Joseph Raymond McCarthy (1908-1957), U.S. senator, in a highly publicized pursuit of a Communist "conspiracy" became a national figure. The term "McCarthyism" became a synonym for reckless smear tacti...
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Joseph Raymond McCarthy stands as a formidable figure in American history. Although there were other source of the Red scare, he is its most remembered demagogue, so much so that his last name has be...
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A judge abruptly halted a trial for three men accused in a courthouse shooting because the deputy who was wounded that day was screening the potential jurors.Attorneys were part was through the fir...
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The House on Wednesday overwhelmingly voted to condemn the liberal advocacy group MoveOn.org for a recent advertisement attacking the top U.S. general in Iraq.By a 341-79 vote, the House passed a r...
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A senior Justice Department aide refused Wednesday to submit to a private interview with a House committee investigating the firings of eight U.S. attorneys.Her lawyers accused Democrats of behavin...
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Cuba characterized American filmmaker Michael Moore as a victim of censorship and the U.S. trade embargo as it reported Friday on a U.S. Treasury Department probe of his March visit here for his up...
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Milo Radulovich, the Air Force Reserve lieutenant championed by Edward R. Murrow when the military threatened to decommission him during the anti-communist crackdown of the 1950s, has died. He was ...
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Today is Friday, Feb. 9, the 40th day of 2007. There are 325 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On Feb. 9, 1943, the World War II battle of Guadalcanal in the southwest Pacific ende...
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Fred Risser jokes about having been in the Legislature so long, the state is tearing down buildings he voted to construct.The 79-year-old Democratic state senator from Madison has served 50 years _...
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Nov 25 (Reuters) - Following are some of the major
events to have occurred on December 2 since 1900: 1942 - Physicists led by Enrico Fermi created the world's
first nuclear chain reaction at the U...
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American
actor and filmmaker
George
Clooney
took on his most personal role—that of an unapologetic liberal—to make a pair of politically charged movies that earned him the best review...
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Joseph Raymond McCarthy
Joseph McCarthy
Deputy screening visitors spurs mistrial
