“One example: Eminent Domain is necessary to get the Keystone pipeline through - don’t knock it.”
I question that necessity. If the pipeline is going to be privately owned, and I believe that it should, then the proposed corporate owner should work with the land owners to acquire the land in the market.
However, I will acknowledge that an argument could be made that the pipeline should be publicly owned.
Yes, I “knock” eminent domain. Along with 42 of the 50 states that passed laws in opposition of the use of Eminent Domain to take land for private use. It was the right thing 10 years ago and it is the right thing today.
Eminent domain is as American as apple pie