OBAMA ANNOUNCES “NEW CHAPTER” ON CUBA. “The Obama administration will initiate diplomatic relations with Cuba and open an embassy in Havana in coming months, the president said. . . . The president also announced measures to ease travel and the flow of goods between the United States and Cuba. However, the embargo on Cuba cannot be lifted without congressional approval. And critics accused the president of putting his legacy ahead of achieving democratic reforms in the communist nation.”

I’d love for Cuba to open up so I can get a cheap Caribbean beachfront place. But it would have to decommunize before that was worthwhile.