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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• Pundits often characterize government bureaucrats as uncaring, and thereby imply that corporate bureaucrats do care. In my experience, corporate bureaucrats are neither more nor less likely than government bureaucrats to care: Caring depends on the person, not the position.
• Where liberals celebrate their tolerance, progressive-liberals, particularly the young ones, celebrate their hatred.
• Most opponents of Sarah Palin, like Katie Couric, refuse to acknowledge that she is "Governor Palin."
• Intentionally confusing opinion with policy, feminists who hate Governor Palin claim that electing her would be a step back in women's rights. Why? Because Governor Palin personally opposes abortion. But who doesn't? The feminists who have revealed themselves to be not pro-choice, but pro-abortion and, therefore, pro-death.
• What is the difference between a "fiscal conservative" and a "frugal liberal"?
• Reality is often inappropriate.
• In most of the highly feminized corporate and government bureaucracies few conversations are of the "come let us reason together" variety. Most are simply "do as I say." Thinking, creativity and cost-saving measures are more likely to be punished than rewarded.
• A classy guy knows that what Tom Leykis says about women may be true, but he behaves like a gentleman, anyway.
• Currently I'm reading Crunchy Cons, by Rod Dreher, and I have some issues. Being conservative, he says, we "prefer Fox News to CNN." Okay, I like Hannity (and Colms) and the O'Reilly Factor, but I prefer Glenn Beck and Lou Dobbs. Fox may be more Republican and CNN more Democratic, but the conservatism of Dobbs and Beck resonate with me.
• Among the reasons some Muslim governments, like Saudi Arabia, Syria and Iran hate America is our enlightened attitude toward women and sexuality.
• The diversity that progressive-liberals celebrate is only skin deep; diversity of thought and perspective, values, virtues and principles is denounced, shunned, punished and hated.
• The sovereignty of Indian tribes is complicated, based on centuries of treaties, lies, broken promises, property rights, inheritance law and attempts to make things right. President Ronald Reagan had an elegant way to put all that into perspective. He simply thought of tribes as being "like states."
• In much of western Washington state, leftists are so militant that there's no room for disagreement; either you're with them, or they're against you.
• If anger causes fear, then which party is responsible for that fear, the one who is angry, or the one who caused the anger?
• Given a choice between hiring an engineer in America or hiring an equally qualified engineer in India for a fraction of the salary, most multinational corporations will be inclined to hire the engineer in India. But in times of war it's not the Indian engineer whom the United States will draft to protect them.
• From 1882 to 1968, records indicate that 4,473 people in America were lynched, and that three-quarters of them were black. But how many lynchings went unrecorded?
• A lot of progressive‑liberals say we should "draft children of the wealthy." Given how the wealthy tend to gravitate toward the left, this would lead to drafting a lot of progressive-liberals.
• Claims that global warming is caused entirely or mostly by human activity sound a lot like the superstitious rants of primitive people in times past who claimed that earthquakes, storms, volcanic eruptions, solar eclipses and every other bad thing were caused by angry gods who must be appeased with offerings and sacrifices.
• Whenever I see a sign that reads, "Stop the War," My impulse is to ask, "Which one?" According to the List of ongoing conflicts on Wikipedia, worldwide there are 5 major wars and 26 "conflicts."
• Throughout history nations have fought over resources, insults, and for worse reasons. For all its faults and bloody history, the British Empire spread a more civil tradition. The United States, for all its faults, inherited their role. A day may come when another nation inherits our role. We can but hope that each new generation does better than the last.
• Social integration patterns itself after certain aspects of brain structure.
• The people most opposed to the War Against Terror are despised most by Terrorist leaders.
• If the Food part of the Food & Drug Administration operated the same as the Drug part, we'd have nothing but Baby Food to eat.
• All Americans have certain freedom of speech rights but forcing the rest of us to listen is not one of them.
• Senator Barack Obama is the Democratic answer to the Republican charge that the Democrats have run out of ideas; like a young idealist with little real world experience, he has lots and lots of ideas.
• While Senator Obama is liberal on a number of key issues and generally left of center, he's a complex man whose personal conservatism will appeal to many conservative voters.
• Like Obama, Senator John McCain is a nuanced and complex man who is liberal on some issues and conservative on others. Generally, however, he is right of center. The question conservatives need to weigh as they vote is, which will be better for America, a president who is to the right or to the left of center?
• In ancient Greece, tribes that established cities are referred to as "city states." In America many tribes established cities, replete with culture, commerce and sophisticated government, yet to portray all early American Indian tribes as primitive they were and generally still are referred to as tribes.
• Despite that many American Indian tribes occupied territories that were larger than France, Germany, England, Spain, Japan and many other nations, to this day most people balk at identifying them as nations.