Investing in 200 year old technology a fraction the speed of air travel isn’t infrastructure, it’s pork.

Population density matters a great deal for high speed rail to be viable. Most of the US isn’t densely populated.

Take away the subsidies from every industry. If it can’t stand on it’s own, tax money should not prop it up. It is not and never should be the government to choose winners and losers in business.

So we should continue spend money on unused routes? And somehow that is part of improving our infrastructure.

60 MILLION dollar loss? is that annually? how could anyone justify spending money subsidizing something that will never, ever break even?

Can you really underrate a defense if it has never faced a real test?

Thank God the long national nightmare is over. The adults are finally back in charge.

Lacy, crotchless underwear.

This is a silly article. Admit it.

NASCAR Figure 8 racing would be exciting.

As much as I sincerely respect your academic achievements, I was hoping to read a line about your service in the military - seems fitting for a blog like Foxtrot Alpha - but, sadly, there was nothing about real-world military experience to balance the academia slant. My Devil Dog friends and Naval son have a very…

Poke fun at the question all you’d like, but the beauty of Tyler’s administration of this blog was his objectivity and neutrality. Here were the facts, the nuts and bolts, and the unpolished truths. He spoke as a guy that had his own boots on the ground and it was refreshing to read objective, fact-based posts with…

so you’re ok with a clear manipulation of a quote in this new bloggers very first post?

“I do not believe in objectivity”

Do you plan on falling in line with the other Gawker Company ‘journalists’ and use your platform to force-feed liberal views to the readership? To discredit and ridicule any conservative viewpoints, and aggressively mock any position that could be considered as such? Asking for a friend.

Jeez. His very first post and already a very clear bias with a manipulation of a quote. great start.

I didn’t understand half of that, but given that you started the article off by blaming the worlds problems on “Far-right populism” I can only assume that we will be getting biased liberal perspective on world events from someone who thinks that the US is too powerful and arrogant. If you do intend to report pure…

Any politics you choose to write about, please do your best to remain bipartisan and unbiased as much as possible.

Nailed it.

Perhaps FA was “inexplicably” successful (for a Gawker sub) because Tyler was heavy on the technical content & analysis and light with the politics.

So, in a nutshell, you’re going political now.