City of Atlanta drops hammer on North Carolina

Fresh off its own battle over Religious Liberty, the City of Atlanta announced via Mayor Kasim Reed that it would be banning publicly-funded trips to North Carolina following its passage of a controversial transgender-bathroom law.  Atlanta joins cities such as New York and Seattle in boycotting the state, and will likely rub salt in the wound as it courts some of the businesses put off by the law, which critics say is discriminatory.  More business at home is a good thing, but cutting ties with one of our closest neighbors sees the city’s ship DRIFTING…