Bill Ayers’ Revenge: The Left’s Crocodile Tears on Domestic Terrorism

By: Dan McLaughlin (Diary)  |  June 1st at 11:44 AM  | 

Because they usually lack the organization, training, funding, numbers and suicidal ideology of international terrorists, it can at times be difficult to distinguish domestic terrorists from ordinary psychopaths. But domestic terrorism has been a sporadic presence in the United States since at least radical Kansas abolitionist John Brown in the 1850s, running through the likes of Leon Czolgosz, Sacco and Vanzetti, the Black Panthers, Tim | Read More »

Obama on Ayers: Hey, Everybody Was Doing It

By: Dan McLaughlin (Diary)  |  October 16th at 12:19 PM  | 

Here is what Barack Obama said last night about Bill Ayers and Obama’s role in handing over millions of dollars to “education” programs designed by Ayers, long an advocate of using education for purposes of left-wing indoctrination: Bill Ayers is a professor of education in Chicago. Forty years ago, when I was 8 years old, he engaged in despicable acts with a radical domestic group. | Read More »

Obama and the Integrity Gap: The Extremists

By: Dan McLaughlin (Diary)  |  October 14th at 09:20 AM  | 

B. The Extremists To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets. We smoked cigarettes and wore leather jackets. At night, in the dorms, we discussed neocolonialism, Franz Fanon, Eurocentrism, and patriarchy. When we ground out our cigarettes in the hallway | Read More »

Obama: Yeah, OK, Maybe I Kinda Sorta Did Know Ayers Was A Terrorist

By: Dan McLaughlin (Diary)  |  October 7th at 04:27 PM  | 

UPDATE: I can’t resist. Via Constant Reader Rod_Patrick in comments, check this video out: Stop digging, guys. – Moe Lane In light of the mounting common-sense evidence of the total implausibility of Barack Obama’s claim to have not known that Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn were not just terrorists but nationally famous terrorists when he worked with Ayers in the mid-1990s (including funnelling millions of | Read More »

Note To Reporters on the Ayers Story: Ask About The Brink’s Case

By: Dan McLaughlin (Diary)  |  October 7th at 11:43 AM  | 

Kevin has linked to a great CNN piece that explodes some of Barack Obama’s untruths about the depth of his ties to unrepentant domestic terrorist Bill Ayers. You should go watch the video, which is excellent and includes new reporting quoting Alice Palmer, the leftist state senator who Obama succeeded in office. The Obama camp and its media allies have used two main rhetorical strategies | Read More »

The Obama-Ayers Education Story: Funding Left-Wing Radicalism In Education

By: Dan McLaughlin (Diary)  |  September 23rd at 11:39 AM  | 

Today’s must-read: after months of investigation, in which he had to weather all manner of stonewalling and intimidation by the Obama camp, Stanley Kurtz finally has the story, in today’s Wall Street Journal, of Barack Obama’s involvement in unrepentant former terrorist Bill Ayers’ project to spread left-wing politics under the guise of ‘education’ in Chicago schools. Here’s a flavor of Ayers’ project:

Re: “I thought he said the wives were off-limits.”

By: Dan McLaughlin (Diary)  |  August 21st at 06:15 PM  | 

Moe, I’ve been saying for a while now that we have never really seen what it looks like when McCain stays PO’d at the same guy for months on end. That Ayers ad is gonna leave a mark (I’ll bet we hear Rudy mention Ayers at the GOP Convention). I’m glad to see McCain is willing to go there with Obama’s choice of close friends | Read More »