Walter Russell Mead at Via Media: There is something profoundly wrong with an American political culture that accepts chronic misgovernment in major cities as OK. It is not OK; the people who do these things may call themselves liberal Democrats … Continue reading
The crumbling of Detroit and its imminently likely bankruptcy must be the most obvious self-inflicted disaster in history. No forces outside the city government and the people who kept its politicians and bureaucrats in power for the last two generations … Continue reading
What kind of a city allows this to happen? What kind of a city allows this to be representative of large swaths of it? What political party has been in charge of absolutely everything in this city for 80 years? … Continue reading
James Taranto summarizes Obama’s speech in Detroit yesterday… Obama joined Jimmy Hoffa Jr. in declaring war on “those Tea Party sons-of-bitches,” [Hoffa’s words but Obama seemed to approve wholeheartedly] Jimmy Hoffa thinks the Tea Party Movement is a “war on … Continue reading
In Atlas Shrugged Comes To Detroit Cato Institute Senior Fellow Dan Mitchell comments on a CNBC story from last Wednesday, Detroit to set services by neighborhood condition. Mitchell says, “In a perverse way, I’m glad that there are places such … Continue reading