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.

Democratic Presidential Clown Car Update for April 15, 2019

More Q1 numbers are trickling out. Harris, Sanders and O’Rourke all did well, Gillibrand and Castro did poorly. Insert your own Biden as Hamlet sentence here. Fundraising More Q1 fundraising numbers, continued from last week, with new additions announced Bernie … Continue reading →

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Ilhan Omar, 9/11, and the Great Coordinated Democratic Freakout

Democratic Representative Ilhan Omar of Minnesota said something very stupid, and President Donald Trump made a video that called her on it: WE WILL NEVER FORGET! pic.twitter.com/VxrGFRFeJM — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 12, 2019 What followed was not just … Continue reading →

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Notes From The Continuing Decline of the Union/Democrat Complex

Given the chances to escape from union clutches, workers do so in droves: Given the choice of no longer paying to support unions they didn’t want to join in the first place, lots of public sector workers took it. Two … Continue reading →

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LinkSwarm for April 12, 2019

At long last, the FISA abuse/FBI spying on the Trump campaign scandal is finally being dragged into the light again. At the same time, Wikileaks head honcho Julian Assange has been extracted from the Ecuadorian embassy arrested, pending extradition to … Continue reading →

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Sudan Coup Update

The good news is that Sudanese dictator Omar al-Bashir, a man implicated in genocide in Darfur, has indeed been deposed after 30 years in power and is under arrest. The bad news is his replacement, Defense Minister Awad Mohamed Ahmed … Continue reading →

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Coup in Sudan

I’m about to go off to bed, but here are numerous reports that a coup against the unpopular dictator Omar al-Bashir, who has ruled Sudan for 30 years, has succeeded and forced him to step down after weeks of massive … Continue reading →

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Netanyahu Wins Israeli Election Yet Again

Benjamin Netanyahu was effectively reelected to a fourth term as Israeli Prime Minister: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu won Tuesday’s election and will be able to form a governing coalition that will enable to withstand a bribery indictment by Attorney-General Avichai … Continue reading →

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The Inevitability Of Autonomous Drone Swarms In Combat

Borepatch thinks it’s going to be a while until we get autonomous drones in combat. I think he’s probably mistaken, as he seems to be thinking about using them to pilot big, expensive things like tanks. I think we’re going … Continue reading →

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Democratic Presidential Clown Car Update for April 8, 2019

Tim Ryan and Eric Swalwell are In, Biden’s still Hamleting, Bloomberg is suddenly back in the picture, and a certain anti-Trump celebrity is making noises about running. Fundraising More fundraising numbers are trickling out: “Final fundraising tallies from January through … Continue reading →

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MS-13 Threatens Middle School

Democrats and their media allies have resurrected the year-old fake talking point that President Donald Trump called asylum seekers “animals” when he was actually referring to members of the violent illegal alien MS-13 gang. Now Democratic Presidential candidates like Pete … Continue reading →

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