As predicted the other day, Kelo-mania is sweeping the nation. Call it the No Property Left Unseized rule.

Rusten Currie, one of our nation’s many fine MilBloggers, writing from his position in Baghdad:
The real progress is in the faces of the average Iraqi. The real progress lies in not the road behind us but in the fact that there is a road ahead of us. Sorry if it is an uphill climb that [...]

Whether he likes it or not, the War on Terror and it’s War in iraq spin-off are what will shape President George W. Bush’s legacy. Not Social Security reform (important as that is), nor tax cuts (welcomed as they were). The wars, their human and monetary costs and their strategic consequences and opportunities are what [...]

Carren has posted an update on the status of her wounded husband Chuck Ziegenfuss. Read it, especially this paragraph towards the end of the post:
Please continue praying for Chuck and our family. And don’t forget his men. This has taken a toll on his men, as well as all of 2-34 AR BN. Pray for [...]

Expect more of this around the nation:
Boston City Council President Michael Flaherty said yesterday that Mayor Thomas M. Menino’s efforts to spur development of Fan Pier do not go far enough, and he again called on the city to consider seizing the South Boston waterfront property using its eminent domain power.
Flaherty originally suggested taking the [...]

Robert Novak downplays the odds of Alberto Gonzales getting the nomination if a vacancy opens up on the Supreme Court, bit also notes that he may be the easiest way for president George W. Bush to get his nominee confirmed:
Since Gonzales was confirmed as attorney general after a nasty debate over treatment of terrorist detainees, [...]

The Supreme Court’s decision in the Kelo case, that upholds cities’ right to take basically any property they want for just about any reason they can think of, is an outrage. Here’s what the Fifth Amendment says:
“nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.”
Thus the Constitution allows for compensated landgrabs for [...]

OpiniPundit notices one of those small differences between us and them that nuanced thinkers like, say, Dick Durbin overlook:
We have manuals on how to properly handle the Koran and humanely treat prisoners, paying respect to their cultural sensitivities, they have manuals on how to properly torture and decapitate hostages.

It could be that the White House is slowly coming to realize that many, many Republican voters don’t accept the porous borders of today. They want border enforcement as well as interior enforcement of immigration laws. Yesterday, the Dallas Morning News quoted Senator Cornyn (R-TX), who says that the Bush administration is beginning to understand [...]

The Unabrewer takes a look at the ridiculously named People For the American Way’s list of alleged sins of conservative judge Janice Rogers Brown and reaches the obvious conclusion: OK, so what is the problem?
As for her becoming president, I’m not so sure I agree with Unabrewer. I like ex-governors for that position.