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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• What few may realize is that, schtick aside, the views of Tom Leykis are generally conservative.
• Any man who rejects a woman the way most women reject men is likely to be accused of sexism. In the workplace, that can cost him his job.
• Burger King says it's going to allow breast-feeding in its restaurants. Is this a marketing ploy to get more men who hope to catch sight of some bare breasts to buy at Burger King?
• According to a guest on KVI Talk Radio host Kirby Wilbur's show, the National Governors Association wants to tax our e-mail, either by the number we send and receive, or the amount of bandwidth we use. Either way, if they're going to tax our e-mail, they better outlaw spam, first!
• Black pundits say the Michael Jackson case is about racism, and they're right; it's about racist black pundits using the case to boost their careers.
• The American consumer market comprises one of our nation's biggest political bargaining chips at the global negotiating table. Higher wages increase American buying power, and, therefore, the political value of our consumer market.
• Most modern corporations are pragmatic institutions, neither liberal nor conservative, driven by an ethic based solely on profit and loss, rewards and penalties, and executive self-interest only distantly connected to the values and needs of stockholders.
• According to Dr. James Dobson, author of the Complete Marriage and Family Home Reference Guide, men need women more than women need men. In the very short term, this may be true, but as the growing problem of single-mother households demonstrates, in the long run the need evens out.
• Feminists hate passionate men.
• A thing few Americans remember is that prejudice pervades most of the world, and by comparison America is a bastion of tolerance and good will.
• Regardless of their political affiliations, conservatives are always happy for news that is good for the nation, no matter who gets the credit.
• There are conservatives in the Democratic party, which proves that right-wing liberals who level blanket condemnations against the Democrats are not motivated by principles and affection for the truth, but purely by self-interest.
• Laws aside, if it's okay for fast food companies to target children, why isn't okay for beer companies to do the same?
• Why should American multinational corporations stop exporting jobs? Because their owners tell them to stop. Who are their owners? American pension funds, who "own 60 percent of America's 1,000 largest corporations." - William Greider, The Soul of Capitalism, The Nation, Sept. 29, 2003
• Several years ago the feminist owners of KING News Talk 1090AM in Seattle, converted the station from the lucrative talk show format to an all news format. Why? The timing suggests it was because too many pro-fairness (read: anti-feminist) guests were promoting real equality, while too many feminist guests were unable to defend their sexist views from critical callers. Now, the management of Entercom property, KQBZ - The Buzz of Seattle, seem intent on forcing the popular BJ Shea show show to fail. Why? Probably because he does such a good job of panning feminists.
• On November 20, 2003, a lesbian who called in to the BJ Shea show said that under no circumstances would she accept a medicine that would turn her into a heterosexual woman, because "the thought of a naked man is disgusting to us (lesbians)." If heterosexual men are indifferent to the nakedness of another man, why wouldn't a lesbian be indifferent, too? I thought homosexuality was about being attracted to the same sex, but this lesbian is saying that it's about hating the opposite sex.
• On the issue of children, feminists want to have it both ways. When it comes to custody, the children belong with the mother, but when it comes to wages for housework, the children belong to the father, who must, therefore, pay mom for taking care of his kids. The contradiction may be obvious to us, but not to the politicians, policy-makers and professors who support them.
• Concerning Women.com says mothers should be paid a lot for their work. That it's worth $635,000 per year. Okay, charge the kids, since they're the ones who derive the most benefit.
• A lot of communists joined the Democratic party, the same way a lot of libertarians joined the Republican party.
• Religious fundamentalists oppose reproductive technologies, such as cloning and artificial wombs, because, among other things, such technologies would erode the reproductive role of marriage.
• Biblically, marriage can be between one man and one or more women.
• In the 20th century, beginning with Shulamith Firestone's The Dialectic of Sex, feminists asserted that marriage is an oppressive patriarchal institution; so why, in the 21st century, are lesbian and gay organizations demanding the right to participate in this "oppressive" institution?
• Multiculturalism may be a liberal program, but diversity is a conservative value.
• One of the great challenges we confront is that most modern oligarchs are liberal pragmatists.
• Communism kills, capitalism bills, the human spirit wills.
• The stated goal of cultural sensitivity is tolerance and diversity, but the result is a kindergarten show-and-tell culture in which the grit of real ethnicity is swept aside in favor of politically approved diversity packaged in neat little display cases.
• The essential nature of political correctness is deception, its goal, to control.
• During World War II, when we were at war against Germany and Japan, German- and Japanese-Americans were on the side of America. Just the same as, today, Muslim-Americans are with America in the war against terrorism.
• The backlash against feminism will peak by 2020, when millions of young, affluent Chinese men will begin looking abroad for wives.
• Being fat is perfectly okay as long as fat people do not become a burden to society by virtue of their vice.
• The home where the Green River Killer lived and killed is up for sale. One proposal is to convert it into a museum. Some say this is a bad idea, that it glorifies murder and profits from the death of his 48 victims. I agree. But, throughout the world we do this all the time, sanctifying battlefields, death camps and other "historic" sites as places where some come to remember while others come to gloat.
• In America, all complaints by women and minorities about "historic oppression" stop with American Indians.
• Some people believe masculinity includes making snap judgments. But wise men know that those who rush to judge learn nothing.
• How many complaints of hostile environment sexual harassment are about class, not sex?
• Right-wing liberals expect us to accept mainstream news reports about Afghanistan but not Iraq.
• When it comes to Supreme Court decisions, the government is notorious for breaking the law, especially when it comes to Indian tribes.
• Right-wing liberals bristle at the left-wing liberal attacks on President Bush and criticism of the war. That's a reasonable reaction, but they act like they're not guilty of doing the same thing to President Clinton, with their claims that Clinton engaged in Kosovo and elsewhere to distract attention from his embattled administration. Indeed, in a scathing article dated February 11, 1999, titled Clinton's Kosovo Confusion, the Cato Institute leveled almost exactly the same charges against Clinton that Bush critics use today, that he was sending "soldiers into a conflict that poses no threat to the territorial integrity, national sovereignty or general welfare of the United States." Personally, I believe American engagement in both conflicts was the right thing to do. What's wrong is how the right- and left-wingers ignore what's right in their eagerness to prove one-another wrong.
• KVI Talk Radio host Rusty Humphries says we ought to identify terrorist types as being Muslims. He makes a good point, and I think in the spirit of honesty we should identify all criminals, terrorists, hoods, thugs and evildoers by their religious affiliation.
• Lawsuits are very libertarian. Suing everybody who may in any way be connected to an injury, no matter how tenuous the connection, is the libertarian alternative to government regulation.