Buckshot Lane said 'wild and woolly and full of fleas'
From the archives Janet Hobizal
      Happy Birthday last week to Wharton County. April 3 marked the 162nd birthday of Wharton County. It was formed on that day in 1846. Wharton County has been the home of many "colorful" characters in its 162 years and I have wanted to do a series on these wonderful people ever since I started writi...
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George Strait hard to beat in Berclair
Pokin' Fun 'Doc' Blakely
      About 40 years ago when I first started making after-dinner talks to amuse the masses on the pellet pea and rubber chicken circuit I had a call from a friend of a friend who was from Berclair, Texas. That's not exactly the Las Vegas of the third coast but this fellow thought it was mighty progress...
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No 'discernible' end apparent in Iraq
Part of Our World Dan Rather
      Last week, your reporter wrote in this space that if you want to know what's going on in Iraq - what's really going on and how things might turn out - you should keep a close watch on Basra.
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AMT 'patch' needed for stable economy
      Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman once observed that "Congress can raise taxes because it can persuade a sizable fraction of the populace that somebody else will pay." Today's tax burden on American families is too high. Yet many in Congress are trying to take even more money out of t...
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