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Author Archives: Lawrence Person
George Will Makes the Case for Drug Legalization
Or, to be more specific, George Will summarizes the same case made in Mark Kleiman, Jonathan Caulkins and Angela Hawken’s Drugs and Drug Policy: What Everyone Needs to Know. It focuses on the sheer economic idiocy of continuing the War … Continue reading
Posted in Crime, Regulation, Waste and Fraud
Tagged Crime, drugs, federalism, George Will, Obama, Regulation, War on Drugs
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Ted Cruz Raises $1.3 million in Q1, Dewhurst $1.6 million
The Ted Cruz campaign announced that they raised $1.3 million in campaign funding in Q1, which is up $200,000 from his Q4 numbers. I was a bit disappointed in his Q4 numbers, thinking he should have had more of a … Continue reading
Posted in Elections, Republicans, Texas
Tagged 2012 Election, David Dewhurst, Elections, fundraising, Republicans, Ted Cruz, Texas, Texas Senate Race
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Liveblogging the Texas Senate Debate Friday, April 13, 7 PM
I’m livebloggiong the debate here. This is announcement that I will be attempting to liveblog the Texas Senate debate happening this Friday, April 13, at 7 PM CDT. Some of the things I’ll be looking at most keenly: David Dewhurst’s … Continue reading
Posted in Elections, Media Watch, Republicans, Texas
Tagged 2012 Election, Craig James, David Dewhurst, debate, Elections, liveblog, Republicans, Ted Cruz, Texas, Texas Senate Race, Tom Leppert
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Some Texas Counties Have More Registered Voters Than Vote-Eligable Citizens
According to this article in the Houston Chronicle, “Sixteen small counties across Texas appear to have more registered voters on their rolls as of 2010 than qualified citizens of voting age.” In a completely unrelated story, the Obama Administration opposes … Continue reading
Posted in Border Control, Crime, Elections, Obama Scandals, Texas, Waste and Fraud
Tagged 2012 Election, Border Controls, Crime, Elections, Eric Holder, fraud, Illegal Aliens, James O'Keefe, Texas, Voter Fraud, Voter ID
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LinkSwarm for April 9, 2012
A LinkSwarm to start your day with: Today’s Democrat calling her fellow Texans bigots comes to you from Rep. Donna Howard (D-Austin). How the story of today’s media transformation is being written by the losers: “We should not expect anything … Continue reading
Posted in Austin, Foreign Policy, Media Watch, ObamaCare, Texas
Tagged bureaucrats, Holly Hansen, John Cornyn, Kelly Lee McCarty, Lee Ann Seitsinger, LinkSwarm, Lisa Birkman, Mark Davis, NHS, Obama, ObamaCare, Russia, Socialized Medicine, Texas, UK, Williamson County
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RIP: Artist Thomas Kinkade, Dead at 54
Painter Thomas Kinkade has died at age 54. Kinkade was the extraordinarily popular “artist of light” who managed to turn himself into a franchise, opening up mall stores to sell reproductions of his paintings. This was the sort of thing … Continue reading
Texas Senate Race Update for April 5, 2012
Expect things to be a little slow for the Easter weekend: Ted Cruz appeared on Fox 26 in Houston: Cruz got attacked by Progress Texas for advertising on Rush Limbaugh. So Cruz reaches conservative listeners and gets liberals to attack … Continue reading
Posted in Democrats, Elections, Republicans, Texas, Uncategorized
Tagged 2012 Election, Addie D. Allen, Alice Walton, Craig James, David Dewhurst, Elections, Ted Cruz, Texas, Texas Senate Race
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And Still More ObamaCare Hearings Follow-Up
First, the ubiquitous Richard Epstein, on why Justice Kennedy’s million dollar question might restore our understanding of the Commerce Clause to the pre-NLRB v. Jones & Laughlin and Wickard v. Filburn reading that held sway from the founding of the … Continue reading
Posted in ObamaCare, Regulation, Supreme Court
Tagged ObamaCare, Regulation, Richard Epstein, Supreme Court
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More Support for the “Rick Perry Hopped Up on Goofballs” Theory
After Rick Perry’s disastrous fall campaign, I floated the idea that he was still hopped up on goofballs (i.e, taking serious pain medication) following his back operation. Well now comes word that there’s at least some supporting evidence in the … Continue reading
Posted in Elections, Regulation, Texas
Tagged 2012 Election, Elections, Presidential Race, Republicans, Rick Perry, Texas
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You keep using that word…
…I do not think it means what you think it means. The word, in this case, is “moderate,” which seems to be particularly tricky to define. Especially when it comes to Middle Eastern political parties. Since you can support Hamas … Continue reading