The results of the Weekly Reader Presidential Election Poll are in, and Barack Obama won the poll of US K-12 students. One interesting tidbit is that Obama won the great state of Texas by a ten percent margin over McCain, which may point to a profound political shift here in the years to come.

The fact that Bill Ayers can be a fully rehabilitated, functioning member of the Chicago political scene after his 1960s antics is exactly the sort of outcome we should be striving for with the angry young men who get swept up in the jihadist movement.

-Blake Hounshell in “Old terrorists fade away”  from FP Passport.