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I am not trying to debate Joe McCarthy's place in history. Thanks to Ann Coulter's book "Treason", I know he did a lot of good work. Nevertheless, his name has become associated with fearmongering. I think in that respect, the time might be right to start speaking to the #fakenews and #fakejournalists those words "Have you no decency?" Rachel MadMcCarthy, Scott PelMcCarthey, Andrea MitchMcCarthey, etc. Are we at that point, fellow FREEPers?

The "Never Trumpers" are not willing to give Trump a chance; are not open to putting the good of the country above their own tunnel-vision willfulness American intelligence agencies have concluded with “high confidence” that Russia acted covertly in the latter stages of the presidential campaign to harm Hillary Clinton’s chances and promote Donald J. Trump, according to senior administration officials.—New York Times—“Russian Hackers Acted to Aid Trump in Election, U.S. Says” The Luciferian inversion of the American political system is now complete. The Democrats (aided by the Republican neo-con elites) are now the party of wealth, privilege, divisiveness, arrogant...

It was just over 60 years ago that the tactics of Senator Joseph McCarthy were repudiated when he was censured by the Senate in December 1954. Ever since then, McCarthyism — the reckless hurling of accusations at adversaries so as to destroy their reputations — has been considered one of the lowest forms of political behavior and one liberals love to crusade against. But McCarthyism isn’t limited to one party or ideology. And if liberals have any sense of self-awareness they will recognize the tactic has returned and is growing in their back yard. Harry Reid, the top Democrat in...

Half a century ago, some of us were "over there" fighting a little war in Asia. It wasn't limited to the Korean Peninsula. We were protecting the world's democracies and defending the American way. Meanwhile, back home, a cancer was growing on the American body politic. Its name was the House Un-American Activities Committee, a weapon of the U.S. Congress. HUAC attacked any dissenting American person or group it deemed dangerous to those in power at the time. Fanning the flames of psycho-patriotism was a venomous demagogue named Sen. Joe McCarthy. He and HUAC destroyed many careers and lives before...