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In what is probably the least surprising announcement of the 21st century, Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin who has been flying the false flag of "conservative" for a long time has finally revealed the very obvious by writing in her Thursday Washington Post column that she has removed the "conservative" tag from her Twitter profile. She attempted to explain what we already knew in "Why I dropped ‘conservative’ from my Twitter profile."

<p>I've always had a hard time with people who refuse to allow you to use political labels in any political debate. Labels are so constricting, or have become meaningless, they say. This is maddening. Talking about politics without using terms such as "liberal," "socialist" or "conservative" is like talking about a colorful painting without using labels such as "green," "blue" or "yellow."</p>

MOST ORDINARY PEOPLE do not fit very neatly into any political category and may hold to a mix of views that include what would usually be seen as both Leftist and Rightist ideas. Among professional politicians and academics, however, there is generally a clearer polarization. So what is it that makes any given view "Rightist" or "Leftist"? In contemporary North American terms, what is it that makes one an archetypical "liberal" or an archetypical "conservative"? What is a Leftist or a Rightist position on any issue? The division obviously is real and the demise of the great icon of Leftism...

A deep confusion has overtaken our land. A lack of understanding of our own history and its meaning is epidemic. A conveyance of personal identity has been transposed into a frenzy for Statism. And a dependence in allegiance to unquestioned leadership has replaced common sense. No wonder that those who view themselves as conservatives, are bewildered. It has customarily been accepted that conservative thinking is mostly associated with the Republican Party. In a previous article, this critic wrote: What Makes a Republican - a REPUBLICAN? The case was presented that the true tradition of the GOP is the heritage of...

The Far Right Returns By Reed Irvine and Cliff Kincaid May 10, 2002 One of the oldest tricks in the book is to use extreme terms to demonize and discredit people. Bernard Goldberg discusses this in his bestseller Bias. Now we’re witnessing the use of this tactic on a global scale, as we’re led to believe that a French politician’s success at the polls threatens another Holocaust and the rise of another Hitler. MSNBC columnist Eric Alterman said that the critics of Jean-Marie Le Pen fear "the threat of a reconstituted European fascist movement." Other terms used to describe Le...