Sotomayor cautious on stating property rights view

Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor has sidestepped a question about whether the high court had overstepped its authority when it ruled in 2005 that governments may seize property for private development projects.

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China to Educate Farmers on Property

China will step up efforts to educate farmers on their property rights and encourage them to resolve land disputes through legal means, officials said Tuesday, in a push to curb protests over illegal land grabs and inadequate compensation.

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An Oregon apartment complex reversed its ban prohibiting residents from flying American flags from dwellings and parked vehicles after the property manager decided she didn't have the legal standing to do so, KATU in Portland reported Wednesday.

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Data released by the FBI's National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) reported 1,074,757 checks in August 2009, a 12.3 percent increase from the 956,872 reported in August 2008.

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Some people try to say that a majority vote is as close as you can reasonably get to consensual government, and therefore free society, but they're wrong.

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SALT LAKE CITY — A gay rights group plans to stage a mass kissing demonstration outside the San Diego Mormon temple as a show of support for a gay couple cited for trespassing in Utah after sharing a kiss on church property.

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People who bought Orwell's 1984 and Animal Farm for their Kindle were surprised to discover that it had disappeared from their devices overnight.

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Mommas, Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Report on the Government's Financial Reforms

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Economic development can and has occurred regularly without the forced taking of a private citizen's home or business. The "Private Property Rights Protection Act of 2009" H.R.

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Palestinians across the Middle East were due to commemorate Land Day today, marking the anniversary of clashes in 1976 in which six unarmed Palestinians were shot dead by the Israeli army as it tried to break up a general strike.

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There came a point between last year's criminal bailout of the financial sector and the latest theft of $30 billion more to throw on the AIG bonfire that further acts of armed robbery by this government against its people ceased to matter, at least for me.

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In his book, The Audacity of Hope, President Obama writes "Our constitution places the ownership of private property at the very heart of our system of liberty.

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International Property Rights Index is out and the United States ranks overall the 15th best in the world. The index focuses on three areas: Intellectual Property, Physical Property, and Legal and Political environment.

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PHOENIX (Reuters) - A U.S. federal jury awarded more than $70,000 in damages to a group of illegal immigrants who claimed they were held at gunpoint by an Arizona rancher after slipping over the border from Mexico five years ago.

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While everyone is distracted with the Pelosi Reid Obama artery–choking, cardiac arrest, Pork Barrel Spending Bill, congress is sneaking-ly trying to pass the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009.

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CNN is reporting that a girl named 'Natalie Dylan,' is going to lose her virginity in Las Vegas by auctioning it off via the Moonlite Bunny Ranch.

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New Utah legislative proposal would strip some rivers and streams off of last year's landmark supreme court ruling that gave almost unlimited access to the the rivers of the state to anglers.

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The US is owned by foreign interests - and they make lousy landlords. "...Daniels was being victimized by a bank that is hoping to capitalize on his lack of legal expertise, trying to frighten him into leaving..."

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The Episcopal Church claimed a major legal victory Monday (Jan.

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If not America, then what is the best country in the world to live in??? And Why??

Thursday, January 8, 2009 I recently replied to a fellow Newsviners post about America being, or not being, the best country to be born/live in. The respondent felt the term "greatest country to live in" was something of a cliche It got me thinking......

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Eric Wargotz, one of the county commissioners of Queen Anne's County and author of Ordinance 08-25, claims that he received no warning of the robocalls put out by the county Republican Central Committee. The QACRCC claims otherwise.

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Queen Anne's County has seen the proposal of a new land use ordinance that would massively limit property rights for many land owners in the county.

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It is one of London's most exclusive addresses. Michelin-starred restaurants are just a block away, the US embassy is around the corner and Hyde Park is at the end of the road. To share the same postcode ought to cost millions.

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CNN reports on Sarah Palin's connection to, and her husband, Todd Palin's membership in an Anti-American fringe group, the Alaska Independence Party (AIP) which was founded by a domestic terrorist.. See more irresistible headlines

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A man who mistakenly walked into the wrong house during a power outage at his duplex was shot and critically injured by his neighbor. See more irresistible headlines

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The town council took the significant step in June of moving from merely encouraging citizens to install solar panels to making them an obligation.

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H.R. 415, sponsored by Rep. Barney Frank, would amend the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to designate a commercial river since the 1800's as part of the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System.

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