Bill Ayers

President Obama doesn't have a 'pastor problem'

2013-04-03 17:02:00

It was a sad moment for many Republicans during the 2008 presidential contest when Arizona Sen. John McCain refused to let his staff use the fiery left-wing sermons of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright against Illinois Sen. Barack Obama. Yoking Obama to his...

Does Obama have another Rev. Wright problem? Not with Luis Leon

2013-04-02 11:45:00

Goldberg: What's behind hatred of Obama?

2012-07-31 00:00:00

What drives Barack Obama's "haters and doubters"? So asks Obama biographer David Maraniss in a recent op-ed article for the Washington Post. By haters and doubters he means the people who think Obama wasn't born in the U.S., that he's a secret Muslim...

'The Good Wife' recap: The N-word

2011-02-02 16:35:03

'The Battle for America 2008: The Story of an Extraordinary Election' by Dan Balz and Haynes Johnson

2009-08-09 00:00:00

The Battle for America 2008 The Story of an Extraordinary Election Dan Balz and Haynes Johnson Viking: 432 pp., $29.95 For the record, Hillary Clinton's chief strategist for the 2008 Democratic primaries, Mark Penn, remarked in a March 2007 memo...

Protesting Utah oil and gas leases

2008-12-27 00:00:00

What's a legitimate form of protest? Is it OK to throw a shoe at the president whose army invaded your country? To firebomb the house of a UCLA scientist whose work includes experimenting on animals? To create a blacklist of Proposition 8 supporters? To...

The Obama-McCain age gap that matters

2008-06-01 00:00:00

Call me squeamish, but I really wish I didn't know that John McCain recently suffered from an enlarged prostate. That, however, was merely one of the many bits of health trivia that emerged after the McCain campaign opened hundreds of pages of the...

A GOP 'robocall'

2008-10-23 00:00:00

We can count ourselves lucky. California's strong political leanings mean that neither side in the presidential race is spending much time or money here, as both assume that Democratic candidate Barack Obama will carry the state Nov. 4. Less fortunate...

Obama's Ayers connection

2008-10-07 00:00:00

Even by the shabby standards of this presidential campaign, it's outrageous for Sarah Palin to assert that Barack Obama is so deficient in patriotism that he would "pal around with terrorists who bomb their own country." Obama was wrong to associate...

'Fugitive Days: Memoirs of an Antiwar Activist,' by Bill Ayers

2008-12-14 00:00:00

Fugitive Days Memoirs of an Antiwar Activist Bill Ayers With a New Afterword by the Author Beacon Press: 316 pp., $15 paper With time running out on his bid for the White House, John McCain used the final presidential debate to play his Bill Ayers...

Is McCain too old? Is Obama too young?

2008-06-12 00:00:00

Today's question: Is Barack Obama too young? Is John McCain too old? What major shortcomings must each candidate address? Click here to read previous installments from this week's Dust-Up. "John McCain (R)" � that's his problem Point: Megan McArdle We'...

'Underground' by Mark Rudd

2009-03-29 00:00:00

Underground My Life With SDS and the Weathermen Mark Rudd William Morrow: 326 pp., $25.99 Mark Rudd is the guy from the Weather Underground who is not Bill Ayers. Both were leaders of the group that worked for the violent overthrow of the United...

Bill Ayers , right, and Bernardine Dohrn , join May Day protesters at Union Park at 1501 W. Randolph St. in Chicago.

2012-05-01 00:00:00

University of Illinois at Chicago professor Bill Ayers talks to a reporter in 2008. State Sen. Larry Bomke wants Ayers removed from his university post under a proposal that says anyone who has committed an act of violence against the governments of the United States or Illinois cannot work at a

2008-10-14 00:00:00

Old days: "I'm gonna go pal around with Jimmy and Scott, Mom. I'll be back by dinner." New days: "Don't let me catch you palling around with that no-good Jimmy and his shifty little brother Scott, young man.

2008-10-10 00:00:00