Having to Choose

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  January 11th at 12:59 PM  | 

Louie Giglio is a Christian pastor in Atlanta. For the past two decades he has spent his time getting Christians to focus on a topic dear to me — human trafficking. That has been his calling and focus. It is a worthy cause. More than 17,000 people are smuggled into the United States each year to serve as slaves, often in the sex trade. American | Read More »

Defense of Marriage Act, ObamaCare and Kagan

By: Curt Levey (Diary)  |  February 23rd at 08:37 PM  | 

President Obama’s decision today to abandon the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) is both outrageous—as a matter of Justice Department policy and constitutional law—and a miscalculation that will decreases the chances of ObamaCare being implemented, while potentially increasing calls for Supreme Court Justice Kagan to recuse herself from certain gay rights cases. The President’s refusal to defend DOMA, a federal statute enacted by overwhelming margins | Read More »