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To: JohnM who wrote (153702)	1/10/2011 8:40:13 AM
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Excerpted from Mike Allen's morning newsletter: ---------------------------------- LEFT OR RIGHT? --Ken Vogel notes that come conservatives are arguing online that "a long list of favorite books Loughner included on a YouTube profile" suggests he's a leftist: "[A] blogger on the conservative website American Thinker concluded that 'with the possible exception of Ayn Rand's "We The Living,"' Loughner's reading material suggests he leans left, including some gentle liberal favorites like 'To Kill A Mockingbird,' hippie cult hits like 'Siddartha' and 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest,' and that ultimate left-wing classic, 'The Communist Manifesto.'" --But Ben Smith says the best evidence so far is that Loughner was far right: "The Southern Poverty Law Center's Mark Potok [e-mailed Ben] that Miller's strange ideology is interlaced with views popular on the right fringe: 'Miller is a full-fledged believer in 'sovereign citizens' ideology - the idea that you don't have to pay taxes to the wicked federal government if you only know the right formula. He believes that if you upper case your name, you're a slave of the government; on the other hand, if you use colons and hyphens in your name, you're no longer taxable - you've broken free of the tyrannical government. As I say, these are ideas that are very important in large swaths of the antigovernment "Patriot" movement, aka the militia movement.' Potok also notes that Loughner seems to be drawing his views on currency from the right, and suggests that it makes sense to place even his flag-burning -- which resonates most with the Vietnam-era left -- with those anti-government views." politi.co