The New York Times has discovered more damning evidence against the Republican Vice Presidential contender Sara Palin – her belief in a moral universe.

Joe Wurzelbacher – a.k.a. Joe the plumber – asked the Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama a straight question, “Your new tax plan is going to tax me more, isn’t it?”

During a recent campaign town hall meeting, John McCain spoke to some very frustrated supporters.

“We want to fight, and I will fight,” said McCain, “but we will be respectful. I admire Sen. Obama and his accomplishments. I will respect him (boos from the audience). No, no, I want everyone to be respectful. And let’s make sure we are because that’s the way politics should be conducted in America.”

By: Mark Matthews, Esq.

During the first Presidential candidate debate, moderator Jim Lehrer asked a series of questions about how the financial bailout of Wall Street might affect each candidate’s priorities if elected President of the United States .  Unsatisfied with the responses from Senators McCain and Obama, Lehrer rephrased the question three times:

Even while America is reeling from Congressional sticker shock from the $700 Billion bailout, we must come to grips with a phenomenon which is likely be become a fixture of a Congress controlled by the political left.

What we must prepare ourselves for is a country ruled less by law and moral conscience and more by the Rule by Crisis.

“And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.” –Book of Revelation, Chapter 18

In a national vote on October 15, 2005, a majority of Iraqis ratified that nation’s constitution making Sharia (Islamic Law) the law of the land. The Iraqi Constitution reads in part:

Most Americans have never heard of the organization called ACORN (the Association of Community Organizers for Reform Now). Founded in the 1970s by Vietnam-era anti-war radicals, ACORN’s strategy has been to overload  government social programs to undermine the free market system that supports them. For years, ACORN pressured banks to issue loans to low-income families without the ability to repay those loans. Their Democratic allies (Rep. Barney Frank and Sen. Christopher Dodd to name but a few) pressured the quasi-governmental agencies Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae to underwrite y risky loans.

The current U.S. financial crisis is the result of government attempts to inject artificial “fairness” into the complexity of the market’s law of supply and ded. The advocates of this intervention place the blame for the current economic calamity on Wall Street greed and find its solution in even more regulatory oversight by the microagers of economic “fairness.” With few exceptions, the majority of Republicans agree. Most Republicans are conservative in one very important respect: their willingness to conserve big-government’s status quo.

On Christmas Day of 1991, a dejected Mikhail Gorbachev – last dictator of the Soviet Union – signed a letter informing anyone who cared that he was resigning as leader of the Evil Empire. Gorbachev’s last official signature, after seventy years of communist denial, resigned himself and his country to reality.

Though the media will not admit it, this presidential election cycle can only be called the “Year of the Christian.” Both political party campaigns are competing for the hearts and minds of people of faith.

Redefining language is the nihilist’s most valuable weapon. Increased taxes are now “investments.” Abortions are a product of “choice.” Incarcerating terrorists and subjecting them to intense interrogation is “torture.” Toppling totalitarian dictators is a “war crime.” And most recently, peaceful, principled political opposition is “resentment” or “hate.”

Attempting to draw a stark contrast between his and McCain’s policies, Obama said, “Except for economic policy, heath care policy, tax policy, education policy, foreign policy and Karl Rove-style politics, we’re really going to shake thing up in Washington.” Obama said, mocking McCain. “That’s not change – that’s just calling the same thing something different. You know, you can put lipstick on a pig – it’s still a pig.”

Snarling out of the Left sides of their mouths, again, the MSM and cable-lib commentators, having heaped derision on Sarah Palin for her gender and mothering choices, causing the McCain-Palin poll numbers to bounce hugely in her favor, have now begun to attack her for her religion.

Computer gamers and evolutionary scientists alike are excited over the release of the latest video game from Electronic Arts called Spore. Designed by Will Wright (creator of the popular SimCity), the game simulates the Darwinian journey from amino acid to armadillo.

Republican Presidential candidate John McCain has stirred up a hornet’s nest among the American media and Barack Obama Democrats. Polls show the Republican Vice-Presidential candidate Gov. Sarah Palin leading both presidential candidates in popularity with voters.

If you are reading this after Wednesday September 10th, the world did not end. On that day, CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, tested the Large HadronCollider and finally put to rest doomsday theories that claimed the 17-mile particle accelerator near Geneva, Switzerland, would produce mini-black holes to swallow us...

1. She won’t quit her job to raise her children, as every good wo obviously should, women evidently being incapable of multi-tasking. So says Washington icon Sally Quinn. Who knew Quinn was a closet reactionary anti-feminist and more anti-wo than the most rabid conservative?

During the Saddleback Church Forum hosted by Reverend Rick Warren, Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama was asked, “At what point does a baby get hu rights in your view?”

The anti-heroic nihilist does not believe in a moral universe. All ethics, as was the case with Bill Clinton, is relative. In his empty heaven, there are no stars to steer by and there is no hand on the compass to point true north.

About six months ago, a university student posing as a potential donor called a number of Planned Parenthood offices expressly requesting that his donation be used to pay for the abortion of black babies.  The media picked up the story and Americans - for a moment - were outraged.  American life has since been punctuated by any number of outrages and, in between, we continue to live out the mundane sentences of our lives.

If Christians are ever going to be Christians again we need to remember that we see things other people don’t see and hear things that other people don’t hear, and live accordingly, worrying less about whether or not people agree with what we see and hear and much more about what we say and do in the limited time we are given.

Last April, former President Jimmy Carter visited the Middle East in an effort to jump-start Arab/Israeli peace talks. One stop on his itinerary was a visit with Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad. “We asked about Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev,” Carter reported, referring to the two Israeli soldiers kidnapped by the terrorist army Hezbollah. Assad assured America’s terminally naive former president that he had no idea where the two soldiers could be.

Barack Obama requested that Ger Chancellor Angela Merkel allow him to use the Brandenburg Gate as a backdrop to a speech he feels will add credence to his foreign policy positions. Instead, the Ger leader allowed the Democratic contender for President to speak before the Siegessule (victory column). Merkel won’t allow her nation’s symbol of tragedy and triumph to serve as the background for a cheap political photo-op.

Co-host Alexandra Berauer analyses the recent South Dakota court Case, of Planned Parenthood v. Rounds, and offers some alternative language for the plaintiffs.

It is said that American politics is a contact sport. But it’s not the rough-and-tumble struggle on the gridiron that makes the stadium such a perfect venue for Obama and his party. Rather, it’s the site’s religious aspect that underscores its appropriateness.

Contributing Editor Stephen Z. Nemo praises Antonin Scalia’s instructive explication of the Second Amendment and his didactic scolding of fellow jurists who seem to get lost in the plain meaning of words.

Once upon a time people believed that A was equal to A—whatever is, is. They believed that A could not be both A and B at the same time, and that A must either be A or not-A, that is, there is no third option, there is an excluded middle.

Nemo and Snyder lament the Left’s failure to see or understand the “dark matter” of evil.

The Canadian Hu Rights Commission has undertaken the political persecution of Journalist Mark Steyn. The authors foresee the day when the mommy state socialists of Canada destroys not just free speech, but the hood of Canada.

While the Left accuses the military of imperialism in the Middle East, in fact the imperial reach of the US Supreme Court is our biggest threat.

Mr. Curmudgeon challenges the Left's abuse of science, and exposes the historical results of bending science to the uses of politics.

In the Public Square's contributing Editor, Steve Nemo (Mr. Curmudgeon) explores the troubling fact that in armed conflict, the lighter the footprint, the deeper the tragic outcome. In war, less means more blood and treasure. And ironically, more military presence has historical shown to ded in the long run less blood and treasure and the best chance of lasting peace.

This article laments the moral and policy confusions of a demoralized Republican Party.

Mr. Curmudgeon laments that the great strength of Obama is actually the fecklessness of "so-called" conservatives who cannot find the character to challenge his utopian bromides.