The Daily Tribune:
- Venture Capital Dispatch, a blog within the Wall Street Journal, explains why they are so optimistic about venture capital investments into green technology with such a grim investment environment all around the world.
- John Lee at Foreign Policy demonstrates how the world slept while China cornered a pivotal market of rare earth metals that are the foundation for modern gadgetry, military technology, and renewable energy sources of the future.
- In his much referred to peace, George Will lays out the case in his Washington Post op-ed for withdrawing from Afghanistan as part of our fiduciary responsibility to our armed forces.
- Roger Cohen clarifies a crucial point in the Times, that while Twitter ain’t journalism, in Iran, social media has spoken volumes to an authoritarian regime demanding complicit silence.
- Over at Infrastructurist, Yonah Freemark counters Harvard Professor Ed Glaeser on the cost-benefit analysis for high speed rail investment in the United States.
- Michael Perkins from Greater Greater Washington, describes why DC’s metro system may face increasing budget gaps (labor, deferred maintenance, etc.) despite an increase in ticket fares.
On the lighter side:
- If Where the Wild Things Are isn’t the best movie of all time, I might riot in the streets.
- Joe Wilson’s little outburst just opened up a big can of shit stew.
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