Al Shabaab fighters in Somalia. Image via Somalia Report.

Nine Eleven turned ten. Bin Laden is dead. We still get the occasional somebody's-about-to-bomb-us scare, but the international storyline is generally that Al Qaeda is in decline and increasingly out of touch with the Arab mainstream.

That's the good news.

Via Bostonist, Blue Mass Group has video of our new Massachusetts Senator talking with Neil Cavuto on Fox News about the incident in Texas where a man lit his house on fire and then flew his plane into an IRS building in Austin. He seems to be saying that the guy shares a mindset with his own supporters. The relevant quote: