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1. Were there Communist agents in high places in the U.S. government?

No doubt. Numerous historical works have already established this.

2. Was their possible presence ignored or disregarded by the DEMOCRATS in power at the time?

Apparently not. Was it not HST who prosecuted the Rosenburgs? See Horowitz's review for more on this.

3. Has the Left, unfailingly over the past century, taken positions ultimately AGAINST America?

Liberals are not all leftists. It's not even true that all leftists have taken positions against America. Note Nat Hentoff and Christopher Hitchens. Why can't Coulter deal with shades of gray?

Ann said many of the same things Richard Rhoads said in "Dark Sun".

ie that the USSR got its U235 for its first bomb through "Lend Lease" which was driven by the US State Department which overruled Los Alamos.

Funny, Rhoads was't called a "nutcase" by the media.

Sorry, Zook, I missed #49. But anyhoo,

- Harry Truman was indeed President when the Rosenbergs were tried. However, they were also placed in a highly sensitive position on his watch. I'm NOT saying that he was directly responsible for hiring them or placing them, but as Coulter makes clear in her book, he didn't seem to see Communists as a threat, either. He referred to the Soviets as "our friends" AFTER WWII, when they surely were not. He also only began to crack down on the pervasive Communist influence in the government AFTER the Republicans took control of congress. At the very least, he was indifferent to the fight against them. Korea springs to mind as an example of a halfhearted attempt.

As for all liberals not being Leftists...there is a reason why I use the term "Leftist" instead of "liberal". As far as I can see, the difference is only one of degrees. A liberal will support Leftist positions, ultimately. Also, whether he knows it or not, a "liberal" is just a tool for a Leftist. Since he votes that way, the ultimate result of his actions is a Leftist/Socialist state, regardless of his "intentions". As for the two you mention, some people are not what even they themselves THINK they are. Hitchens in particular has broken with enough of the Left's positions that he is functionally a right-leaning libertarian.

As for shades of grey, sorry, but I don't particularly like them either. Call me a Neanderthal, but those "grey" shades more often than not conceal "Red". I prefer not to subject myself to paralysis-through-analysis.