Unrestrained capitalism. Deregulation. The conservative republican mantra. Its latest manifestation are the record high gasoline prices as Big Oil rakes in record high profits.

A busted National Treasury. Vast amounts of money spent on contrived wars to benefit the defense industry and the current administration’s pals. The economy is in the toilet, and sure enough, another republican troglodyte is pushing for more of the same. Many millions of Americans will vote for McCain who promises to keep the nation on a war footing and forego any domestic programs that may actually benefit Americans. McCain will see to it that the U.S. continues to borrow itself into economic oblivion. Taxes will be cut even further until the point is reached when the nation’s infrastructure falls apart.

McCain disagrees with Magna Carta, that bestows the rights of all people, no matter their socio, economic position, the right to be heard, no matter their transgressions. Lock ‘em up, and throw away the key, sounds like a damn fine solution for McCain’s take on the rights of men.

There's a disturbing trend in this 2008 election. We are witnessing the manipulation and exploitation of Muslim-Jewish differences by political candidates in pursuit of votes. As advocates for our respective communities, we believe it's in America's interest that it stop.

The issue of excluding Muslims to get Jewish votes is not about ensuring domestic security, it is about cowardly politics. It is about playing to fears, not processing facts. It is about the canard that Muslims and Jews have been fighting since ancient times and nothing will change. It is about blaming both for America's problems. We Muslims and Jews, along with all people of faith, represent the spirit of God. There is much that binds us together. It is in the spirit of this shared history, and our common interests, that we must stand against these divisions being created by the candidates.

Under Christian and 'just war' theory, the deliberate killing of civilians in wartime is forbidden. Nazis were hanged for such war crimes.

Did the Allies commit acts of war for which we hanged Germans?

The London Charter of the International Military Tribunal decided that at Nuremberg only the crimes of Axis powers would be prosecuted and that among those crimes would be a newly invented "crimes against humanity." This decree was issued Aug. 8, 1945, 48 hours after we dropped the first atom bomb on Hiroshima and 24 hours before we dropped the second on Nagasaki.