Terrorism, the New Normal

The London Times tried to talk to Bill Ayers--how about the local press, hmm? You probably could find him if you tried. You probably know his usual haunts. The Times:

Three decades after abandoning his life as a fugitive, Bill Ayers has gone underground again.

The co-founder of the Weathermen, the anti-Vietnam War group that bombed the Pentagon and US Capitol in the 1970s, has vanished as John McCain seeks to make his links to Barack Obama a central issue in the last weeks of the presidential campaign.

There was no one home when The Times visited Mr Ayers' house in a quiet street three blocks from Mr Obama's mansion in the Hyde Park district of Chicago. The Education Department of the University of Illinois, where Mr Ayers works, said that he had gone on sabbatical.

Loafing around on our dime. The Times thinks the truth about Ayers is "prosaic". Terrorism, the new normal.

UPDATE: Letter to the editor, Chicago Tribune, "Ayers connection strikes nerve". Jonah Goldberg, LA Times, "Obama's getting off easy":

Obama holds mega-campaign rallies in Berlin, touts his global appeal and says a top foreign policy goal is to get other countries to like us. But it's racist to call him cosmopolitan?

He has nontrivial ties to an unrepentant (and white) former leader of the Weather Underground, a radical leftist organization that sought to kill American soldiers, policemen and politicians. But it's "racist" to bring that up? (If anything, by not attacking Obama's ties to the Rev. Jeremiah Wright and other politically unsavory nonwhite associates, McCain is self-censoring for fear of seeming racist.)

The whitewashing of William Ayers. Jim Geraghty, NRO. And John Lott factchecks the MSM on Obama's misstatements on his relationship with Bill Ayers.