Kelo case has the Web buzzing

Well, Google News and Technorati show lots of property-rights conservatives blaming "liberalism" for yesterday's Kelo eminent domain ruling. The thoughtful conservative Volokh blog has been posting item after item on the decision, which you can find scrolling up and down from this one.

Many of the liberal weblogs haven't reacted to Kelo yet, but liberal blogger Atrios is ambivalently in favor, and the liberal US/UK academics at Crooked Timber suggest, tongue in cheek, that certain works of Marx and Engels could have found a place in the opinion. The City Comforts New Urbanist blog finds several criticisms, including from a liberal planning perspective, and rakes the New York Times -- and Atrios -- for supporting the decision.

David Smith of the Affordable Housing Institute links back to his own extensive past blogging on the issue, in which he said, "Both sides are fighting the wrong fight on the wrong terrain." The left/libertarian/geek community of Slashdot had a huge debate yesterday about the meaning of "liberalism" in light of Kelo. There's a similar debate going at the Brooklyn-based real estate blog Brownstoner.

Then there was a favorable press release from the American Planning Association. The New York Times editorialized for the decision but ran a sympathetic feature on the wrenching specifics of the New London case in addition to the legal issues writeup.

Comments from readers?

[UPDATE: a pro-Kelo view (sort of) from Matthew Yglesias at The American Prospect; more support there from Jeffrey Dubner.]
[Further update: Liberal group weblog Daily Kos has an opening post in favor and much mostly literate wide-ranging discussion thereafter.]
[And more: a sense of "Alice in Wonderland" at TPMCafe.]