Cars, Trains, What’s The Difference?

Biden Mistakenly Claims New Hudson River Tunnel Project Will Accomodate Cars Vice President Joe Biden, on a conference call Monday with reporters, mistakenly claimed that the planned Hudson River tunnel between New Jersey and Midtown Manhattan would provide a much-anticipated route for automobiles. Problem is, it’s for trains. The $8.7 billion tunnel is among the [...]

Pay As You Go, Except For A Few Trillion Here And There

Some Democrats Warn of Loophole in Obama’s Pay-As-You-Go Rules President Obama called on Congress yesterday to enact pay-as-you-go budget rules to help tame a deficit forecast to top $1.8 trillion this year. But even as some Democrats applauded the plan, others complained that it would give a free pass to expensive policies that would sink [...]