Newmark's Door

Ladies and gentlemen, California's government, doing what it does: "Beyond Boondoggle: California High-Speed Rail Delayed 4 Years".

See also John Fund, "High-Speed Rail Is a Fast Train to Fiscal Ruin, in California and Elsewhere".

The first segment of track will run from Madera to Bakersfield, a stretch that fewer than 3 percent of the line’s potential ridership can use. It is essentially a train from nowhere to nowhere, ridden by almost no one.

A useful reminder.

As is this: "Document Theft and Destruction Nothing New for Hillary Clinton".

It was a bit over 20 years ago the New York Times columnist labeled Mrs. Clinton a "congenital liar".

Good question. 

Unless you work in the oil patch this is really encouraging.

But we believe the period of excessively high oil prices has come to an end. The international spread of two revolutions will assure much ampler oil supplies, and will deliver prices far below the highs that reigned between the end of 2010 and mid-2014.

Interesting. Especially this:

In recent years, major research organizations have begun to recommend active surveillance, which for years had been promoted mostly by academic urologists in major medical centers, but not by urologists in private practice, who treat most men.

Trust the academics or the private practice folks?

And then there's Instapundit's comment: "I'm not saying this is a bad idea, but I'm suspicious they only started touting stuff like this once Obamacare passed."

I didn't use simulations as much as I should have, but what little I did I thought the students enjoyed and benefited from.

Kind of related: "Apps for Economics" and interesting anecdotal evidence on the value of wargaming simulations, "Wargaming in the Classroom: An Odyssey".

Remarkable footage of the liberation of Europe in "[f]ull HD & original color".

(No word that I saw on how the creator did it.)

You can't make stuff like this up.

Interesting story.

And, like many good ideas, it came from an unexpected source.

Another politically correct history gets debunked. (The article is 10 years old, but the author has a 2016 book out on the subject.)