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.

Which Of Our Institutions Are Captured and Corrupted?

Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying discuss which of our institutions have been captured. Short answer: All of them. See also: Jerry Pournelle’s Iron Law of Bureaucracy.

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Afghanistan News Roundup for September 14, 2021

The Democratic Media Complex would love it if Americans would just “move on” from the Biden Administration’s disasterous withdrawal debacle in Afghanistan, but there are too many sad lessons Democrats have yet to learn from the debacle. So here’s a … Continue reading →

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Austin Hits All-Time Homicide High

Austin has been one of the safest big cities in America for decades before mayor Steve Adler and the hard-left city council voted to turn Austin into a giant camp for drug-addicted transients in 2019, and then cut police funding … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: United 93

United 93 Directed by Paul Greengrass Written by Paul Greengrass Starring David Alan Basche, Olivia Thirlby, Liza Colon-Zayas, J.J. Johnson, Gary Commock, Trish Gates I finally saw United 93 for the first time yesterday. So let’s get this out of … Continue reading →

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Joe Rogan Interviews Bret Weinstein on Flu Manchu, Ivermectin, and Media Groupthink

Joe Rogan interviewed Bret Weinstein and his wife and fellow evolutionary biologist Heather Heying on a variety of topics. On the eternal Flu Manchu struggle: “Garrett Vandenbush said this is going to become a pandemic of variance, and he talked … Continue reading →

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LinkSwarm for September 10, 2021

Yesterday Joe Biden launched a sneak attack on American freedom, and tomorrow is the 20 year anniversary of 9/11. Still working on the Afghan piece. Plus more Australian madness. Biden won’t be making a live 9/11 anniversary address. Of course … Continue reading →

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White House To Withdraw Chipman ATF Nomination

Some breaking news: The White House is planning to withdraw David Chipman’s nomination to run the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives this week amid bipartisan pushback over his gun control advocacy, according to two people with knowledge of … Continue reading →

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Treating Coronavirus With Ivermectin And Our Crappy Media

I had no intention on doing another post about using ivermectin in treating Flu Manchu (and Rolling Stone‘s shabby Oklahoma hit piece), but too many links of interest on the subject have popped up to ignore. Again, I’m not a … Continue reading →

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Technical Difficulties

My blogs were down this morning (both BattleSwarm and https://www.lawrenceperson.com/), and some features (like tag auto-population) still don’t seem to be working. No explanation from BlueHost for the outage except “There are too many process, I killed all the process … Continue reading →

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YouTube Suppressing Any Mention of Ivermectin

In a follow-up to yesterday’s “Rolling Stone Fakes Oklahoma Ivermectin Overdose Plague” story, Matt Taibbi (who got out of Rolling Stone while the getting was good) has a piece on how YouTube is even yanking videos critical of using Ivermectin … Continue reading →

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