Author Archives: Lawrence Person

About Lawrence Person

Lawrence Person is a political commentator and science fiction writer living in Austin, Texas. His political work has appeared in National Review, Reason, The Freeman, Liberty and The World & I. His SF has appeared in Asimov's, Analog, F&SF, Postscripts, Jim Baen's Universe, Fear, and several anthologies. He owns such a large library (mostly science fiction first editions) he had to buy a two-story house to put it in, and then adopted a golden retriever to drag him out of his house on a regular basis.

Gentlemen, Your Crow

Posted on January 24, 2010 by Lawrence Person

Time to revisit some of the amazingly stupid predictions of inevitable liberal ascendancy left-wing pundits made following Obama’s victory in 2008. Continue reading →

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Random Site Administration Going On

Posted on January 24, 2010 by Lawrence Person

I’ve updated this page to the latest WordPress theme, and have been futzing with code and moving a few things around to get it working properly, including deleting a few minor posts. Expect a much more substantial post up later … Continue reading →

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How Bad is Martha Coakley Doing?

Posted on January 19, 2010 by Lawrence Person

Polls aren’t even closed, but Democratic staffers are already leaking finger-pointing memos blaming each other for her defeat.

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25% of Massachusetts Voters Expect ACORN to Commit Election Fraud

Posted on January 19, 2010 by Lawrence Person

According to left-leaning Public Policy Polling. Also, even 1 in 6 Democrats expect ACORN to commit election fraud. Funny, all those Democratic apologists loudly claiming that “registration fraud doesn’t equal voting fraud” don’t seem to be changing the minds of … Continue reading →

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Kabul Under Heavy Attack

Posted on January 18, 2010 by Lawrence Person

Stratfor is reporting that the Taliban have launched a major attack on downtown Kabul. I’m mentioning it here because it doesn’t seem to have received a lot of media attention. Yes, there is still a War on Terror/War on Islamofascism … Continue reading →

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Light blogging this week

Posted on January 14, 2010 by Lawrence Person

A family event looms, so content will be light here until next week

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Evidently you can’t go a day without another John Murtha corruption story

Posted on January 7, 2010 by Lawrence Person

Today’s Rep. John Murtha (D-ollars)-related corruption story involves outright kickbacks from Kuchera Defense Systems Inc.: A defense contractor with ties to Rep. John Murtha has been suspended again from bidding on government contracts, this time for paying more than $200,000 … Continue reading →

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For the Obama Administration, your health John Murtha’s Pals Come First

Posted on January 6, 2010 by Lawrence Person

Remember Rep. John Murtha? The congressman who called his own constituents racists? You know, the John Murtha who sits as the chairman of the House Appropriations defense subcommittee? The John Murtha whose nephew got $4 million in no-bid Defense contracts? … Continue reading →

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Former National Hurricane Center Director Neil Frank on Climategate

Posted on January 4, 2010 by Lawrence Person

Interesting piece on Climategate by former National Hurricane Center Director (and former KHOU meteorologist) Neil Frank. Some have asked why people like myself pay attention to critics of Anthropogenic Global Warming, rather than the “(insert random percentage between 75 and … Continue reading →

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Socialized medicine works great…if you’re rich

Posted on January 3, 2010 by Lawrence Person

Here’s a story about how socialized medicine actually works. National health care works great… so long as you’re rich enough to afford the premium level of government insurance and to buy multiple additional private policies; so long as you have … Continue reading →

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