COLUMBIA, S.C. - Each week for nearly 30 years, Bob Chimento and his college buddies have gathered around tables in a Mount Pleasant home to play the popular version of poker known as Texas Hold 'em, bringing $20 and spending an evening with pizza, sodas and beer. ...more

January 29, 2009

Times are lively on the campus of the church at the edge of the world. Dan Campbell, a recovering businessman who shepherds Community United Methodist's modest flock, likes it this way. But the time is short and the task enormous. ...more

December 10, 2008

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) -- Barack Obama introduced Sen. Joe Biden of Delaware Saturday as a man "ready to step in and be president," and the newly minted running mate quickly turned his campaign debut into a slashing attack on eight years of Republicans seeking four more years in the White House. ...more

August 23, 2008

It is a tradition at many kitchen tables to yell at the newspaper. At John McCain's kitchen table, it is becoming a tradition to yell at one paper in particular: The New York Times. ...more

August 3, 2008

Alexander Hamilton was an ambitious young striver, and he created an economy where people like him could rise and succeed. He used government to rouse the energies of the merchant class, to widen the circle of property owners and to dissolve the constraints on commerce and mobility. ...more

October 14, 2007