Bio
I am a professor of politics at Oglethorpe University in Atlanta, where I also direct the Rich Foundation Urban Leadership Program. Much of my scholarly work focuses on the relationship between religion and politics.
I am also an Adjunct Fellow of the Ashbrook Center for Public Affairs at Ashland University in Ohio. In addition to contributing occasional essays and columns to the Ashbrook website, I am one of the principal bloggers at No Left Turns.
My political (and other) commentary has appeared in The American Enterprise Online, The American Spectator Online, The Weekly Standard, the Claremont Review of Books, and Touchstone magazine, as well as in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and the Marietta Daily Journal.
I live in Dunwoody, Georgia with my wife, Lee, and our two children, Liam and Charlotte. We attend Smyrna Presbyterian Church (PCA).
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I'm a little surprised
that, given this is a site with a fair amount of partisan diversity (and just as importantly: everyone here seems smart and honest), we haven't had a "what I hate about my party" gripefest.
I'm gonna start 'er off: two things I hate: my party's hippie attitude about immigration; and their lack of fiscal realism. I've got one good friend re-registering as an (R); if the Reps got rid of their christian conservative overlords (they can still be (R)s; they just can't be overlords), I'd probably join. (my family is all evangelical conservative: smart people of good will to a man, but their ideology makes for crummy politics)
Partying
jpe, what you write is funny to me. No, really. I know many Christian conservatives and members of my church are heavily involved with the Republican Party in the area, N.E. Ohio. They ALL complain that the national Republican Party ignores Christian concerns. This has been a complaint for years. If the party actually reflected their concerns, I wonder what you'd think of it. Heck, I wonder what I'd think about it.
Kate Pitrone
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