President Obama's options are limited when dealing with the North Koreans and their nuclear and missile programs. Dan Blumenthal and Robert Kagan have some advice for the President, including putting an end to the unproductive six party talks. Since direct military action against North Korea is off the table (barring any direct attack by the North Koreans against the U.S. or our allies in the region), it seems to me that there are no good options. We will have to live with a nuclear-armed North Korea, and a nuclear-armed Iran, and all the countries that follow their lead. It seems that our long run without a nuclear attack (the last one was against Nagasaki in 1945) will not last much longer. John Bolton has some thoughts on why the Obama Administration is making things worse.

Autopsies of War Dead Reveal Ways to Save Others is the headline for this story in The New York Times. I'm surprised it took them so long to start doing this routinely.

Ralph Peters has a suggestion for the proper way to deal with terrorists.

Robert Reich says the only way to fund health care reform is to tax employer-provided health insurance benefits. I'll be shocked if Congress ever goes along with that idea.

The Associated Press is reporting that the President will nominate U.S. Circuit Court Judge Sonia Sotomayor to replace Justice Souter on the U.S. Supreme Court. A formal announcement is expected later this morning.