dozen year after the purge, tidings was virtually the only senator with the courage to stand up to joe mccarthy. after mccarthy's committee -- sorry, after tidings' committee investigated mccarthy's reckless accusations, tidings stood up on the senate floor and announced that they were a fraud and a hoax. and even harold ickies, one of the purge's most fervent champions, made an bout face and praised tidings. but in 1950 tidings lost his seat in the senate to mccarthy's own hand-picked candidate. by taking down the prime target on roosevelt's hit list of 1938, mccarthy accomplished what roosevelt could not. and i wonder what fdr would have thought about the defeat of his new deal foe at the hands of joe mccarthy. there are many lessons to be learned from the purge that i discuss in my book, but the simplest ones may be that, first, it's probably best to play the cards you're dealt. second, a majority party needs to be a big tent party. and third, an effective president has to be a strong party leader and a hard-working party builder. in conclusion, let me describe another story from the summer

be sort of the same old geography new mccoll the child with results michael levelly closer to joe mccarthy revealing that only citrusy told the count. former bosnian serb general dot com that it is in the hague to stand trial for war crimes but his defense questions that they did see of the evidence there is he won't live long enough to see the verdict. the prime suspect in the case of murdered russian journalist anna politkovskaya was flown to moscow for questioning after being captured in chechnya. driven around the bend millions of unemployed americans spent the theory as a system keeping them out of work keeping the country out of wars. and all the news that matters twenty four hours a day this is r.t. . nicknamed the butcher of bosnia has joined his former boss rather than correct it in the hague the sixty nine year old army commander now awaits prosecution for genocide but it's expected to be months before his trial begins and to question the legitimacy of the evidence the tribunals using to base its case on auntie's question it was. sixteen years on the run six days in serbian court

the late the late wisconsin senator joe mccarthy the maestro of the communist witch hunts in the one nine hundred fifty s. that divided our nation turned us against each other and ruined the lives of tens of thousands of law abiding american citizens it back peter king used to work for mccarthy's committee lead lawyer roy cohn so it probably does actually have mccarthy's playbook but here's the thing paul mccarthy was distracting us all from a right with irrational fears of communists most americans totally missed a fundamental transformation that was taking place in our country from the taft hartly act that cripple our unions in one thousand nine hundred seven to the rise of the military industrial complex in the one nine hundred fifty s. that led us to over eleven thousand nuclear weapons at the height of the cold war so today's rise of the security terror complex it's bringing us chertoff porno scanners it's all underway now the phone companies listening to your conversations while the internet companies are inspecting your e-mail and buying habits and they're all selling that inf

an op ed in the new york times today by a guy named bob herbert who says he's comparing you to joe mccarthy. so what have you all that so many questions so many concerns about the message about islamophobia now zilch because some of the initial hysteria died down let me just give you a few bits of information about the hearing was held today so the focus this time was on the threat of muslim american radicalization within american prisons and once again peter king painted this threat as incredibly serious most of the witnesses however admitted that while there have been occurrences and it's worth looking into these cases are very rare in fact two thousand and ten report by the congressional research service concluded the prisons haven't played a large role in producing homegrown terrorists all the more reason not to have this specific here listen american prisons are dangerous places not only are they overcrowded but they are filled with violence and there are recruitment is going on at all levels to the bloods the crips the asian gangs the hispanics gangs to white supremacist organizations

there's been in the last decade some revisionist history about good old joe mccarthy. one of the things i should mention is the for known of files, has anyone heard of the venona project? just briefly during the war the u.s. was worried that the soviet union might sue for a separate peace with the g