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It's the greatest win for Washington over the Reds since the days of my hero, Senator Joseph McCarthy
Obviously in terms of policy, we would not support any of these amendments; health care is health care and should be left to the individual man and his doctor or woman and hers ... That said, I think they've injected in a wonderfully humorous way some common sense. The whole idea of using humor that snaps people out of this one mind-set and gets them to look at the problem from a commonsense point of view; it reminds me of the humor used to defang Joseph McCarthy way back in the 1950s.
outraged by Bret Stephens’ attack yesterday on President Obama as ‘untrustworthy’ on the basis of the President’s association with people involved in our organizations. His attack – grounded in a litany of guilt-by-association charges – fits well with the tradition established in the 1950s by Senator Joseph McCarthy.More quotes »
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Things that go Trump in the night
On February 9, 1950, a back-bench Wisconsin senator named Joseph McCarthy delivered an unheralded political speech to a Republican women’s club in West Virginia. McCarthy’s Wheeling remarks included the brief and completely fabricated claim that he had i from Columbia Journalism Review Read more »
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Board of Health members pack 1-2 punch for colon cancer prevention
NORTH ANDOVER — As members of the Board of Health, Dr. Frank MacMillan and Joseph McCarthy have been known to disagree on issues — sometimes vehemently. On one matter, however, they are in lockstep agreement: The need for anyone over the age of 50 to und from The Eagle-Tribune | North Andover, MA Read more »
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Why We Still Like Ike
In July 1959, JFK had dinner with Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. at Hyannis Port, and late in the evening over drinks and cigars, the politician told the historian what he really thought of the sitting president. “No man is less loyal to old friends than Eisenh from The New America Foundation Read more »
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Guthrie Theater review: "Are You Now or Have You Ever Been" shines light on poet Hughes in McCarthy era
way to suggest the choices writers must make as works evolve and change during creation. In 1953, poet Langston Hughes was served with a subpoena requiring him to appear before the Committee on Un-American Activities -- Sen. Joseph McCarthy's infamous co from TwinCities.com Read more »
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Bill Moyers Sees a Ghost
Bill Moyers saw a ghost: "The specter stood there, watching the screen, a snickering smile on his stubbled face. Sure enough, it was the ghost of Senator Joseph McCarthy, the Wisconsin farm boy who grew up to become one of the most contemptible thugs in from American Thinker Read more »
