This seemed like a somewhat reasonable article, but once I saw the "suggested links" at the bottom - all by the same author, I've got a bad feeling this is pure

This seemed like a somewhat reasonable article, but once I saw the "suggested links" at the bottom - all by the same author, I've got a bad feeling this is pure astroturf. The guy has a series of articles that are almost formulaic "list of clichéd right wing talking points" - but critically, they're things that don't have anything to do with each other. The only common ground is merely that. An actual activist who cared about an issue wouldn't have a spread of topics like that.