I've got your Eminent Domain right here

Are you sure I haven't talked about the Eminent Domain ruling before? I could've sworn I did. At any rate, as you might expect, I think it's one of the worst ideas ever.

That being said, I'm really not surprised that it came from the Supreme Court. I'm obviously no fan of the court, and it's obviously done stupid things in the past like uphold slavery, claim abortion as a right, and interpreting 'school' as 'congress' and 'prayer' as 'establishing a law regarding a national religion'. Don't get me wrong...I wouldn't want my kids having to sit through school in the morning while some chubby Baptist (no offense, but let's be honest, who else would be leading a prayer in Tyrone, Georgia?) got on the intercom and did a little spiel about JEE-sus. But having prayer in school is NOT against the Constitution, or, in legal-speak, unconstitutional. But that's a completely different issue.

As far as the Eminent Domain ruling goes, it's absolutely mind-boggling. I understand that occasionally the government has to buy private property in order to fulfill public needs like roads and the like, and as much as I might not like it, I understand it. However, to think that the government can buy private property, and then sell/give it to another private entity with the goal of developing the property in a way so as to generate more tax revenue is atrocious on so many levels.

First of all, property rights are what America is founded on. When the government can just usurp land and do with it what it likes, that's called communism, or at best, monarchy. And we saw how well that turned out in the Good Ol' USSR. Millions of people starved to death...millions more thrown in jail for political dissent — yeah, good plan. Oh, excuse me — good THEORY.

And as far as the whole Monarchy thing goes...isn't that what we fled Britain to get away from? And as horrified as some people are at the thought of George W. Bush being our president, imagine if he was our King.

But at the end of the day, maybe some good can come of the ruling. As much as the ruling itself might suck, it's doing some good in the area of federalism. States everywhere are scrambling to make laws limiting the reach of the federal government, and I'm all for that.

Sonny Purdue is already working to enact laws limiting the effects of the ruling, and that's comforting, because I wouldn't trust D.C.'s Mayor Williams to find his ass with both hands, a flashlight and a bloodhound...let alone protect the property rights of DC citizens. At least when they turn my apartment into a Casino, I'll be able to move back to Atlanta.