Houston Area Liberty Campaign

[Original story from http://news.lp.findlaw.com/ap/o/1110/09-25-2009/20090925053507_23.html.  Hypertext added by HALC.us staff, photos’ sources as noted.]

By KATIE NELSON Associated Press Writer

Photo by Isaac Reese, © Institute for Justice, 2004

There are a few signs of life: Feral cats glare at visitors from a miniature jungle of Queen Anne’s lace, thistle and goldenrod. Gulls swoop between the lot’s towering trees and the adjacent sewage treatment plant.

But what of the promised building boom that was supposed to come wrapped and ribboned with up to 3,169 new jobs and $1.2 million a year in tax revenues? They are noticeably missing.

Proponents of the ambitious plan blame the sour economy. Opponents call it a “poetic justice.”

“They are getting what they deserve. They are going to get nothing,” said Susette Kelo, the lead plaintiff in the landmark property rights case. “I don’t think this is what the United States Supreme Court justices had in mind when they made this decision.”

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/opinion/2008753858_opina18ramsey.html

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[original text from Morrison Report.com, links added by HALC.us editing staff]

Summary of this week’s report: We seem to be having that “conversation about race” that Candidate Obama so stridently urged when he was trying to mislead critics concerned with his extremist associations with Rev. Wright. However, I don’t think this is quite what he had in mind.

Two recent events – the Sotomayor hearings and the Henry Louis Gates uproar – demonstrate the dangerous direction Obama wants to take America when it comes to fairness, equal justice, and race relations. The Sotomayor hearings also make it clear that we’re going to need some Republicans with more backbone than our current ones if we hope to avoid this fate.

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