Stop Levitating, Start Governing: Kristol

By Kevin Spak, Newser Staff

Posted Feb 14, 2009 1:35 PM CST

(Newser) – One of William Kristol’s favorite highlights of the new stimulus is the $8 billion reserved for a high-speed levitating train connecting Disneyland and Las Vegas. It wasn’t in the House bill and got just $2 billion in the Senate’s version, so they... Read full story »

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