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Has Souter screwed himself out of his own property?

From Freestar Media LLC’s press release:

For Release Tuesday, June 28 to all other media

Weare, New Hampshire (PRWEB) Could a hotel be built on the land owned by Supreme Court Justice David H. Souter? A new ruling by the Supreme Court which was supported by Justice Souter himself itself might allow it. A private developer is seeking to use this very law to build a hotel on Souter’s land.

Justice Souter’s vote in the “Kelo vs. City of New London” decision allows city governments to take land from one private owner and give it to another if the government will generate greater tax revenue or other economic benefits when the land is developed by the new owner.

On Monday June 27, Logan Darrow Clements, faxed a request to Chip Meany the code enforcement officer of the Towne of Weare, New Hampshire seeking to start the application process to build a hotel on 34 Cilley Hill Road. This is the present location of Mr. Souter’s home.

Clements, CEO of Freestar Media, LLC, points out that the City of Weare will certainly gain greater tax revenue and economic benefits with a hotel on 34 Cilley Hill Road than allowing Mr. Souter to own the land.

The proposed development, called “The Lost Liberty Hotel” will feature the “Just Desserts Café” and include a museum, open to the public, featuring a permanent exhibit on the loss of freedom in America. Instead of a Gideon’s Bible each guest will receive a free copy of Ayn Rand’s novel “Atlas Shrugged.”

Clements indicated that the hotel must be built on this particular piece of land because it is a unique site being the home of someone largely responsible for destroying property rights for all Americans.

“This is not a prank” said Clements, “The Towne of Weare has five people on the Board of Selectmen. If three of them vote to use the power of eminent domain to take this land from Mr. Souter we can begin our hotel development.”

Clements’ plan is to raise investment capital from wealthy pro-liberty investors and draw up architectural plans. These plans would then be used to raise investment capital for the project. Clements hopes that regular customers of the hotel might include supporters of the Institute For Justice and participants in the Free State Project among others.

Here’s hoping for their successful attempt to send Souter and his kind a message!

June 28, 2005 Posted by crushliberalism | Uncategorized | Leave a Comment

Competing visions for America

Note that neither one has “Fiscal discipline” or “Property Rights”? Wonder again why I’m a Libertarian?

By and large, though, this is true…

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Coverage of Durbin comments vs. Rove comments

Dick Durbin, a U.S. Senator (i.e. an elected politician, serving constituents in IL), calls behavior by our troops Nazi-like, and nary a peep by the MSM. Karl Rove, a political advisor (i.e. not a politician, serves the president and not the general public), floats a belief that liberals offered therapy and understanding for our attackers and the MSM is on him like Bob Byrd on a white bedsheet. Observe:

Chris Wallace: “Now let’s check out a story you won’t find on any other Sunday show. There’s a new study out comparing how the media covered Senator Durbin’s remarks about the treatment of prisoners and Karl Rove’s speech about the response to 9/11. Here’s what the Media Research Center found. On the Rove flap, which broke Wednesday night, ABC and NBC jumped on it, carrying stories Thursday night and Friday morning. But on the Durbin story, a very different reaction. ABC and NBC waited seven days, ignoring the entire controversy until Durbin apologized on the Senate floor. CBS never covered the story at all.”

Nope…no media bias.

June 28, 2005 Posted by crushliberalism | Uncategorized | Leave a Comment

Newsweek: Yep, we’re liberal

The Media Research Center reports on a little tête-à-tête between Newsweek Assistant Managing Editor Evan Thomas and NPR newsbabe Nina Totenberg on Inside Washington over the weekend:

Newsweek Assistant Managing Editor Evan Thomas wondered, on Inside Washington over the weekend, whether the effort in the U.S. House to reduce funding for PBS and NPR through the CPB would “make NPR a little less liberal?” An indignant Nina Totenberg of NPR retorted: “I don’t think we’re liberal to begin with and I think if you would listen, Evan, you would know that.”

Thomas countered that “I do listen to you and you’re not that liberal, but you’re a little bit liberal.” Totenberg insisted, “I don’t think that’s a fair criticism…any more than you would say that Newsweek is liberal.” To which Thomas conceded: “I think Newsweek is a little liberal.”

How funny that Nina swears NPR isn’t even remotely liberal, then tries to counter on Thomas that “yeah, well, if we are, then you are too! Nah-nee-nah-nee boo-boo!” Thomas ruins her point with a wrecking ball: “You’re right…we are liberal.” Uh…well…uh…not exactly what she was expecting, huh?

Kudos to Thomas for recognizing his employer’s bias, which is a bias, by the way, that liberals deny. I think if a Newsweak editor says that they’re biased over there while some unemployable non-bathing slacker wearing hemp clothes with a burlap toboggan says they’re not…I’ll defer to said editor.

But don’t take my word for it:

This isn’t the first time that Thomas has recognized bias. The July 12, 2004 CyberAlert recounted: The media “wants Kerry to win” and so “they’re going to portray Kerry and Edwards as being young and dynamic and optimistic,” Evan Thomas, the Assistant Managing Editor of Newsweek, admitted on Inside Washington over the weekend. He should know. His magazine this week sports a smiling Kerry and Edwards on its cover with the yearning headline, “The Sunshine Boys?” Inside, an article carrying Thomas’ byline contrasted how “Dick Cheney projects the bleakness of a Wyoming winter, while John Edwards always appears to be strolling in the Carolina sunshine.”

(snip…)

The night after the election, Thomas contended on MSNBC’s Hardball that President Bush suffered from media bias against him since “most” of Thomas’s colleagues in the media “don’t like Bush and they do like Kerry” and he “can’t believe that doesn’t affect” coverage. He also asserted, from NBC’s “Democracy Plaza” in Manhattan, that “the mainstream media” are out of touch “with most of America. I mean there is a red-blue divide. And most of the media types live in the blue part. They live right here.”

In light of Thomas’ own words, as well as the fake Koran-flushing story, Newsweak ceases to be a credible source of information.

June 28, 2005 Posted by crushliberalism | Uncategorized | Leave a Comment