Notes from all around

• Good Riddance, Yucca Mountain — Obama pulls the plug on the nuclear industry’s last best hope.
  By Timothy Noah at Slate.
• Could Mexico Fail? — RAND
• “Afghanistan is better than you think” — Max Boot.
• “Obama is a Communist” — Alan Keyes
• Tanks for the memories — there’ll be a boom in armored vehicle production in the coming decades, and most of it won’t be American. Aviation Week.
• The war on Rush Limbaugh — Politico.
• Iraq after Obama’s Pullout — Bing West looks at the prospects in Small Wars Journal.

Open thread on them all.