Danger - Homeland Security director

Danger - Homeland Security director Tom Ridge announced yesterday that the feds are thinking about national drivers' license standards.

The feds' strategery must be to wear us down. Every few years, some federal apparatchik tosses some sort of National ID off as a trial balloon, just to see how it flies. It never does - civil liberties groups always manage to cook up a big negative response. But how long until the public reaction to the constant testing finally fades, and the feds figure the coast is clear?

"The price of liberty is eternal vigilance", indeed...