If there was a Hall of Fame for the mentally challenged, we have some worthy candidates.

Two cases that emerged involve a total lack of individual responsibility regarding highway safety. A third has to do with our inept government leaders.In the first case, a teenager was arrested after driving himself to his driver's test in Jonesboro, Arkansas. Driving without a license was just the start of troubles for the 19-year-old. In trying to elude police by speeding away, he struck a patrol car outside the state testing facility.The car chase with Arkansas State Police ended when the suspect crashed into a home. The vehicle broke through the wall of the house, which caused about $20,000 in damages.Next we have the case of Kathy Legrand, a school bus driver in Austin who admitted taking painkillers and antidepressants and mixed them with alcohol the night before she got behind the wheel to drive a busload of schoolchildren. A fifth-grader who was on the bus reported that many of the students were screaming and crying while yelling at the driver to SLOW down. Legrand, 61, was charged with driving while intoxicated.School bus drivers must adhere to federal rules and regulations regarding drugs and alcohol. It the school district's responsibility to administer pre-employment, post-wreck and random drug testing to school bus drivers.The third action that defies logic and common sense is something we've warned about before the release of former Guantanamo Bay detainees who then returned as enemies to fight us.According to news sources, as many as 20 to 30 former Gitmo detainees some of whom were released within the past three years are suspected of having joined forces with ISIS and other militant groups inside Syria.In May, President Barack Obama angered Congress by trading five Taliban prisoners for captive Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl without notifying lawmakers.Fawzi al-Odah, a citizen of Kuwait who had been held at the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo for nearly 13 years and may have fought alongside al-Qaida or the Taliban, was one who was sent back to his homeland under a transfer agreement with his country after a U.S. government review panel concluded in July that al-Odah no longer posed a threat.U.S. Sen. Kelly Ayotte was vehemently opposed to the release, pointing out that al-Awda had sworn allegiance to Osama bin Laden and was previously deemed "high risk" and "too dangerous to transfer."Ayotte was one sane voice who deserved to be heard. Politics should never influence policy when it affects our national security.By JIM ZBICKeditor@tnonline.com