The Department of Transportation's High Speed Ground Transportation (HSGT) program aims to finance high-speed rail connecting major urban centers at distances of 100 to 500 miles, with trains running at 150 - 250 mph.  But a Washington Post front-pager offers disquieting numbers that give ...

Hillary's Great Red Diplomatic Moment presenting a gift to Russian FM Sergei Lavrov with a wrong Russian word inscribed will no doubt get some flunky tossed to the sharks off the east coast of Florida.  Seems Ms. 3 AM Phone Call used the Russian word peregruzka, thinking she was saying &qu...

But contrary to the above is the view of a writer, Sam Schulman, who calls calls Barack Obama a Hamlet in an astringent Weekly Standard piece.  Calling President 44 "a 20th century liberal of a very conventional type: incurious, superior and vain," Schulman writes that like Hamlet 44...

March 5 closing Dow Jones Industrial Average = 6,594.44, down 281.40.  At closing on January 19, Inauguration Eve, the DJIA stood at 8,279.63.  It has plunged 20.4 percent.  Upon 44's election it stood at 9326.24 (closing bell, Nov. 3), from where, in a scant four months, the D...

Former Thatcher adviser John O'Sullivan sees possible euro-collapse as the "commentariat" in Europe: Every day brings news of fresh disasters, but the main current anxieties are (1) that Austrian banks that have loaned too much to Eastern Europe will collapse when Hungary and others de...

A Washington Institute of Near East Policy report on Israel & Iran seeks alternatives to a military strike against Iran's nuclear facilities, as the clock winds down on Iran crossing the nuclear threshold and becoming politically invulnerable to attack.  The Jerusalem Post reports that...

Forbes ran an astonishing story on Harvard University's investment calamity due to heavy investing by their fund managers in derivatives.  An endowment of $36.9B is now one-third smaller, with huge projects already under commitment.  Ivy League smarties turned out to be too smart for...

The WSJ editors note Team 44's intent to end DC school vouchers by stealth via legislative language supplied by Illinois Senator Dick Durbin, which provides that the voucher program ends unless both Congress and the District of Columbia government re-authorize the program.  Instead of voti...

Iraq.  President Obama's Camp LeJeune Address was eloquent in tone and sound in policy.  He gave highest praise to his audience of Marines, with sincerity and grace.  He is keeping enough troops in the country for satisfy his military commanders, and withdrawal is expressly pre...

Friday's sell-off made for the worst market month since 1933, a stunning no-confidence verdict rendered by investors on President Obama's first full month in office.  The Conference Board's Consumer Confidence Index fell to an all-time low (since its 1967 inception) of 25 percent; ...