Issue: 318

When Democratic U.S. Representative Barney Frank called Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia a “homophobe,” criticizing his likely support of the Defense of Marriage Act, his remarks were wrongly taken as only a personal attack on Scalia. But Barney Frank’s remark was an accurate statement about the present-day climate and culture in our country’s highest judicial…

As President Barack Obama heads abroad he also heads into a difficult role as President of the United States in critical arenas. At the G20, he will be in an arena where the financial responsibilities of those countries for their former colonial territories (many of them in Africa) is at issue and where outlying pledges…