I am much more concerned with Kelo and the Florida and Ohio cases. Individual freedoms are massively important, but the right to own property without fear of government theft (not what they call it, but close enough) is, in my humble opinion, of paramount importance because all other freedoms are of little consequence if one’s castle is not inviolate.

But to be honest, this is more an extension of the massive and intrusive land use laws that have come into favor in the past few decades than it is a new (af)front for “the greater good” laws that allow land grabs.

For as little as I could watch the Alito hearings I enjoyed seeing the Dems make asses of themselves and Alito dancing the trouble away. But I was disappointed we got little, if any, of his views on the rights of citizens to own property without the fear of having that property seized by fiat and given to some smooth-talking schmoozer that knows where to grease the wheels of (government) progress.