THIS MAKES ME FEEL GREAT ABOUT THE WAR ON TERROR: “A couple of aspiring reality-TV stars from Northern Virginia appear to have crashed the White House’s state dinner Tuesday night, penetrating layers of security with no invitation to mingle with the likes of Vice President Biden and White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel. . . . While the White House offered no official explanation, it appears to be the first time in modern history that anyone has crashed a White House state dinner. The uninvited guests were in the same room as President Obama, first lady Michelle Obama and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, although it is unknown whether they met the Obamas and the guest of honor.”

Good thing they weren’t terrorists or something. This isn’t a huge shock to me, though. I visited the White House back in the ’90s and they took my Tennessee driver’s license as ID. Back then, when it expired, you got a renewal sticker that went on the back. The security guy looked at the front of my license, which showed an expiration date a year in the past, but never looked at the back. Not long after I noticed that when I bought beer at a Weigel’s convenience store, the guy immediately looked at the back. . . . One hopes the White House security will get an upgrade.

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