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and provides cover for the Left blogs that were strangely silent Thursday (ie kos, drum, marshall, atrios)

NY Times Friday editorial praises the SCOTUS ruling that your house is only your house until someone else can convince your city council they can do a better job of it.

The Supreme Court's ruling yesterday that the economically troubled city of New London, Conn., can use its power of eminent domain to spur development was a welcome vindication of cities' ability to act in the public interest. It also is a setback to the "property rights" movement, which is trying to block government from imposing reasonable zoning and environmental regulations.

Notice the "scare" quotes around "property rights"? Notice the lauding of the public interest without scare quotes? Notice how anyone unfamiliar with the particulars of the Kelo case (individual homeowners in a non-blighted residential neighborhood, Victorian era waterfront homes) might think it wasn't about people keeping homes they lived in but some nefarious plot usurp environmental regulations?

New London's development plan may hurt a few small property owners, who will, in any case, be fully compensated. But many more residents are likely to benefit if the city can shore up its tax base and attract badly needed jobs.

Well, shoot, what a grand idea! Sacrifice the few to serve the many!

From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.

That's the ticket.

And now that the NY Times says it's so, watch the meme that those grasping, nasty Kelo people weren't deserving of protection anyway seep into the Left blogsphere.