Estrich: A Professor of Eminent Domain

Oregon Magazine ^ | February 1, 2006 | Larry Leonard

[WaterDragon]

It happened late in January on the FOX network's Hannity and Colmes program, with the pretty blonde, Estrich, in her abrasive voice subbing for the absent abrasive Colmes. The subject was eminent domain, a process by which a government "condemns" private property and takes it for "public" use. Until recently, I had never seen it used for any other purpose than to make way for a road or a public development of some kind. A park, a facility to keep equipment, like fire trucks, in a central location. A place to put a school. Those sorts of things.

Then, the U.S. Supreme Court allowed an east coast community to take private homes by this process, and turn the land over to equally private contractors who promised to build large scale dwellings, like hotels or condos. This would raise the value of the land, thus increasing tax revenues to the municipality. Conservatives across the nation were shocked when the court did it. They are incensed to this day. Stupid legal decisions like this are why they backed Thomas for the big court, and now the two new guys.....

[WaterDragon]

BTTT

[VOYAGER]

Her money would have been better squandered on elimimating her abrasive voice and attitude because rancor and half truths continue pouring forth unabated from the same unhinged mouth!

Fox's listening public got screwed again just like it did after "square pants" Greta Von(you know who)came back to us with an unimproved condition of her peculiar pollitical bent!

The same thing happened to us with Susan as it did with poor old Greta, Fox hired just another "(pretty) talking head" with no brain improvement.

I certainly hope Fox doesen't decide after their two failed experiments to send these two "over voiced Beauty Queens" to Fox and Friends to try to salvage their failed attempt, that would be an unfair piling on and would be super-numerically and qualitatively unnecessary since E.D. and Lorne Green are more than adequate for brains, beauty and talk.