Marcia, this beautiful woman cites “our aboriginal rights.” Why haven’t we listened more carefully to these people and others like them?

I get the feeling — maybe I’m a cockeyed optimist — that we are going to get more direct action from President Barack Obama on this and other issues as his terms of office approach their close. One of those direct actions, I think, will be a rejection of permission for the KXL pipeline to enter the United States. Leave the tar sands where they are – in the ground. John