Everything we predicted about California’s High Speed Rail project (HSR) has come to rotten fruition. Frequent readers of this column know that, for over 20 years, the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association has been a top critic of HSR. While examples of government waste by California politicians and bureaucrats are legion, nothing beats HSR for wasting billions for a project that wasn’t even half-baked at inception. Just a few weeks ago, I wrote about the study we commissioned even before the original bond vote in 2008. In conjunction with transportation experts at the Reason Foundation, the study confirmed our worst fears:...