The 1967 riots tore Detroit apart. As a Democrat stronghold in a liberal Democrat state with strong union (United Auto Workers) representation, it became the test case for the Kennedy/Johnson administration’s New Frontier. It also created what was to become the cabinet-level Department of Housing and Urban Development under President Johnson’s Great Society initiative. This [...]
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MSNBC Makes Me Laugh
by William Thomas MacLachlan on December 8, 2010 · 1 comment
in Commentary,Twitter
Keith Ubermann tonight launched an intriguing argument: the tax cuts will have to be financed with money from Saudi Arabia and who knows where. So, Ubermann? Where were you when Obama was spending money like a ghetto doper who just got his welfare check? Uh huh. You were pimping for the stimulus, which would save [...]
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