The Conservative Sage

In light of the recent bankruptcy of the city of Detroit one of the city's native son's is aiming to make a difference. The diminutive billionaire Chairman of Quicken loans and majority owner of the Cleveland Cavaliers has invested $1 billion dollars of his own money to acquire over three million square feet of real estate in Downtown Detroit. The problems that have plagued the beleaguered city over the past four decades have been well documented. Rampant corruption, abandoned buildings, crime, drugs, and big labor have caused a loss of over half the city's population. Mr. Gilbert's ambitious plans include turning Downtown into a high tech hub,  His real estate company,  Bedrock Real Estate Services , is renovating properties, building apartments and wooing corporate tenants. A seven-mile light rail system is in the planning stages, underwritten by a number of businesses and business leaders, including Mr. Gilbert.  Although his fortune is estimated at $3.5 billion b...

Over the past several years one thing has been made very clear by the left: do not cross us. The latest victim of the left's mob attacks CNN Liberal host Don Lemon who dared to actually agree with comments made by the much despised FOX commentator Bill Ore'illy. Ore'illy called out members of the civil rights establishment for their silence on the myriad of problems in the black community such a crime and out of wedlock births. On Lemon's CNN show he not only agreed with Ore'illy but stated that 'he didn't go far enough. Lemon then proceeded  to outline several points which he feels would improve the black community such as education, and doing away with sagging pants. Some of his seemingly mundane suggestions have set of a firestorm of criticism which the left often does when one of their own strays from the left wing orthodoxy. Its appears that on the left one can only speak of blacks as victims of racial and economic oppression. Raising issues of pers...