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Author Archives: Lawrence Person
I Have Now Added and Activated WP Fastest Cache for BattleSwarm
Instapundit readers have been complaining that they get 404 errors when Instapundit links a post. So I’ve been meaning to put up caching software for quite a while now. But since all caching software reviews said things like “Awesome! Really … Continue reading
Blogroll Additions
The Sunday after they’ve sucked an hour out of our lives seems like a good time to do a Blogroll update. 357 Magnum: Solid gun and politics blog that’s been sending some traffic my way. Austin Network: Good Austin news … Continue reading
Glenn Greenwald’s Testimony on Silicon Valley Monopoly Power
Glenn Greenwald appeared before the House Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial and Administrative Law yesterday on the threat big tech monopolies pose to free speech. Here’s his opening statement Over the last several years, my journalistic interest in and concern about … Continue reading
Posted in Democrats, Media Watch, video
Tagged 2020 Presidential Race, Amazon, antitrust, Apple Computer, censorship, Democrats, Facebook, Glenn Greenwald, Google, Hunter Biden, Media Watch, Parler, technology, Twitter, video
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LinkSwarm for March 12, 2021
Welcome to the one year anniversary of the week the world went crazy. After the passing of the Democratic Party’s giant $1.9 trillion porkulus, “Federal ‘COVID’ Spending Just Hit $41,870 Per Taxpayer.” Two-thirds of Americans think corporate wokeness has gone … Continue reading
Posted in Border Control, Crime, Democrats, Foreign Policy, Media Watch, Republicans, Social Justice Warriors, Texas, Waste and Fraud
Tagged 2022 Election, 2022 Texas Governor's Race, Alana Mounce, Albert Douglas, Andrew Sullivan, antifa, Border Controls, Bryan Riser, Budget, California, Calvin Coolidge, Canada, Catherine Cortez Masto, coal, coronavirus, Crime, Dallas, deficits, Democrats, dogs, education, Gab, gay, Greg Abbott, Joe Biden, Judith Whitmer, LinkSwarm, Liza Saenz, Maggie Halberstam, Matthew McConnaughey, Media Watch, Milo Yiannopoulos, Nevada, New York Times, police, Portland, racism, Republicans, SAT, Social Justice Warriors, Texas, Wuhan
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Government in Action: Idiot Street Signs
I’ve been watching entirely too many Top Gear/Grand Tour videos on YouTube. This one struck me as just barely justifiable for posting here as an example of idiot government regulation at work: a look at idiot street signs. These are … Continue reading
Texas Energy Outage Postmortem
I finally had time to finish this postmortem post on the Texas winter storm energy grid crisis. I’ve got a ton of pieces to get through, so let’s dig in. How the energy grid fell apart: Here were two problems, … Continue reading
Posted in Austin, Regulation, Texas
Tagged Austin, Austin City Council, Chuck DeVore, Energy Policy, ERCOT, ice storm, Jared Patterson, Jason Isaac, Nacogdoches, natural gas, nuclear power, oil industry, Permian Basin, Regulation, Sid Miller, Texas, Texas Interconnect Grid, Texas Public Policy Foundation
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China Carries Out Giant Microsoft Hack
This isn’t good: At least 30,000 organizations across the United States — including a significant number of small businesses, towns, cities and local governments — have over the past few days been hacked by an unusually aggressive Chinese cyber espionage … Continue reading
Posted in Crime
Tagged China, Crime, data security, hacking, Hafnium, Microsoft, Microsoft Exchange, technology, Volexity, zero day exploit
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Mike Rowe on “The Science Is Settled” And Cancel Culture
Mike Rowe of Dirty Jobs fame has some useful observations on the left throwing around “The Science Is Settled!” as a universal “get out of debate free” card: David J. Herdrich writes… Look, Mr Rowe, it’s easy to take a … Continue reading
Posted in Democrats, Global Warming, Social Justice Warriors
Tagged coronavirus, Democrats, Free Speech, Global Warming, Mike Rowe, Social Justice Warriors, Wuhan
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Followup on a Water/Gas Valve Shutoff Tool
Here’s another followup to my cheap prepper post. I did not have the Orbit 26097 Gas And Water Emergency Shut Off Tool when I wrote that post, but I already had it on order. Now that I have it it … Continue reading
PSA: Mirrors Are Not Bullet Proof
Feeling lazy today, so here’s a short Demolition Ranch video proving that, yes, mirror are not bullet proof: Since he goes out of his way to break a bunch of other superstitions, it makes me wonder why he didn’t release … Continue reading