Joseph Mccarthy

The Assault on Civil Liberties Continues

Allan Brawley | Posted 05.03.2012

Read More: Barak Obama, Civil Liberties, Bill of Rights, Lusk Committee, Joseph McCarthy, Palmer-Raids, National Security, Franklin Roosevelt, Japanese Internment, Nypd Antiterror, Woodrow Wilson, War on Terrorism, Politics News

Assaults on our constitutional protections are not new. They have been a recurring phenomenon for at least the last hundred years.

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WATCH: Rep. Allen West and the Ghost of McCarthy

Bill Moyers | Posted 04.30.2012

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Sarah Palin: Time To Change The Game On The Game Changer

Christopher Lamb | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: Tea Party, Elections 2012, Joseph McCarthy, Politics, Game Change, 2008 Election, Sarah Palin, 2012 Election, Julianne Moore Sarah Palin, Hbo, Politics News

There is no other contemporary politician in the United States who reveals more about the sound and fury of the far right than Sarah Palin. Palin is nearly as important to our time as U.S. Sen. Joseph McCarthy was to the 1950s.

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Have You Left No Shame, Mr. Limbaugh?

Bill Lichtenstein | Posted 05.05.2012

Read More: Sandra Fluke, Contraception, Joseph Welch, Senator Joseph McCarthy, Rush Limbaugh, Joseph McCarthy, Media News

Rush Limbaugh's bullying of the young law student Sandra Fluke recalls the incident that finally knocked Sen. Joe McCarthy off of his pedestal in 1954.

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Peter King Chooses Demagoguery in Targeting Muslim-Americans

Michael J. Wilson | Posted 04.29.2012

Read More: Peter King, Joseph McCarthy, Muslim Americans, Mosques, Muslims, Congressional Hearings, Planned Parenthood, John Kyl, Lincoln Day Speech, Peter King Muslims, Politics News

Throughout our history, unpopular groups have been targeted for the public's wrath in difficult times. Demagogues like King have been only too anxious to steer and cheer on this wrath.

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Review of Jay Feldman's 'Manufacturing Hysteria'

Michael Roth | Posted 11.13.2011

Read More: Jay Feldman, Surveillance, Patriot Act, Scapegoating, Joseph McCarthy, San Francisco Chronicle, Books News

Manufacturing Hysteria is a political book, aimed at reminding those dedicated to civil liberties (especially the right to dissent) how fragile our freedoms are and how "close to a police state" we have come over the last century.

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Anthony Weiner, Sarah Palin and the Case Against Apology

Fortune's Stanley Bing | Posted 08.07.2011

Read More: Public Apologies, Anthony Weiner, Joseph Stalin, Mao Tse-Tung, The Media Circus, Joseph McCarthy, Sarah Palin, Media News

Hey you, famous person now going about your business being stupid or venal or immoral or injudicious or criminal, even. When you get caught and the big, voracious media death star starts howling for your apology... stop.

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Can't We All Just Get Along?

Clarence B. Jones | Posted 06.22.2011

Read More: Gun Violence, Birthers, Gas Prices, Obama Birth Certificate, Easter, Education, Obama Birthers, Joseph McCarthy, Libya War, War on Drugs, Joblessness, Health Care, Passover, Politics News

During two of the most religious times of the year, shouldn't we pause and ask: When is some of the hatred and downright meanness that seems so prevalent in our political discourse going to end?

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King's Hearings Worth A Tweet, Not A Speech

Lisa Sharon Harper | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Peter King, Muslim, National Security, Jesus, Joseph McCarthy, Homeland Security, Mccarthyism, Anti-Muslim, Republicans, King Hearings, Islam, Long Island, #KingHearings, King's Speech, Twitter, Tweets, Religion News

The annals of history might record King's hearings through the tweets they inspired. Here are a few.

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Peter King's Hearings Part of a Long, Ignoble Tradition

Tom Parker | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ahmed Sharif, Peter King, Peter King Radical Islam, Japanese Internment, Peter King Muslims, Sean Hannity, Joseph McCarthy, Politics News

To this day, Peter King continues to describe the IRA as "a legitimate force" fighting British repression, which rather begs the question of how he views Hamas or Fatah.

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Muslims Are Not the Enemy

Rev. Al Sharpton | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Arizona Shooting, Peter King, Communism, Joseph McCarthy, American Muslims, Racism, Mccarthyism, Congressional Hearings, Radicalization of Muslims, Marginalized, Jared Loughner, King Hearings, Rep. Peter King, Congressman Peter King, Peter King Muslims, Peter King Islam, Politics News

By marginalizing a religious minority, King is sending a dangerous message to the Muslim community and the entire populous that runs counter to the very foundation of our nation.

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Freedom to Make Art, from Oscar to Junot

Ming Holden | Posted 05.25.2011

Last night's resplendent Academy Awards ceremony put me in mind of a less opulent affair: the Associated Writing Program's annual conference earlier this month in Washington, D.C.

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Mubarak's Exit and America's Choice

Jalal Alamgir | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Islam, Mohamed ElBaradei, Muslim Brotherhood, President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, Joseph McCarthy, John Bolton, Foreign Affairs, Hosni Mubarak, Richard Cohen, Dictatorship, Islamists, World News

In cases in which an Islamist party was elected fairly to power, democracy was indeed dismantled, but not by the Islamists. It was dismantled by the paranoid reaction of America and its allies.

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McCarthy, the Jews and the Loyals

Hagai El-Ad | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Israel, Democracy, Joseph McCarthy, World News

It is by now almost a cliché to restate the famous saying by Spanish-American philosopher George Santayana, that "those who cannot remember the past ...

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The Battle Over the Smithsonian and the Right's New Culture Wars

Michael B. Keegan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: House of Representatives, Gay Rights, Joseph McCarthy, Art, Smithsonian, Religious Right, Right Wing, Hide/Seek, Censorship, Arts News

The bigger fight that the Smithsonian debate represented -- over the efforts of a small and vocal group on the right to define American values for us all -- is just beginning.

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Margaret Chase Smith and the Politics of Rhetoric

Heather Cox Richardson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Republicans, Joseph McCarthy, Tucson Shooting, Margaret Chase Smith, Political Rhetoric, Violent Rhetoric, Gabrielle Giffords Shooting, Gabrielle Giffords, Republican Rhetoric, Politics News

While the jury is out for today's Republicans, it's worth remembering Senator Margaret Chase as we discuss political rhetoric in the wake of Tucson.

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The Reincarnation of Joseph McCarthy -- Congressman King

Christopher Brauchli | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Witch Hunt, Rep. Peter King, Joseph McCarthy, Salem, Witches, Islamophobia, Communists, Congress, Newsday, Antiislam, Politics News

America is not at war with Islam. But if Mr. King's hearings go as planned, it is a safe bet that lots of Muslims will believe the Republican party is.

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Back in the U.S.S.R.? McCarthyism, Round 2

Janine Balekdjian | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Islamophobia, Muslims, Islamic Extremists, Mccarthyism, Michele Bachmann, Newt Gingrich, Joseph McCarthy, Mosques, Sarah Palin, Politics News

Any group out there conspiring to subvert American democracy from within should hire the right wing as their PR machine; Newt Gingrich and friends have done a great job of destroying American values.

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From Joe McCarthy to Glenn Beck -- Time to End Fear of the Witch Hunt

Paul Jay | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Paul Jay, Obama, Glenn Beck, Mark Twain, The Real News, Joseph McCarthy, Barack Obama, Politics News

To right the American ship, we must jettison the ghosts of the cold war, confront all the babble about God and country, and openly talk about what modern socialist and democratic public policy might actuallylook like.

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It's Time We Started Calling them McCarthy

John Vorhaus | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Obama, Right Wing, Joseph McCarthy, Politics News

Isn't it time to acknowledge that this country's right wing is using the oldest trick in their playbook to advance their cause? It's called McCarthyism, pure and simple.

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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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Stop Covering Palin, Beck, Limbaugh, Inflating Their Stature

Paul Abrams | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ed Schultz, Heritage Foundation, Rush Limbaugh, Rachel Maddow, Joseph McCarthy, Fox News., Keith Olbermann, Glen Beck, Sarah Palin, Chris Matthews, Cablenews, Politics News

Sarah Palin, Glen Beck and Rush Limbaugh have figured out what progressive media have not. If only heard and commented upon by their own audiences, like Fox and their radio stations and Facebook page, they would not amount to very much.

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When Faith Trumps Reason: the Curse of Scientific Illiteracy

Jeff Schweitzer | Posted 05.25.2011

Steeped in the wasteland of scientific illiteracy we in Texas descend ever further toward a theocracy, in danger of becoming the Iran of the West, or a bad copy of the former Soviet Union.

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Deep in the Heart of Textbooks

Daniel Cluchey | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Don-Mcleroy, Texas, Fundamentalism, Joseph McCarthy, George Orwell, Revisionist History, Textbooks, Thomas Jefferson, Texas State Board of Education, Politics News

Turning public school social studies classes into unabashed propaganda sessions goes beyond mere political ugliness. It is craven. It is foolish. It is madness.

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The Banks' Bonus Culture: "Have You Left No Sense of decency?"

Iris Erlingsdottir | Posted 05.25.2011

Now that the banks have been stabilized (to some degree) as a result of massive public intervention, the very individuals who have nearly destroyed the country are ready to dance again.

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