Monthly Archives: September 2014

My Take On Foreign Policy’s Takedown of Obama’s Foreign Policy

Posted on September 15, 2014 by Lawrence Person

This piece in Foreign Policy has been making the rounds. It talks at length, in an inside-baseball manner, of how the Obama Administration’s feckless and incompetent behavior has damaged America’s interests around the world. A taste: The problem is that … Continue reading →

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Texas Governor’s Race Update for September 12, 2014

Posted on September 12, 2014 by Lawrence Person

Reporting on the Wendy Davis campaign at this point is like reporting on the Titanic 80% of the way into the sinking (“And there goes the second smokestack under the waves!”). But someone has to write a first draft of … Continue reading →

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Meanwhile, in South Dakota…

Posted on September 11, 2014 by Lawrence Person

Rapid City just got an inch of global warming. An early September winter storm in the Black Hills has dumped more than 6 inches of snow in the area, while Rapid City received its earliest snowfall in more than 120 … Continue reading →

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Vox.com Gives Obama Horns

Posted on September 10, 2014 by Lawrence Person

We’ll save substantive analysis of Obama’s ISIS speech for another time. (Maybe.) What I want to focus on: Vox.com and/or the White House set decorator making it look like Obama should have “666” on his forehead (click to embiggen for … Continue reading →

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“No One Is Allowed To Take Pictures of The Great and Powerful Wendy Davis!”

Posted on September 10, 2014 by Lawrence Person

Wendy Davis is signing at Austin book store Bookpeople tomorrow (September 11, 2014) at 12:30 PM. (Bookpeople, if you haven’t been there, is a nice independent bookstore that has all kinds of authors in for signings, not just liberal politicians, … Continue reading →

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Tomorrow is 9/11. What Is the Obama Administration Doing To Keep America Safe?

Posted on September 10, 2014 by Lawrence Person

Tomorrow is the 13th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorists attacks on World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Thanks to the Obama Administration’s feckless and spineless responses to terrorism both here and abroad, Americans feel less safe than ever: The exclusive … Continue reading →

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Raining on the Viking Women Warrior Parade

Posted on September 10, 2014 by Lawrence Person

Last week a story made the rounds claiming that a new archeological examination of graves showed almost as many female Viking warriors as male Viking warriors. There’s just one tiny problem with these claims: they’re bunk.. This paper absolutely does … Continue reading →

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“Wallace Hall Was Right About UT All Along”

Posted on September 9, 2014 by Lawrence Person

That’s the headline on this Dallas Observer story by Jim Schutze (who you may remember from my piece on Tom Leppert’s term as Dallas Mayor). The Hall piece details what members of the conservative Texas blogsphere (myself included) have been … Continue reading →

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LinkSwarm for September 8, 2014

Posted on September 8, 2014 by Lawrence Person

A Monday LinKSwarm to kick off your week with: Surprise, surprise, surprise: Obamacare discourages work. Media: ObamaCare is fading as an issue. GOP strategists: LOL. “Obama has overseen a shocking decline in America’s standing in the world. Everyone is mad … Continue reading →

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Edmonton Beheading Update

Posted on September 5, 2014 by Lawrence Person

British police name the beheader as “Nicholas Salvadore, a 25-year-old would-be cage fighter who is believed to be a Muslim convert, who had been living a few doors from 82-year-old [Victim] Palmira Silva.” Seeing some reports that Salvadore is a … Continue reading →

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