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.

Minneapolis Refunds The Police

Remember when antifa and #BlackLivesMatter looted or burned more than 700 buildings in Minneapolis? And how the hard-left City Council’s first instinct was to call for defunding the police? Well, reality has a way of intruding, and now Minneapolis is … Continue reading →

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It’s a Freaking Winter Wonderland in Austin This Morning

7°F and a good four inches of snow on the ground (which probably feels like a foot to us). There’s an official disaster declaration and the city has pretty much shut down: The University of Texas at Austin is closed … Continue reading →

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Tank News Roundup for February 14, 2021

A few bits of tank-related news have been caught in the hopper, so let’s do a quick roundup: The M1A2 Abrams gets a new tank round: The US Army’s main battle tank, the M1 Abrams, is about to receive a … Continue reading →

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Zer0

The estimated Austin low temperature for Monday, February 15, is now 0°F: One good thing about Thursday’s ice storm is that maybe it snapped all the power lines its going to snap, and hopefully everyone will have power for the … Continue reading →

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LinkSwarm for February 12, 2021

Greetings, and welcome to a Friday LinkSwarm! Bad weather and bad driving are themes, as the ice storm mentioned yesterday already slammed Texas hard. I was without power for over 10 hours last night and this morning, and every tree … Continue reading →

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Se7°en

Here’s the seven day forecast: Take a look at the temperature on Monday: 7°F. Not 37, not 27, but 7°F. That wouldn’t be the coldest Austin day on record, but it would be the coldest this century and the coldest … Continue reading →

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Immodest Proposal: Tax The Homeless

Remember how Governor Greg Abbott said he was going to clear homeless camps out from under bridges and highway overpasses in Austin? TxDOT was supposed to enforce that edict for state highway underpasses, but I can tell you that every … Continue reading →

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Biden’s CIA Pick Runs Think Tank Filthy With Chinese Money

Well, this seems like a huge conflict of interest: William J. Burns, who is President Joe Biden’s nominee for director of the CIA, is president of a think tank that has received up to $2 million from a Chinese businessman … Continue reading →

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George Shultz, RIP

George Shultz, who served as Secretary of State for Ronald Reagan for six years, died yesterday at age 100. Reagan assumed the presidency at a time when the existence of the Soviet Union and its domination of eastern Europe was … Continue reading →

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Mike Lindell’s Absolute Truth Documentary on 2020 Presidential Election Fraud

I kept meaning to put up this 2020 Presidential election fraud documentary by Mike Lindell (the MyPillow CEO), but YouTube keeps taking it down, so here’s a BitChute version: I haven’t watched all of it it yet, but it’s more … Continue reading →

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