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Thread ID: 8363 | Posts: 1 | Started: 2003-07-23
2003-07-23 04:59 | User Profile
When Left Meets Right: What's in a Name?
By Todd Brendan Fahey Exclusive to Rense.com 7-23-3
One half of one sentence in a recent e-mail from political columnist SARTRE (James Hall) to me, which read, "...& what's with the Progressives?", roused me from my months-long sloth. SARTRE tends to get the creaky wheels squeaking that way.
SARTRE and I have known each other, virtually, since 1998 or so, have performed strategic service to several notable Right/libertarian Web sites; we are of like-minds on most political matters (temperament aside--being older, he's a bit more patient than am I). We've also been similarly disgusted by so-called "conservative" venues taking up the hue-and-cry of state-sponsored extortion. & so, when a question such as the one he posed comes down the pike, I listen.
To the crux of the biscuit: There's been a rush of articles at so-called Progressive web sites which, in the olden days, before the Great Confusion that was 9/11, would be mistaken for either hard-Right or genuine libertarian thought. Such a paradigm shift tends to put a spin in ones skull. Things get confusing when sites which pushed Nader in 2000 begin publishing preacher Chuck Baldwin's columns ("Johnny Ain't Never Marching Home: Throw Away the Yellow Ribbons"), or that of Texas Congressman Ron Paul. But these are strange times...
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