Joe Mccarthy

Are There Any Responsible Republicans Out There?

Peter Dreier | Posted 05.11.2012

Read More: Arlen Specter, Joseph Welch, Heritage Foundation, Joe Mccarthy, Karl Rove, Dick Armey, Mitch McConnell, Naral, Colin Powell, Rush Limbaugh, Olympia Snowe, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, League of Conservation Voters, Afl-Cio, Human Rights Campaign, Eric Cantor, Dick Cheney, National Rifle Association, Richard Mourdock, Religious Right, Aclu, Richard Lugar, Tea Party, Republicans, Politics News
Peter Dreier

The defeat Tuesday of Senator Richard Lugar of Indiana in the Republican primary -- trounced by a Tea-Partier -- is one more nail in the coffin of the...

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McCain Can't Handle the Truth: "Bin Laden" IS Answer to "Appeaser"

Mark Green | Posted 05.01.2012

Read More: Joe Mccarthy, President Obama, John Kerry, George W. Bush, Mitt Romney, Senator John McCain, Fox News, Newt Gingrich, Osama Bin Laden, Dick Cheney, Tora Bora, Politics News
Mark Green

It would be political malpractice not to remind voters, repeatedly told by rivals that Obama is a weakling, that "bin Laden is dead and GM is alive." Or as is said about libel law, truth is a defense.

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Killebrew's Death Highlights Obscure Idaho Senator

Al Eisele | Posted 07.22.2011

Read More: Joe Mccarthy, Mickey Mantle, Harmon Killebrew, Drew Pearson, Mccarthyism, Sports News
Al Eisele

Until Killebrew's death, Welker was known mainly for his outspoken defense of Sen. Joe McCarthy's sensational claims of Communist infiltration of the U.S. government

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Her Candidacy Is Over -- Palin's "Brainwashing" and "Joe Welch" Moment

Mark Green | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Joseph Welch, Bill Clinton, Ronald Reagan, George Romney, George W. Bush, Sarah Palin, Gabrielle Giffords, Joe Mccarthy, Barack Obama, Palin, Mark Green Huffington Post Article, Blood Libel, Obama Palin, Rush Limbaugh, Politics News
Mark Green

After her video disparaging critics as guilty of a "blood libel," Sarah Palin should be shunned and will be shunned. As of today, she is done as a presidential candidate.

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Issa's Adviser

Jeff Danziger | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Corruption, Darrell Issa, Commies, US House of Representatives, Joe Mccarthy, Political Cartoons, Politics News
Jeff Danziger

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Censorship: Coast to Coast

Peter Clothier | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: A Fire in My Belly, Japanese American Soliders, Geffen Contemporary, American Muslims, Smithsonian, New York Times, Museum of Contemporary Art, Power, Censorship, Joe Mccarthy, Art Censorship, Veteran Affairs, Portrait Gallery, LA Culture, Arts News
Peter Clothier

The Republican agenda, it seems to me, is primarily about holding on to power at all costs. If that involves kow-towing to the Catholic church's objection to a museum exhibition, so be it.

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A Letter From a Progressive to President Obama

Stu Kreisman | Posted 05.25.2011

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Stu Kreisman

Dear President Obama, I'll vote for you in 2012, but you're not making it easy to do so. Your administration's communication skills are, to be honest, horrible. And now we're in for two years of gridlock and hell.

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Fighting Bob & Loathsome Joe

Paula Gordon | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Progressive Era, Russ Feingold, Joe Mccarthy, Robert La Follette, Fighting Bob, Janus, Citizens United, John Roberts, Loathsome Joe, Politics News
Paula Gordon

Republicans are channelling Joe McCarthy for politics and profit. What if Joe McCarthy had never been Senator? It didn't have to happen. After all,...

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Washington May Be Broken Now, But the Future Is Up for Grabs

Michael Sigman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Supreme Court, George Bush, Bp, Herbert Hoover, The New Yorker, Ronald Reagan, Vanity Fair, President Obama, Warren G. Harding, Joe Mccarthy, Abraham Lincoln, Esquire, George Packer, Todd Purdum, Dwight Eisenhower, Rahm Emanuel, Richard Nixon, Gregg Easterbrook, New York Times, Jimmy Carter, Washington Post, Newt Gingrich, Nassim Taleb, Politics News
Michael Sigman

Politics is ugly, always has been but the framers invented a government that would embody all the messy contradictions without threatening the collapse of the system.

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Sarah Palin Isn't Alaska's First Feminist

AlaskaDispatch.com | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Wasilla, The New Republic, Rural Alaska, Media, Alaska, Feminism, Joe Mccarthy, Jonathan Chait, Sarah Palin, Politics News
AlaskaDispatch.com

On the whole, I'd say Alaska is the kind of place where people don't tend to cling to outmoded ideas of what makes a woman a woman. Everybody looks equally silly in chest waders.

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Joe McCarthy Sentenced: Vermont Man Gets Two Years In John Reiss's Stray Bullet Death

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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BURLINGTON, Vt. — A Vermont man who set up a backyard firing range has been sentenced to two years in prison in the death of a professor who was...

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Glenn Beck: the Televangelist Con Man Selling God's Plan for America

Bob Cesca | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Glenn Beck Video, Televangelists, Glenn Beck Fox News, Mccarthyism, Right Wing, Joe Mccarthy, Benny Hinn, Sarah Palin, Talk Radio, Right Wing Talk Radio, Fear-Mongering, Religion and Politics, Glenn Beck, Separation of Church and State, Faith Healing, Right-Wing Extremism, Fox News Channel, Media News
Bob Cesca

If religious zealots blur the line between what happens in the pulpit and what happens in Congress, it's that much easier for Congress to tax and regulate what happens in the pulpit. Be careful what you wish for, Beck and Palin.

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Exposing Glenn Beck as a Dangerous Fraud, Part 2

Bob Cesca | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Right Wing Talk Radio, Talk Radio, Right Wing Media, Lee Atwater, Social Security, Glenn Beck Obama, Orson Welles, Red Scare, Glenn Beck Fox News, Fox News, Glenn Beck, Conservatism, Mccarthyism, Southern Strategy, Joe Mccarthy, Fox News Channel, Republicans, Media News
Bob Cesca

Beck owes it to his audience to "step out of character" and admit, on his show, that he's staging an elaborate hoax. His hero Orson Welles did it, and so can he.

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Don't Speak: Helen Thomas and the Culture of Blame

Carol Smaldino | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jews, Germany, Judgment at Nuremberg, Scapegoat, Nazi's, Bible, Poland, Helen Thomas Israel, Holocaust, Israel, Cold War, Political Correctness, Joe Mccarthy, Helen Thomas, Inconvenient Truth, Blame, Hatred, Politics News
Carol Smaldino

It is wrong to shame Helen Thomas, who, throughout her life has been one of the only people to dare to offend those who needed it.

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"Your America"?

Stephen Herrington | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: John Birch Society, Congress, Timothy McVeigh, Gop, Domestic Terrorism, Tea Party, Republican Party, Joe Mccarthy, Republicans, Politics News
Stephen Herrington

You remember the anonymous lady at the town hall meeting last August. In a tremulous voice she declared "I want my America back". Saturday's Tea Par...

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Sam Tanenhaus, The Death of Conservatism (Review)

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Death of Conservatism, Sam Tanhenhaus, Civil Rights Movement, Joe Mccarthy, Ronald Reagan, Edmund Burke, Willam F. Buckley Jr., Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Sarah Palin, Communism, Martin Luther King, John Birchers, Tom Brokaw, Vietnam War, Benjamin Disraeli, New York Times, African Amercans, Rick Perry, Barry Goldwater, Newt Gingrich, Soviet Union, Books News
Joseph A. Palermo

Although a masterful writer, Tanenhaus gives his readers disembodied voices plucked from historical context, where the nexus of thought and action, theory and praxis, is either broken or simply ignored.

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William Safire: Wars Made Out of Words

David Bromwich | Posted 05.25.2011

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David Bromwich

William Safire's career took him from public relations to propaganda to column-writing in a single seamless progression.

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The GOP Deserves Its Current State of Isolation

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gop, Joe Mccarthy, Jack Abramoff, Mitch McConnell, John Boehner, President Barack Obama, Steven Griles, George W. Bush, Newt Gingrich, Clinton Administration, Eric Cantor, Clinton, President Bill Clinton, Republican Leadership, Tom Delay, Adlai Stevenson, K-Street Project, Republicans, Grand Old Party, Republican Party, Ike Eisenhower, Politics News
Joseph A. Palermo

A loyal opposition would be a great thing; an opposition that added constructive ideas to the nation's political debate. But that's not where the GOP is today.

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Prosecuting Torture: How the Words of Poet WB Yeats Can Help

Lea Lane | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Pundits, Cable Tv, Obama, O'Reilly, Poetry, Politics, Watergate, Prosecution for Torture, The Second Coming, Karl Rove, Joe Mccarthy, Newt Gingrech, Ann Coulter, George W. Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, Michelle Malkin, Dick Cheney, Joe Scarborough, Sean Hannity, Rush Llimbaugh, Pat Buchanen, William Butler Yeats, Politics News
Lea Lane

The best of us must now show "all conviction" to hold hearings to prosecute those who authorized torture.

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First Ladies: Character to Caricature, Part One

Carl Sferrazza Anthony | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Hillary Clinton First Lady, First Ladies, Women, White House, Michelle Obama First Lady, Michelle Obama, Nellie Taft, Tom Delay, Rosalyn Carter, Eleanor Roosevelt, Burma, Joe Mccarthy, Dick Cheney, Bush Women's Health, Laura Bush, First Lady, Clinton First Lady, Women's Health, Heart Attack Warning, Saudi Arabia, Women and Politics, Hillary Clinton, Barbara Bush, Heart Disease, Pro-Choice, Vice President Cheney, Pat Nixon, Mamie Eisenhower Hillary Clinton, Nancy Reagan, Politics News
Carl Sferrazza Anthony

Scanning Michelle Obama's post-election coverage makes it seem that the importance of being First Lady is about sleeveless dresses and puppy breeds. It isn't.

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Global Warming Deniers: The New 9/11 Truthers

Sahil Kapur | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Rising Sea Levels, Joe Mccarthy, Hurricanes, Ipcc, Christopher Hitchens, Liberal, Conservative, The Green Revolution, Republican, Melting Ice Caps, Wildfires, Climate Change, Climate Change Skeptics, Global Warming, 9/11 Truthers, Partisan, Right-Wingers, Green News
Sahil Kapur

Both groups are convinced they possess a uniquely superior grasp of reality. Facts and evidence are muffled by their messianic quest to inform society of its delusions and inadequacies.

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Republicans Use Fear to Win

Scott Foval | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Halloween, Race Politics, Fear, John McCain, Division, Ronald Reagan, Jesse Helms, Scare Tactics, Race, Joe Mccarthy, Lee Atwater, Barack Obama, Hatred, Joe the Plumber, Levi Johnston, Scare Tactics Republicans, Election 2008, Bristol Palin, Home News
Scott Foval

It has been a long eight years, and this past week saw the politics of division pushed to the absolute limit of absurdity. We must not allow it to go on any longer.

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Americans Still Undecided on How Much to Hate Undecided Voters

Jason Notte | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Decided Voters, Michele Bachmann, Charles Keating, Bill Ayers, Sarah Palin, Nancy Pfotenhauer, William Ayers, Charles Keating and John Mccain, Joe Mccarthy, Barack Obama, Sarah Palin Reaction, Voting, Samantha Bee, Politics News
Jason Notte

Observers from both sides of the aisle should seize upon this opportunity and focus their collective rage at its source: undecided voters.

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So, You're Anti-American. Is There a Cure?

Jamie Frevele | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: John McCain Attack Ads, John McCain, Anti-Americanism, Sarah Palin, 2008 Election and Race, Palin Pro-American Areas, Socialism, Joe Mccarthy, Barack Obama, Michelle Bachman Anti-American Views, Socialists, Politics News
Jamie Frevele

I can't do anything about where I live to cure myself of being "anti-American." But what about my family and friends? Some of them are "anti-American," some of them actually are "pro-American."

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Paint McCain a Red-Baiter

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Free Markets, Joe Mccarthy, John McCain, Hewlett-Packard, Communist, Commie, Credit Default Swaps, Barack Obama, Ubs, Aig, Red States, Golden Parachute, Wall Street, Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000, Ceo, Deregulation, Phil Gramm, Glass-Steagall Act, Joe Mccain, Class Warfare, Carly Fiorina, Red-Baiting, Politics News
Leo W. Gerard

The "small government" Bush and Republican Congress increased spending, thus replacing the budget surplus bequeathed them with deficits.

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