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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• Why are so many people bent on attacking American Indians when one of the gravest threats confronting America today is illegal immigration?
• Liberal/Progressive societies require more work‑place regulations than Conservative societies, because personality counts for more than productivity in Liberal/Progressive societies.
• Just as absolute liberty in society leads to totalitarian rule, so absolute liberty in business and employment practices will lead to a totalitarian economy, in which employers share information about employees that forces workers to comply with corporate edicts, or face destitution.
• In The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements, Eric Hoffer observed that "Mass movements can rise and spread without belief in a God, but never without belief in a devil." Michael Moore and his followers fit this description, in that they are motivated by their hatred for the Republican Party and George W. Bush.
• Some Democrats complain that Conservatives who don't plan to see Fahrenheit 9/11 are not interested in the facts. Nonsense. We don't need to watch propaganda to learn the facts, and most of us have better things to do.
• Just because the perpetual victims bash America doesn't mean we should dismiss all their complaints; some are legitimate.
• People who counter complaints about conditions in America with the observation that conditions are far worse in other countries, will have us settling for less and less until it's equally bad in America.
• The Islamo‑fascists have committed many terrorist acts in Europe, with minimal retaliation. The European response of treating terrorism as a police matter has not stopped the terrorist attacks in Europe, so why would America want to emulate them?
• If the Supreme Court ruling—that detainees have the right to challenge their treatment—demonstrates anything, it's that the Bush Administration is not, as Democrats charge, a dictator.
• By saying that the U.S. should not have invaded Iraq, Democrats are expressing the wish that Saddam Hussein was still in power, that the rape and torture of thousands of Iraqi civilians was still happening, and that Iraq was still a haven for terrorists.
• When the Iraqi Interim Government uses harsh methods to quell terrorists, the Democrats will certainly claim that the Bush Administration is behind it.
• Saying that the war in Iraq was about oil is like saying that Fahrenheit 9/11 is about money.
• When a woman tries to force her boyfriend or husband to change, is she guilty of "emotional abuse"?
• Had we attacked Iran, as Senator Kennedy evidently believes we should have (Senator Edward M. Kennedy remarks at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace 2004 International Non‑proliferation Conference, June 22, 2004), that would have left Saddam Hussein, an avowed enemy of the United States, prepared to sweep in and unite an unstable Iran under his rule.
• The assertion that business owners should be free from the encumbrances of government regulations to run their enterprises as they see fit, because the free market will do a better job of regulation, ignores that business does not operate in a vacuum, but in an economy that, among other things, is protected by the tax‑payer supported military. Hence, with the right to do business comes responsibilities.
• Democrats seem desperate to downplay the fact that Saddam Hussein was a brutal dictator, and that the Iraqi people have more freedom today than at anytime since Hussein rose to power.
• Isn't it interesting how much the terrorists sound like feminists?
• "Tolerance," of the kind practiced by Democrats, focuses on superficial differences, like appearance.
• Most Liberal/Progressive women seem to think that sex is everything with men, while most Conservative women seem to know that sex is only the beginning with men.
• Democrats assert that the Department of Homeland Security perpetuates fear by issuing security alerts. But in the 1960s, under Democrat President Johnson, we had weekly air raid tests. Now as then, it isn't about perpetuating fear, but about security and preparedness.
• Councilwoman Yvette Clark, sponsor of New York City's " Restroom Equity Bill," says that women are "victimized" by the fact that they take longer than men to go to the bathroom. (Michael Medved Show, June 16, 2004) Feminism has, indeed, gone to the extreme, when women are victimized by their own anatomy.
• Feminists who say women need special dispensations due to the nature of their anatomy are using conservative principles to side‑step the feminist dogma that demands anatomical equality for women in all other cases.
• Liberals/Progressives take every opportunity to keep American Indians caged by policies that impose on us their view of what a "Native American" should be. They hate that we may not want to conform to their childhood fantasies of the old west.
• In America, atheists seem far less tolerant of Christians than Christians are of atheists.
• One characteristic of Conservatism is the awareness that past and future are balanced on the moment.
• A hallmark of the Liberal/Progressive agenda is a fixation on a utopian future.
• Many of the Liberals/Progressives I know hate in the name of love.
• Democrats complain that American people are starving under the Bush Administration, and they're right; American people were starving under the Clinton Administration, too.
• In San Francisco on June 28, 2004, Hillary Clinton told adoring fans that, "We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good."
• Prior to passage of the Patriot Act, it was easier to get a wire tap on a suspected drug dealer than a suspected terrorist.
• The war in Iraq is not just about oil, because we could have bought all the oil we want from Saddam Hussein for less than the war has cost.
• On June 23, 2004, Mike Siegel agreed with feminists that women ought not to be "objectified" for how they look, but that they should be appreciated for their culture, intellect and sensitivity. Yet, he routinely approves of the fact that men are objectified financially.
• Spain withdrew from Iraq, yet it remains a terrorist target. Why? Because by 1492 the Christians had taken Spain back from the Muslims, and the Islamo‑fascists want it back.
• On June 17, 2004, KIRO talk radio host and congressional candidate Dave Ross said that the fact the 9‑11 Commission found no link between 9/11 and Iraq proves we were wrong to go to war against Iraq. He doesn't get it. Bush never claimed such a link. We went to war against Iraq for many reasons, but primarily because Hussein supported and promoted anti‑American terrorism.
• On June 18, 2004, Dave Ross complained that John Kerry hasn't been in the news, much. He doesn't get it. The less public exposure Kerry gets, the better he does in the polls.
• In deposing Saddam Hussein and rebuilding Iraq, the Bush Administration has made many mistakes, for which the Democrats will and are excoriating him. As they do, however, they should remember that, had Al Gore been president, Saddam Hussein would still be in power.
• On June 14, 2004, Rush Limbaugh claimed that you can't just be against something ("anybody but Bush"), but you also have to know what you're for (Kerry). He's wrong. As Eric Hoffer noted in The True Believer, "Mass movements can rise and spread without belief in a God, but never without belief in a devil."
• Wealthy people are more likely to have access to tax shelters and sophisticated, tax free means of passing on wealth from one generation to the next. Hence, people in the middle and upper middle class who want to pass on a modest inheritance to their children would benefit the most from getting rid of the death tax.
• Have native bird populations in urban American been harmed more by starlings than DDT?
• In general, Conservatives understand that hypocrisy is an inescapable part of human nature, while Liberals/Progressives seem to believe they are above hypocrisy.
• In my experience, Liberals/Progressives define communication as a process in which you agree with whatever they feel.
• Everybody hates the Patriot Act, because it takes away all our freedoms. While it doesn't take away all our freedoms, it's ironic that most of the people who hate it, seem happily oblivious to the fact that we have far fewer freedoms in the workplace.
• Progressive Liberals demand perfection now! from the Republicans, but demand compassion for their own failures.