When I was a boy growing up in California we called them "mud puddles." If they grew large enough, grown-ups called it "flooding." But now the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS), which enforces the Endangered Species Act, has adopted the bogus poetry of the environmentalist left, calling them "vernal pools." The question for the immediate future is whether a federal government controlled by Republicans will allow either bureaucrats or unelected judges to use these "vernal pools" to shut down development on vast stretches of private property and thus help push the American dream beyond the grasp of some aspiring...