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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• Every step we take may not be historic, but it leaves a footprint on the path, and our journey is historic.
• Reality TV is a contemporary version of the "holodeck" from Star Trek: The Next Generation.
• There's a lot of grumbling on the left about values. They don't get it. Most Americans share most of the same values. The biggest difference between liberals⁄progressives and conservatives, is our principles.
• There are no "blue states," only blue counties in otherwise red states.
• On Airhead America, they describe President Bush as "the smirking son of privilege." So what does that make John Kerry, "the droning son of privilege"?
• On November 24, 2004, Airhead America host Ed Schultz claimed that oil prices have gone up because of Halliburton and the oil companies. But most Americans know that it's because China and India are rapidly increasing their consumption of oil.
• On November 24, 2004, Al Franken said that abused children grow up to become abusers. This is a false and harmful stereotype that stigmatizes abused children. The fact, is that while most abusive adults were abused as children, most abused children do not grow up to be abusive adults.
• After moving to England, Madonna acquired an urbane British accent.
• Again on November 24, 2004, Al Franken claimed he's no demagogue because he "argues for the truth," while Rush Limbaugh, who also says he argues for the truth, is a demagogue.
• One difference between liberals and conservatives, is that conservatives seek explanations for heinous acts in order to understand and prevent such acts, while liberals seek them as reasons to excuse such acts.
• On Airhead America, hosts, such as Al Franken, gloat over every setback and challenge that arises in Iraq. It's as if they hope Bush will fail and Iraq will plunge into chaos and ruin. And this is what liberals call compassion?
• A person, full of their self, is ravenous.
• Americans who side with the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), must also support the repatriation of America to American Indians, who have a far stronger claim to America than Palestinians have to either the West Bank or the Gaza Strip. On the other hand, Americans who side with Israel (as I do), must also support Indian tribal sovereignty, as American Indians have a historically more continuous and contemporary claim to America than Israelis have to Israel.
• Wisdom lies between zero‑tolerance and unbridled liberty.
• Typically, the conservative response to worker dissatisfaction is to say, "find another job." The problem with this, now, is that feminists dominate human resource management, and anybody who rejects victim‑feminism and liberalism will have problems finding a new job unless, like a Jew hiding in Nazi Germany, they conceal their real identity.
• The already specious contention that women "are paid only 76% of what men are paid" ignores stay‑at‑home moms, who share their husband's pay.
• Appearing on Airhead America on November 11, 2004, Boston Globe columnist Tom Oliphant claimed that "progressives" were responsible for both the women's vote, and for the end of the prohibition. Ironically, it was the largely conservative territories and states of Wyoming, Colorado, Utah and Idaho that first granted women the right to vote, and support for prohibition was one of the primary reasons given for why women ought to be given the vote.
• The ostracized nerd is equivalent to the pregnant teen, and the celibate loner to the single mom.
• On Airhead America, Al Franken made a big deal of the fact that President Bush opposed formation of the 9⁄11 Commission. But given that the Commission largely exonerated the Bush Administration, and completely exonerated Bush, it is obvious that his opposition to it was not self‑serving. Franken's continued castigation of Bush for it, however, is self‑serving.
• Hitler's Nazis considered themselves progressive, just as liberals today consider themselves progressive.
• One of Airhead America's tag lines says that being American means being open to another point of view. What they mean is, being open to their point of view. That's why liberals are so quick to shout down, talk over, or simply refuse to listen to people whose views differ from their own.
• The left believes we should be censored from questioning them.
• When asked if it's good that Saddam Hussein has been deposed, liberals typically retort that "we" (the United States) supported Hussein 20 years ago. That's what Janeane Garofalo said on the November 16, 2004, edition of the Sean Hannity Show. Their position is that because our nation has alliances with some evil dictators, we may never change our policies toward any of those evil dictators.
• The only sure way to end all war, is to impose totalitarian rule. But such a loss of liberty is more repugnant to us than war.
• The different treatment of American Indians does not violate the 14th Amendment, because the 14th Amendment does not require the same treatment for people of different status.
• Why are pundits on the left so ready to dismiss nut burgers on the right, but not on the left?
• The assertion that human life begins at conception is biological, not spiritual. It assumes that the meat—the body, the cells, the blastula—is the person. While I am pro‑life, I do not accept this view. The body is the vehicle through which the spirit experiences life. But the body is not what makes me, me.
• Conservative principles are based on experiences of what is generally true, not, as liberals assert, on preconceptions of what is absolutely true.
• On November 9, 2004, the topic on the Dave Ross Show was sex‑ed for teens, and whenever a conservative called, liberal talk show host Dave Ross responded with contempt and condescension.
• During the 1990s, feminists made fun of male pattern baldness, despite that millions of women inherit baldness, too.
• For people with Asperger's Disorder (high functioning autism), "talking shop" is a social activity.
• Could the increasing prevalence of Asperger's Disorder be an adaptation, through mate selection, to our increasing reliance on technology?
• The politically correct prescription for solving personnel problems is to communicate less, understand less, and pretend more.
• Political correctness is, to some extent, patterned after the obsequious butt-kissing expected of subordinates in corporate bureaucracies.
• Into the 1980s, it was government policy to destroy and replace all American Indian cultures. But since genocide is no longer a government procedure, this was not practical. The tribes, however, were becoming a budgetary burden. So President Reagan provided gaming as a means to help tribes become self‑sufficient. Now, increasing numbers of non‑Indians, envious of the success of tribal casinos, are demanding the termination of tribes.
• Membership in an Indian tribe is inherited. Tribal sovereignty is recognized in the commerce clause of the Constitution. Therefore, members of recognized tribes have inherited the status of dual citizenship. To terminate this would be an attack upon the right of inheritance, which would harm all Americans.