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.

Al Qaeda Affiliated Group Kills 276 in Somalia

A truck bomb thought to be the work of the al Qaeda affiliated al-Shabaab terrorist group killed at least 276 people in Mogadishu, Somalia. Background on al-Shabaab: It emerged as the radical youth wing of Somalia’s now-defunct Union of Islamic … Continue reading →

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Debunking the No True Communism Fallacy

In case you missed it, Jonah Goldberg did a really nice job dismantling the New York Times gauzy, nostalgic take on communism. It’s an incredibly useful debating tactic to say that every failed socialist country wasn’t really socialist because it … Continue reading →

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Raqqa’s Fall: “Hours or Days”

“Islamic State is on the verge of defeat in Syria’s Raqqa and a deal has been reached to evacuate civilians and Islamic State fighters, but not foreign militants, the U.S-led coalition fighting ISIS said on Saturday.” Here’s the Syria LiveMap … Continue reading →

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LinkSwarm for October 13, 2017

Happy Friday the 13th! In October, no less. Might want to avoid Crystal Lake today… Busy week, so a small LinkSwarm. Who all did Harvey Weinstein donate to? A whole lot of prominent Democrats. Including Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Chris … Continue reading →

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Texas Southern President Shuts Down State Rep’s Speech

Looks like another university is unclear on the concept of free speech. President Austin Lane of Houston’s historically black Texas Southern University evidently decided that students being exposed to non-liberal speech was such a threat that he shut down a … Continue reading →

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Harvey Weinstein, Serial Rapist

I had avoided writing on the Harvey Weinstein slimefest because everyone and their dog was on it, but the story has now morphed from “sleazy Hollywood studio exec and Democratic Party megadoner pressured women to watch him wank off” to … Continue reading →

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Was Las Vegas Shooter Just a Lunatic?

It would be so much easier to explain the inexplicable if Las Vegas shooter Stephen Paddock had been a convert to the Islamic State. After all, mass shootings in the name of radical Islam are a familiar phenomena. Then all … Continue reading →

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Islamic State Update: Hawija Falls, Final Push for Raqqa, Deir ez-Zor Fully Invested

Quick update on the ongoing destruction of the Islamic State. First, “Iraqi forces have driven Islamic State fighters from the northern city of Hawija, the militants’ final urban stronghold in Iraq, three years after they seized control of nearly a … Continue reading →

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My Bumps, My Bumps, My AR-Stocky Humps

Bump fire stocks (or just “bump stocks”) are replacement stocks for semiautomatic rifles that let the shooter simulate automatic by firing several shots without having to re-squeeze the trigger, are a hot topic in the news after Las Vegas shooter … Continue reading →

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Brianna Wu’s “Husband” Makes An Ad

In case you missed it, far-left anti-#GamerGate “activist” Brianna Wu (birth name: John Walker Flynt) is running for a U.S. congressional seat in Massachusetts. And Wu’s “husband” make an ad for that campaign: Many on the Internet say this is … Continue reading →

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