Joe McCarthy

The Sunday Conversation: Lawrence O'Donnell

2013-03-16 06:30:00

Political pundit Lawrence O'Donnell, a former writer and producer of "The West Wing," has hosted "The Last Word" on MSNBC for 21/2 years, often kicking up a ruckus for his blunt opinions. What's your connection to L.A.? Are you bicoastal? I live in...

Michele Bachmann tops a team of conspiracy-crazed clowns

2012-07-19 23:43:00

This has been a week in which someone at the Republican National Committee must have said, "Send in the clowns!" Michele Bachmann, Rush Limbaugh and lesser jesters in the GOP circus were just a few fake noses and a seltzer bottle short of performances...

Kirk Douglas on the blacklist: Why Hollywood showed so little courage

2012-06-05 16:39:05

Tom Wicker dies at 85; longtime New York Times journalist

2011-11-26 00:00:00

Tom Wicker, a former New York Times political reporter, columnist and Washington bureau chief who covered President Kennedy's assassination in Dallas and became part of the news as a mediator during the 1971 Attica prison riot in upstate New York, has...

My feud with Oscar host Billy Crystal: It's time to bury the hatchet

2011-11-30 21:38:00

Question of the day: Where does Bobby Cox rank in the pantheon of MLB managers? [Updated]

2010-10-12 16:33:15

Matt Weinstock, Dec. 2, 1959

2009-12-02 16:32:43

President Visits L.A.!

2010-01-28 16:32:51

LA Times announces 2009 Book Prize finalists

2010-02-22 16:33:44

America, 2008 and 2009

2008-12-29 00:00:00

In this space a year ago, we published nine editorials over three weeks in which we attempted to analyze the race for the presidency in the context of enduring, essential American values. Where, we asked, does a belief in liberty as the founders...

Communism's grim toll

2007-06-16 00:00:00

WHEN President Bush declared, at Tuesday's dedication of the Victims of Communism Memorial in Washington, that communist regimes had been responsible during the 20th century for taking the lives of 100 million innocent people, he did not so much...

The Times' Joe McCarthy

2008-03-06 00:00:00

In his Feb. 26 , Jonah Goldberg provides us with textbook examples of the logical fallacies employed to such good effect by Joseph McCarthy and his minions in the 1950s. I thought we had driven a stake through the heart of McCarthyism, and that Red-...

Easton's Cameron Casciole (22) left, trips-up Scranton's Joe McCarthy (31) right, in the second quarter of the PIAA District XI semifinal football game held at Cottingham Stadium in Easton Friday night.

2011-11-18 00:00:00

Teams Chicago Cubs (1926-30) New York Yankees (1931-46) Boston Red Sox (1948-50)

2009-07-30 07:33:30

"Big Brother" Having the tables turned on the anti-communist demagogue would be must-see-TV.

2009-04-16 08:28:09