The Train Has Left the Station

What the heck is wrong with a train from Disneyland to Las Vegas, anyway? [Well, besides the fact that the claim Barack Obama wants to build one isn't true.]

A widely repeated claim that $8 billion is set aside for a "levitating train" to Disneyland is untrue. That total is for unspecified high-speed rail projects, and some of it may or may not end up going to a proposed 300-mph "maglev" train connecting Anaheim, Calif., with Las Vegas.

There's [also] no money in the bill specified for butterfly parks, Frisbee golf courses or water slides, despite a GOP congressman's claim that the bill "will fund" those projects.