Anticipating the upcoming Great California High-Speed Rail Disaster of 2013+.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  January 27th at 10:00 PM  | 

“+” because this this is going to crash and burn for years.  Let me summarize this LA Times article discussing the looming …singularity… of fiscal destruction. California wants a high-speed rail system which will apparently solve all of their problems (“Then why don’t they have one, already?” “Because shut up, that’s why”). This is scheduled to cost 68 Billion dollars. $68,000,000,000. It will cost more. | Read More »

BREAKING: Rick Scott Wins

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  March 4th at 12:18 PM  | 

The Florida Supreme Court has ruled that Governor Rick Scott can reject high-speed rail funds from the federal government. Scott had decided to decline high-speed rail funds for a Tampa to Orlando line and two state legislators sued him. The Florida Supreme Court had put the bipartisan lawsuit filed Tuesday on a fast track because LaHood had given Scott until Friday to accept the money. | Read More »

The Non-Conspiracy

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  March 1st at 09:45 AM  | 

“These people are not fools. They want a world where we all live in big cities and use the sun and wind to run our lives — a return to the 14th century with 21st century hygiene.” It is not a conspiracy. Some of you think it is. It is not. A conspiracy is a secret plot by two or more people to do something | Read More »