Ayers: Colo. professor was fired in `witch hunt'

William Ayers, the former Weather Underground radical whose past made him a lightning rod in the 2008 presidential campaign, said Thursday that fired Colorado professor Ward Churchill became the victim of a "witch hunt" after comparing Sept. 11 victims to a Nazi.

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McCain draws bipartisan criticism for 'robo calls'

Senators in opposing political parties asked Republican presidential candidate John McCain to stop the automated phone calls that link Democratic candidate Barack Obama to a 1960s radical.

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Group to spend $2.8 million on anti-Obama ad

A conservative nonprofit group with a past link to Sen. John McCain's presidential campaign wants to spend $2.8 million on an ad questioning Democrat Barack Obama's relationship to a founder of the 1960s radical group Weather Underground.

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Ex-radical Ayers in eye of campaign storm

FRAZER, Pa. - Forty years ago Bill Ayers was a leader of a Leninist group called the Weather Underground that carried out bombings of the Pentagon, the Capitol and the New York City police headquarters.

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Fact check: Obama and former radical

Democratic Sen. Barack Obama is defending his relationship with William Ayers, a college professor who was once part of the radical Weather Underground and spent years as a fugitive after a 1970 explosion that killed three members of the group.

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Leftist Lawyer Victor Rabinowitz Dies

Victor Rabinowitz, a lawyer who represented leftist causes and clients such as Alger Hiss, the Black Panthers, Fidel Castro and Weather Underground member Kathy Boudin, has died at 96.

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First it was "pro-life" Boston College inviting Weather Underground founder Bill Ayers to brag about how he regretted not setting off more bombs. Now this from the enlightened pacifists of UMass-Amherst: NYC's Most Prolific Bomber to Speak at UMass His United Freedom Fr …

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How did Van Jones get named a Presidential Advisor to Obama? Now that Jones has resigned, Loudon says that "the focus needs to go on who hired him and why an easily identifiable communist revolutionary with a police record could serve as a presidential adviser."

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The founder of the group organizing a boycott against conservative talk show host Glenn Beck is a self-described "black nationalist" and "Communist", who has ties to a former terrorist and is working in the Obama administration as a so-called "Green Czar."

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So how do a couple of ex-radical anti-war activists spend Memorial Day?

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Allegations that presidential pal Bill Ayers was involved in the murder of a San Francisco policeman appear to be running into something of a gag order from at the Department of Justice.

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It's been quite a turnaround for Bill Ayers.

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Leaders of San Francisco's police officers union have accused Weather Underground co-founder Bill Ayers and his wife, Bernardine Dohrn, of taking part in the 1970 bombing of a city police station that killed a sergeant.

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Machtinger writes at the beginning of the piece that he is hoping to set the record straight after Ayers's association with President Obama became a Republican talking point during last year's campaign.

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This is another gross and dangerous example of not only bias, in the mainstream, liberal media, but out-right cover-up. At the very least, it shows extremely poor judgment for President-Elect Obama to choose to associate with the likes of Ayers, in any fashion, in any way.

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Who knew Chicago's forgiving streak stretched as long as Western Avenue? Former street gang leaders and sixties radicals who years ago clashed with the city's cops—or in the case of the Weatherman, bombed a statue commemorating police casualties—now find themselves part o …

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... by Bill Ayres.

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The name of former anti-war activist William Ayers was brought up twice in an attempt to discredit Barack Obama during the recent presidential campaign — first by Hillary Clinton, and then by the McCain campaign.

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Sarah Palin called him a terrorist, Barack Obama called him an acquaintance. A Salon editor who knew Ayers back when talks to the ex-Weather Underground member turned Republican talking point.

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Throughout the entire presidential race, Bill Ayers did not once talk to the media. Today, he and his wife, Bernardine Dohrn–a fellow member of the Weather Underground–are speaking out in their first joint television interview since the controversy began.

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I am interested only in honoring the memories of three fallen police officers and holding responsible those who actually planned and committed these murderous attacks against the American people and our criminal justice system. Ayers, who has long held a position as a college pr …

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Nothing is more non-nonconformist than a nearly two-hour panel discussion. But times have indeed changed, and the three former political radicals who gathered for one on Saturday in Manhattan did not seem to mind.

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In his 2001 memoir, "Fugitive Days," Bill Ayers writes: "I don't regret setting bombs. I feel we didn't do enough." This is something very few Americans can accept, and I wouldn't even make the attempt to persuade them.

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Watch the video. This was an undercover agent who infiltrated the Weather Undergound. The terrorist organization of Bill Ayers fame. Bill Ayers, the friend of Obama. These are the caliber of people Obama has been associated with.

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Specifically, when questions arose during the 2008 presidential race about Barack Obama's past associations with William Ayers, many media reports and articles blandly described Ayers as a "Vietnam-era radical" and the Weather Underground as a group that set bombs "to protest aga …

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Senator Obama has distanced himself from Ayers' Weather Underground days, noting that he was eight years old when the group was formed.

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Chris Mathews: I Can't Believe What I Just Heard!

I'm sitting here watching the Chris Mathews show and he had on a Congresswoman from Minnesota by the name of Michele Bachmann. Representative Bachmann spewed the kind of McCarthyism I haven't seen since I was a kid (yes I'm that old).

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"Waving the bloody shirt" was the phrase once used to describe the standard demagogic tactic of the late 19th century, when memories of the Civil War were still vivid and loyalists of both parties could be moved to "vote as they shot." As the years passed and the memories faded,  …

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William Ayers has been trashed by conservative pundits and labeled "an unrepentant domestic terrorist" by Sarah Palin, the Republican vice presidential nominee, but the University of Illinois at Chicago professor has garnered the support of a growing number of peers who admir …

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Ayers never has been accused of killing anybody. But three Weather Underground members accidentally killed themselves while making bombs in New York City in 1970.

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