Articles by: Orion

Re-Thinking U.S. Foreign Policy

May 7, 2012 7:27 am0 comments
Re-Thinking U.S. Foreign Policy

Despite my appearance here at Gonzo Times, I’m not fully on board with Punk Johnny Cash on all things. I’m sure he knows this and so we are good and fine where we do agree. I’m an International Relations guy and I’ve read a whole lot on policy from varying [...]

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Robert Anton Wilson – I Believe In Freedom For Dogs

June 16, 2011 1:14 am0 comments
Robert Anton Wilson – I Believe In Freedom For Dogs

PowerPoint Goes Interactive.(Microsoft PowerPoint 98)(Product Announcement) Macworld September 1, 1998 | Heid, Jim Authoring Multimedia Projects in PowerPoint 98 Your assignment: create an interactive self-guided tour that will run at the local tourism office. The project has some QuickTime and QuickTime VR movies, an audio soundtrack, and the usual text [...]

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Rand Paul's Epic Speech Against The Patriot Act

May 26, 2011 6:52 pm0 comments
Rand Paul's Epic Speech Against The Patriot Act

MERCER COUNTY, 4-H ACCEPT JCPENNEY AFTERSCHOOL GRANT US Fed News Service, Including US State News November 17, 2008 Mercer County issued the following news release: Mercer County is proud to announce that a $29,700 grant from the JCPenney Afterschool Fund to Mercer County 4-H will partially fund local after-school programs [...]

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The Strong Women Of The X-Men

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The Strong Women Of The X-Men

  The gender dynamics in the X-Men universe are very unusual and interesting, not just comparatively with the real world but with other female superheroes in the world of comic books as well. While female superheroes tend to be archetypes of previously created characters (Batgirl, Batwoman, Supergirl, etc.), this isn’t [...]

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Repudiating Nihilism

May 12, 2011 1:44 am1 comment
Repudiating Nihilism

I’ve been a bona fide stalker and harasser of the Alternative Right at Gonzo Times and at my more cosmopolitan writings at Little Green Footballs. There is something really significant to this group of overt self described fascists and the fact that they are brilliant writers with a firm grasp [...]

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George Orwell and the Spanish Civil War

April 28, 2011 4:20 pm7 comments
George Orwell and the Spanish Civil War

Despite his British patriotism and criticism of middle class advocates of a “classless society,” among other varying acts of left wing heresy, Orwell was as militantly anti-fascist as Winston Churchill, if not more so. Orwell, among other towering intellectuals such as Ernest Hemingway, journeyed to Spain to combat the fascist [...]

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The Alternative Right: Reinforcing White Stereotypes don't publish

April 17, 2011 6:29 am0 comments

There is something really quite profound about race relations: they are fluid. A tense dynamic seems to constantly fill relations between differing ethnic groups but the outcomes are constantly different. Times change and cultural stereotypes change. The stereotypes are critical because, …. Here in lies the tragic thing about the [...]

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John Safran With The Alternative Right

April 11, 2011 5:06 pm1 comment
John Safran With The Alternative Right

John Safran, like yours truly, has immersed himself in the world of the alternative right. He has reviewed books by Jack Donovan for Vice magazine and has interviewed leadership of the Ku Klux Klan. He has also immersed himself in the Viking religion, all in a holistic attempt to figure [...]

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Fanny Howe's "Economics"

April 7, 2011 1:34 pm13 comments
Fanny Howe's "Economics"

Economics is an incredible book. Writer Fanny Howe in a mere 134 pages does what conservatives have wanted to do for decades – lay out the failures, neurosis and narcissism of the Baby Boomer generation. Howe does this with finesse and, through the medium of fiction, is able to show [...]

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Alt Right Leader Richard Spencer: Making No Sense

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Alt Right Leader Richard Spencer: Making No Sense

If you’ve paid attention to Canadian news at all, then you have probably heard about the so called “Slut March” – in which apparently hundreds of women demonstrated for their right to dress luringly. Richard Spencer, the creator of Alternative Right, had this to say about the march: One can [...]

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Your Corrupt Public School System

April 6, 2011 3:45 am3 comments
Your Corrupt Public School System

I’ve been on and on about American public schools for several years now – for the length of most of my writing career. I’ve been writing the Waiting for Superman spin on what’s gone wrong in public schools for some time. Maybe I believed some of the hype about things [...]

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Humanity Cannot Do "Bigness"

April 2, 2011 10:55 pm1 comment
Humanity Cannot Do "Bigness"

I used to write at a libertarian website called United Liberty before finding the more comforting home of Gonzo Times. While there I wrote on a book by S.E. Cupp called Losing Our Religon: Cupp’s diagnosis of why hostility towards religion exists is on its face ridiculous. As the author [...]

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A Primer On The New Tribalism

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A Primer On The New Tribalism

Punk Johnny Cash has asked that I write more about the Alternative Right and their movement. We’ve had several excursions with them here at Gonzo Times, as I have when I written about them elsewhere. This article I hope to be a definitive piece aimed for republication in the Gonzo [...]

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America: A State Of Corporate Socialism

March 29, 2011 6:58 am0 comments

DISTRICT MAY MOVE RIVER DISCHARGE POINT.(News) web site cincinnati water works The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH) June 2, 2005 | Saladin, Luke E. Byline: Luke E. Saladin Post staff reporter In a move that could help resolve a dispute between Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky over the safety of the Queen [...]

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The Moral Case for Innovation in Governance: Corrupt Institutions and the Arab Revolts

March 28, 2011 5:20 am0 comments
The Moral Case for Innovation in Governance: Corrupt Institutions and the Arab Revolts

This guest post comes from Thousand Nations reader Zach Caceres–Editor Memorial for Mohamed Bouazizi Mohamed Bouazizi’s father died when he was a child: so he became a fruit and vegetable vendor in rural Tunisia to provide for his family and send his siblings to school. But Tunisian government officials, unmoved [...]

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