Bill Ayers will be at tonight’s debate. (Alas, only spiritually.)

By: Mark Kilmer (Diary)  |  October 15th at 01:02 PM  | 

Columnist Eric Zorn of the Chicago Tribune might have finally found the ultimate rebuttal for our “Barry -hearts- terrorists” line of attack: Neither Ayers nor his wife was espousing or practicing terrorist acts in the 1990s when Obama met them. They haven’t committed or advocated violent protest since the early 1970s. Then again, I have not heard the claim that Ayers is a practicing terrorist; | Read More »

Tom Brokaw, Bill Ayers, and Barack Obama

By: Mark Kilmer (Diary)  |  October 8th at 01:02 PM  | 

Tom Brokaw is no longer revered, if he ever had been. This has nothing to do with the bland job he did at last night’s pointless point-counterpoint session (debate). It did not start with him referring, twice on NBC’s Meet the Press last Sunday [transcript], to domestic terrorist Bill Ayers as “a school reformer in Illinois,” though seems to be an insidious symptom of his | Read More »