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.

Nurse Bloomberg’s Plans to Take Away Your Guns

Posted on December 29, 2009 by Lawrence Person

Nurse Bloomberg is at it again. The proposals of his “Mayors Against Illegal Guns” group has very little to do with stopping “illegal guns” and a whole lot to do with make firearms more difficult for the law-abiding to obtain, … Continue reading →

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The Nation’s Alexander Cockburn calls Anthropogenic Global Warming “A Farce”

Posted on December 25, 2009 by Lawrence Person

ClimateGate continues to bubble along. It’s no surprise to see those on the right critical of AGW, but when a dyed-in-the-wool far lefty like The Nation‘s Alexander Cockburn calls it a farce, that’s pretty notable. (Evidently Cockburn has been a … Continue reading →

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Merry Christmas!

Posted on December 24, 2009 by Lawrence Person

After all, mankind cannot live on politics alone…

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Obama Now More Loathed than Bush at the end of his term

Posted on December 22, 2009 by Lawrence Person

According to Rasmussen, via Gateway Pundit. Man, that’s got to sting. That’s what happens when you ignore mounting job losses to push expensive legislation that everyone hates. Hey, just imagine if Obama announced that he was asking Congress to kill … Continue reading →

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ClimateGate Supression of Dissent: A Case Study

Posted on December 21, 2009 by Lawrence Person

Here are the authors of a study critical of the consensus AGW narrative which the leaked CRU letters talk about how to suppress. The letters discuss how to stack peer reviewers in favor of AGW and against dissenters, and how … Continue reading →

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Richard Epstein says Reid’s ObamaCare Bill is Unconstitutional

Posted on December 21, 2009 by Lawrence Person

Noted Constitutional law scholar Richard A. Epstein says Harry Reid’s ObamaCare bill is unconstitutional. “The Supreme Court’s basic constitutional requirement is that any firm in a regulated market be allowed to recover a risk-adjusted competitive rate of return on its … Continue reading →

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Spending Lots of Taxpayer Money to Accomplish Nothing

Posted on December 21, 2009 by Lawrence Person

If there’s a theme for the Obama years, and for the Pelosi/Reid legislation Obama has embraced, it’s that of spending tremendous amounts of taxpayer dollars to accomplish almost nothing. Consider: The stimulus spent $787 billion dollars of taxpayer money to … Continue reading →

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Nancy Pelosi TechnoChicken Remix

Posted on December 20, 2009 by Lawrence Person

Watch if you dare. In a way however, this strange juxtaposition is deeply unfair, and even cruel. The chicken is a noble (if dimwitted) creature that provides desperately needed sustenance to a hungry world. It is an insult to conflate … Continue reading →

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The Constitution is not a Suicide Pact, but ObamaCare is

Posted on December 18, 2009 by Lawrence Person

Given that it’s no so extrordinarily unpopular that it threatens to unseat numerous Democratic senators next year. “A recent Zogby poll showed 28% of state voters support ‘reform.’ A full 40% said they’d be less likely to vote for Democratic … Continue reading →

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Russians now saying their climate data was distorted, cherry-picked

Posted on December 16, 2009 by Lawrence Person

According to this report CRU “probably tampered with Russian-climate data.” It goes on: “Analysts say Russian meteorological stations cover most of the country’s territory, and that the Hadley Center had used data submitted by only 25% of such stations in … Continue reading →

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