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.

Tractor Tragedy Terminates Traficant

Convicted felon and Democratic ex-congressman from Ohio James Traficant died in a tractor accident on his farm, evidently following a heart attack that left the tractor pinned on top of him. In 2002, Traficant was convicted of 10 felony counts … Continue reading →

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Facts About the Oklahoma City Beheader

A few random facts about the Oklahoma beheader, Alton Nolen, AKA Jah’Keem Yisrael, AKA Alton Threadgill (the name on his Facebook profile): The Oklahoma Department of Corrections lists his birthdate as 08/16/1984 and gives his vital statistics as “Black Male; … Continue reading →

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University of Michigan Makes It A Crime Not To Have Sex

Reason brings us word that victimhood identity politics efforts to redefine campus sexual assault have now reached some perfect Bizarro World conclusion: It’s now “sexual violence” to withhold sex. From the UM official page: Sexual violence Examples of sexual violence … Continue reading →

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Politico Names Wendy Davis As One of Worst Campaigns of 2014

This Politico piece won’t reveal anything new to anyone who has been following the campaign, but it will probably prove quite a shock for out-of-state liberals who might still believe Davis has a chance: Davis’ June 2013 filibuster against a … Continue reading →

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The Unexpected Return of This Week(ish) in Jihad

Bombing, revolution, and other jihad-related news breaking out, so let’s dust off this old headline category and throw up some links. Our air force continues to bomb ISIS targets in Iraq and Syria, including hitting their oil refineries. France has … Continue reading →

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Will Colorado Crapweasel John Hickenlooper Get Booted From the Governor’s Mansion?

A new Quinnipiac poll shows Colorado’s incumbent Democratic governor John Hickenlooper down ten points to Republican challenger Bob Beauprez. Michelle Malkin explains why: It was Hickenlooper who caved to East Coast gun-control zealots and partisan White House lobbying. As Democratic … Continue reading →

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Rich Liberal Trial Lawyer Steve Mostyn is the Bank Behind Texas Municipal Police Association PAC

It’s always interesting to find out where the money for innocuous sounding political committees is really coming from. Today the Dallas Morning news revealed that rich liberal trial lawyer Steve Mostyn provides the majority of money behind the Texas Municipal … Continue reading →

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Gun and Crime Roundup for September 23, 2014

Been a while since I did a roundup on gun news and examples of criminal stupidity, so here it is: Study shows that banning “assault weapons” has no effect on crime. The Missouri House and Senate override the veto of … Continue reading →

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LinkSwarm for September 22, 2014

A Monday LinkSwarm of some recent(ish) news: Surprise, surprise, surprise: ObamaCare covers abortions. Alaska doctor shuts down practice due to ObamaCare. Obama’s own Secretary of Defense says we left Iraq too soon. Strangely enough, Gaza landlords are no longer wild … Continue reading →

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“Arab civilization, such as we knew it, is all but gone.”

That’s the headline on this Hisham Melhem piece on the comprehensive failure of the entire Arab world. The jihadists of the Islamic State, in other words, did not emerge from nowhere. They climbed out of a rotting, empty hulk—what was … Continue reading →

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