Explaining Left and Right

Here is a set of videos with Dr. Walter Block where he tries to explain how certain parties can be called "Right Wing" and still express every trait of the Left.  While it is a great primer for what is wrong with the way the media and academia describe the political spectrum, he leaves to the viewer any sort of workable framework.
Part 1

Part Two

Part Three

Over the years, I have grown a renewed interest in the straight line graphic.  Working on a version now.

Here is the first draft of the graph, nothing special yet:

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Blog 'Splaination and Dr. Walter Block Explains Austrian Economics

If you, my few elite, self-selected visitors are still wondering about the blog title, here is Dr. Block to explain the first half of it:

The second half is pretty simple, and maybe I should have used Anarchism, but Anarchy sounded better to me:
anarchism

Look at me, my personal Anarchism logo!

an·ar·chism

1: a political theory holding all forms of governmental authority to be unnecessary and undesirable and advocating a society based on voluntary cooperation and free association of individuals and groups
2: the advocacy or practice of anarchistic principles 

This is what it ain't (from 1828 Webster's):

anarchyAN'ARCHY, n. [Gr. rule.]
Want of government; a state of society, when there is no law or supreme power, or when the laws are not efficient, and individuals do what they please with impunity; political confusion.

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Private Owned Roads or Government Roads?

On 26 January 2009, Loyola University New Orleans and Senior Fellow with the Ludwig von Mises Institute Professor Walter Block participated in a panel discussion sponsored by the Federalist Society, University of Tennessee College of Law, 26 January 2009.

James Jerome Hill 

My points of disagreement with Dr. Block:

• We have privately owned roads that are open to the general public, or to selected portions of the public, all over the place.  They exist in residential subdivisions, townhouse clusters, shopping complexes, industrial parks, and other places.  The "problem" is how to connect them.
• In this area of the country if one is to generate additional traffic on a public road, they are forced to pay for improvements to that road without the benefit of ownership.
• We already have new road construction and/or improvement where the property owners along the road are assessed fees for improvements or construction.  One problem there is even though a business owner did pay for the stretch of road in front of his store, the government still owns it.  If the road comes with a sidewalk, the shopkeeper might even be held liable if anybody is injured on it due to ice or other factors, even though the government owns it.
• One solution is to leave the ownership of all these roads, that the people closest to them are forced to pay extra for, in the hands of the people being charged for them.
• On the issue of building long, thin things, like roads, and having to purchase right-of-way being a problem: James J. Hill seemed to figure a way around this problem when he constructed the Great Northern Railway.  It was completed in 1893.  If he could figure out how to get a steam engine drawn train from the Atlantic to the Pacific without going "over or under" land that people did not want to sell, lease, or otherwise let others cross then any self-respecting libertarian Anarcho-Capitalist of the 21st century should be able to figure out that problem without a trespass.
• Highways could operate on the James Hill model.

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