their ideas have consequences.
Campus Watch pulled in their horns over the weekend, CB. They eliminated the "Dossier" section on Profs. Good idea. The name, "Dossier" has a negative sound to it.
The Left won the Historical battle on exposing what people are advocating with the "McCarthyism" charge. It is now accepted "Gospel" that Sen McCarthy and everybody else in the country that tried to investigate Communists in the '40s and '50s were scoundrels. "These wonderful people were attacked by the Vicious Right," seems to come out as a Movie or Novel every other year. It makes it difficult to call anyone on the left, "to account," in the media today. That is why you have Congressmen going to Baghdad, badmouthing the President, and getting applauded for it.
I was browsing a History Book last week at Borders called, "What If?" It was a series of articles on History written about various events and supposing that they ended differently. One article that I slowed down and read was, "What if Wallace had been re-nominated by Roosevelt as VP in '44 and had become President instead of Truman?"
Henry Wallace was a decent man, a Populist from the prairie, who is considered to be the best Secretary of Agriculture we have ever had. As VP he went far left, and the Party Bosses kicked him out and put Pendergast's "Boy," Harry Truman in.
The Article points out that if Wallace had become President, two of his friends who would have been in his cabinet were identified later, by our Intelligence operation "Verona," as Soviet Agents. That is how high up Russian spies were in our Government.
There were many more. Most of them are now known today, with the collapse of the Soviet Union. But there is still denial by some of the left today of what went on back then. In any case, the excesses of McCarthy has put the left in the "Drivers Seat" on this issue, and made it very difficult to confront them. |
