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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• American Liberals are ready, eager, in fact, to condemn their fathers, uncles, brothers and sons for all the ills of the world; yet, they are equally eager to excuse the horrific murders by hate-mongers in the Near East.
• When Liberals speak of freedom, generally they mean individual liberty unfettered by government interference. But this is the freedom of license, which invariably collapses into totalitarian rule as people seek safety in a strong centralized government from the social chaos that ensues.
• A Liberal once told me that the fact FOX News is "fair and balanced" is irrelevant, because "fair and balanced" isn't the same as being right, and Liberals are, in his view, right.
• Historical accounts of Indian tribes in western Washington rely largely on "snapshot" impressions by explorers who knew the tribes only briefly.
• On June 2, 2004, Rush Limbaugh asserted that man cannot hurt the oceans because they're so vast, and that the oceans "eat oil" from natural and human sources. He's half‑right. The oceans are like deserts, vast waste‑lands sparsely populated by life. But, also like deserts, the oceans have oases, where life thrives. We can't harm the desert, but we can kill the oases.
• If we stay the course in Iraq and Afghanistan, they will become their own versions of Germany and Japan.
• According to official City of Seattle policy, it is impossible for me to be racist, because I'm an American Indian. But because, unlike my cousins who live on the Washington state peninsula, my grandfathers were European rather than Filipino, my skin is white, and therefore, also according to official city policy, I cannot possibly be an American Indian.
• If the post traumatic slave syndrome is a defense for murder, then what defense is provided Jews by "post traumatic concentration camp syndrome"? Every ethnic group has been victimized at some time, so why stop with excusing just one?
• By demanding our immediate withdrawal from Iraq, Liberals are saying they want to condemn the Iraqi people to anarchy, terrorism and rule by al Qaeda. But most Americans believe that transition must occur, the inhumane demands of Liberals notwithstanding.
• If President Bush represents big money, then why do so many very rich people support John Kerry?
• Absolute freedom leads to absolute domination.
• Film‑maker Michael Moore has turned a contract dispute into an act of political oppression, and cries for justice. Only in America, can a wealthy, influential man claim to be oppressed and be believed.
• America's world image is relevant only if it affects our survival and quality of life. Bush, the domestic, homeland security president, thinks it doesn't matter. John Kerry, the French speaking, internationalist president‑wannabe, thinks it does matter.
• In the name of fairness, businesses oppose American Indian enterprises on grounds that Indians are not impeded by the onerous, anti‑business regulations that burden most commerce. They're right to complain, but wrong to pin Indians with the blame.
• There is a strong inclination to confuse license with liberty, but the two are very different. License is the absence of legal constraints, while liberty is the freedom provided by prudent constraints.
• Liberals demand the right to censor "politically incorrect" speech, but cry foul at any refusal to broadcast their words, no matter how vulgar or demeaning.
• Conservatives tend to be people who follow rules and give respect, while Liberals tend to break rules and demand respect.
• Liberals call verses in the Bible that condemn homosexuality "hate speech," but they seem reluctant to apply the same label to verses in the Koran that call for violence.
• Self‑esteem is not necessary to success, but self‑respect improves the probability of success.
• Despite the widespread destruction and loss of life it caused, Liberals today would surely approve the Civil War for putting an end to slavery and freeing the slaves, yet they disapprove the Iraq war, which has liberated millions of Iraqis from tyranny.
• Just 49 years ago, Emmett Till was lynched for whistling at a white woman. Today, most men are subject to economic and social lynching for whistling at a woman.
• More and more American men are refusing to fall for the girl of their dreams who takes a sudden interest after she gets pregnant by the "Don Juan" who dumped her.
• What does it take to really hear somebody? "T." H‑E‑A‑R ... T.
• John Kerry decided to delay accepting the nomination, just before he decided to not delay accepting the nomination.
• Liberals have ideals, Conservatives have principles.
• In my experience, Conservatives listen and converse, Liberals don't.
• A lot of Liberals tell me they aren't "into" politics, "but Bush is a liar!" And when I ask them for proof, "oh, I'm not into politics, but Bush is a warmonger!" "Oh, I'm not into politics, but Bush..."
• Recently, 2 Christian fundamentalists, upon learning that I am not a Christian, latched on like a terrier biting at my ankles, refusing to let go but somehow believing they could "save" my soul by gnawing at me with complicated and esoteric arguments that are every bit as pointless to me, but every bit as compelling to them as the debate once was to many Christians over how many angels can dance on the head of a pin. Their fervor made me realize that religious fundamentalists are Liberal. Liberals view the world through the lens of their ideology. As the Bible says in Hebrews 11:3, this requires faith. Faith is intolerant of unbelief. This is why Christian fundamentalists, like all Liberals, strive to compel our agreement with their ideology.