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"The Pink Lady: The Many Lives of Helen Gahagan Douglas"

Donna Miller wrote 3 days ago: I had to make a choice.  My stack of books was already too large. It was between “You’ve … more →

Tags: Biography, Politics, Helen Gahagan Douglas, The Red Scare, The Pink Lady, Liberalism, Dirty Politics, Bloomsbury Press

Ethics Notes: Santa, the Senate, and Snow10 comments

Jack Marshall wrote 3 days ago: Some random thoughts on ethics matters as I try to simultaneously finish the Ethics Alarms 2009 Best … more →

Tags: Business & Commercial, daily life, Government & Politics, Health And Medicine, Journalism & Media, Popular Culture, The Internet, Bert and Ernie, ACORN

Obama seeks to extend Patriot Act, deny trials to terror suspects, and do other un-Hopeful things

Marisa wrote 1 week ago: from www.thelibertyblog.com Is it me, or did America just get Punk’d? When he was on the campa … more →

Tags: Fail, In The News, Barack Obama, Bullshit, sarcasm, Patriot Act, Bagram Air Base, Terror Suspects, Terrorism

PFAW - Rise of the New McCarthyism

Aaron Pendell wrote 2 weeks ago: How Right Wing Extremists Try to Paralyze Government Through Ideological Smears and Baseless Attacks … more →

Tags: American History, Politics, Eisenhower, History, McCarthy, media, PFAW, Republicans

Climategate2 comments

Merovee wrote 3 weeks ago: It is two weeks since the Climategate scandal broke . For those of you who are unaware of the story … more →

Tags: Others, ClimateGate, climate data faked, Copenhagen agreement, "David Bellamy", Joe McCarthy, University of East Anglia Climate Research Unit

Rise of the New McCarthyism11 comments

pjmiller wrote 3 weeks ago: Interesting article at People for the American Way. Haynes Johnson reports that Harry Truman spoke a … more →

Tags: Interesting Item, Watching Signs, america, extremists, Fear

Rise of the new McCarthyism36 comments

JJ wrote 3 weeks ago: Taking a stroll down Memory Lane for a second to some of the teabagger events held over the past few … more →

Tags: US Politics, Brain Damage, creeping authoritarianism, teabaggers

McCarthyist purity list 4 comments

Terrant wrote 3 weeks ago: It looks like Mr. Steele still thinks that he is the leader of a republican party. Recently, a purit … more →

Tags: Politics, stupid musings, Purity

Exposing Gerald Steinberg and NGO Monitor25 comments

Didi Remez wrote 4 weeks ago: RELATED POSTS: Israel Harel, Zionist Strategist (on NGO Monitor’s fundamentalist allies) | Glo … more →

Tags: Foreign Funding of Israeli Right, Israeli Neoconservatism, suppression of dissent, Baruch Hagever, Breaking the Silence, Christian Zionists, East Jerusalem, ELAD, freedom of association

An open letter to the Republican leadership--2 comments

Rogue Scholar wrote 1 month ago: A Way Out of the “Wilderness” by: That Girl Disclaimer: I’m no political strategis … more →

Tags: Democrat, Economy, glenn beck, GOP, Obstruction, Party of No, Politics, purity test, racism

Don’t Trust the Talking Wallpaper

Luke Mackay wrote 1 month ago: Since time immemorial we have trusted our televisions implicitly.  We’ve given the magical little bo … more →

Tags: X-Factor, spooks, TV, DET, BBC

Librarians Find Mass Destruction, 1952

neatneatneat wrote 1 month ago: From Grinnell College’s Scarlet and Black Newspaper, October 31, 1952 From the age when librar … more →

Tags: Newspapers, Anti-communism, Books, Carnegie, Cold War, College, communism, Destruction, Grinnell

Anyone Ever Watch Faux News?

anythingandeverythingblog wrote 1 month ago: The McCarthyism on there is CRAZY! I was watching O’Nutjob talking to a former marine (he had … more →

Tags: U.S. news, Fascism, Bill O'Reilly, Fox News, corporatism, Faux News, glenn beck, Religious Bigotry

Searching for witches4 comments

universitydiary wrote 1 month ago: Today, November 14, is the 101st anniversary of the birth of Joseph McCarthy. A lawyer from a farmin … more →

Tags: Politics, Society, communism, Joseph McCarthy, Witch hunts

FOX News and the Mainstream Media: Partners in Crime

Rick wrote 1 month ago: In this column for The Nation Eric Alterman nicely sums up the case against FOX.  Their “news … more →

Tags: media, Politics, teabaggers, conservatism, Talk Radio, Fox News, Barack Obama, wingnuts, Liberalism

In Defense of Let US Build Pakistan: Protect Freedom of Expression of Pakistani Bloggers23 comments

sherryx wrote 1 month ago: Shaheryar Ali It’s a very sorry state of affairs. For more than 2 years now I have been writing abou … more →

Tags: media, Pakistan, Philosophy, Bullying, Censorhip, Freedom of Expression, Ge TV, Geo TV, Hamid Mir

ignorance...

fiirebug wrote 1 month ago: …is incredibly disheartening. my new male roommate is a phd student at my university, working … more →

Tags: Bullshit, anger, Marx, politricks, Roommate

The Robert Ryan Centennial18 comments

moirafinnie wrote 1 month ago: In celebration of the 100th anniversary of actor Robert Ryan’s birth on November 11th, 1909, t … more →

Tags: Classic Films, Character Actors, film noir, directors, Actors, Movie Stars, Westerns, Drama, Fritz Lang

Why left-wing McCarthyism is no better than right-wing McCarthyism

giltroy wrote 1 month ago: By Gil Troy, Jerusalem Post, 11-3-09   In her recent Jerusalem Post Magazine column, in which s … more →

Tags: Israel, Jerusalem Post, Naomi Chazan, yitzhak rabin, partisanship, Norman Podhoretz


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