The malignant cancer cells oozing from the petri dish of progressive policy known as the City of Detroit are soon to metastasize throughout the body politic.That flat-out gives me the shivers. I wish I could write like that ... maybe in the next life. That is Jay Zawatsky, writing in The National Interest. Way to go, Jay.
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The always readable Mark Steyn piquantly describes for the Orange County Register how what caused Detroit's problems isn't unique:
The same malign alliance between a corrupt political class, rapacious public sector unions and an ever more swollen army of welfare dependents has been adopted in the formerly Golden State of California.I'm sad for the state of my birth. Unfortunately, "A corrupt political class, rapacious public sector unions, and an ever more swollen army of welfare dependents" is exactly the evil coalition we face at the national level, as well.
