- Texas Supreme Court opinion regarding government emergency powers may foreshadow future rulings
- Task force says Texas can reopen 100% soon
- Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick: Statement on Texans Back to Work Task Force Report
- Governor Abbott Expands Business Openings In Texas, Announces Surge Response Teams To Combat COVID-19, resolution
- Liberal state Senator Kel Seliger strikes again: Republican State Senator Warns Of Lowering Caution
- AG Paxton Calls for Immediate Release of Salon Owner Unjustly Jailed for Working to Feed Her Family – where were you on the overzealous orders to begin with? See: AG Paxton, it’s time to worry about deceptive actions of local governments
- Governor Abbott Releases Statement On Jailing Of Dallas Salon Owner – sorry Governor but you set the table for this to happen. To paraphrase you: “Surely there were less restrictive means to slow virus spread than coercively shutting down businesses and making it illegal to work.”
- Abbott Declines to Take Action as Salon Owner Shelley Luther Is Jailed and Fined
- After previously warning of prosecutions for defying emergency orders, Abbott and Paxton change their tune when a Dallas hair salon owner is jailed
- AG Paxton Leads Amicus Brief Supporting Challenge to Unlawful Actions by Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs
- Abbott, HHSC Announce $5.8 Million For Disaster Crisis Counseling Services
- Abbott, OneStar Foundation Announce Texas COVID Relief Fund
- Doctor, nurse practitioner dipping into own pockets to provide rural health care in Texas VIDEO
- DWC Offers Texas Employers Online Safety Consultations
- Texas Gun Sales, Background Checks Remain High Throughout April
- Rent assistance programs in Texas’ largest cities are running dry, but advocates say statewide relief is unlikely
- Texas asks feds for $6.4 billion to offset unemployment cost
- Pandemic another hit to Texas schools – told you so! I told you we wouldn’t even go a year since the record injection of more money to schools before they’d start the whining about money!
- Texas Eases Underground Oil Storage Rules, Raising Concerns
- Dallas County Disregards Texas AG’s Vote-by-Mail Warning
- Gun-Banning Brady PAC to Push for Rep. Lizzie Fletcher (TX7), Texas Democrats in 2020
- TX23: Gonzales, Reyes in GOP Runoff to Replace Retiring Rep. Will Hurd
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- Coronavirus related
- Let’s Not Pretend This Is Constitutional
- COVID-19 mitigation is a weighing of harms
- Comparing the Wuhan virus with the 1968 Hong Kong flu, more
- Experts now admit COVID-19 mortality rate much lower then predicted
- Texas COVID-19 situation report for 5/6/2020 (pdf) – 906 deaths in Q1 plus April, a third of Q2. Official Texas 2018/19 flu season deaths were 9249 by end of July last year, over 10,000 for the year. Should our rights have been scuttled for that? Only 8% of the 390,560 tested have tested positive.
- Are daily local COVID-19 case number proclamations useful?
- Incomplete Test Counts in Texas Hurt Effort to Track the Coronavirus
- Podcast: Pratt on Texas Interview with Dr. Stephen Balch AUDIO
- British professor behind wrong doom-and-gloom COVID-19 models quits, broke his own recommend rules to meet lover
- Bexar County: four more deaths reported, including first jail inmate
- ‘It was a jungle out there’: Port Aransas local takes photos of crowded beach – so what? Snitches get stitches.
- Exclusive: Eyewitness To Tyrannical Ector Co. Sheriff Speaks Out VIDEO
- Ector Co. sheriff sends SWAT team with guns drawn to arrest armed lockdown protestors – as I said yesterday, it is time for Sheriff Griffis to resign.
- ECSO sheriff: This was not a Second Amendment rights protest, more
- Ector Co. sheriff says his office is receiving “threats” – good
- Open Carry Protestors and Bar Owner Arrested in Odessa
- Dallas salon owner ordered to close after reopening against stay-at-home orders
- Dallas Hair Salon Owner Gets Jail Sentence for Violating Coronavirus Lockdown Order
- Texas Salon Owner Refuses to Apologize to Judge for Working to Feed Her Kids During Lockdown VIDEO – the judge attempted to compel political speech
- Texas Attorney General: Jailing Salon Owner Was a ‘Shameful Abuse’ – where were you on the overzealous orders to begin with? See: AG Paxton, it’s time to worry about deceptive actions of local governments
- Governor Abbott Releases Statement On Jailing Of Dallas Salon Owner – sorry Governor but you set the table for this to happen. To paraphrase you: “Surely there were less restrictive means to slow virus spread than coercively shutting down businesses and making it illegal to work.”
- AG Paxton, Gov. Abbott Call for Release of Jailed Dallas Salon Owner Who Defied Executive Order
- ‘Straight up wrong’: Texas conservatives defend Dallas salon owner jailed for keeping open business amid coronavirus
- Dan Crenshaw Has Less Than Kind Things to Say About the Jailing of the Dallas Salon Owner
- Top Texas officials denounce Dallas salon owner’s jail sentence for defying orders to close
- Glen Rose Police Issues Citations to Gym Patrons for Violation of Coronavirus Orders – very good read with many good points examined
- Liberal state Senator Kel Seliger strikes again: Republican State Senator Warns Of Lowering Caution
- Sean Hannity’s message to armed Michigan protesters: ‘Show of force is dangerous’ – Hannity went soft on it all 3 week ago.
- Abbott sending “surge team” to look at spiraling coronavirus rates near Texas meatpacking plants
- Texas State Parks to resume overnight camping with limited-capacity restrictions
- ‘Bad economies are as hurtful to health as viruses’: US lurches toward reopening despite ominous coronavirus models
- Midland Mayor Payton: People are ‘worried, frustrated’ over restrictions
- Abilene FD Chief says he’s recovered from COVID-19, 49 firefighters tested positive
- All That Pandemic-Driven Anger, Looking for a Convenient Target
- Snitch Mob Reports Wisconsin Cardiologist After He Attended a Reopen Rally, but He Is Not Backing Down
- Lockdown is over. Someone tell the government
- Local barber, stylist talk frustration ahead of scheduled re-opening date – “We have gotten screwed over this latest deal from the governor.”
- As COVID-19 restrictions drag on in Texas, legal challenges gain a foothold
- Asleep at the Wheel’s Ray Benson on surviving coronavirus: ‘I’m very fortunate’
- Texas A&M researchers hope tuberculosis vaccine might prevent coronavirus deaths
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- Federal/DC related to Texas
- Justices Wary of ‘Obamacare’ Birth Control Coverage Changes – due to John Roberts, the court is a collaborator in this scheme.
- Trump administration drafting new space agreement to supersede Outer Space Treaty
- Nolte: Dr. Fauci Made a Fool of Himself Gushing over Typhoid Fredo
- Sen. Cruz Cosponsors Bipartisan Senate Bill to Help Families of First Responders Lost to COVID-19 Access Public Service Benefits
- “We need herd immunity”: Texas Congressman Chip Roy says Americans can’t wait for a vaccine to return to normalcy
- DeVos’s new Title IX rules emphasize due process and formal mediation
- Adam Schiff may be the biggest loser of Russia probe declassification
- Predictive Models Dominate Our Lives–Not Always for the Better
- U.S. Spends $23 Million on Culturally, Linguistically Diverse COVID-19 Outreach for Minorities
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- Presidential race / national politics
- ABC’s Hostin: Trump Will Never Be as Smart, as Elegant, as Successful or Good Looking as Obama – really? Laughable.
- Abrams Officially off the Shortlist: “No One Takes Stacey Seriously”
- Democrat Operatives Launch ‘Committee to Draft Michelle Obama’ for VP
- Could Mark Cuban make a 2020 presidential run? ‘It’s definitely doable’
- Soros-Funded Groups Push Dems to Use Virus to Achieve Progressive Wish List
- Kotkin: The Pandemic Road to Serfdom – Kotkin’s biggest weakness is that he still does not understand on-the-ground conservatism. For example, we do not “ignore” class we reject the idea such defines or limits us and we do because most of us have been in several “classes” in our lives moving from one to another. He should be aware that the “expert class” is a creation of Progressivism.
- Man recovered from Coronavirus told to take his Trump flag down, so he did this instead
- ‘Orwellian doublespeak’: MSNBC analyst Anand Giridharadas says ‘freedom-obsessed’ Americans’ distrust of government puts citizens in danger (and people have thoughts)
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- Border / immigration
- Jeff Sessions: Why Bring Foreign Workers to U.S. When 30,000,000 Americans Are Jobless?
- Voters in new poll favor blocking federal funds for sanctuary cities by 50%-31% margin
- Texas DACA recipients working on pandemic’s front lines await Supreme Court ruling
- Costa Rica isolates migrant detention center due to COVID-19 outbreak – hey libs, note that even Lefty-run countries have “migrant” detention centers!
- VIDEOS: Mexican National Guardsmen Extort Drug Dealer with Grenade Threats VIDEO
- High-Ranking Mexican Border City Official Busted Working for Gulf Cartel
- Tom Homan Calls Out Liberal Judges Who Release Illegal Immigrants
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- Business
- Sales tax receipts remitted to local governments in May 5% less than May of 2019
- Top 20 Cities Sales and Use Tax Comparison Summary, All cities
- Business group cautions Texas has not seen the worst economic numbers yet
- American Businesses Shed 20.236 Million Jobs in April
- San Antonio’s Frost Bank hit with patent suit by mysterious company
- Airlines join the stupid in requiring masks
- H-E-B accused of price gouging in lawsuit
- Shale drillers risk relapse into rampant oil output at $30 crude
- They Came, They Fought, They Conquered – The Facts Behind National Law Firms’ Invasion of Texas
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- Crime & general news of Texas
- Man and woman found dead in apparent ‘double suicide’ in Houston’s Galleria area, police say
- Clerk kills man who broke into store in northeast Houston
- Burglars on the run after breaking into Houston Museum of Natural Science
- Body found floating in water at Hermann Park
- Police looking for Houston man accused of burning the bottom of the child’s feet and thigh with iron
- Garland Man Charged With Murder in Connection With Shooting Wednesday
- Explosion sends three people to the hospital in Winkler County
- Texas Family Says Wrong Woman Was in the Casket at Grandmother’s Service
- Police catch theft suspect with her pants down
- Arrest records detail investigation leading to arrest of three men for Archer County murder
- Bowie teenager comes to aide of elderly neighbor facing house fire
- Airman arrested after child pornography bust at Dyess Air Force Base
- Abilene fire department: 16 units evacuated at apartment complex, more
- Lubbock Police Arrest Man Suspected of Shooting Lubbock Teen
- Three People in Lubbock Indicted for Murder Charges
- Lubbock man indicted for sexual assault of a child
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- Local government
- Lake Jackson cancels events, prepares for budget deficit
- Houston Confronts One-Two Punch of COVID-19 and Oil Bust – Houston’s overspending and bad pension situation existed long before.
- Council member West: We are scouting for ways to help Dallas small businesses
- Dallas County Disregards Texas AG’s Vote-by-Mail Warning
- Rent assistance programs in Texas’ largest cities are running dry, but advocates say statewide relief is unlikely
- The City of Odessa wants residence input about two grants being received
- Dr. Kenneth Border Resigns as Superintendent of Shallowater ISD
- San Antonio Proposed Zoning Change Over Aquifer Recharge Zone Stirs Opposition
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- Colleges & universities
- COVID-19 Won’t Lead to Higher-Ed Reform
- UTPB officials optimistic about fall reopening
- Jennifer Kent of Ranger College Chosen for National Presidential Fellowship for Community College Leaders
- Lubbock Christian University named Bumstead business school dean
- TTU Professor Leaves Lasting Impact On Legal System by Inspiring Students
- TTU: Veteran Library and Information Sciences Expert to Lead School of Veterinary Medicine Library Services
- DeVos’s new Title IX rules emphasize due process and formal mediation
- UT System looks to return this fall, but fiscal impact will linger
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- Military
- Videos: Blue Angels fly over Houston area in amazing tribute to healthcare workers VIDEO
- Airman arrested after child pornography bust at Dyess Air Force Base
Pratt’s post for 5/6/2020
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