The 1954 attorney for the U.S. Army, asked Sen. Joe McCarthy, “Have you no sense of decency, sir?” Same can be asked of today ...
This is the classic question asked of Senator Joe McCarthy, the pompous demagogue of the 1950’s by Joseph Welch, a lawyer in the Army-McCarthy hearings. I can think of no better words to ask the most ...
Mitt Romney’s senior campaign advisor Eric Fehrnstrom appeared on Fox News Channel on Thursday to respond to allegations made by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) in which he claims that a Bain ...
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During the 1954 televised Army-McCarthy hearings, an exasperated Joseph N. Welch, special counsel for the U.S. army, famously ...
In his book on America's hitherto most accomplished demagogue, "No Sense of Decency," journalist Robert Shogan concluded that the principal reason America's favorable view of Joseph McCarthy ...
On his first trip to the Kennedy Center after naming himself chairman of its board last month, Donald Trump uncharacteristically mused a bit about his childhood and his early piano-pecking, claiming ...
Thomas Demetrio is a Chicago lawyer who looks like he just stepped out of one of Irvin S. Cobb’s folksy “Old Judge Priest” stories for the Saturday Evening Post. You could also say he resembles ...