Mccarthyism
A term coined in 1950, McCarthyism described the escapades of Republican Senator Joseph R. McCarthy of Wisconsin (1908–1957). It was later applied to the broader excesses that chara...
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Mccarthyism
Despite the fact that Americans pride themselves on constitutional protections for free speech, there have been many attempts to limit speech in the United States. Beginning in 1789 with t...
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"The government is full of communists. We can hammer away at them" Senator Joseph McCarthy spoke with his friends at dinner in January of 1950. They need an issue, some kind of goal. Joseph McCarthy ...
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Communism has always been something that democratic countries such as the U.S. have been against. Their philosophies are directly in disagreement with what America believes in. It denounces things s...
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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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National Security: Leftist academics are determined to rehabilitate the reputation of Alger Hiss, the high-level U.S. diplomat and Soviet spy. Time may have passed, but this case was settled a long...
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It’s been a grievous few weeks for septuagenarian ex-Senator George Mitchell. He released a 409-page report on baseball’s colossal steroids problem, outing 88 drugged Major LeaguersR...
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This should be a time for Solidarity veterans to savor.Eighteen years after the collapse of Polish communism, two of their own are perched at the pinnacle of power: Lech and Jaroslaw Kaczynski, ide...
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William E. Peters, a journalist who wrote one of the first national articles on Martin Luther King Jr., has died. He was 85.Peters died of pneumonia May 20 in a hospice center 20 miles northwest of...
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The U.N. General Assembly voted for the 16th straight year Tuesday to urge the United States to end its trade embargo against Cuba, whose foreign minister accused the U.S. of stepping up its "bruta...
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Israeli President Moshe Katsav, facing charges of rape and abuse of power, asked parliament Wednesday to temporarily remove him from office in an effort to blunt growing calls for his resignation.A...
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Shaking with fury, Israeli President Moshe Katsav rebuffed growing calls for his resignation Wednesday, saying accusations he committed rape and other crimes were "poisonous, horrible lies" that we...
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