Pope Francis is mistaken, property rights are human rights

SACRAMENTO – A friend of mine, who had spent many years establishing a successful printing business in the Midwest, opened his local newspaper to find a story about a fancy redevelopment project that the city had proposed in his neighborhood. How nice, he thought, until he realized that planning officials were going to put the project on top of his company’s existing building.
He was one of many people I had interviewed for my 2004 book about the abuse of eminent domain – the g