A city crumbles

Here is a sad and poignant photo essay of the death of Detroit.

A magnificent theater, rotting.

Here's an abandoned library. This photo startled me. Books, abandoned? How can a whole library-full of books simply be abandoned? Doesn't anyone want them?

So much beauty, lost.

"A perfect laboratory for leftist policies at work"

Here's a remarkable (and depressing!) YouTube clip on the twilight of Detroit. It's long - thirteen minutes - so it will take awhile to buffer, but well worth watching as an example of how liberalism and the entitlement mentality brought a once-great city to its knees.