John Lukacs, the Lettered Reactionary Nov 21, 2009
But much as he scorned the success of communism in winning converts and sympathizers among soft-minded American leftists he did not doubt, for example, that Alger Hiss was guilty of treason for political espionage Lukacs never shared the Right s obsession with anti-communism. He regarded Sen. (The American Conservative)
$100 Million Payoff to Buy Sen. Landrieu's Vote... Nov 20, 2009
The United States has had it's share of traitors to the nation and the citizens within in it's history, Benedict Arnold, Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, Aaron Burr, Alger Hiss, Aldrich Ames, nearly all sold out their country for either money, power, revenge, or all of those reasons combined, and not for some wayward ideology, now I believe we can add the name of Democrat Mary Landrieu to this infamous list. What a despicable piece of trash. (The Drudge Report)
Five Alternatives to Mark Levin Sep 17, 2009
One of those he named, and accused of passing classified documents to the Soviets, was Alger Hiss, an adviser to FDR at Yalta, Secretary General of the Dumbarton Oaks Conference that chartered the United Nations, and, by 1948, president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Hiss denied the accusations and was later charged with perjury. (The American Conservative)
Conservatism's Exaggerated Death Sep 4, 2009
He authored an acclaimed biography of Whittaker Chambers, whose public renunciation of Communism, testimony implicating Alger Hiss as a Soviet spy, and autobiographical masterpiece Witness became mid-century landmarks in the making of modern American conservatism. And Tanenhaus is writing an authorized biography of William F. Buckley Jr., modern conservatism's most influential figure. (CBS News -- Opinion)
What's Happening to Sam Tanenhaus? Sep 1, 2009
When he was writing his book (Tanenhaus, not Dad - Ed.), neocons were hot to court him as One of Us over his apparent vindication of Chambers over Alger Hiss, though the mainline of anti-Stalinist ADA-style liberals had themselves turned their backs on Hiss early on, leaving largely Nation types still, like Mrs. Hemans Casaubon, on the burning deck whence all but they had fled ... In one of Updike s Maples stories, the wife is reading about Nixon and exclaims, Alger Hiss was guilty, and the... (The American Conservative)
Academia's Red Light District Aug 28, 2009
By way of illustration: Few at Bard think it strange that the school maintains an endowed chair named for Stalinist spy Alger Hiss. True to the endowment, one past Hiss professor wrote a book that described anticommunism as a psychiatric condition. (Townhall.com)
Bob Novak, RIP Aug 19, 2009
The man had his shortcomings - I will still never understand how someone who claimed to have their political awakening after reading Whitaker Chambers could end his life as a patsy for the Alger Hiss of our generation, Scooter Libby. But it was nice to see Novak a couple years ago being interviewed about his memoirs and having confirmed that he was really just a journalist with opinions and that he rued the way television had made him appear as much more of a partisan than he really was. (The American Conservative)
Flamingos are whatever color Obama says they are Aug 18, 2009
" Wow. Sounds like the Alger Hiss trial. Given the fact that you don't know Cross's circumstances, or that he may even be making all this up, what grounds do you have to accuse me of anything? And how is questioning the details of a sob story crossing any silly lines you draw up? Please. Yet you want debate, right? Save it for someone you can fool with your bogus hubris. ". jeroze wrote on Aug 17, 2009 4:08 PM:" A lady who works in Walmart is making $21,000 a year. She is 59. Her husband is on... (Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier)
James Humes: Communists, Spies During Nixon Era Jul 24, 2009
com - Communists and Spies During Nixon Era. Thursday, July 23, 2009. (Newsmax)
Magician Politics Jul 24, 2009
Anyone ever heard of Wittaker Chambers, Elizabeth Bentley, Alger Hiss, Julius Rosenberg. They did a lot of damage to America but look at the damage done by the Chicago community organizer. (Townhall.com)
Nicholas Lemann: The real legacy of Cold War espionage. Jul 20, 2009
Mentions Alger Hiss and I. F. Stone. According to Spies, Vassiliev s notebooks name more than five hundred Americans who had private dealings with Soviet intelligence. (New Yorker)
Chambers and Trilling: Parallel Lives Jul 16, 2009
In Washington, diplomat Alger Hiss had belonged to the Harold Ware circle of communist bureaucrats, and Ware himself was the son of communist icon Ella Reeve Mother Bloor. On August 3, 1948 Chambers fired the shot heard round the world, accusing Hiss of espionage in a hearing before the House Un-American Activities Committee. (The American Conservative)
Liberal media & other conspiracy theories (24) Jul 13, 2009
(If this leaves you young people puzzled, Google Whittaker Chambers or Alger Hiss). There were many Congressional hearings trying to determine how the Communists, obviously so much more clever that we, could do such a thing. (Boerne Star, TX)
Joe McCarthy Was Right Jul 8, 2009
Spies: The Rise and Fall of the KGB in America, John Earl Haynes, Harvey Klehr, and Alexander Vassiliev, Yale University Press, 704 pages; and Alger Hiss and the Battle for History, Susan Jacoby, Yale University Press, 272 pages ... Schlesinger and his ideological confr;res have had the rug pulled out from under them by the gradual release of the KGB s files, and the coup de gr ce has been delivered by the publication of Spies, which cites definitive evidence from the Soviet archives that not... (The American Conservative)
I.F. Stone This, I.F. Stone That. Enough Already! Jun 22, 2009
Klehr and Haynes mince no words in calling Stone a "Soviet agent"a term normally reserved for a Julius Rosenberg or an Alger Hiss. Guttenplan vigorously disagrees, portraying Stone as a curious sort who associated with all kinds of people, thereby placing the KGB on par with, say, a touring Latvian dance troupe. (Slate)
Aid and comfort to the enemy? May 19, 2009
Benedict Arnold and Alger Hiss are two names that come to mind when one considers acts of treason. Have some politicians committed treason against this constitutional republic. (Bismarck Tribune, ND)
Obama Avoids the Crocodile May 15, 2009
It was ideology that led FDR and New Deal liberals to trust in "Uncle Joe" Stalin, to claim Mao's men were "agrarian reformers," and to defend Alger Hiss and deny the government was shot through with security risks and Soviet spies that dealt all those cards to Tailgunner Joe and turned the nation over to Ike and Dick in 1952. It was the liberals who belatedly discovered that the war JFK and LBJ had marched us into in Southeast Asia was a "dirty and immoral" war and we were defending a "corrupt... (Townhall.com)
Now He Has the Hammer May 6, 2009
Turn, turn, turn: Yes, my friends, the yeomans work performed by the glorious Fifth Column that stretches from Major Andre and Benedict Arnold to the Rosenbergs and Alger Hiss is now proudly out of the closet. Which may be why The One is smiling so broadly these days, not only from ear to ear but from sea to shining sea. (CBS News)
Bush and Obama Share One Thing: A Publisher Mar 21, 2009
As for Bush's chosen theme, Michael Coffey, the executive managing editor of Publishers Weekly, says it reminds him of a book penned by another President who was trying to salvage his reputation: Richard Nixon's 1962 bestseller, Six Crises, in which he tried to set the record straight about such uncomfortable topics as the Checkers speech and his role in the Alger Hiss case. "The fact that Bush is apparently structuring his memoir around a number of key decisions that he made, to me strikes a... (Time.com)
Trial Tweets Through The Ages Mar 14, 2009
Alger Hiss tweets his own 1949 Soviet spy trial. Of course. (CBS News)
"Not One of Us" Feb 26, 2009
Perhaps the best way to try to understand these reactions is to recall what Eleanor Roosevelt said when she first saw Whittaker Chambers, who had accused Alger Hiss of being a spy for the Soviet Union ... The trim, erect and impeccably dressed Alger Hiss, with his Ivy League and New Deal pedigree, clearly was "one of us." As it turned out, he was also a liar and a spy for the Soviet Union. (Townhall.com)
After Ill. Gov's Impeachment _ A Senator's Trial? Feb 22, 2009
The biggest was probably that of former State Department official Alger Hiss, convicted in 1950 amid still disputed claims that he was involved in Soviet espionage. And Fitzgerald personally prosecuted former Vice President Cheney's chief of staff, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, for lying to a grand jury in Washington's CIA leak case. (CBS News -- US)
