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.

Ted Cruz Explains Why Republicans Lose

Once again Ted Cruz has articulated the problems the Republican grassroots has with Republican congressional leadership: Sen. Ted Cruz delivered a blistering critique of Republican leadership Thursday, just hours before lawmakers held what he described as a “show vote” attempting … Continue reading →

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Boehner To Resign from Speakership, Congress

Under pressure from conservatives, U.S. Speaker of the House John Boehner will resign from his position and congress effective at the end of October. This need not have come to pass if Boehner, who campaigned as a conservative, had actually … Continue reading →

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Muslims Vs. Octoberfest

You may have heard that Angela Merkel has performed a 180 degree flip on allowing those 800,000 “refugees” (read: Muslim illegal aliens, most from outside Syria) to settle in Germany. Idiocy like this certainly isn’t going to convince Germans to … Continue reading →

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Stop Hillary PAC is Another Dan Backer Scam PAC (And American Action News is a Sham Newsletter)

Recently I received a solicitation email from a “Stop Hillary PAC.” Well guess what? It’s another Dan Backer scam PAC. Like “Conservative Action Fund” or “Patriots for Economic Freedom” or any of a number of scam PACs run by Backer … Continue reading →

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LinkSwarm for September 22, 2015

My contract technical writing position ended, so I’ve been busy looking for a new job (if you know of one, drop me a line). As such, this LinkSwarm is a bit out of band. I’ve been busy. Ted Cruz is … Continue reading →

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Scott Walker Drops Out Of Presidential Race

Just more proof that, when it comes to 2016 presidential race, Nobody Knows Nothing: Scott Walker dropped out of the Presidential race tonight. If you had asked me six months ago who would get the nomination, I’d have guessed Scott … Continue reading →

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Blog Shootup/Meetup October 10, 2015

Dwight Brown of Whipped Cream Difficulties and I are putting on a gunny/VRWC blog shooting meetup/Tweetup at the Eagle Peak Gun Range in Leander on Saturday, October 10, at 5 PM, to be followed by a group dinner at the … Continue reading →

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$500 Million for 54 Syrian Rebels?

Anyone paying attention has long known what a miserable failure Obama’s Syrian strategy (such as it is) against Bashar Assad has been. But only recently has it come to light just how ridiculously expensive that miserable failure has been: The … Continue reading →

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“The left is why they leave the left”

When you start grabbing a third pull quote from a piece is when you realize that it needs a post of its own. Such is the case with this Nick Cohen piece on why Jeremy Corbyn’s election has finally forced … Continue reading →

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Houston Zoo Forced To Remove No Guns Signs

Chalk up another win of the rule of law over irrational hoplophobia: “Houston Zoo in Texas came under fire recently for signs near its entrance that say the zoo bans guns, leading to the zoo being forced to take the … Continue reading →

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