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NRA gives Higman an A, Nesselhuf an F
The new NRA rankings are out and the results are telling.
As expected, Jerad Higman received an A rating.
Nesselhuf received an F.
Ben Nesselhuf's ads are relying on an old, much better NRA rating. Hopefully he pull this misleading ad and use the new rating. Hunters will be happy he told the truth on this issue.
-Matt Hittle
Posted at 12:43PM Oct 18, 2008 by College Republicans in State and Local Politics | Comments[2]
How liberalism killed detroit
Rich Lowry has a great article on Real Clear Politics today.
It's called "How Liberalism Killed Detroit." Still enveloped in the scandal of its mayor, Kwame Kilpatrick, Detroit is in a downward spiral.
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Detroit suffers from every possible malady except a plague of locusts, and that’s only because they find urban living uncongenial. The city has a revitalized downtown, but all around it, the city rots. Forbes magazine declared Detroit “America’s Most Miserable City,” on the basis of its unemployment and crime rates, among other things. The unemployment rate of 8.2 percent is the highest of any major urban area in the nation, and its homicide rate is higher than New York’s in the bad old days of the early 1990s.
The city has lost 1 million residents since 1950. It was hit by the decline of the auto industry and white flight, fueled partly by racism. These trends would have rocked the city no matter what. Detroit compounded them with disastrous governance, personified by Mayor Coleman Young, who held office for 20 years beginning in 1974.
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Why is Detroit so terrible? Lowry explains:
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He neglected policing, maintaining that “crime is a problem, but not the problem. The police are the major threat ... to the minority community.” The 1968 riots never really ended in Detroit, dragging on in a long crime wave. With government services terrible to nonexistent and both crime and tax rates high, there was no reason for anyone to stay. “Several Detroit mayors have been the best economic development officers Oakland County ever had,” comments Michael LaFaive of the Michigan-based Mackinac Center for Public Policy, referring to the county to Detroit’s north.
Public-sector unions protect the dismal status quo. Detroit high schools graduate just a third of their students, according to an estimate by Michigan State University. But when a philanthropist offered to spend $200 million to create 15 new charter high schools, teachers staged a walk-out. Mayor Kilpatrick spurned the offer. These failing schools throw kids with no skills into a struggling economy in an environment characterized by social breakdown.
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Just another city in which liberalized urban politics have failed.
-Matt Hittle
Posted at 10:22AM Apr 01, 2008 by College Republicans in State and Local Politics | Comments[2]
