CHARLES OLIVER LINKS to this article about Texas Senate candidate Ron Kirk’s alleged links to terrorism — or, more accurately, that claims:

U.S. Senate candidate Ron Kirk is employing an anti-Israel activist who has defended terrorist groups and is friends with American Taliban John Walker Lindh. The Review has also learned that Kirk has received numerous campaign donations from individuals linked with terrorism and anti-Semitism, one of whom also violated U.S. export laws by shipping sensitive technology to Libya and Syria.

I don’t know anything about The Austin Review and can’t vouch for it. Some of these charges sound unlikely, but then again, so did the notion of Caribou Coffee having links to the Muslim Brotherhood.

I know next to nothing about Kirk, other than that somebody doesn’t like him. His website shows that he has support from the Texas Democratic establishment, and his OpenSecrets record doesn’t show anything obviously odd (though individual donor names aren’t available).

It’s certainly possible to make too much of these things: in a six-degrees-of-separation world, nearly everyone can be found to have “links” of some sort, which is why I don’t like that word. If the Kirk allegations are true — or for that matter if they’re not — no doubt we’ll hear more on the subject soon.