FreedomTalks

Today, on page A10, The Washington Post’s Chris Cilliza wrote the following:
Presidential Run for Armey?

 
Other former shakers on Capitol Hill likewise seem to be in the mood, if not to resume shaking, to at least jiggle a little.
Witness former House majority leader Richard K. Armey (R-Tex.) who retired from the House in 2002 and has [...]

From an article in Parade magazine on eminent domain battles comes a brief explanation of what the furor is all about.
“It’s a blatant example of reverse Robin Hood—taking homes from the poor and the middle-income and giving them to the rich,” says Scott Bullock, the IJ attorney who argued (and lost) Kelo.

Today, in the first state supreme court decisions since the US Supreme Court’s reviled Kelo decision, Ohio’s supreme court rejected the city of Norwood’s bid to use eminent domain to confiscate properties in a “deteriorating” neighborhood and give them to private developers. The court unanimously ruled that the economic development rationale which the U.S. [...]

The Castle Coalition has a crowded map showing locations of eminent domain abuse across the nation.   According to the site
In just one five-year period (1998-2002), there were more than 10,000 actual or threatened condemnations for private use
all of which are included on the map.  On the Coalition’s Legislative Center page there is another map, showing [...]

In a 5-4 vote in the case Rapanos v. United States, a highly divided Supreme Court muddied the laws on wetland protection. 
Michigan resident John Rapanos argued that the EPA could not use the Clean Water Act (CWA) to establish jurisdiction over his property. The government argued that because water drained through his land, the EPA was justified in regulating it.
In the [...]

Florida Property Rights Rally
WHEN:  June 23rd
TIME:  5-7pm
WHERE:  OCEAN REEF PARK (on Singer Island)
       (directions below)
WHY: June 23rd is the first anniversary of the Supreme Court decision on KELO (Property Rights).
The residents of Riviera Beach are still embroiled in an effort by the City Government to ‘Eminent Domain’ their property and deliver it into the hands of developers.
The [...]

Investor’s Business Daily updates on the activities of the city of New London in confiscating the property of its citizens to increase its tax base. Not only is the city evicting the last two remaining residents so that private development can continue in the name of the public good, but the city is also [...]