Licensing Illegal Aliens?
By: Editorial Board

The contretemps over Governor Spitzer’s plan to allow illegal aliens to get driver’s licenses in New York State – by no longer requiring applicants for licenses to present a Social Security number or a letter from the Social Security Administration that the applicant, though ineligible to work, was here legally – continues to roil Albany and seems to have displaced Troopergate as the discussion topic of choice.

We were initially drawn to the issue as part of our general dismay over the growing lack of civility in the public discourse. As we noted in an Oct. 12 editorial titled “Political Nasty Season,â€