Cook County put voting booths inside high schools, let teenagers run them, and then tried to keep Republican poll watchers out. I'm not spinning this. Cook County GOP Deputy Chair T.J. Brown says the clerk's office told Republicans on Oct. 14 that their poll watchers could not go inside the school sites. The office flipped only after the Illinois GOP's lawyer called. By the time Republicans got the full school list, some sites had already finished voting with no GOP watchers in the building. Only students and staff could vote at these sites. Student election judges checked people in and handled the ballots. Now the part that stinks. District 214 is in the program while its neighbors are not, and District 214 has a $295 million bond referendum on the Nov. 3 ballot. The corporate press covered this as a feel-good "Teen Takeover for Democracy." Not one of them asked why observers got the door slammed in their face. Election law doesn't stop at the school door. Open it up or shut it down.

The UK and France will be Muslim countries with nukes in no time. Insane.