No Doubt, this will be classified as another reason for the implementation of REAL-ID act.

Just because the North Carolina Government cannot find a method to automate the processes to confirm the validity of identities.

N.C. State Auditor Les Merritt's office discovered the problem when it compared the 8.1 million N.C. driver's licenses currently in use with the Social Security Administration's database of valid numbers, as well as the federal agency's list of numbers issued to people who are now deceased.

There are software applications that exist today to validate this type of information, and if North Carolina, and other states don't wise up, we're all going to be given a "National ID", and become microchipped.

It's just stupid.

Charlotte Observer | 03/21/2007 | Audit reveals license flaws

The Homeland Security Department said Wednesday it has created a unit to combat the threat posed by "homegrown terrorists" — citizens or legal residents who plot attacks from inside the nation's borders.

"This phenomenon presents a real and serious challenge to our nation," Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff told a Senate panel.

Chertoff emphasized that violent extremists "represent a small, fringe element within the American Muslim community" and that members of that community have been "outspoken in their opposition to terrorist violence." He noted that the last major attack by homegrown terrorists was the Oklahoma City bombing of 1995.

So this is a "real and serious challenge to our nation" and the last attack was over 10 years ago?

I can't believe we vote these people into office.

Homeland Security team to focus on U.S. terrorists - USATODAY.com

In any war, the first casualty is common sense, and the second is free and open discussion -- James Reston

What else is there to say?

School headmaster Chamnong Chupatpong and Mano Sonkaew were driving a pickup truck on their way to Ban Baedo school in Yala province when they were shot, dragged out of the vehicle and burned to death, according to a witness, Lt. Tatsapol Suwannabul said.

And here we're worried about textbook stickers.

Of course we're worried about textbook stickers, because they undermine our rich southern heritage, like inbreeding, pushing religion on everyone that will and won't listen, and calling everyone that isn't southern, a "yahnkee".

To say that the south, and even the rest of this country, is blissfully ignorant of everything outside of their finely tuned myopia, would be an understatement.

Muslim rebels in southern Thailand target school teachers