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Showing 1 thru 10 of 24. 1 2 3 NEXT > For all you moms out there Thursday April 26, 2001By Casey Brooks -- This column is to the mothers who take their children to work everyday. It's to every mother who commutes 365 mornings a year from the bedroom to the kitchen to unload the dishwasher and use the plates again. It's to every mom whose executive position requires her to ... Friend or foe? Thursday April 05, 2001By Casey Brooks -- One of the definitions of a friend is "one who is not hostile." There are other definitions, of course, such as "attachment to one by respect or affection," and "one who supports or favors something." The same could be said for the word "ally," only this term has ... Tax-cut prospects Thursday March 29, 2001By Casey Brooks -- They're still frothing at the mouth over Bush's tax cut plan. By the sound of it, according to the compassionate Democrats, if the stupid Republicans manage to push this bill through the Senate with the aid of those treasonous Blue Dogs, the whole economy could go belly up ... Party of the little people Thursday March 22, 2001By Casey Brooks -- I don't know California Gov. Gray Davis, but I submit the man does not have a clue. Yesterday, he blamed the most recent spate of California's rolling blackouts on Southern California Edison and Pacific Gas and Electric because they have not been paying the "qualifying ... Dems scaremonger Bush tax cuts Thursday March 01, 2001By Casey Brooks -- After listening to House minority leader Dick "Too Good To Be True" Gephardt speak against President Bush's tax-cut plan, I think I finally understand how the people of Missouri could actually elect a dead man. A few weeks ago, Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle, in r ... Nothing 'gay' about bigotry Thursday February 22, 2001By Casey Brooks -- I don't wear Levi's anymore. And I don't drink Coors beer, attend the Episcopal Church or patronize Disney. I used to enjoy listening to Melissa Etheridge, until it became common knowledge that she was homosexual. After that I could never figure out whether she was s ... Communism, the AIDS of ideologies Thursday February 15, 2001By Casey Brooks -- Back in 1989, when the Berlin Wall fell, I was watching the news broadcast covering the event with my father when I asked him, "Do you think it's really over?" He looked at me and said, "How do you mean?" I said, "Communism. Do you think this is the beginning of the end of ... Taxes at the tank Thursday February 08, 2001By Casey Brooks -- And now for the latest in the fuel crunch: An e-mail is floating around in cyberspace soliciting a boycott of two major oil companies to see if we consumers can successfully influence a decrease in the price of gas through economic pressure. Stated goal: Cheaper fu ... Feel-good idiots Thursday January 25, 2001By Casey Brooks -- A few months ago, there was a list floating around outlining how to be a good liberal. The one I received had 15 points outlining the views one must hold to excel in the left. It covered all aspects of the bleeding-heart mindset, from positions on gun ownership and the death pena ... Legislating feelings Thursday January 18, 2001By Casey Brooks -- I've never been an advocate of hate-crime legislation. One of the reasons I oppose the idea is because it seems to me that, in order to determine if a crime was motivated by prejudice, there could be no objective measure of intent. For any crime to be labeled as a hate crim ... Pages: 1 2 3 NEXT > Casey Brooks is a wife, a mother of three and a columnist for the Northwest Florida Daily News. She has lived on four continents and views the world as a little larger than a village.
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