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Obama's Multibillion-Dollar High-Speed Rail Plan Full Steam Ahead?

Choo choo! President Barack Obama is preparing to call for a six-year, $53 billion project to create high-speed rail in the U.S. His budget, which will be released next week, will include an initial $8 billion. There's "$10.5 billion already in the pipeline," says USA Today, pointing to $8 billion from the 2009...

Is an Obama Tax Cut Coming?

(Sept. 2) -- A Wall Street Journal story says the Obama administration is considering tax cuts and other stimulus measures, sending the blogosphere into a flurry of activity. A later White House statement (see "Update") suggesting such reports were "premature" has done little to calm the waters. Early buzz is mostly...