And on it goes. Nothing, over the years, has brought New London more infamy than the taking of homes in Fort Trumbull by eminent domain for a development that never happened.

Just last week, the story reinflated on a national scale, with a prominent scolding for the city from legendary conservative commentator Rush Limbaugh.

Talking about the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in which a majority of justices sided with the city, Limbaugh revisited the removal of Susette Kelo from her pink cottage in Fort Trumbull.

"The court told Susette Kelo her American dream didn't matter," Limbaugh said, in his trademark booming voice of rage. "The city could evict her so that her property could be handed over to a more powerful private party."

At first I thought the timing of Limbaugh's extensive tirade about New London was strange, given that it all happened what seems now like a long time ago.

Coincidentally, also on Thursday, I got in the mail a notice of a fundraiser for mayoral candidate Lori Hopkins-Cavanagh to be held later this month at Kelo's pink house, which has been rebuilt on Franklin Street.

There, on the cover of the fundraiser invitation, is a picture of Kelo's cute pink house, proving Limbaugh wrong on one point.

After telling the story of Kelo buying the house in 1997 and being served an eviction notice on Thanksgiving Eve 2000, Limbaugh says: "Susette's cottage was demolished years ago."

Actually, pieces of it - including the pink shingles - were salvaged, and the whole thing was reassembled by city homeowner Avner Gregory, on an empty lot he owned on Franklin Street. There is a plaque on it and a monument out front.

I wondered what suddenly put the New London eminent domain case on Limbaugh's radar.

I think I discovered what happened after reading a conservative blog he cited during his tirade. There, I found a link to a video from The Day made in the wake of Tropical Storm Irene, when city homeowners were instructed to unload storm debris on the empty land at Fort Trumbull.

"Today, the land is a city dump," Limbaugh said in his piece.

Kelo's pink house, which is also the subject of a new movie in development, seems to have more staying power for national attention than even the inappropriate toilet use of the whale tale fountain downtown.

I can't say I agree with a lot of what Limbaugh usually rants about.

His piece last week on New London ended by comparing the situation to President Obama, whom he called another big developer promising a lot of jobs and not delivering.

That comparison of the president to broken promises in New London is a stretch.

"He's turning the entire country into a dump," Limbaugh said of Obama.

Still, I appreciated what he had to say about what happened in New London with the use of eminent domain. And, naturally, if you like what Limbaugh has to say, you like the way he says it.

"(The city) was seizing Susette Kelo's cottage to make way for a luxury hotel and condos that would bring in big tax revenues along with thousands of new jobs. That's what the developer promised," Limbaugh ranted.

Of course, now the city has settled on a developer for the adjacent Fort Trumbull property who proposes rental apartments and hardly any tax revenues at all.

This is the opinion of David Collins