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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• When former employees complain about businesses, it's usually dismissed as sour grapes; when a former employee of an Indian businesses complains, it's usually taken as proof of corruption and incompetence.
• Family court has criminalized nearly every attempt to discipline children as actionable abuse.
• Most people choose to live lives that are soon‑forgotten.
• American Indian tribal governments may have casinos with slot machines only if the governments of the states in which they reside allow slot machines.
• The reason Ephedrine was banned is because some people, who did not follow the instructions but abused it, put themselves at risk for heart‑problems. Now, it has been revealed that people who do not follow the instructions but abuse Celebrex, are also at risk for heart‑problems. But the FDA hasn't banned Celebrex. Why not?
• A fact of human nature is that women force men to be buy‑sexual.
• Progressive liberals on Airhead America protest that President Bush intends to install a theocratic government, and at the same time they protest the right of the rulers in Iraq to maintain their oppressive theocratic government.
• Too much political commentary is all sound bite and no substance.
• There's a fine line between cowardice and common sense.
• President George W. Bush and the Republican party have enacted or are championing so many of the formerly Libertarian issues—like privatizing Social Security—that, to distinguish itself, the Libertarian Party has no choice but to go off the deep end.
• Rush Limbaugh often asserts that any global warming cannot possibly be caused by human activities, because the world is just too big. While it is certain that the claims of environmental extremists are vastly overstated, 19th century London, shrouded by coal‑fire smoke, and modern Los Angeles, shrouded by car exhaust, clearly demonstrate that at the very least human activity does affect local environments.
• Progressive liberals claim an occupying army can't impose democracy. Tell that to Germany and Japan.
• In my experience, progressive liberals tend to be more obstructionist than progressive.
• The assault on families and parents' rights in America began with the destruction of the American Indian family. Now, because of their sovereign immunity, American Indian tribes may become the last bastion of hope for stemming the progressive insurgence against family values.
• We have long noted the penchant of conservatives to pander to feminists. Michael Medved did that on December 9, 2004, when he described the fact that there is a hard‑wired tendency in men to be attracted to female breasts as "infantile." That's like calling women "gold‑diggers" because they are naturally attracted to men of means.
• If the progressive partisans had not demonized President George W. Bush so viciously, and if they had not maximized the hyperbole of their accusations about 30‑year‑old events, it would have been much easier to reject the idea that they are the fascists of the liberal left.
• Every moment of every day, America stands at a crossroads.
• Progressive liberals point to the popularity of racy TV shows in conservative communities as proof of hypocrisy, and they're right. What this proves, is that conservatives embrace family friendly principles because they understand the fallibility of human nature.
• Progressive liberals point to exit polls, which predicated victory for John Kerry, as proof the election was corrupted. This presumes the exit poll reports were not, themselves, corrupted.
• Most progressive liberals are, in my experience, as shallow as an inflatable swimming pool.
• If liberals believe that if people are given sufficient information they will choose a liberal agenda, then why did so many progressive liberals respond to the Bush victory by condemning Americans as being "stupid" and "peasants"?
• "All the market will bear" is a capitalist maxim. Distribution of pirated music and movies is evidence that the market is unwilling to bear the prices presently charged for these products.
• Conservatives tend to have an overly optimistic view of women. Liberals tend to have an overly optimistic view about both men and women.
• Labor unions withered during the Clinton administration.
• If all the people in America who have HIV were identified so as to make it nearly impossible for them to infect anybody without informed consent, how would this affect the spread of AIDS in America?