University of Illinois at Chicago's Bill Ayers: Not a jarhead

The Chicago campus of the University of Illinois, not the Urbana-Champaign one, has an anti-jar-head: Education professor Bill Ayers, who I've blogged about off and on over the last couple of years.

Bill Ayers was a "Fortunate Son," his father was the longtime CEO of Commonwealth Edison, the electric company for the northern half of Illinois at the time.

Ayers was a leader in the notorious domestic terrorist group, the Weather Underground.

Here's a summary of Ayers pre-professorial career with the Weather Underground, courtesy of Discover the Network:

--Leader of the domestic terrorist group the Weathermen
--"Kill all the rich people. . . . Bring the revolution home. Kill your parents."
--Participated in the bombings of New York City Police Headquarters in 1970, of the Capitol building in 1971, and the Pentagon in 1972
--"I don't regret setting bombs. I feel we didn't do enough."

Ayers is married to his fellow-terrorist traveler, Benardine Dohrn. Despite being turned down by the New York State Bar Association, she still managed to become a law professor at Northwestern University.

David Horowitz, who I had the pleasure of meeting last month, wrote a book titled, The Professors: The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America.

Shortly after the book was published, Horowitz was interviewed by National Review Online's Kathryn Jean Lopez:

After explaining to Lopez, that "there are thousands of Ward Churchills on American faculties," Lopez asked Horowitz "Who should be a household name but isn't?" Ayers and Dohrn were two of those he named.

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