Texas GOP straw poll clears up numerous issues
DAVE MCNEELY
      The Texas Republican Party's straw poll in Fort Worth recently cleared up several things. First, to the question of "Who is Duncan Hunter?" the answer is winner of the Texas Republican straw poll," with 41 percent. Eat your heart out, Rudy Giuliani, who finished a distant fifth, but still ahead o...
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Relief player tunes out pep rally crowd
SLIM RANDLES
      It was just one of those crazy mixups, you know. Like when one thing goes wrong it triggers another thing that goes wrong and that sets off a multiplicity of crash-and-burns that are remembered long after people are dead and nations fall to Visigoths and such.
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Texas veteran receives long-delayed Purple Heart
JOHN CORNYN U.S. SENATOR
      In the late fall of 1781, after defeating the British at Yorktown, Va., Gen. George Washington moved his army of 7,000 soldiers north to winter at New Windsor, N.Y. After six years of struggle, it finally appeared the poorly equipped, badly fed and rarely paid revolutionary forces were on the verg...
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Thanks for support
      Editor, the Leader-News: We would like to thank everyone that supported our annual Sausage Fest by buying meal tickets, purchasing quilts, and cakes and pies from the bake sale. Special thanks to the ECVFD for cooking the potatoes and sauerkraut and the North Harris County Dulcimer Society for pr...
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