RE: What do you think about getting a "Real ID" (very secure drivers license).
I agree with the very last paragraph of what you're saying, RLSH. This is why I was against the formation of the Homeland Security Department and immediately institutionalizing it as a Cabinet-level operation. Who's to say exactly what in 50 or 100 years will be considered a "threat" to security in the U.S.? Will it be old people who insist on driving their battered up old Dodge Challengers? Will it be those strange people who continue to express the idea that their "Christian God" is more important than the government? I'm sorry, but World War II posed a MUCH greater threat to the security of the U.S. and yet it didn't require institutionalizing a government entity that has the very real potential of completely trampling citizens' rights.