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Archive of posts published in the tag: Detroit

Subjects and Citizens

from The John Conyers Abdication by Ben Shapiro at National Review: Americans love to mock the British for their addiction to royalty. But the fact is that we have created our own version of royalty in our politics, right down

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The True Cost of Capital

from Kevin Williamson at National Review, Capital Matters Like wicked old Samuel Ratchett on the Orient Express, Detroit had a dozen murderers. And an important one — important in that there is in it a lesson for us today —

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Politically Caused Crime

From Daniel Greenfield at Sultan Knish, Super-Amnesty Will Turn Every City into Detroit excerpts: Chicago’s murder rate in 1992 was double what it is today. The death rate was at 33.7 out of 100,000 which meant that you had a

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The Ruthless Concentration of Power

Daniel Greenfield writes in Sultan Knish, Government Money, 3/17/13 Excerpts: How much money has flowed from the Obama Administration to its friends in the private sector in just the last year alone? And how much of that money was used

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Detroit’s Rainbow Flight

From Derek Hunter in Townhall,  Detroit: My City Was Gone Excerpt: Mayor Young, first elected in 1974, was the first black mayor of Detroit. He entered office with all the promise that could bring to a city nearly 50 percent

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Detroit’s Suicide

There are many who blame the woes of Detroit on the decline in the auto industry, but the auto industry did not decline- it just moved.  Paul Krugman passes the decline off to the normal creative destruction of capitalist progress.

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Hiding Fraud and Corruption Behind Racism

From Walter Russel Mead at The American Interest, Note to Paul Krugman: It Took More Than Markets to Ruin Detroit: Krugman is right that Detroit is essentially Ground Zero of the disruptive changes wrought by an economy in transition. But

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