Beat Boondoggle: Cali’s Dream Train Goes Solar
“Fifteen years and countless failures later, not a single mile of track has been laid” for a bullet train in California, taunts Jack Elbaum in the Washington Examinerand its “estimated costs have increased to $128 billion.”
There’s “no more cash” to construct it – nevertheless, the “California High-Speed Rail Authority now plans to make the entire project solar-powered.” “Because… why not?”
“The initial plan was enacted in 2008,” now it’s 2023 and “there’s nothing to indicate for it.”
“Adding one other, much more complicated element” is “a recipe for much more failure.” “This is precisely how scams work: huge guarantees, no results, then more huge guarantees to cover up” failures.
Foreign Office: Congress Must Block Iran Deal
The text of the secret US-Iran nuclear deal is reportedly almost ‘finished’ warns Eric Mandel in The Hilland some fear that there may soon be a “deal with out a deal” – i.e. “without signing, without ceremony and without congressional oversight.”
Iran would promise to limit uranium enrichment to 90% and release three American hostages; we’d give $20 billion in sanctions relief.
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Nevertheless, making a deal that ‘accepts Iranian ballistic missile development’ and terrorism financing can be ‘a self-inflicted American tragedy’ AND doesn’t reverse Iran’s nuclear program (whilst Tehran helps Russia and allies with China) AND could trigger a war with Israel.
Congress should “get ahead” of this and make it clear that Team Biden’s efforts to “eliminate” lawmakers, as President Barack Obama did, “deprives Congress of its constitutional responsibility.”
Watch in the media: Trans Delusions in the press
Polls show a transparent shift in public opinion against the idea “that athletes should give you the chance to compete against those that share their gender identity”; in the past two years, even “Democrats have moved a staggering 15 points away from the position most party officials espouse” – and yet pisses off Isaac Schorr in Mediaite, “attempts to impose the opinion of the majority should not characterised by common sense measures. . . but extreme and even hateful.
The media mercilessly portrays majority opinion as “ignorant and cruel” – ignoring even “obvious anthropological evidence.”
“Despite the small number of transgender athletes, they’ve reached the heights in women’s swimming, weightlifting and track and field.”
Americans “rightly” take the media’s “unfair framework” as “an admission of their weakness.”
The War in Ukraine: A Key Opportunity for the West
War in Ukraine confronts the West with several key ‘strategic questions’ Hal Brands of Bloomberg argues.
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To start with: “Would a democratic world correctly use war to arrange for even greater dangers?”
The US gave “Ukraine the support it needed to avoid wasting itself and wreak havoc [Vladimir] Putin’s army” and “countries across Europe have pledged to significantly increase military spending.” But the urgency “faded, sarcastically, because Ukraine held itself together.”
“During the Cold War, the Hot War in Korea” prompted the West to “forge a military shield” to stop the Soviets.
“Ukraine’s tragedy was a warning to the free world” – an “opportunity” for democracy to “stay ahead of impending challenges” from each Russia and China. “Possibly not get one other.”
Libertarian: Gaslighting Railroad Safety
“After a few years of working in the world of politics, I actually have come to the conclusion that politics is about 10 percent at most about making the world a greater and safer place.” complains Veronique De Rugy of Reason.
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The remainder is “45 percent theater and 45 percent catering to special interest groups.”
Or sometimes worse: The Railroad Safety Act, sponsored by Ohio Senator JD Vance and Sherrod Brown – ostensibly in response to the derailment of a freight train in East Palestine, Ohio – has “little relation to the derailment or any other derailment as a consequence of this material ”
As an alternative, it “appears to be pushing pet projects” and has “an awful lot to love for unions.”
As an alternative of getting policies to enhance railroad safety, “the American public is 50 percent coerced into submission and 50 percent favored by labor unions.”
– Developed by the editorial staff of the post