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Joanne Chesimard, a left-wing militant who shot a state trooper on the New Jersey Turnpike 40 years ago today, has become the first woman on the FBI's list of Most Wanted Terrorists. "Joanne Chesimard is a domestic terrorist who murdered a law enforcement officer execution-style," said Aaron Ford, special agent in charge of the FBI's Newark Division. Chesimard, a fugitive living in Cuba under the name Assata Shakur, was a member of the Black Liberation Army in 1973 when she shot and killed Trooper Werner Foerster during a traffic stop. According to a state police account, "Foerster was severely wounded...

Weatherman Banks Kill Fee by: Malcolm A. Kline, May 18, 2009 For 60s activist turned tenured radical Bill Ayers, having a college lecture cancelled is almost as lucrative as giving one. “Despite the fact that Boston College rescinded its speaking invitation to education professor William Ayers last month, he was still paid,” Benjamin LaKind reported in The Observer at Boston College on April 28, 2009. “According to Michael Madormo, a Boston College senior and president of BC’s chapter of Americans for Informed Democracy (AID), Ayers received $2,500 for a speech he was due to deliver on March 30, 2009.” “However,...

I have been watching an interesting phenomenon on the right, which is beginning to cause me concern. I am referring to the over-the-top hysteria in response to the first months in office of our new president, which distinctly reminds me of the "Bush is Hitler" crowd on the left. Conservatives, please. Let's not duplicate the manias of the left as we figure out how to deal with President Obama. He is not exactly the antichrist, although a disturbing number of people on the right are convinced he is. I have recently received commentaries that claim that "Obama's speeches are unlike...