Detroit
These 3 White Women From Detroit Need to Go to Jail for Their Racism
I know this is going to sound like a radical idea but it's time that white people who call the police on black people for the crime of existing while black start facing serious legal penalties. This kind of shit can't be allowed to go on without consequence: Throughout 2017 and ...read more
PETA's Repugnant Offer To Desperate Detroit Is Exactly Why Everybody Hates Them
There are three types of people in America: those who despise PETA, those who will inevitably despise PETA at some point, and insufferable assholes. PETA is in some ways the most execrably nihilistic group within the activist left simply because it genuinely doesn't give a damn ...read more
Republicans Run Detroit Like a Corporation, Disaster Ensues
Up to 100,000 people out of a population of 700,000 will have their water shut off at least temporarily in Detroit, reports The Atlantic. Thanks to a budgetary crisis, the city's water service has decided to aggressively cut off subscribers who can't or won't pay their bills at ...read more
Chrysler, GM Rebuke Misleading Romney Jeep Ad
The Daily Banter Headline Grab. From Huff Post: Mitt Romney's round of highly dubious television and radio ads suggesting that Chrysler and GM are shipping American jobs to China has managed to offend both car companies. A spokesperson for General Motors told the Detroit Free ...read more
New Obama Administration Rules Allows Government to Keep Data on Non Terrorist Citizens
The U.S. intelligence community will be able to store information about Americans with no ties to terrorism for up to five years under new Obama administration guidelines. Until now, the National Counterterrorism Center had to immediately destroy information about Americans ...read more
Romney Wins Michigan and Arizona
Disaster narrowly averted in his native state of Michigan, Mitt Romney was last night preparing to take a reinvigorated fight for the Republican presidential nomination to 10 states voting on ‘Super Tuesday’ next week. Delirious supporters for Mr Romney gathered in a ballroom ...read more
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Video of the Day: Insanely Racist Fox News Report
I'm not defending factory workers smoking weed and drinking alcohol during their lunch break, but the editing on this Fox News report about the behavior of some workers in a Detroit factory is breath takingly racist. Shot like a hip hop video with a sound track to match, the ...read more
Is Obama Getting Serious About a Jobs Program?
This is a snippet from President Obama's Labor Day speech in Detroit in front of an audience of blue collar workers: Judging by the rhetoric, it would seem that Thursday's speech about job creation might actually involve something substantial. There will no doubt be the usual ...read more
Eminems Touching Tribute to Detroit
By Ben Cohen Whatever one might think of Eminem, there's no denying the Detroit rapper is phenomenally talented. His latest song 'Beautiful' is essentially a poem about himself and the city he grew up in, and draws parallels between the devastation that took place in his life ...read more