The Wall Street Journal has a great feature article about soldiers at Christmas-time. Take a moment to remember these men and women in the next couple of days.

And as long as I'm reading the weekend WSJ, they have a great follow-up article about Susette Kelo. I guess 2005 will largely be remembered as the year of natural disaster: hurricanes, earthquake, tsunami. But for me the Supreme Court's Kelo decision was the story of the year. I thought the decsion was absolutely chilling. Professor Bainbridge covered the case thoroughly and thoughtfully, but my core sense remains that eminent domain is a sharply slippery slope, and quite an un-American concept, really.