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• Victor Davis Hanson: Lessons From Germany’s ‘Spring Offensive’ 100 Years Later

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Opinion in Brief

Investor’s Business Daily: “California’s bullet train project, also known as Jerry Brown’s Folly, has turned into a fiscal nightmare for the Golden State. … The original promise, made in a proposition voted on in 2008, called for the entire ‘high-speed’ rail system to be built at a cost of just $37 billion and to be finished by 2020. … Just last week, the state’s rail authority announced that the system will now cost $77.3 billion, 20% more than the $64 billion estimated a mere two years ago. And, oh yes, instead of being done in 2029, it will be done in 2033. But they also admitted that costs might soar to $98 billion. … And the ticket costs they now estimate will be $93 a pop, not $55. Big difference. … The idea that the ‘high-speed’ trains, which by the way will never achieve true bullet-train speeds of over 100 miles per hour, will carry 120,000 passengers a day is a total fantasy with no basis — none — in any statistical reality. … Aside from the cost, that area is riddled with seismically active fault lines, which will make any attempt at building a lengthy tunnel dangerous at best. The San Andreas Fault  — due, seismologists say, for an 8.0 or even higher quake — is right in the area they would have to tunnel. Here’s the bad part: Everyone involved in the project knew from the very first the cost would be astronomical, but ignored it. … But don’t worry: The Democrats in this one-party state will find a scapegoat, as they always have, when the bills come due. They’ll blame the Republicans.”