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 do so many Republicans support protectionism for drug companies?
• If nagging is emotional violence, and emotional violence is a form of domestic violence, then how many millions of women commit domestic violence every day?
• The last of the anti‑Indian genocidal practices—taking Indian children away from their tribe, and prohibiting Indian religions—ended by 1980. Indian gaming began 8 years after that. Now, 15 years later, anti‑Indian groups take the position that it has been long enough to heal generations of wounds that, in hundreds of thousands of cases, were inflicted in their life time.
• When President Jimmy Carter said he was a "born again Christian," Democrats embraced him. But when President George W. Bush said he's a "born again Christian," Democrats reviled him. Why the double standard?
• Republicans are the party of empowerment, Democrats, the party of entitlement.
• Liberals attack Bush on a thing until it's disproved, at which point they find a new made‑up thing. Conservatives, on the other hand, consistently attack on the same points, because most of them are true.
• Talking heads say that, regardless of who's elected president, taxes will have to go up. Wrong. Tax revenues will have to go up. That's not necessarily the same thing.
• Democrats lambaste Bush for the alleged sins of his grandfather. Ironically, as Michael Savage pointed out, recently, Kerry's maternal‑grandfather smuggled opium from China. But Democrats don't hold this against their candidate. Why the double standard?
• Liberals argue that the casualties in Iraq are reason to end the occupation. Given that, in 2003, there were "43,220 deaths overall on the nation's highways," according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, will they also demand an end to motor vehicles?
• In 1960, a president like George W. Bush would have been called a "Conservative Democrat."
• On October 7, 2004, while filling in on the Dave Ross show, Charles Jaco pointed out there were no Iraqi hijackers on the ill‑fated 9⁄11 flights. But then he pointed out that the hijackers were 10 and 11 years‑old during the first Gulf War, and asked who we're recruiting to be hijackers with this war? But what relevance does the first Gulf War have to recruiting terrorists for 9⁄11, if none of them were Iraqi?
• In King County, the most liberal county in Washington state, middle class communities are disappearing as rising home prices squeeze them out of the home market. Is the middle class disappearing because the area is so liberal?
• An American soldier, calling in to the Rush Limbaugh show, pointed out that the legal justification for the war in Iraq, and the strategic reasons, are different. WMDs were the legal justification, fighting the terrorists in Iraq and establishing a Democratic beachhead in the middle east are the strategic reasons.
• Groups of women continue to win big sex harassment suits against employers. The ultimate result of this will be to turn more women into sex objects. As men, in response, increasingly turn off to female coworkers, women will have to go to ever more extreme lengths to sexualize themselves to gain male attention.
• Being a Jew is about faith, not race. But being Jewish used to be about race, and most Jews share a distant link to common ancestral tribes. American Indians share more recent links to ancestral tribes, but today, just as with Jews, all races are represented, through interracial marriage, in most Indian tribes. The difference, is that being Indian is about race, while being a member of an Indian tribe is about both race and inheritance.
• The thing that Tom Lykis' male listeners know—or figure out—that most women, his female listeners included, don't get, is that, while for most men, their "stock goes up" with time, for women, the more they sleep around, the more they're simply…used.
• If the war in Iraq is about oil, the war is not in Saudi Arabia because of oil.
• In ultra‑liberal Washington state, hydro‑electric power is both prevalent and popular. But hydro‑power destroys fish habitat, and most liberal citizens of Washington state don't care.
• The story of Robin Hood is misunderstood. He did not "steal from the rich and give to the poor," but took back wealth confiscated by corrupt government officials and returned it to the citizens.
• Why are liberals willing to preemptively condemn American men, to prevent male‑on‑female domestic violence, but not to preemptively prevent anti‑American terrorism?
• When Republicans use actual recordings of what Democrats say, that's "dirty politics." But when Democrats assert that Republicans will do something, or implied something, that's okay.
• Do we want to fight terrorists in America, or in Iraq? Democrats seem to feel we should fight them in America. The rest of us prefer to fight them in Iraq.
• I want to conduct research on liberals' brain stems, but, as it would require "aborting" liberals, I'm afraid it would be hard to get federal funding because conservatives would probably consider it immoral to harvest brain stems from aborted liberals. Conservatives need to learn that morality has no place in politics! (Note: That's a joke.)