Talking points

The Democrats are unified in sticking to their claims that the Russians influenced our election of Donald Trump, and the Republicans say that the Deep State feloniously unmasked American citizens and members of Trump's staff by leaking intelligence surveillance to people not authorized to have the information. Frankly, I have my doubts as to whether the Congressmen and women on the House and Senate Intelligence Committees have even read very much of the intel! Folks, we have no privacy!

Proof-of-age cards

Albert Wong writes,

ordering a rum and Coke shouldn't mean risking identity theft.

Wong cites areas of the world where proof of age cards are substituted for drivers' licenses:

Western Australia, Ireland, the Isle of Man, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, the Australian jurisdictions of Queensland and Northern Territory, and the Canadian province of Ontario.

Read more here. What do you think?

Thanks to Instapundit for linking to the Wong article.

Snowden versus Krauthammer

Edward Snowden gives a Christmas message. Is he a hero or a traitor? Is he exaggerating the threat to our privacy?

Charles Krauthammer invites Snowden to come home and explain himself to a jury of his peers. If you are a patriot, trust your peers, for whom you say you have done this. If, on the other hand, you are a traitor, then you will hide out in countries who are American adversaries, whom you have enabled by exposing the tradecraft of our espionage, so that our enemies may one day launch an attack on the United States.

Thanks to Donald Douglas for posting the videos.