OPINION

Good morning, North Texas. This morning, I have read your e-mails to the editor and learned that:

-- Many conclude that the shooting at Fort Hood was definitely a terrorist attack and reject the calls not to jump to conclusions.
-- Many don't like the health care bill passed by the House this weekend, but many do. How many each way? I can't really tell because a lot of the e-mails we received were clearly inspired by a call to write mass e-mails.
-- Several are concerned about Afghanistan and a few about Colombia.
-- Lots wrote about sports, and I forwarded these to the sports editor.

Every Sunday, look for Leading Questions -- those pithy, opinionated queries that state a point of view.

This week, we have partisan comments about health care, mostly. Or totally, depending on how you read it.

Read on ...

Re: "Leading Questions," last Sunday Points.
Richard Gill questions why first lady Michelle Obama does not use commercial airlines to jaunt around the world.
In modern times, no first lady has flown commercial. Michelle Obama and her children's safety is as much a priority as the president's.

Leading Questions are short, snappy queries that make people think or feel or wonder.

We hope you will enjoy this week's collection and that you will send us your Leading Questions for next week. Write to lq@dallasnews.com and include your name, address, city and phone, please. (We only use your name and city.)

Thanks, and follow me to the extended entry to read this week's questions:

Leading Questions are short, snappy queries that make people think or feel or wonder.

We hope you will enjoy this week's collection and that you will send us your Leading Questions for next week. Write to lq@dallasnews.com and include your name, address, city and phone, please. (We only use your name and city.)

Thanks, and follow me to the extended entry to read this week's questions:

Leading Questions are short, snappy queries that make people think or feel or wonder.

We hope you will enjoy this week's collection and that you will send us your Leading Questions for next week. Write to lq@dallasnews.com and include your name, address, city and phone, please. (We only use your name and city.)

Thanks, and follow me to the extended entry to read this week's questions:

Write your leading questions, which are snappy queries that express an opinion, to lq@dallasnews.com. We publish them on Sundays with the regular letters.

Our questions today have to do with the GM bankruptcy filing:

Leading Questions are punchy, pithy comments in the form of a question. They make us mad, glad -- or they just plain make us think.

This week, we look at Mark Cuban, courtesy of Bagle Price:

Leading Questions are brief and to-the-point rhetorical questions, posed by our clever letter writers.

This week, we're featuring House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. And our questions are:

A Leading Question is a short(ish), snappy rhetorical question that we feature in our regular Sunday Letters stack.

To send a Leading Question, write to lq@dallasnews.com. To read the Leading Questions for this week, click on.

Part of what I do every day is look up photos in The Dallas Morning News archive to illustrate the letters to the editor -- and Leading Questions.

This week, I was particularly glad to note a questions submitted by Mark Salditch of Dallas -- not because, as some of you expect, I feel I want to get a point across either way. No, I liked Mr. Salditch's question because it gave me an opportunity to use a photo of John Wayne -- and how many chances do you get to do that?

Here's his question and the photo I settled on. Flip to the next part of the blog entry to see the one I (reluctantly) passed up:

Have you ever seen the John Wayne movie where he tortures the Indians who have captured his wife? No? That's because John Wayne embodies American ideals, and Americans don't torture.

Mark Salditch, Dallas

Leading Questions are rhetorical questions that we publish on Sundays. All readers are welcome to submit a leading question at lq@dallasnews.com. An editor's note: Be sure to put your full contact information on your submission. We only publish your name and city.

This week's questions run the gamut, from ... well, click on and you'll see ...

Every week, we ask our readers to send us questions -- rhetorical questions that illuminate or educate, or just plain entertain -- and we publish them with the Sunday letters.

This week, four readers nobly answered the call for Leading Questions. Read on for their queries, and to see why this photo is posted here ...

Every Sunday, we present a mix of short, spicy missives from readers -- all framed in the form of a question.

Share your own Leading Question. Send your short, snappy opinion to: lq@dallasnews.com.

Every Sunday, we present a mix of short, spicy missives from readers -- all framed in the form of a question.

Share your own Leading Question. Send your short, snappy opinion to: lq@dallasnews.com.

A Leading Question is a comment on the news or the incidents of daily life, posed in the form of a question.

We love to get LQs, and we publish the best each week in the Letters stack of the Sunday paper.

This week, we have a delightful entry on -- well, you'll see:

These questions contributed by readers express an opinion about hot topics. Every Sunday, we publish a collection of the best questions we receive each week.

Share your own Leading Questions by e-mail: lq@dallasnews.com.

If former President George W. Bush had fired a CEO of a large corporation would there have been a call for an impeachment hearing?

David Jones, Garland

Since Congress voted against using the E-Verify system, how will we be sure that all those stimulus and infrastructure jobs will be given only to unemployed Americans and not illegals?

Anita Goodspeed, Dallas

Wouldn't a "toxic asset" be better known as a liability?

Sue Owens, Dallas

Have we asked classroom teachers if they approve of the merit pay program?

Dale Howard, Allen

The pundits, networks, liberals and Democrats did it to Sarah Palin, so has anyone thought to question where the money is originating from to purchase Michelle Obama's extensive and costly wardrobe being worn on the G-20 trip?

Richard Haywood, Alba

This is a weekly collection of questions that express an opinion about hot topics.

Got a Leading Question for us? Share your own Leading Questions by e-mail at lq@dallasnews.com. Have something to say about this week's questions? Comment here.

If former President George W. Bush had fired a CEO of a large corporation would there have been a call for an impeachment hearing?

Since Congress voted against using the E-Verify system, how will we be sure that all those stimulus and infrastructure jobs will be given only to unemployed Americans and not illegals?

Our quick-witted readers continue to treat us with a veritable buffet of observations. Think of Leading Questions as a weekly chance to pretend you're playing Jeopardy! (and in your imagnination, Alex Trebek can have a mustache, if that's what you prefer).

Got a Leading Question for us? Share your own Leading Questions by e-mail at lq@dallasnews.com. Have something to say about this week's questions? Get thee to the comments!

Why shouldn't AIG just pay the bonuses in company stock?

According to Grand Prairie High School Principal Joseph Showell, the students exist for the benefit of GPISD. Surprised?

If President Barack Obama passed a new rule that all members of Congress would have to go through the vetting process before a certain date, would all the funds we need to run our government miraculously appear?

Readers are finding the irony in painful situations, especially the bonuses handed out to AIG executives that made that company, what, profitable? Hardly.

We publish this weekly collection of questions that express an opinion about hot topics. Share your own Leading Questions by e-mail at lq@dallasnews.com. Have something to say about this week's questions? Leave a comment or share your own.

Our all-knowing Congress bails out AIG and now, all of the sudden, they find out they have some management flaws, some careless spending, and they are going to take it back by force. Why give it in the first place? Could it be that they don't have a clue?

Since Mexico has eliminated violent crime by ending the private ownership of guns, shouldn't we do that here?

A challenge for our readers:

We know you can tell us what gives, but can you do it in fewer words than a twitter update and in the form of a question?

If so, send it over to lq@dallasnews.com.

When it comes to being creative, our letter writers and readers are no slacks. Take a gander at our Leading Questions features from the past two weeks. Lots of interesting topics and pleasantly snarky questions.

Got a doozy of a leading question you want to share? Send it on over.

This Sunday's Leading Questions highlight ironic situations. Other than that, they're a wonderfully ironic hodge-podge of snark. Want to share your own Leading Question for next week's collection?

E-mail us at lq@dallasnews.com -- or via Twitter: @dmnlq.

If the stimulus bill starts to work and the economy does not go down in flames as Republicans predict, what ploy will they come up with to take credit for it?

Why is it that the parent who is willing to lie to get their child out of trouble at school is always so surprised when that same child gets caught cheating?

Two facing pages in Thursday's Metro section have only one news article each: One says that is Kwame Kilpatrick can move to the area and the other says that the new jail ready for inmates. Coincidence?

This Sunday's Leading Questions focus mostly on the economy and those pesky taxes that some government officials have a hard time keeping track of. Want to share your own Leading Question for next week's collection?

E-mail us at lq@dallasnews.com -- or via Twitter: @dmnlq.

Is it possible that our current economic failures are signs that the service economy we have pursued for several decades does not work?

You can own a pit bull in Dallas, but not a rooster?

On Sunday, we introduced Leading Questions, a weekly collection of questions that express an opinion about hot topics.
Share your own Leading Questions by e-mail or via Twitter: @dmnlq. Here are a couple of examples from last week:

Will a college student focus on the lesson or the gun when the student in front of him is packing heat?

Barbara Geller, Coppell

How will buying things we don't need with money we don't have improve our economic situation? Won't that just re-create the bubble that has already burst?

Marcia Grau, Richardson

On Sunday, we introduce Leading Questions, a weekly collection of questions that express an opinion about hot topics. Share your own Leading Questions by e-mail: lq@dallasnews.com -- or via Twitter: @dmnlq.

Will a college student focus on the lesson or the gun when the student in front of him is packing heat?

Barbara Geller, Coppell

How will buying things we don't need with money we don't have improve our economic situation? Won't that just re-create the bubble that has already burst?

Marcia Grau, Richardson