I won't stop until they're free

In 1962, President John F. Kennedy challenged the second most powerful nation in the world, the Soviet Union, and simply told them to remove their missiles from the Western Hemisphere or we would blow their ships out of the water. The Communists blinked, and there are no missiles in Cuba to threaten our citizens.

We are still the most powerful nation in the world, and it now falls to President Obama to protect all our citizens from nuclear attack, and two particular citizens from unfair treatment, even if he has to threaten to level the entire third world country of North Korea. The President who thinks he's the Messiah, or Lincoln, or FDR should be able to accomplish that. What's he waiting for?

ANOTHER BIRTHDAY: She would have been 70 today. Sadly, she perceived her life as a series of ill-fated missteps. Those of us who loved her will cherish her goodness, and will always remember the happy times.