This is the sad irony of Objectivist politics.

Police are one of the three core functions of government that Rand held necessary to keeping law and order. The problem: to a cop, everyone who is not a fellow cop is a criminal.

They had that "internal passport" (grazhdanskyi pasport) in Soviet Russia. And more to the point, this reminds me of a failed pilot for what would have been a 1967-season television series titled "Shadow on the Land." The first thing the lead character notices is a set of disputes about travel permits suddenly being required for all domestic travel, not just coast-to-coast.

A libertarian is a conservative who has seen hard leftists take over the government and turn the police into the Secret State Police, or the Committee for State Security, or the Internal Security Forces, or whatever you wish to call it.

Use a private airport and a private flight. Government facilities and government regulated services are a feeding ground for the nanny state.

OK this is not a big brother thing, the passport card was created for use on land borders and cruise ships. It frees up persons from carrying birth certificates as proof and has gone a long way to eliminate fraud at the border.

One of the issues was that foriengers could enter the US either with an Alien registration card, or their Entry visa card BCC Border Crossing card also known as a BBCC which makes it an all around entry document. (note to use the BBCC at an airport it MUST be accompanied with a valid passport. ALL persons entering at an Airport with the exception of a LPR Lawful Permanent Resident MUST have a valid passport.

Will this fly? No because the TSA does not have the authority to check a persons immigration status and we barely have enough staff to keep our border open let alone check domestic travel.

Basically this goes back to the base issue of national ID you want a national ID so you can fly to Disneyworld (hopefully measle free) BUT we are upset that you required an ID check at a voting booth?

So other then bad press for the all to deserving TSA. This will happen right after I win the tonights Powerball lottery. (and yes I do have one of these cards and I do carry it with me)

On the subject of the TSA they are getting better both Orlando and La Vegas TSA are amazingly polite and effecient. IAH Houston Texas well not so much! (George Bush Airport, go figure?) I'd rather drive to Dallas.

The article is not completely factual. The fact is that most state drivers' licenses are compliant with "Real-ID" requirements, and anyone holding a driver's license from those states will not need to get a national ID. By the time the regulation goes into effect, all states are expected to be compliant. The "Real-ID" requirements cause the states to verify identities and produce driver's licenses that are virtually tamper-proof and highly resistant to counterfeiting.

I suspect the Fed gov't will make sure the states are compliant in time, giving them an extension if necessary, to avoid the bad publicity. If it happens that way it stays under the radar.