Detroit After Fifty Years Of Uniterrupted Democrat Rule: 12, 00 Abandoned Houses

Here's a photo gallery of just 100 of them.

OS hopes you take a moment to view these. Some of them were architectural gems, the sort of house one would dream of owning in more innocent days.

If we're going to spend our energies foaming at the mouth about a Missouri GOP Senate candidate with foot-in-mouth disease, we should reserve just a bit of that outrage for the kind of governance that creates this sort of tragedy.

 Just a bit...

By the way, the heads-up to the world about this collection emanates from London's Daily Mail.

These shots of Detroit, and many others, look like London in the late 1940's. It's pitiful, it's tragic, and that tragedy is not lost on our English friends.