- Do current infringements on our liberty justify armed response?
- Small Businesses to Abbott: “Please Be Fair, Even-Handed, and Do the Right Thing”
- Governing in reaction mode, and always a beat or two behind
- Democrat Official Calls for Statewide Shutdown and Mask Mandate
- Supreme Court preserves Texas ruling on abortion limits
- Texas education board takes up possible changes to sex ed curriculum
- Texas education officials consider changing state’s sex education policy for first time in 23 years
- Protesters call for the removal of Confederate statue from Texas courthouse grounds
- Left Crafts Crude Electoral Shiv
- Aaron Harris, Direct Action Texas Drive Reform
- Early voting begins in what could be surprisingly high-turnout pandemic runoff
- Could Texas see increase in curbside voting as primary runoff voting period begins?
- HD60 candidates Jon Francis, Glenn Rogers vie in primary runoff
- SD14: In campaign memo, Rep. Rodriguez camp says his fundraising is now up to $700,000
- TX13 Runoff: Why you should vote for Dr. Ronny Jackson
- TX22: New Ad Claims Troy Nehls ‘Blamed and Shamed’ Sex Trafficking Victim
- Pratt’s July 2020 Texas Republican Primary Runoff voter recommendations
- Gov. Greg Abbott jumps into Texas GOP runoffs, with aim of thrashing Empower Texans – why not? He’s been abandoning his conservative base for some time. Shows a lot when Abbott will put his personal issues with others ahead of the agenda he promised voters as well as the good of Texas.
- Abbott Declares Open War on Conservatives – look, Abbott’s vicious but talented adviser Dave Carney likely believes the anti-Trump crap and is pivoting, with Abbott’s full cooperation, to a next election cycle in which he thinks not being seen as fully conservative will be a benefit. It’s shameful. It is always a recipe for disaster to abandon your base to chase voters who may oppose you no matter what you do.
- Issues of race, policing dominate final stretch of Democratic runoff to face U.S. Sen. John Cornyn
- Collin County Official Invites State Republican Convention to North Texas
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- Federal/DC related to Texas
- ‘This is all hands on deck.’ Vice President Mike Pence visits Texas during virus outbreak
- Supreme Court, in 5-4 ruling, strikes down restrictive Louisiana abortion law
- Sen. Cruz Applauds DOJ Rebuke of Mayor Bill De Blasio’s Targeting of Orthodox Jewish Community in New York City
- Sen. John Cornyn: How we can police our communities better
- U.S. Deposits of Rare-Earth Elements Are . . . Not So Rare, after All
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- Presidential race / national politics
- Air Biden: Secret Service provided security for Hunter Biden on 400-plus trips during Obama years
- Pothead Willie Nelson joins virtual Texas fundraiser for Joe Biden on Monday
- Pence Cancels Some Political Events Because of Virus Spikes
- Pence visits Dallas
- Twitch temporarily suspends President Trump for ‘hateful conduct’ violations – in other words, points of view with which we disagree are inherently “hateful” and not allowed.
- Biden’s Basement Strategy: Just Say Nothing
- Biden’s best vice-president pick is obvious – really? Duckworth?
- Biden says he would use executive authority to force ‘everybody out in public’ to wear a mask
- Graham Linehan, creator of ‘The IT Crowd’ and ‘Father Ted,’ has been removed from Twitter – and he wrote nothing particularly controversial. The IT Crowd is great, Father Ted is so-so.
- An Underappreciated American Scholar – I’m not sure, other than Leftists, who underappreciate the man I’ve named many time as one of the most brilliant alive on the planet.
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- Border / immigration
- Supreme Court Declines to Hear Border Wall Challenge
- Judge: US Must Free Illegal Migrant Children From Family Detention
- Previously Deported Sex Offender, Murderer Arrested in Texas near Border
- New Mexico Official Says No to Working With US Border Agency
- Mexican President and Governor Trade Blame for Release of Cartel Leader’s Mother
- How high is public support for so-called ‘Dreamers’?
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- Coronavirus related
- Texas COVID-19 situation report for 6/29/2020 (pdf) – 2,393 deaths in Q1 plus almost all of Q2. Official Texas 2018/19 flu season P&I deaths were 9249 by end of July last year, over 10,095 for the annual season. By the way, the # tested in Texas is now a whopping 2,006,724.
- Vice President, Texas Governor Acknowledge Rapid Virus Rise
- Dallas County Judge Jenkins Asks Abbott for a Statewide Shelter-In-Place Mandate
- How Texas lost control of the virus – this is absolute B.S. For example, Harris Co. “like much of the South” had a “handicap going” in: Texas didn’t expand Obamacare! Medicaid for almost-all has nothing to do with the virus spread!
- Politicians continue to lie about COVID-19 to generate fear
- Map of Texas COVID-19 Test Collection Sites
- Texas Bar and Nightclub Alliance suing State of Texas over Gov. Abbott’s order shutting down bars
- Sen. Bob Hall Criticizes Abbott’s Face Mask Order Shift: ‘We Are Expected to Live As If We Have a Monarchy’
- Let’s Not Pretend This Is Constitutional, Not admitting mistakes is subverting freedom
- Swiss Policy Research: Facts about Covid-19
- How Many COVID Deaths Are There, Really? – the numbers are inflated
- Here’s The Good COVID-19 News That’s Being Buried By The Press
- Second wave? Where was the first?, Dr. John Lee: Science, doubt and the second wave of COVID, What a Hospital Director Thinks about the ‘Second Wave’
- Government health officials wasted time on the speculative, didn’t harden the known
- Stories From the Dark Side of COVID-19 – right, our governor “is not interested in hearing about it.” So much of the so-claimed “compassion” for others is actually thinly veiled selfish action.
- The blind continuing panic over COVID-19
- Coronavirus Cases Are Climbing Again. So What?
- CDC director says COVID-19 infections likely 10 times higher than official numbers this is why studies that just look at numbers with such an unsure denominator (# infected) are so worthless.
- Horowitz: Bombshell Penn State study shows 80 times more infections existing in March than the official count
- Where are the deaths?: The drum beat to halt the reopenings gets louder by the day. It should be resisted
- Melendez: I am seeing controlled chaos in local hospitals – that is a contradiction, it’s either chaos or it is controlled. And note, it’s just more “worry” because of the testing positive rate, not the rate of serious illness.
- ‘It’s going to last a while’: Influx of COVID-19 patients threatens to push San Antonio hospitals to the breaking point – 20% of hospital admissions in San Antonio due to COVID-19 which of course means 80% of admissions are from other things. They talk much about younger people but do not tell you about co-morbidity issues of these “young” people. Then there’s a ton of speculation about what might or could happen 2 months from now.
- COVID-19 hospitalizations dropping across the board
- Hendrick CEO: Abilene hospital has COVID-19 capacity Hendrick Health System
- Hospital CEOs in Harris County Push Back Against “Unnecessary Alarm” Over ICU Capacity
- Valley leaders ask Abbott for more power to combat COVID-19
- Mandated mask wearing New Mexico has fatality rate 3 times that of Texas
- Tarrant County’s New Mask Policy
- Hold Tarrant Commissioners Accountable for Their Mask Mandate
- City of Denton Mandates Masks, Sets up Snitch Line
- Ohio Rep. Proves Face Masks Reduce Oxygen To Unsafe Levels, more VIDEO
- TMZ Leftists bothered by Texas woman’s anti-mask “meltdown” VIDEO
- ‘I refuse to bow to anybody.’ Rural California defies Gov. Newsom’s order to wear masks
- CDC: Considerations for Wearing Cloth Face Coverings
- H-E-B announces 24 San Antonio employees test positive for COVID-19 since Friday – so much for all that mask wearing working. The point is we are testing a much larger universe of people that we were not testing a month ago and before.
- Since Memorial Day, Texas sees month of coronavirus spread – and it will keep spreading as they originally explained before it became fully political
- Tracking Coronavirus Cases Proves Difficult Amid New Surge
- Thousands volunteer to be exposed to COVID-19 to speed vaccine
- Odessa city council votes against mask mandate
- Judge issues mask mandate in Brewster County – it’s not rural vs. urban. When you have Democrats in charge you get much more tyranny.
- Democrat Official Calls for Statewide Shutdown and Mask Mandate
- First case of COVID-19 at Ron Jackson State Juvenile Correctional Complex in Brownwood
- U.S. Pediatricians Call For In-Person School This Fall
- Governor Abbott, HHSC Extend Deadline For Pandemic Food Benefits For Families Affected By COVID-19 School Closures
- Federal courts in Houston, Galveston close amid surge in COVID-19 cases
- Harris Co. Judge Hidalgo in isolation after potential COVID-19 exposure – too bad that doesn’t prevent her from being a tyrant.
- Three Texas Democrats in Congress exposed to COVID-19 while at detention center – guess they should have stayed home. Funny how they can’t be bothered to meet in the House at the Capitol but they can make all these trips.
- Employers Must Embrace Viral Testing, Not Temperature Screening
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- Business
- Manufacturing Regains Footing After Epic Decline
- I’m leaving Seattle for Texas so my employees can be free: Billion dollar business owner, more
- USAA delays return of workers until at least next year after COVID-19 surge – ridiculous
- Bar owners bemoan Abbott’s new shutdown order
- Lubbock bar owners shocked, worried by Gov. Abbott’s order to close
- Abilene bar that defied Governor’s order to close has liquor license suspended
- Texas Bar and Nightclub Alliance suing State of Texas over Gov. Abbott’s order shutting down bars
- Elsie Moooves On: Borden Dairy Sold to Private Equity Firms
- SpaceX Dragon capsule on ISS doing better than expected
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- Protest, rioting, looting & more
- Critics Question `Less Lethal’ Force Used During Protests – bad things happen.
- Protesters call for the removal of Confederate statue from Texas courthouse grounds – how about we remove the protesters?
- Princeton says it will remove Woodrow Wilson’s name from its public policy school
- Houston Realtor Group Ends ‘Master’ Designation of Bedrooms, Bath – talk about over-the-top silliness!
- Four People Charged for Allegedly Trying to Topple Andrew Jackson Statue in DC
- Couple draw guns at protesting crowd heading to St. Louis mayor’s home
- Dana Loesch drops multiple reality nukes on blue checks triggered by ‘unprovoked display of lethal force’ from armed couple defending their home
- Roger Goodell And The NFL Owners Are Too Stupid To Realize What The NFL Players Are Doing When They Take A Knee During The National Anthem
- Is Dallas’ Democrat District Attorney Covering Up Corruption?
- It’s not about race, it’s about revolution
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- Crime & general news of Texas
- Prosecutors: Woman Burned $1.6 Million Home in Attempt to Destroy Records
- Pilot of Small Plane Dies in Crash as He Tries to Land in East Texas
- Chinese Criminal Groups Continue Controlling Marijuana Farms on U.S. Soil
- Warrant nets meth, two illegal guns; two jailed
- Round Rock Drive-In Movie Theater Equipment Burned Down Last Night
- WFPD investigating reported Walmart parking lot shooting, more
- Wichita Falls man faces two aggravated sexual assault charges
- Police arrest mom for allegedly whipping, slapping child over a package of gum
- Teenager charged with choking girlfriend, breaking her phone
- Driver charged in accident that kills 1, injures 3 south of Brownwood
- Abilene police arrest man who hit woman holding infant
- Tesla vs. Dodge: Two People Arrested in Lubbock For Street Racing
- Lubbock woman arrested, accused of firing shots at house
- Former Lubbock ISD employee who made sexual advances on middle school boy receives 15 months in prison
- Cops seize $34,500 from Lubbock man, ask judge for permission to keep it
- Midland police identify woman killed in Monday morning crash
- Firefighters find burnt body on Houston’s North Side near trash fire
- Man shot in head dies after brother rushes him to ER, police say
- Liberty Co. man arrested in botched attempt to rob sheriff’s captain
- Man struck, killed while moving tarp off road in NE Harris County
- A Fort Worth police officer whose uncle died in police custody hopes departments can change
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- Local government
- Austin budget aims for police cuts, coronavirus recovery boost
- Austin police ID officers under investigation for use of force during protests
- Austin schools suspend Black students nearly 5 times as often as white students
- Inside the new push to save ‘Old Lubbock’ – nothing but those who do not understand or accept free markets trying to tax and penalize development.
- City of Abilene apologizes, says they never intended to disregard Governor’s order
- Harris County assistant district attorney resigns over Facebook posting
- Houston PD Shootings Under Increased Scrutiny Amid Nationwide Calls For Police Reform
- Is Dallas’ Democrat District Attorney Covering Up Corruption?
- Dallas County Judge Jenkins Asks Abbott for a Statewide Shelter-In-Place Mandate
- Chief: San Antonio Police Could Shed Mental Health, Homeless Response
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- Colleges & universities
- UT to require masks, open residence halls, offer flexible learning for fall semester
- University of Texas to pay interim President Jay Hartzell $795,000
- Pioneers revisit their efforts to create a Virtual College of Texas
- Baylor to Review Statues, Buildings Over Links to Slavery
- Researchers From Texas Tech, North Carolina State To Collaborate On Project Examining Childhood Obesity Through Gardening
- Moody’s reaffirms Tech’s AA1 credit rating
Pratt’s post for 6/29/2020
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