Monthly Archives: June 2013

Adventures in Criminal Dumbassery

Posted on June 19, 2013 by Lawrence Person

Suppose you want the police to arrest you, but you aren’t quite ambitious enough to issue a death threat to the President. What to do? Well, How about: Issuing a death threat to a sitting United States Senator (and his … Continue reading →

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LinkSwarm for June 18, 2013

Posted on June 18, 2013 by Lawrence Person

Too much going on, so here’s a LinkSwarm to start your day: Why the IRS scandal is worse than the others. Snowden: Obama made all NSA abuses worse. Well, making things worse is Obama’s magic touch… The NSA confirms it … Continue reading →

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A Quick LinkSwarm on Syria

Posted on June 17, 2013 by Lawrence Person

So Obama is (maybe) going to be shipping arms to Syrian rebels. I think this is a remarkably bad idea for a number of reasons, none of them that Bashar Assad isn’t a murderous thug who oppresses his own people, … Continue reading →

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Texas vs. California Update for 6/17/13

Posted on June 17, 2013 by Lawrence Person

Time for another Texas vs. California roundup! California’s mullet budget: conservative in the front, but with a long greasy, tangled mane of liberal spending and debt in the back. “Public pension costs are increasing simply because liabilities are growing faster … Continue reading →

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Syrian Headlines One Year From Now

Posted on June 14, 2013 by Lawrence Person

New Syrian President Greets American Ambassador “A New Era” Syria Pledges Cooperation in Iraq, Lebanon Israel Claims New Syrian Government Shipping Arms to Hamas Damascus Under Sharia “They beat my wife,” claims distraught shopkeeper Syrian chemical weapons missing? Sunni, Shia … Continue reading →

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NSA: Annals of Non-Denial Denials

Posted on June 14, 2013 by Lawrence Person

So House Intelligence Committee leaders say that Edward Snowden is lying. They’re saying that he couldn’t possibly have had access to the records he said he did, that he lied about his past, etc. You know what neither the House … Continue reading →

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Political Correctness Trumps Fighting Terrorism Yet Again

Posted on June 13, 2013 by Lawrence Person

Want to keep the FBI from keeping tabs on you? Then operate out of the one place they’re not monitoring: Mosques. Because there’s no chance Islamic terrorists could be operating out of there. So the NSA needs to monitor the … Continue reading →

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Lawsuit Against Rosemary Lehmberg Moves Foward, Jury Trial Schedule for July 22

Posted on June 13, 2013 by Lawrence Person

That’s what I’m gleaning from this Statesman article on Travis County DA Rosemary Lehmberg following her DWI, though it doesn’t say the July 22 trial is for her removal under state law for intoxication of public officials. (The trial is … Continue reading →

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Public Not So Hot on Unlimited Surveillance State

Posted on June 12, 2013 by Lawrence Person

Or so says a CBS poll on the vast NSA/FISA/PRISM monitoring program. Republicans and Independents were pretty strongly against the government reading their emails and seizing their phone records. Democrats, on the other hand, were evenly split; evidently half of … Continue reading →

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Fisking Obama’s NSA Conference (Part 1)

Posted on June 11, 2013 by Lawrence Person

Obama gave his speech on the NSA scandal a few days ago. I wanted to fisk it because it’s eminently fiskable, and I don’t think that anyone else has done it (though Scott Shackford over at Reason took a stab). … Continue reading →

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