Tomorrow is the deadline for submitting comments to the Senate against the proposed nationwide identification system, REAL ID. Mine was fax #14,394:

In 1990, I had the opportunity to visit Leningrad for a student conference. I’ll never forget how shocked I was when the Russian students at the conference showed me their internal passports, which were required for traveling around Russia.

There was once a time when Americans were proud of these freedoms. Today, since I have never learned to drive, I have to carry around my US passport for routine identification. Perhaps you can tell me when America started thinking of Communist countries as a good-enough model for our own freedoms.