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The Choice by Dr. M. Sidney Wallace On November 2nd almost everyone in America will make a choice as to who will be the President of the United States for the next 4 years. There has been millions of dollars spent on radio and television advertising. There has been outlandish and totally ridiculous claims from one candidate that he can do everything better. If elected he is promising to make the deaf hear, blind see, and the lame will walk again. He is promising everything to everyone. The other candidate is simply promising to get government out of your way...

Dear JPFO: As a Ben Noach, I was happy to come upon a conservative Jewish site that opposes gun control. However, I have been troubled by the extreme "libertarian" prejudice and viewpoint from which your anti-gun contro argument seems to be made. Libertarianism, like liberalism, is ultimately inimical to Torah. In the Torah worldview G-d created and rules the world and we are bound by His laws. Libertarianism (at least the "rightwing" variety) is the product of 17th-18th Century European enlightenment thinking and was historically a precursor of liberalism, however much its offspring may have come to differ from it....