I may have mentioned this before, but in case I didn't . . .

Election day morning, prior to the polling place opening, I stopped by a local convenience store. The cashier related the following to me.

Two tourists from Soviet Georgia stopped in, after floating the river. They remarked that all the signs and restrictions were more oppressive than anything they encountered under Communism.

Sometimes I wonder whether we really won the Cold War.

And I wonder if the American ideal of individual liberty is gone forever.