It happened again. Another American city went up in flames due to rioting. The riots in Baltimore shocked the country, just like the riots in Ferguson did late last year.

Let’s face a hard fact, our major and not so major urban areas are dying. Instead of being our nation’s crown jewels, our major cities are national embarrassments. They’re decaying monuments to the failed big government policies of the Democrat Party. We all know the problems: high unemployment, high crime, terrible schools, crumbling infrastructure, and policing policies that seems to alienate the community.

Here’s an opportunity for conservatives to lead. Jon Gabriel wrote a post that dealt largely with welfare reform and I urge you to read it, but it will take more than fixing welfare to save our cities. We must address all the problems dealing with our cities.