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.

A Bucket of Texas News

No theme linking all this stories, but crime, police and jihad all figure predominately: The Islamic State has singled out the First Baptist Church in Dallas as a target for arson. If memory serves, the last time jihadis tried to … Continue reading →

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More Clinton Global Initiative Greatest Hits

Jeff Dunetz at The Lid has more on the Clinton Global Initiative in the wake of yesterday’s post that it was being shut down. He included some CGI Greatest Pay-for-Play Hits I missed, including: Helping Set Up Russia’s Silicon Valley … Continue reading →

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Clinton Foundation Shutting Down Clinton Global Initiative

Remember the Clinton Global Initiative, the arm of the Clinton Foundation that Clinton supporters claimed helps solve “the world’s most pressing challenges,” and which detractors noted was yet another handy tool to line the pockets of the Clintons and their … Continue reading →

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Trump Threatens the Establishment

Here’s an interesting piece on the threat Trump poses not only to the media’s political pieties, but to the entire edifice of politically correct moral authority they had spent decades constructing: If all his other cultural blasphemies did not finish … Continue reading →

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LinkSwarm for January 13, 2017

Time to extract more pure wheat from chaff! Glenn Greenwald says Democrats will go to any lengths to avoid blaming themselves for their debacle: I really haven’t experienced anything even remotely like the smear campaign that has been launched by … Continue reading →

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Texas vs. California Update for January 12, 2017

It’s been a long time since I compiled one of these, so this is going to be monstrously large. Also, just as I was finishing this up, the San Diego Chargers announced they were moving to Los Angeles. Hell, LA … Continue reading →

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Dawnna Dukes Case Headed to Grand Jury

In an update to the Dawnna Dukes story, her case is headed to a grand jury: Travis County prosecutors and Texas Rangers will present evidence to a grand jury that state Rep. Dawnna Dukes abused the power of her office, … Continue reading →

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Pentagon Successfully Tests Microdrone Swarm

Given the name of my blog, you wouldn’t expect this development to escape my eye: The Pentagon may soon be unleashing a 21st-century version of locusts on its adversaries after officials on Monday said it had successfully tested a swarm … Continue reading →

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85th Texas Legislative Session Begins Today

Lock up your women and liquor, the legislature is back in town! The 85th Texas Legislative Session started today, and one of the biggest concerns is a smaller budget, as detailed by the comptroller: For 2018-19, the state can expect … Continue reading →

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The Great Pickup Truck War of 2017

This past week brought one of those small, illuminating skirmishes in the culture wars, this time over that quintessentially Texas vehicle, the pickup truck. First came this New York Times piece by Many Fernandez on the Texas Truck Rodeo. If … Continue reading →

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