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.

Follow-Up On Abbott-Davis RGV Debate

The Abbot campaign sent around this two minute exchange from the debate as being Davis’ most cringe-worthy performance: The Houston Chronicle says that Abbott is right on the facts in that exchange: Shot: Davis said “the only thing right now … Continue reading →

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WendyBot5000. Will. Continue. Speaking!

Well, if Wendy Davis was hoping the Rio Grande Valley debate would help her catch up to Greg Abbott, she probably should have worked to have a voice other than the pre-programmed monotone she used. She also loses points for … Continue reading →

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Greg Abbott Debates Wendy Davis Tonight At 6 PM

Tonight Greg Abbott faces off against Wendy Davis in the Texas gubernatorial debate. In Austin it should be broadcast here live starting at 6 PM.

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The NFL and Domestic Violence: A Ginned Up Moral Panic

I had been reading less and less of Sports Illustrated for a while now, partially because of their increasing politicization (see Peter King, Gun Control Zealot), and partially because each redesign was worse than the last. The most recent one, … Continue reading →

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Democrats Pull Out The Knives for Debbie Wasserman Schultz

There’s nothing quite so entertaining as Democrat-in-Democrat mud fights, so take a few minutes to enjoy Edward-Isaac Dovere’s takedown of DNC chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz. It’s something of an clinic on the insider hit-piece form, full of anonymously sourced catty … Continue reading →

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Texas vs. California Update for September 17, 2014

Time for another Texas vs. California roundup: The Texas economy continues to hum along: During the second quarter, Texas employers added 148,200 net nonfarm jobs—an average of 49,400 per month. This amounts to an 18 percent share of all jobs … Continue reading →

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While I Grapple With Rotherham, Pat Condell Brings The Noise

So I keep try to pen a coherent essay on the Rotherham child rape scandal, and I keep getting too angry and/or disgusted to write about it. Pat Condell has no such problem. “If your 11 year-old daughter is regularly … Continue reading →

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My Take On Foreign Policy’s Takedown of Obama’s Foreign Policy

This piece in Foreign Policy has been making the rounds. It talks at length, in an inside-baseball manner, of how the Obama Administration’s feckless and incompetent behavior has damaged America’s interests around the world. A taste: The problem is that … Continue reading →

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Texas Governor’s Race Update for September 12, 2014

Reporting on the Wendy Davis campaign at this point is like reporting on the Titanic 80% of the way into the sinking (“And there goes the second smokestack under the waves!”). But someone has to write a first draft of … Continue reading →

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Meanwhile, in South Dakota…

Rapid City just got an inch of global warming. An early September winter storm in the Black Hills has dumped more than 6 inches of snow in the area, while Rapid City received its earliest snowfall in more than 120 … Continue reading →

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