Obama's remarks on rural Americans show his true colors
JONATHAN BARBEE
      Last week revealed that leading Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama at a fundraiser on April 6 in San Francisco let his private audience of mostly important and selfimportant Democratic donors know what he thinks about little people in little towns.
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Fair 'kids' share fun generation after generation
JERRY AULDS
      The energy, excitement and decibel level at the Wharton County Youth Fair's kid-packed awards banquet back in the late 1980s rose to such a crescendo that many in attendance feared the din might bring the roof and rafters of the old Crescent Gym tumbling down.
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Raid on sect compound may bind courts for years
DAVE MCNEELY
      Perhaps someday, the removal of 416 children from an offshoot Mormon sect's compound may be known as "The Eldorado Incident." Though its Biblical proportions certainly qualify it to be called something larger than an incident.
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