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.

Alfie Must Die So That The Glorious Dream of Socialism Might Live

Thou Shalt Have No Other Gods Before the NHS. A UK court has decided that not only must toddler Alfie Evans, who has “a rare undiagnosed degenerative neurological condition,” be denied treatment in the UK, but that he he must … Continue reading →

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Scott Adams on Kanye West and the Coming Golden Age

This Scott Adams periscope is worth watching for his description of how President Donald Trump is breaking down our previous understanding of reality in North Korea, and a little bit on Kanye West. Scott Adams tells you how Kanye showed … Continue reading →

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Great Moments in Mail Fraud

This story is pretty amazing, featuring equal parts of both stupidity and chutzpah: The timeworn apartment building in Chicago’s Rogers Park neighborhood hardly looks like the corporate headquarters of one of the world’s largest shipping companies. But for a few … Continue reading →

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Paris Attack Suspect Given 20 Years (And The MSM Still Can’t Say “Jihad”)

Let’s take a look at this BBC story: Salah Abdeslam, the sole surviving suspect from the 2015 Paris attacks, has been jailed for 20 years in Belgium over a gunfight that led to his arrest. Abdeslam, 28, and co-defendant Sofien … Continue reading →

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Pat Condell on Progressivism and Cultural Marxism

Pat Condell nails modern progressivism for its naked intolerance. If not for the spiteful underhand nastiness and shallow vindictiveness of the progressive mindset, the sanctimonious moralizing, the phony liberality the assumption of moral superiority, and the arrogance in that assumption, … Continue reading →

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Possible Coup in Saudi Arabia? (Update: Probably Not)

Twitter has recently been abuzz of reports of gunfire outside the Saudi royal palace in Riyadh, and the Jerusalem Post seems to be the first major news outlet to have a story up about it: Gunfire and explosions have been … Continue reading →

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DNC Jumps On Shark, Then Jumps Another Shark

If the DNC was run by normal people, someone might have gone “Hey, maybe we should back off all this Trump-Russia collusion fantasy.” The DNC is not made up of normal people. The Washington Post reports that The Democratic National … Continue reading →

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LinkSwarm for April 20, 2018

Finished my taxes! Now I need to go back and do all the stuff I let slide while I was doing my taxes… The Syrian strike and Russia’s crummy air defense systems: The attack on April 13th went up against … Continue reading →

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Hurst, Texas House Explodes on Dashcam

And sometimes blogging is just “Whoa! I’ve got to post that!” Story here. Thankfully, no one was killed, though one woman remains in the hospital. Also this: “The driver was not hurt, but was taken into custody for not having … Continue reading →

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Barbara Bush, RIP

Former First Lady Barbara Bush, wife of one President and mother of another, has died at age 92. She was a class act as First Lady, pretty much universally loved and respected, and she will be missed. A few quick … Continue reading →

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