Some of our readers questioned our claim in yesterday’s Hotline - comparing pollution in China and the U.S. - that America has reduced most dangerous air pollutions dramatically. So for the doubting Thomases out there, here is the evidence from Biden’s own EPA. So how can the New York Times say the U.S. is one of the world’s two largest polluters?
DESPITE MORE PEOPLE, MORE CARS, MORE ENERGY USE, AND MORE OUTPUT, AIR POLLUTION DOWN 70%.
Note: CO2 emissions estimate through 2021 (source).
In 2008 California voters approved Prop 1A, which authorized $9.95 billion for high-speed rail from Los Angeles to San Francisco.
Fifteen years later — no train — but a price tag of $35 billion just for the Bakersfield to Merced portion, which will take ten more years.
The latest projected cost for the full original route is now $106 billion, with the high-speed rail authority now admitting it could go to $128 billion. If you’re counting, that’s roughly a 600% cost overrun – which must be close to a world record.
But the Biden administration is unfazed. Biden recently committed $43 billion from his infrastructure slush fund to high-speed rail, which he touts as a “game-changing” technology to combat climate change. In other words, trains that no one will ride will replace cars – which is like moving backward in time in the evolution of transportation.
We’ve fumed for years that conservative donors give billions of dollars a year to the most left-wing institutions in America – universities. The money is inevitably used to further indoctrinate students with an anti-America and pro-socialist agenda.
Universities will only change when donors stop writing checks to the other team, so we were thrilled to see this move by Mr. Lewis and we hope many others follow suit.
4) Pennsylvanians Know About Gov. Josh Shapiro’s School Choice Double Cross
This is not a scientific poll, but a reader survey of one of the most popular insider websites in Harrisburg. Even so, the result is a fairly overwhelming indicator that what's obvious to us is obvious to everyone else, too: Shapiro sided with teacher unions over minority children.
