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Daily Bread for 12.2.11

Good morning.

Whitewater’s Christmas parade is tonight at 6 PM, and the day beforehand will be sunny with a high temperature of thirty-six.

The Wisconsin Historical Society remembers one of Wisconsin’s lowest moments:

1954 – McCarthy Censured by Senate

On December 2, 1954, the United States Senate voted to censure Wisconsin Senator Joseph McCarthy. Declaring his behavior “contrary to senatorial traditions,” the 1954 Senate resolution officially condemned McCarthy’s reign of anti-communist terror.

I wouldn’t call his conduct a reign of terror, but an abuse of political power worthy of censure, surely.

 

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