As a follow-up to my “Our Sunday adventure in Motown” post, here’s William McGurn at the Wall Street Journal with A Requiem for Detroit.

America, Detroit is your canary in the mine; this is where our country’s headed. Discourage entrepreneurship and squeeze out the private sector through destructive government policies, bloat the government and voila: Obamatopia.
I do think Mr. McGurn left out a key factor in Detroit’s demise, maybe the most important one. As someone who has witnessed it first hand over the last few decades, I believe the decline started when the denizens of Detroit decided to cling to government instead of God.