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• Eminent domain? ‘Never mind’

  
  Vin Suprynowicz — Authority: 114
  Pfizer, Inc., announced this week that the company will be closing its former research and development headquarters in New London, Conn. — the project for which the city of New London infamously used its power of eminent domain to seize and ultimately bulldoze the homes of Susette Kelo and her neighbors, after that ...
  8 hours ago

• The government takes what it wants

  
  The Real Revo — Authority: 488
  In 2005 in the case of Kelo v New London, the Supreme Court ruled that government can use eminent domain to seize private property, not just for the use of the state, but to hand it over to other private entities. Governments may do this, the court ruled, for reasons no more compelling than that the new owners will ...
  1 day ago

• Life, Liberty, and…Health Care?

  
  The Undercurrent — Authority: 106
  Countless voices are claiming medical care is a right. Is it?Throughout the health care debate, Republicans and Democrats have argued over many points, such as which kinds of reforms would most effectively give all Americans access to health care and how much we should be willing to spend on such programs. Very few, ...
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• How often do we have to say it?

  
  Michigan Taxes Too Much — Authority: 470
  “I told you so.” A July 2004 decision by Michigan’s supreme court was quite correct in its assessment of taking of public land for private use.  It is a wrong use of government power and eminent domain.  In the case of County of Wayne v. Hathcock , the Michigan Supreme Court handed down a decision that ...
  2 days ago

• Pfizer to Abandon Land Taken for Them by Big Brother

  
  Count Us Out — Authority: 150
  Pfizer Corporation Plans to Abandon New London Headquarters that Led to the Kelo Takings by Ilya Somin11/9/09The Pfizer Corporation has announced that it will close down its headquarters in New London, Connecticut. [HT: my former student Josh Blackman, and other VC readers]. As our regular readers may recall, Pfizer ...
  2 days ago

• The Propertarian Double Standard

  
  Anarchoblogs — Authority: 154
  Image Unrelated via Wikipedia From a reddit discussion I ended up discovering a post from Kevin Carson who expresses amazingly well the reason why I keep getting annoyed when discussing with propertarians of various forms. It’s the implicit double standard that is implied every time I’m accused of wanting ...
  2 days ago

• Pfizer abandons site of infamous property rights case

  
  United Liberty - Free Market - Individual Liberty - Limited Government — Authority: 602
  One of the worst decisions by the Supreme Court, at least in recent memory, was Kelo v. New London . This decison redefined the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment , allowing local governments to use eminent domain to take private property for private use or economic development. The City of New London used ...
  2 days ago

• Police cracking down on NYC subway musicians

  
  blog of bile — Authority: 121
  http://amny.com/… Are the strings attached to subway strumming getting tighter? Veteran transit musicians say police harassment has grown to disturbing levels in recent months, leading some to fear that independent performers could be driven out of the subways. “It’s a game to drive you crazy,” said Mark ...
  3 days ago

• Ontario socialists regulate/persecute Ontario farmers because they can

  
  No Apologies — Authority: 146
  Ontario Landowners Association press release – November 5, 2009 CONTACT: Jack MacLaren PH: 613 832-3201 Surprise! The Clean Water Act is Not about Clean Water The City of Peterborough has a resident Canada goose population a few hundred metres upstream from their water intake pipes. The City applied to the ...
  1 week ago

• HR3962: An unprecedented attack on freedom

  
  Liberty Maven Liberty Maven: For Liberty, One Individual At A Time — Authority: 536
  D o w n s i z e r – D i s p a t c h Supporters of healthcare reform claim it’s about accessible and low-cost health coverage for Americans. If that were true, they’d reject Nancy Pelosi’s bill, HR 3962. Usually, critics write about the economic reasons. But there’s another huge problem . . . The bill ...
  1 week ago

• Tows conducted in Portland city limits, October 2009

  
  PortlandOnline — Authority: 167
  PDF Document, 419kb Category: Private Property Impounds
  1 week ago

• Another Celebrity Line + the Prince of Wales Heads to Burberry

  
  The Preppy Princess — Authority: 124
  Hello-Hello and greetings on a Thursday, we are excited to see the day unfold, with lots of obligations and meetings! That translates to a mercifully short post, with a quick glance at the new, more affordable bridal line being launched by Badgley Mischka . PHOTO: Kyle Ericksen/WWD A sampling of styles ...
  2 weeks ago

• All the News Thats Fit to Subsidize

  
  Business Finance & Economy - business.marc8.com — Authority: 163
  "Even after struggling at small papers, I believe the best protection for press freedom lies in private property." From Seth Lipsky, veteran journalist whose daily The New York Sun folded a year ago.
  2 weeks ago

• Panama Banking and Corporations

  
  Do Business in Panama — Authority: 110
  Corporations and individuals in many nations, citizens of European nations and the U.S. in particular, are becoming increasingly alarmed at the intrusiveness of their governments.  Contrary to the popular press’ ignorant mewlings, tax avoidance (which they always confuse with tax evasion, which I think they do ...
  3 weeks ago

• Look what 1.5 million can buy you in Wisconsin

  
  Surviving the Middle Class Crash — Authority: 117
  PPJ Gazetteby: Paul GriepentrogTom & Melissa Monchilovich CONVICTED!Today, October 21, 2009 in Wisconsin Circuit Court, Polk County, Judge Molly E. Galewyrick found the Monchilovich couple guilty of failure to register premises.The only organization present supporting Tom and Melissa was the Wisconsin Independent ...
  3 weeks ago

• MDHA begins "Aquiring" Properties

  
  Truman's Take — Authority: 504
  And the Abuse of Eminent Domains Use continues...... Nashville files suit to seize 7 properties for convention center $31.2M would acquire downtown land By Michael Cass The Metro Development and Housing Agency filed condemnation suits against seven groups of property owners in Davidson County Circuit ...
  3 weeks ago

• Chavez Keeps Showing How The Left Thinks

  
  American Conservative Daily — Authority: 501
  Venezuelan “president” Hugo Chavez is a nutcase. Except in his own mind. In his own mind he is a glorious and kind leader. However that does not change the fact that he is indeed a nutcase. And as a nutcase, and a leftist nutcase as well, he keeps showcasing exactly how the left thinks which is that your stuff ...
  3 weeks ago

• Bachmann: Banks Gave Money To ACORN For Government Rating

  
  Barely A Blog — Authority: 131
  Representative Michele Bachmann, Republican Congresswoman from Minnesota, inadvertently traces the “Minority Housing Meltdown”: The community reinvestment Act” (CRA), a creation of the federal Frankenstein, compelled private banks to make home loans to individuals with poor credit. Since no bank wants to make ...
  3 weeks ago

• Displaying the American Flag: A Christian Libertarian Viewpoint

  
  Using My Liberty — Authority: 110
  A big controversy brewed the past few days over an apartment complex in Oregon that banned the American flag (or any other) from being displayed on residents cars or motorcycles. The reason? One resident was told "someone might get offended." The ACLU said they could not get involved because the complex is ...
  4 weeks ago

• Fighting Eminent Domain Abuse

  
  OpenMarket.org — Authority: 652
  Popular outrage over eminent domain abuse may have waned a bit since the Supreme Court’s poorly-reasoned Kelo ruling in 2005, but economic development takings remain incredibly unpopular throughout the country. Public opinion polls indicate that more than 80 percent of Americans oppose eminent domain for ...
  4 weeks ago

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