Yesterday was a great day in this history of America's civil rights movement. A decade in the making, the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act was finally passed by Congress and signed into law by President Barack Obama.

The act broadens the definition of a hate...

There has been much discussion lately about the United Nations Human Rights Council's Goldstone Report on Gaza, which claims to have "found evidence that both Israeli forces and Palestinian militants committed serious war crimes."

Throughout the United States and abroad, the report has been denounced as...