"The fat cats don't need the protection of property rights, because they already control the political system."

Writing in the New York Post, Instapundit's Glenn Reynolds responds to the Supreme Court's failure to take up the Columbia University eminent domain abuse case:

Columbia said the condemnation was necessary to support the university's "vision" for a new campus; school President Lee Bollinger called the victory "a very important moment in the history of the university."

It was an important, if not especially proud, moment for Columbia -- but it was surely a bigger moment in the lives of those West Harlem business owners, as their property gets taken away to promote the "vision" of what is, in fact, a multibillion-dollar corporation servicing the daughters and sons of the wealthy, the powerful and the connected.

Read the whole thing here. More details on the Columbia land grab here and here.