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.

Mike Brown: A Not-So-Gentle Giant

This video, reportedly of Freguson’s own Mike Brown (and it does look a great deal like him) presents an glimpse of him distinctly at odds with the “Hand up don’t shoot” crowd’s characterization of him as a “gentle giant”: Usual … Continue reading →

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Instead of Actual Content: Saturday Edition

I slay me… Have you tried more cowbell? @scrowder — BattleSwarm (@BattleSwarmBlog) December 13, 2014

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Bombshells Continue to Explode Discredited Rolling Stone UVA Rape Story

Now ABC has joined the Washington Post in debunking still more aspects of the Sabrina Rubin Erdely’s Rolling Stone UVA rape story. ABC got hold of and interviewed “Jackie”‘s friends, all of whom contradict Rolling Stone‘s account of the event … Continue reading →

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LinkSwarm for December 12, 2014

You might not know from scanning the headlines of what the mainstream media wants to focus on, but there’s been a lot of liberal meltdown this week, among the MSM themselves especially: Social Security to become insolvent in 2024. Thanks … Continue reading →

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BattleSwarmBlog Celebrates Victory Over Amanda Marcotte Day

After spending days pointing out Amanda Marcotte’s factual and intellectual fallacies over the unraveling Rolling Stone UVA rape story on Twitter, this finally happened: I love the smell of Amanda Marcotte blocking me in the morning. It smells like…victory. Henceforth, … Continue reading →

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Venezuela Takes The Express Lane To The Dustheap Of History

There’s been a lot of talk of how low oil prices are screwing Russia, but Venezuela is, if anything, more screwed thanks to the Magic Power of Socialism™: U.S. currency is vital to Venezuela, which imports as much as 80% … Continue reading →

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Tottering Rolling Stone UVA Rape Piece Collapses, Burns Down, And Sinks Into The Swamp

Now the Washington Post has done a follow-up to the Rolling Stone UVA rape piece. If the first Washington Post piece “raised questions” about the story, this one absolutely demolishes it. Read the whole thing.

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What a “Sober” South Texas Democratic Judge Looks Like

For all the justified talk of Republican gains in the Rio Grande Valley, it’s still overwhelmingly Democratic at the county level. So it’s no surprise that when a Democratic 13th Court of Appeals Justice Nora Longoria got arrested for DWI, … Continue reading →

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Eulogies for The New Republic Go Straight Past Laments To Rending of Garments

The aftershocks following the collapse of The New Republic following an editorial change by Facebook millionaire owner Chris Hughes (no doubt still stinging from his inability to buy his boyfriend a congressional seat) continue to reverberate around the punditocracy. For … Continue reading →

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Democrats Hate the South, And The South Hates Them Right Back

With the defeat of Mary Landrieu, the Democratic Party no longer has a single national office holder anywhere in the South. In fact, with South Carolina re-electing Tim Scott, “there are now more black Republicans than white Democrats from the … Continue reading →

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