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Administrative Note: Blog Back Up

Posted on May 15, 2014 by Lawrence Person

This week I’ve been having some fairly heinous performance issues with the blog, as in “takes 30 second to a minute to load the dashboard” heinous. After some song and dance from BlueHost support (“CPU throttling! Chinese hackers!”), they took … Continue reading →

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Administrative Note: Amazon Widgets Temporarily Disabled

Posted on April 30, 2014 by Lawrence Person

I’ve temporarily disabled the Amazon widgets in the right sidebar since one was automatically redirecting the entire page to Amazon upon load. What the hell, Amazon? My apologies if anyone ran into this problem.

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When Democrats Say There’s No Voter Fraud, They’re Lying

Posted on April 10, 2014 by Lawrence Person

There’s an risible liberal talking point that continues to rear its ugly head regarding ACORN and the Democratic Party’s demonstrated record of voting fraud: “That’s not voting fraud, that’s voter registration fraud.” Before we address the talking point proper (which … Continue reading →

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WordPress Appears To Be Broken Today

Posted on April 10, 2014 by Lawrence Person

It won’t save drafts. More specifically, it won’t save drafts from the dashboard, though you can publish them, and you can edited previously save drafts. If you save a draft from the dashboard, it creates what appears to be a … Continue reading →

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Ben Carson for President: Save Your Money

Posted on April 8, 2014 by Lawrence Person

I’ve been getting a lot of political solicitations this year, one of which came from the Draft Ben Carson for President campaign. Since this is now a real thing (run by a John Philip Sousa IV) collecting real money, I … Continue reading →

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Ethnic Grievance Lobby Tries To Get Its Hooks Into SBOE

Posted on March 26, 2014 by Lawrence Person

Here’s one of those stories that buries the real news under bright, shiny affirmations of political correctness: Texas State Board of Education member Ruben Cortez says he’ll propose a vote to decide whether to create a statewide Mexican-American studies course … Continue reading →

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Cost Per Vote for the Texas Primary

Posted on March 6, 2014 by Lawrence Person

The Texas Tribune has a fascinating chart up showing the cost per vote for Texas races. A few highlight: Wendy Davis spent $4,172,161.26 to garner 432,056 votes, or $9.66 a vote. Greg Abbott spent $8,109,379.17 to garner 1,219,831 votes, or … Continue reading →

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Instead of Actual Content…

Posted on March 6, 2014 by Lawrence Person

…enjoy a Golden Retriever nodding its head in time to the music: There may or may not be any real content today, as it’s a Stuff Needs To Be Done day. But certainly I’ll have something tomorrow at the latest…

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A Quick Overview of Primary Results

Posted on March 5, 2014 by Lawrence Person

A very brief look at last night’s primary results: John Cornyn won, but couldn’t break 60% against a field of underfunded challengers. The Democratic Senate runoff is going to be between the big-spender David Alameel and the LaRouche candidate Kesha … Continue reading →

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Yanukovych Cracks Down On Euromaidan

Posted on February 18, 2014 by Lawrence Person

Police storm the Euromaidan barricades, several deaths reported. More later.

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