- Texas Freedom Caucus Statement Cautioning Local Governments against Raising Property Taxes and Urging Local Leaders to Focus on Essential Services
- “It’s going to hurt”: New coronavirus shocks Texas economy as length of public health crisis remains unknown
- TWC Waives Certain Requirements for Unemployment Benefits Services
- WSJ: Texas Weighs Curtailing Oil Production for First Time in Decades
- Governor Abbott Appoints Namdar To OneStar Foundation
- Governor Abbott Reappoints Boyd To Gulf States Marine Fisheries Commission
- Texas Transportation Institute’s Epps Presented with Lifetime Achievement Award, Inducted into AMAP Hall of Fame
- Texas lets school districts decide whether students can graduate without STAAR
- The ‘Voter Suppression’ Smear Is Back Primary precinct analysis: Who did what in the Democrat RRC race
- Reader Survey: Should Political Candidates Knock Doors Right Now?
- HD47: Interview with Runoff Candidate Jennifer Fleck
- HD25: Two Local Officials Face-Off in Republican Primary Runoff to Replace Dennis Bonnen
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- Coronavirus related
- Gov. Abbott bans gatherings, shuts down restaurants, bars, schools, more, more
- See Abbot’s executive order here (pdf)
- Dr. John Hellerstedt Issues Public Health Disaster Declaration In Texas
- Governor Abbott Hosting Televised Town Hall On Coronavirus Tonight at 7pm
- UIL extends suspension of all activities until May 4
- Texas State Parks to close public-serving facilities and programs
- Texas Takes Deregulatory Approach in Meeting Supply Chain Needs Amid Coronavirus Pandemic
- Trump announces FDA making anti-malaria drug available ‘almost immediately’ to tackle coronavirus
- Texas is urging patients to seek remote health care. Some insurance plans won’t pay for it. – oh boo hoo, pay for it like I do.
- Coronavirus pauses many Texas court proceedings. For some, that means more time in jail.
- Did SCOTX Set the Rules for Coronavirus Exposure Litigation?
- President Trump’s Coronavirus Task Force Briefs Press VIDEO
- ‘You Should Leave Immediately’ — Donald Trump Jokes Reporters Are Too Close – it was a joke but should not be. These folks are infringing on our rights to assemble and telling us what to do but they are as close together as any theater.
- Montgomery County judge orders restaurants, businesses, libraries to close
- Mayor orders San Antonio bars, restaurants to close amid coronavirus outbreak
- Houston Pleads for More Tests, Gear as Cars Pack Hospital
- Texas Tech student with coronavirus violated quarantine protocols, officials say
- Lubbock family under quarantine after Texas Tech student ignored requirement to self-isolate
- Zimmerman: COVID-19: the unwarranted panic
- Eptein: Coronavirus Perspective
- Judge Andrew Napolitano: Coronavirus fear lets government assault our freedom in violation of Constitution
- Pratt: Source of fear is what we didn’t, or don’t, know about COVID-19
- Pratt: In crisis, what is our role as constitutionalists and conservatives?
- New Orleans Mayor Issues Coronavirus Order Allowing Ban on Sale, Transportation of Firearms
- Parkland chief: Past epidemics reveal why we must take serious action now – makes my point of where the fear is based
- Coronavirus cases have dropped sharply in South Korea
- Lower death rate estimates for coronavirus, especially for non-elderly, provides hope
- 86% of people with coronavirus are walking around undetected, study says
- A review of the disease on the confined Diamond Princess
- America gets a big taste of socialism with coronavirus
- Study: Midland tops for recession risk from coronavirus
- Big Spring business owner offering free rolls of toilet paper to customers
- Richardson man found dead in his home had the disease, health officials say
- Decontamination Wipe, FiberTect, from Texas Tech Could Help Coronavirus Cleanup Efforts
- Houston’s Mattress Mack offering free meals to families in need during coronavirus pandemic
- Ann Coulter: Cheap TVs, Expensive Flu
- Lockdown: Laredo City Council Orders Mandatory Quarantine
- McAllen U.S. Rep. Vicente Gonzalez self-quarantines after contact with colleague who has coronavirus
- CNN’s reporting blows up their own fact checker on virus test kits
- Musk says SpaceX and Tesla can manufacture ventilators, but he’s not sure they’re needed yet
- Can a County ‘Seal Its Borders’ during the Coronavirus Outbreak?
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- Federal/DC related to Texas
- Cornyn draws rebuke from Democrats over comments about China, coronavirus origins – over-the-top P.C. political bull s**t from Democrats.
- Sen. Cornyn defends Trump for calling COVID-19 the “Chinese virus”
- Sen. Cruz Votes in Favor of Second Coronavirus Relief Package – he should have voted “no” as long as this small business killing mandate is in it.
- Trump signs coronavirus relief package hours after Senate approves it 90-8
- US Seeks $3 Billion to Boost Oil Producers as Prices Plunge
- Sen. Cruz Applauds Release of Amer Fakhoury in Lebanon
- Rep. Conaway holds Facebook live town hall
- Sen. Lindsey Graham Uses Disease Crisis to Expand EB-5 Green Card Program
- Democrats and Coronavirus: Alinsky on Steroids
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- Presidential race / national politics
- Tulsi Gabbard ends run for presidency, puts support behind Biden
- Biden’s Memory Isn’t the Only Problem; It’s His Lies
- Who Will Biden Pick to Run With? VIDEO
- CNN Report on Test Kits Refutes Biden Statement—and Its Own Fact-Check
- Bernie Sanders, the Man Who Couldn’t Change in the Face of Pandemic
- Never Trump Leader Rick Wilson Mocks Melania Trump’s Coronavirus Help: ‘Be Infected’
- Media lies: “PolitiFact” claims “Trump’s slow response to the pandemic that “social distancing” is now required at such a large-scale level”
- Debra Messing Says Many Trump Voters Will Die Because Trump Lies – does that apply to Bill Clinton voters?
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Claims Trump is a ‘Nazi’ with Coronavirus Response
- ‘Kung Flu’ makes a PBS ‘reporter’ look foolish
- On Coronavirus, the Truth Can’t Be Racist
- China Calls ‘Wuhan Virus’ Racist, But Their State Media Called It That Themselves
- Hillary joins media in accusing Trump of ‘racist rhetoric’ when saying ‘Chinese virus’
- Igor Volsky pisses lotsa people off in thread lecturing them about NOT buying guns during Coronavirus
- CNN: Buying a gun isn’t the answer to coronavirus
- An ‘Epitaph’ for the 1619 Project at the New York Times
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- Border / immigration
- Border Patrol Opens Emergency Operations Center in South Texas for Coronavirus
- Mexico Confirms Border City Coronavirus Case After Patient Traveled Through Texas
- Five Migrants Rescued from Swift Flowing Rio Grande
- Fugitive Charged with Child Molestation Arrested at Texas Border
- Tamaulipas State Capital Suffers 3 Cartel Murders in 12 Hours
- Man Dies by Apparent Suicide in ICE Family Detention Center
- ICE to stop most immigration enforcement inside United States, will focus on criminals during coronavirus outbreak
- Sen. Lindsey Graham Uses Disease Crisis to Expand EB-5 Green Card Program
- Trump: U.S., Canada to close border to non-essential travel to stem spread of coronavirus
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- Business
- Texas Added 279,900 Jobs Over the Year, January unemployment was steady at 3.5%
- Coronavirus Layoffs Spark Surge in State Jobless Claims
- Southwest Has Cut Drink Service. Will Other Airlines Follow Suit?
- Boca Chica residents take SpaceX’s money, make way for SpaceX launches from Texas
- SpaceX recovers both fairing halves from Starlink launch
- NASA confirms May target date for first manned SpaceX Dragon flight
- Crude prices collapse to 18-year low
- WSJ: Texas Weighs Curtailing Oil Production for First Time in Decades
- Crude oil, natural gas operators reduce spending in Permian Basin
- As oil prices plummet, producers to cut jobs, spending in Eagle Ford Shale
- Texas gas prices at lowest level in more than a year
- Don’t Stop the Booze: A Fort Worth Distillery Is Making Hand Sanitizer
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- Crime & general news of Texas
- Wise County awakes to tornado damage
- Aerial footage of tornado damage in South Bend, Texas
- Tornado confirmed near Tye, home suffers major damage, more
- Taylor County tornado caught on camera VIDEO
- On-Duty Travis Co. Deputy Killed in 2-Car Crash, 1 in Serious Condition
- Odessa: Teenager found in possession of $4,000 counterfeit money
- Abilene police release ID of man shot, killed after police say he attacked them with knife
- Abilene Police: Florida man stole car to ‘live off the land’
- Two Houston PD chases end with one car in bayou, another between 2 houses
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- Local government
- Texas Freedom Caucus Statement Cautioning Local Governments against Raising Property Taxes and Urging Local Leaders to Focus on Essential Services
- DA declines to file charges against former Hays County assistant constable
- Montgomery County judge orders restaurants, businesses, libraries to close
- Midland Co: Former chief deputy claims MCSO employee knew calls were recorded
- How Richardson is turning around its toughest schools – “We need to stop calling certain public school reforms “controversial” and just start calling them “effective.” – well it’s your fellow libs that mostly decry all reforms including those that work.
- San Antonio Police Union: Police Need More Hand Sanitizer, Supplies to Protect Against Coronavirus – the union collects a lot of dues, go out and buy some.
- Bexar County Sheriff’s Office to Begin Releasing “Non-Violent” Offenders Due to Coronavirus-Spread Concerns – the Left loves this. Release the least personally responsible people into a situation demanding increase responsibility.
- Community Response to Austin ISD Radical Sex-Ed Grows
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- Colleges & universities
- A Look Back: The Famous Hardin-Simmons Cowgirls
- Decontamination Wipe From Texas Tech Could Help Coronavirus Cleanup Efforts
- Texas universities ramp up online teaching amid coronavirus pandemic
Pratt’s post for 3/19/2020
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