Andre's Executive Order

David Harsayni is a senior editor at The Federalist, a conservative blog that gets a great deal of attention nationally. I regularly keep tabs on Real Clear Politics for articles about the election and current events. This shoddy piece of pseudo politics caught my attention and immediately hit a land mine with me. At the risk of making him more popular, a few things need to be said. The article itself: The Fedralist: 10 Abortion Questions Hillary Clinton Won't Answer A good political thinker starts by getting fired up about something. They let their emotions flow about an issue and let those emotions fuel investigation and debate. They explore the ideas with the choir of voices like them then pit those ideas against their opponents and fight it out. But the good political thinker is debating and battling to test the limits and contours of the issue. Like a old grave rubbing, you run the crayon back and forth over the whole area and the outline of the message on the stone gets ...

I want to rip on Christians a bit. But understand, that like most of my rippings, the point is not to tear apart one of the world's most important religions or denigrate it's followers, but rather to examine what has become of this religion in the eyes of Americans. I want to discuss a division within the Christian faith and how it's affecting American's understanding of what it means to be a Christian. First, a note on the social conservatism overall. The current atmosphere in politics has conservatives feeling disenfranchised and in many ways betrayed by the Republican party. This has lead to the tea party movement. I've written before, and continue to believe, that the tea party is an internal revolution within the Republican party who just happens to share a common enemy in liberal politics. The new movement has tried to differentiate themselves from the GOP by becoming even more conservative – radically so. The reason for this isn't hard to grasp; Classical...