Solar Wind Energy (which used to be called Clean Wind Energy Tower, Inc.) is negotiating for a lease from the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) for a 1, 700-acre parcel of flat, empty desert on the Mexican border, right next to an Air Force bombing range.

FORBES: Massive Energy Skyscraper Proposed On U.S.-Mexico Border

The stage play (and movie) that best captures the blurred border between honest b.s. and flat-out lies is The Music Man.

FORBES: Dark Side of American Optimism

Meanwhile the Israeli army, caught flat-footed both on the Golan Heights and on the border with Lebanon, will have to shore up the border, at least in the north, to make it physically impassable.

ECONOMIST: Israel and Palestine