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.

Tab Clearing For April 6, 2024

A small handful of links that either didn’t make yesterday’s LinkSwarm, or weren’t quite right for it. Why young men have checked out. A rant with a measure of truth: “What’s going on with white males between 18-25?!” pic.twitter.com/k3Xz40Ki3A — … Continue reading →

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LinkSwarm for April 5, 2024

Hope you’ve got your taxes done. I’m still working on mine. “Summers: Inflation Reached 18% In 2022 Using The Government’s Previous Formula.” Numerous commentators—especially those defending President Biden’s economic record—have puzzled over why Americans are sour about the state of … Continue reading →

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Conflict Of Interest: You’re Soaking In It

Remember when the court system at least pretended to be objective? Remember a few months ago when liberals claimed that Clarence Thomas’ wife knowing conservative activists meant he had to recuse himself from everything? Here in the real here and … Continue reading →

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Biden Admin Tries To Infect Chip Makers With DEI

I’ve already said repeatedly that semiconductor subsidies are the wrong solution for the wrong problem. However, this piece by Matt Cole and Chris Nicholson shows the CHIPS Act was far more poisonous than I thought. DEI — the identity-obsessed dogma … Continue reading →

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Israel Hits Iran’s Embassy In Syria

This is a big, big story that doesn’t seem to be getting the sort of attention that a big story should. An Israeli airstrike that demolished Iran’s consulate in Syria on Monday killed two Iranian generals and five officers, according … Continue reading →

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Does Malicious Backdoor Compromise SSH?

A newly discovered backdoor found in the xz liblzma library of XZ Utils, the XZ format compression utilities included in most Linux distributions, targets the RSA implementation of OpenSSH. For those outside of tech, that sentence was an unreadable jumble … Continue reading →

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The Social Justice War To Replace Christianity

Happy Easter! You might think that on Christianity’s most holy day, a president running for reelection in a majority Christian nation would go out of his way to avoid antagonizing Christians. You’d be wrong. The Biden Administration has declared today, … Continue reading →

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Oregon Declares War On Family Farms

The radical left-wing anti-farm green agenda isn’t just trying to destroy agriculture in foreign locales like The Netherlands, it’s also happening in Oregon. “The state of Oregon has effectively shut down small farms and market gardens on a large scale, … Continue reading →

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LinkSwarm For March 29, 2024

Lies trying to hide how bad the Biden Recession sucks continue to unravel, a mini Texas-vs.-California update, Ukraine makes another oil refinery go boom, true depths of human depravity, some Bill Burr and Critical Drinker links, and two tons of … Continue reading →

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Did Facebook Run A Man-in-The-Middle Hack Against Competitors?

Newly unsealed court documents accuse Facebook of running a man-in-the-middle attack against several competitors. At the request of CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook officials developed a program called In-App Action Panel (IAAP) that they deployed in 2016 and which was in … Continue reading →

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