Good morning,
It’s a partly sunny day ahead for Whitewater, with a high temperature of thirty-one degrees.
The Wisconsin Historical Society recalls that on this day in 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.
McCarthy was worse than an embarrassment, but it’s pure ignorance to call McCarthy’s actions a ‘reign of anti-communist terror.’ Those looking for a reign of terror — and this should be clear to anyone writing for the Wisconsin Historical Society — will find it in communism, itself. For a bit of help in this direction, the Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression is just what the doctor ordered.
It would make a fine Christmas present for anyone needing a better understanding of, well, history.
In the meantime, here’s a short video from YouTube that will help lift any lamentable ignorance of the last century’s terror —