Tuesday, August 10, 2004

John Kerry Invents Virtual Foreign Relations

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Editor, John Kerry’s latest TV ads accuse President Bush of “misleading America.” Yet just a week ago, John Kerry said: "I've met w...
Monday, August 02, 2004

Do They Have To Retake The Senate Picture?

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Editor Recently 24 recipients of the Medal of Honor released a letter criticizing Kerry for voting against a $1.3 billion increase in vetera...
Saturday, July 10, 2004

Bush Smarter Than Kerry - Duh?

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Editor The Washington Times reported yet another Kerry lie, this one told repeatedly of how he met for hours with all members of the U.N. Se...
Monday, December 22, 2003

Liberal Bias Is A Proven Fact

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Steve, Since Mr. Finz “quoted” his grandmother in an earlier letter, I will “quote” mine: “You can lead a liberal to wisdom, but you can’t m...

When Did Serbia Attack Us?

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Steve, Since Mr. Finz determined not to waste any more time on an unworthy adversary such as myself, and unilaterally declared victory and a...
Friday, December 19, 2003

California - Revenue Shortage, Spending Surplus

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Editor, Your editorial, Junk Budget, December 12, 2003, was very amusing, since the ICO was not a critic of the Davis administration’s fisca...
Tuesday, December 09, 2003

Our 2003 Christmas Letter

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23 December 2003          Alice and I should have sent this a month ago, because this is a letter of Thanksgiving.  During the past yea...
Monday, November 10, 2003

The Last Word In Liberal Media Bias

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Editor, Since Mr. Finz chose to attack both my intelligence and honesty concerning the media’s leftist bias, I would like to rub his nose in...
Thursday, April 10, 2003

Women In Black Get Fast Results!

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Editor Independent Coast Observer This Friday the Women in Black demonstrated for an end to the war in their largest numbers yet. Friday eve...

Human Shields "Bug Out"

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Editor I'm glad Tom Cahill escaped from Iraq. Other human shields left Baghdad recently, and their experiences were reported by UPI and ...
Thursday, December 26, 2002

Our 2002 Christmas Letter

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Alice and I both turned 60 this year and the maturity we now exhibit is in consonance with our years. More than at any other time in our liv...
Monday, November 11, 2002

Hypocisy Is A Tradition Of The Left

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Editor, Independent Coast Observer I was tempted to accept Peter Lippman's offer of a "Mendonoma" truce, but have chosen not t...
Friday, November 16, 2001

Caucasian Octogenarian Female Suicide Bombers?

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Editor Regarding Mr. Schwab’s comments (ICO, 11/9/01) concerning the dialogue which has developed over my letters, I would ask readers to re...
Saturday, November 10, 2001

"No Namecalling" Writer Calls Me "Hatemonger"

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Alice and I just returned from over two weeks in Kaua’i, and one of the first things I did was catch up on local activities by reading throu...
Saturday, December 09, 2000

Our 2000 Christmas Letter

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                                                  December 12, 2000 We labored long and hard (and fruitlessly) in California for the ...
Wednesday, December 22, 1999

Our 1999 Christmas Letter

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Thursday, December 31, 1998

Our 1998 Christmas Letter

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                                                                       31 December 1998 Not much happened this year, except we both r...
Monday, December 25, 1995

Feliz Ano Nuevo!

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Ajijic street art         Alice and I started thinking and planning retirement not long after our marriage in 1989. In the early 199...
Saturday, December 10, 1994

Our 1994 Christmas Letter

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December 10, l994 Here is the sixth newsletter from the Combs’ Oak Creek Ranch. For a while we thought we couldn’t keep up with the mo...