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.

The Great Purge Begins

Posted on January 10, 2021 by Lawrence Person

Friday big tech monopolies started their purge of conservative voices at the very top, by banning President Donald Trump from Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, Twitch and others in a coordinated attempt to silence him at the end of his first … Continue reading →

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Alternatives to Twitter

Posted on January 9, 2021 by Lawrence Person

I’ve got a bunch of quarter- or half-formed blog posts about The Recent Unpleasantness I haven’t had time to finish, so let’s use this low-calorie blog post substitute to note that I’m on two separate alternative to Twitter: On Gab … Continue reading →

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LinkSwarm for January 8, 2021

Posted on January 8, 2021 by Lawrence Person

Maybe tomorrow I’ll feel like finishing that post on the events of January 6th. In the meantime, enjoy a Friday LinkSwarm: Mark Steyn has some pungent commentary: The political class (represented by a Speaker who flies home to San Francisco … Continue reading →

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China Calls Uighur Women in Concentration Camps “Emancipated”

Posted on January 7, 2021 by Lawrence Person

There’s chutzpah, and then there’s “Communist China tries to spin its putting Uighur women in concentration camps as emancipating” chutzpah: Translation: "We committed genocide by sterilizing them and literally murdering their babies. Now shut up and buy your slave labor … Continue reading →

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Too Much Stupid To Process

Posted on January 6, 2021 by Lawrence Person

It’s hard to blog when there’s too much stupid going around to have time to comment on it. It takes a special kind of stupid to let Democrats steal two senate seats and a senate majority exactly the same way … Continue reading →

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Charter Schools Work. No Wonder Democrats Want To Kill Them.

Posted on January 5, 2021 by Lawrence Person

Jonathan Chait has a New York Magazine piece on charter schools that’s worth looking at: In the dozen years since Barack Obama undertook the most dramatic education reform in half a century — prodding local governments to measure how they … Continue reading →

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Did The Wuhan Coronavirus Escape From A Lab?

Posted on January 4, 2021 by Lawrence Person

From the very beginning of the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak, observers have been wondering if it escaped from the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Now at least one U.S. official has said that the lab origin theory is the most likely explanation … Continue reading →

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Tank vs. Gun Safes

Posted on January 3, 2021 by Lawrence Person

In this video, Demolition Ranch’s Matt Carriker pits a Sherman tank‘s 76mm main cannon against ten gun safes lined up in a row: About 7 minutes in you can see the second round fired spinning down after penetrating several safes … Continue reading →

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Dear Judicial Watch: Do You Think You Could Stop Mailing Me So Much Crap?

Posted on January 2, 2021 by Lawrence Person

Throughout 2020, I carried out a little experiment: I saved every single piece of mail I received from Judicial Watch in a stack: The stack of mail came to about 6 1/2″ high. Each piece had various different ostensible purposes … Continue reading →

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Breaking: Texas Supreme Court Also Tells Adler To Get Stuffed

Posted on January 1, 2021 by Lawrence Person

In our last installment of As The Lockdown Turns, Austin Mayor Steve Adler had tried to order Austin bars and restaurants to close at 10:30 PM for drinking and dining over the New Year’s Weekend. This, in turn, was was … Continue reading →

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