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.

Smokin!

Yesterday, I finished a story for an invitation-only anthology. Today I had a job interview. Both those things went well, but I can no longer brain today. Maybe brain tomorrow. So enjoy a single link instead of actual content: “

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Bad Gun Reporting From Fox News

Here’s one of those articles where the headline implies a lot more than the facts of the story: “Chicago’s violent gangs looting freight cars filled with guns.” Did you hear that? Freight cars filled with guns! The actual statistics are … Continue reading →

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LinkSwarm for March 10, 2017

Welcome to Friday! (And welcome Instapundit readers coming in off Stephen Green’s link to yesterday’s border security roundup.) First up: Liberalism’s continued idée fixe on the “Russians hacked the election” fantasy. If Trump had actually been in the pay of … Continue reading →

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Scenes From Securing the Border

What happens when you actually start enforcing the law? Oddly enough, lawbreaking goes down. The same is true of enforcing laws for border control and immigration. There’s been a lot of news on the border control and immigration front, starting … Continue reading →

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TPPF Call on ObamaCare Replacement: “Mend and Expand, Not Repeal and Replace”

I just got off a conference call with the Texas Public Policy Foundation on the House GOP ObamaCare replacement discussed yesterday. Here are some brief notes from the call: Chris Jacobs: Only one mandate repealed, retains the rest and maintains … Continue reading →

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TPPF Looks at House’s ObamaCare Repeal and Replace Plan…and is Not Impressed

House Republicans have finally produced the long-awaited ObamaCare replacement bill. Chris Jacobs of the Texas Public Policy Foundation took a look at the plan and was distinctly unimpressed: The bill falls far short of making good on the promise to … Continue reading →

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Trying to Make Sense of #Obamagate Wiretapping

The latest controversy began, as so many seem to, with a President Trump tweet: Terrible! Just found out that Obama had my "wires tapped" in Trump Tower just before the victory. Nothing found. This is McCarthyism! — Donald J. Trump … Continue reading →

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NRA Sticks It To The New York Times

Via Ace of Spades comes this masterful NRA slam of the New York Times:

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Charles Murray Attacked

In case you missed the news, author and sociologist Charles Murray was physically attacked at Middlebury College in Vermont: A violent “mob” attacked controversial author Charles Murray and a Middlebury College professor as they left a campus building Thursday night … Continue reading →

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LinkSwarm for March 3, 2017

Welcome to another Friday LinkSwarm! (On a personal note, if you know of any technical writing positions here in the Austin area, please let me know.) U.S. troops in Iraq finally get to enjoy sane rules of engagement. (Hat tip: … Continue reading →

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