8-year-old grounded

By William R. Toler

An eight-year-old cub scout can’t get on a plane without a rigorous security check.

His crime: sharing a name with someone on the Transportation Security Administration’s watch list.

According to the New York Times, Michael Hicks — referred to as Mikey in all the media coverage — has been hassled at airports since he was two. Not even a congressman’s efforts to have a TSA agent meet the family at the airport kept the lad from being patted down before heading to the Bahamas.