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Opinion December 20, 2007  RSS feed
Perry cutting ties to Bush?
      You've gotta love the guv. If there was any doubt that the Bush Era is moving into lameduck days, Rick Perry's recent blurt in Iowa that George W. Bush isn't a fiscal conservative was a sign.
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No Santa? You're kidding, right?
      No Santa? In 1897, an editorial writer at the New York Sun, Francis P. Church, wrote what is probably the most famous editorial ever written. "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus" is reprinted each year in this space, and on this Christmas 2007, it follows with our warmest wishes for a wonderful Christmas.
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Finally: Proof of Santa Claus
      When Virginia O'Hanlon wanted an answer to a particularly important question in the late 19th century, she turned to The New York Sun. "Dear Editor, I am 8 years old. Some of my little friends say there is no Santa Claus. Papa says, 'If you see it in The Sun, it's so.
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Enemies turn OK at Christmas
      Merry Christmas memories. Not always not so easy, especially when you are called to the captain's office. "Pryor, hear you do some singing and joke telling." Said I, "But sir, I do it only when off duty.
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Letters to the Editor
      High, dry Regarding the article about a ship's wake washing a boat ashore in last week's newspaper and Mike Roberson's comment that he had never heard of another instance of that happening reminded me of a story told to me by Denzel Bardwell, a commercial fisherman from Rockport.
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