In this column I pose questions and raise issues. I don't always agree with the conclusion, implied or stated. The purpose is to put a slightly different spin on each item and to promote discussion.

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• Do relatively low barriers to food imports, plus government agricultural subsidies, artificially lower the prices Americans pay for food?
• With the ever expanding enforcement of politically correct standards, has honesty declined and subterfuge increased?
• Politically correct thought has always been with us. The difference today is the degree to which Information Technology allows organizations to monitor our behaviors and enforce their standards.
• To the extent tax dollars are used to treat health problems arising from life style choices, is it reasonable for the government to regulate those choices?
• Does it make sense to expect simple answers to complex questions?
• Friends, like lovers, can come and go; they just last a little longer, and some last a life time.
• If it's so easy to fall in love with the wrong person, why is it so hard to find the right person?
• Feminists complain a lot about the "chilling effect" various things may have on women. Such as the "chilling effect" evidence may have on liars. But shouldn't we also take note of the "chilling effect" feminist diatribes and hypersensitivity have on the willingness of men to treat women as equals?
• When a mother does not have a regular job, she's a "housewife." So why is it that when a father does not have a regular job, he's "unemployed"?
• Isn't it better to choose your friends, and let your enemies choose themselves?
• If a man tried to get a woman pregnant against her will, even if the sex was consensual, most would agree to call it rape. So what is it when a woman does it to a man?
• Dobody doves a ban wid a bad code.
• Responsibilities without compensating rights equals oppression.
• Is separation of rights and responsibilities classist?
• From dating to sex, isn't every woman who leaves making the first move to men snubbing the concepts of date rape and sexual harassment?
• Talking about what constitutes racism might make a racist uncomfortable in the same way talking about what constitutes sexism might make a feminist uncomfortable.
• Are we raising a generation that does not know how to be affectionate?
• Are comedians the truth sayers of our era?
• Isn't a female therapist who counsels male rapists a lot like a male gynecologist?
• Microsoft decries how other software companies are trying to use the law to compete against them, but didn't Microsoft make their billions pretty much the same way: by using illegal contracts and heavy handed legal tactics?
• Isn't political correctness the imposition of elite sensibilities on a blue collar culture?
• Next time a woman tells you that women's liberation does not stop where dating begins, ask her, "When was the last time you asked a man out?" Then sit back and listen to the stream of excuses.
• Joking about a man being raped in prison always gets a laugh. But what if we joked about a woman getting raped in prison?
• Martin Luther King Jr. was one of America's greatest leaders. This I believe with all my heart. But everything we know about him says that as a father and husband, he sucked. So when I read that his family lives high off his legacy but won't give the world the time of day, I don't begrudge them one bit. What he couldn't give them as a father, we should hope they get from his legacy. And that they are better parents than he was.