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.

LinkSwarm for October 4, 2013

Harry Reid and Obama declare war on World War II Vets and cancer patients. Next up: Reid explaining why the shutdown requires them to euthanize kittens. Obama deserves the blame for the shutdown. Thomas Sowell: “There is really nothing complicated … Continue reading →

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Constitutional Democracy At Work

Liberals have staged another one of their regular hissy fits over the government shutdown. What they don’t seem to realize is that this is exactly how divided government is supposed to work. The Founding Fathers were tremendously suspicious of investing … Continue reading →

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Texas Statewide Race Roundup for October 2, 2013

Time for another (no doubt incomplete) roundup of statewide race news: Holly Hansen interviews Greg Abbott. Wendy Davis expresses enthusiasm for gun control, because that will go over so well in Texas. Next up: Wendy David calls for banning BBQ, … Continue reading →

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Can Anyone Successfully Primary John Cornyn?

There’s been a lot of criticism of John Cornyn in Tea Party circles over his failure to back Ted Cruz in procedural votes on the ObamaCare defunding fight. Given that, the muttering over someone primarying Cornyn have grown much louder. … Continue reading →

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Canseco Running Against Gallego Again

Francisco “Quico” Canseco is gearing up to take U.S. Congressional District 23 back from Democrat Pete Gallego. Canseco lost the by just over 9,000 votes in 2012, having beaten Ciro Rodriguez for the seat by just over 7,000 votes in … Continue reading →

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LinkSwarm for September 27, 2013

Another Friday, another LinkSwarm: When it comes to ObamaCare, it turns out that Democrats lied about, well, pretty much everything. “Millions of low-income Americans won’t receive coverage. Many workers at small businesses won’t get a choice of insurance plans right … Continue reading →

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Cruz Filibuster Fallout

A roundup of reactions and fallout from Ted Cruz’s mammoth 21-hour anti-OabamCare speech effort: The battle is joined: There is new leadership in the GOP, whether the party wants to admit it or not: Cruz, Rand Paul, Mike Lee, Jeff … Continue reading →

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The UN Arms Treaty: It’s Baaaaack!

Because those bitter rednecks clinging to their guns and religion (also known as “voters”), Obama hasn’t been able to disarm law-abiding Americans the way he would like. What to do, what to do? Hey, how about using that UN Arms … Continue reading →

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Ted Cruz vs. ObamaCare

When I went to sleep, Ted Cruz was filibustering against ObamaCare. I just woke up, and he’s still at it. I’m in the awkward position of supporting Ted Cruz et. al.’s attempt to defund-via-narrow-procedural-filibuster-followed-by-Democrats-blinking strategy while also believing that the … Continue reading →

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Mickey & Ted & Amnesty & ObamaCare

Harping on a theme he’s harped on before, Mickey Kaus dinged Ted Cruz (again) for not opposing illegal alien amnesty with the single-minded focus Kaus thinks he should. (“You didn’t clap loud enough! Tinkerbell is dead!Amnesty is Alive!”) This criticism … Continue reading →

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