A few years ago I moved from Atlanta to Charlotte to be close to a young couple and their newborn daughter. I met the couple years before on a camping excursion in Georgia. We weren't fast friends, but it seemed like we would be life-long friends. In...

We tried, and failed, to see Obama speak today in Charlotte. We arrived more than two hours before the event began, had to walk half an hour to find the end of one of the two lines to get in and then stood there. We stood there until the line made it...

Some days I feel like Chicken Little is whispering in my ear, “The world is falling, the world is falling!” I mean, can you believe the greedy bastards on Wall Street?! Have you seen the trash on the side of the road? Have you met the slackers&nb...