Author Archives: Lawrence Person

About Lawrence Person

Lawrence Person is a political commentator and science fiction writer living in Austin, Texas. I'm still between jobs. Feel free to hit the tip jar if you're so inclined.

Homelessness is A Profit Center For The Democratic Party

In the course of discussing the crises of tent cities with drug addicts infesting just about every blue city in America, Peachy Keenan (I suspect a pseudonym) talks about how homelessness is a major profit center for Democrats: The homeless … Continue reading →

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Did Google Break The Law?

I know that headline is more than a little ambiguous, as Google has probably broken multiple laws, if only because they’re so big and there are so many laws. But “Did Google break the law using sneaky, underhanded means to … Continue reading →

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Joe Rogan and Michael Shellenberger Discuss How and When San Francisco Became A Shithole

So how San Francisco become the homeless, crime, drug and feces-plagued wonderland that it is today? Michael Shellenberger (an author and journalists who has argued for technological solutions to environmental problems) discusses with Joe Rogan how it came to its … Continue reading →

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LinkSwarm for October 22, 2021

Greetings, and welcome to the Friday LinkSwarm! Manchin stands firm, Psaki drips with contempt, #NeverTrump and #BlackLivesMatter share a sugar daddy, and “Let’s Go Brandon” pops up everywhere. It’s suddenly beginning to dawn on Democrats that Manchin means it. Joe … Continue reading →

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Dozens!

Did you hear that some Netflix employees staged a walkout over the latest Dave Chappelle comedy special over the comedian daring to joke about transexuals rather than treating them with the holy reverence they have declared as their unquestioned due? … Continue reading →

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Austin Police Department Morale Hits Bottom

When we last checked in on the Austin Police Department, it was plagued by staffing issues due to the City of Austin defunding the police and cancelling two cadet classes, as well as Travis County DA Jose Garza’s refusing to … Continue reading →

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Democrats to Cops in 2020: You’re Evil Racists And We Want To Defund You! Democrats to Cops in 2021: We Need You To Enforce Vaccine Mandates. Cops to Democrats: Get Stuffed!

After spending 2020 calling police “systematically racist” and trying to get them defunded (mainly so they could get their fingers on that money, suddenly it’s 2021 and Democrat-run cities and counties suddenly need police to be their vaccine enforcers. And … Continue reading →

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Colin Powell, RIP

Colin Powell, Secretary of State for George W. Bush, and former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff for George H. W. Bush, has died at age 84. Powell, a consummate Washington insider, was fairly effective in both roles. As … Continue reading →

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Ruy Teixeira 2002: Hispanic Will Make Democrats The Permanent Majority Party. Ruy Teixeira 2021: Not So Fast

In 2002, Ruy Teixeira and John Judis’s The Emerging Democratic Majority argued that demographic changes, especially high levels of Hispanic immigration, were going to transform the American voting demographic enough the Democratic Party would enjoy a natural majority for the … Continue reading →

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A Pilot on the Southwest Vaccine Mandate SNAFU

Here’s a pilot discussing the recent Southwest Airlines issues. His points: Southwest was already running their entire operation too lean, too understaffed, too many hours for the people who are there, and thus the small disruptions spreads out everywhere. “Eventually … Continue reading →

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