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  The Eminent Domain of CongressJune 30, 2005 Don’t bet that last week’s 5-4 Supreme Court ruling which allows government to steal individuals’ private property is now “the law of the land”.  The Court may have granted license to a slew of often corrupt local governments, and their lackey development authorities, to swipe private property from the “little people”, but only Congress can give them the money to actually do it. The Court’s decision in Kelo v. New London is an invitation to take a close, and hard, look behind the curtain of legal mumbo-jumbo that brings Connecticut closer to being a...

Will people lose their homes... Eviction Notice By Mike Lynch For a brief moment in March, Susette Kelo of New London, Connecticut, thought she had saved her home. After all, Superior Court Judge Thomas J. Corradino had ruled that the New London Development Corporation (NLDC), an organization set up to take over her Fort Trumbull neighborhood, couldn't take her house through eminent domain. But then she got her hands on the decision. "As I read, I realized that I had won the right to stay, but really only to fight again," says Kelo, who after four and a half...