States. As a result of being the first African-American to be elected president of the Harvard Law Review, Obama received an advance from a publisher to write a...

• Florida Boy Set Afire: Hate Crime?

  Created: Thursday, October 15 2009 07:59 Author: Giles County Observer

  On October 14, 2009 a Florida boy was attacked by 5 boys, who poured rubbing alcohol on him and set his entire body afire. Their motive was retaliation for an alleged case of the boy snitching on them. The 5 attacking boys consisted of 2 whites and 3 blac...

• Is Barack Obama a Fraud?

  Created: Sunday, October 11 2009 12:03 Author: Doug Turner

  Bill Ayers to Anne Leary as reported 6 October 2009: “I wrote Dreams From My Father. I said, oh, so you admit it. He said–Michelle asked me to“... So the question remains: is Barack Obama a fraud? Is his myth-making creation and only major accomplis...

• Domestic Violence: Insurance Companies Say “Pre-Existing Condition”

  Created: Saturday, September 26 2009 10:27 Author: Giles County Observer

  If you have been a victim of domestic violence, possibly you already know what most of us don’t know, some insurance companies consider your spousal battering to be a pre-existing condition, which allows them to deny your claim. This practice is nothing...

• Football: 2009 VT Hokies and Giles High School Spartans

  Created: Sunday, September 06 2009 09:34 Author: Giles County Observer

  The 2009 football season is upon us and once again we are embarrassed by the Hokies' anemic offense....

• Health Care Costs: Real Life Example

  Created: Sunday, August 23 2009 09:13 Author: Giles County Observer

  I, and others, have reported our concerns about the hoopla and smoke and screens associated with the Obama health care plan that has only been read by a very few members of congress. There are three primary concerns about health care in the United States ...

• Big Brother is Looking in Your Window

  Created: Tuesday, July 28 2009 09:07 Author: Giles County Observer

  If you have about 5 plus days to read and analyze the entire 1,018 pages of the ‘‘America’s Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009“, you might be as overwhelmed as I in regard to the vast amount of feely, feely and touchy, touchy that this act requ...