Oregonians have twice voted to restore private property rights to owners; most recently in the form of their landslide endorsement of Ballot Measure 37.  Presently, Oregon's legislature is poised to rewrite the law, urged on by the usual suspects: "planners", fishwrappers, and environmeddlists.  Is this a good idea, or merely an attempt to dilute the will of the people?

Until quite recently, the right of owners to use their property was unquestioned.  Increasingly, layers of restrictions handed down by governmental "planners" have hobbled - and in some cases, destroyed - the ability of owners to use their property.  Whatever would our founding fathers have had to say about this circumstance?

Thomas Jefferson held the view that ownership was sancrosanct; that nobody - not even the government - had the right to access, much less force sale of, said property.  By contrast, James Madison held the view that government - and government alone - had the right to force sale, provided that such sale was for public use, and so long as the government paid fair market value for the property in question.

Latinos are apparently terrorized by recent ICE raids.  This seems odd, because if you live in this country legally, there's no problem.

"We're terrified. The police could come for us at any time and deport us," she said in Spanish earlier this week as diners fingered maize tortillas stuffed with beans and pork scratchings and chatted softly.

The 55-year-old undocumented worker from Guatemala is among many Hispanics deeply shaken by recent immigration raids at the heart of Latino communities in southern California.

Umm…she's not an "undocumented worker".  She's an illegal alien.

Deport.

We're happy to take legal immigrants into our country.  Illegal aliens are entirely different.  If they want sympathy, they need to look in the English dictionaries.  That term will be found somewhere between "shit" and "syphilis".