- Senator Charles Perry asking for special session to prevent ‘overreach’ during COVID-19 response
- Ector County GOP censures Abbott over executive power amid coronavirus, state Sen. Charles Perry calls for special session, more
- Special Session? Abbott’s Mask Mandate Draws Scathing Criticism From Lawmakers
- Will Dan Patrick Oppose Abbott Mask Mandate?
- Abbott Reverses Course from Past Statements in Implementing Statewide Mask Order
- Everyone [almost] in the Austin establishment protects everyone else in office from accountability, even when they are literally caught on tape – or red-handed.
- Abbott Declares Open War on Conservatives
- “Kill ’em”: Houston GOP powerbroker Steve Hotze left Greg Abbott a voicemail requesting that National Guard “shoot to kill” rioters – the media only knew to ask for this because someone in the guv’s staff wanted it out; more going after the conservative base across Texas by the Abbott crew.
- Texas Supreme Court cancels July bar exam, adds online test in October
- Abbott Appoints Duchman To Council on Cardiovascular Disease and Stroke
- Why many “bad” cops in Texas keep working with a badge
- Wind farms threaten unspoiled West Texas river and Air Force pilot training routes
- Teachers, students shouldn’t fear STAAR
- Texas seeks millions from unemployed workers after state ‘overpaid’ benefits – good luck with that!
- Texas Water Development Board extend nomination deadline
- Foster care plaintiffs say Texas ‘shockingly’ disobeys federal judge, ask her for sanctions – Jacks is among those who believe one can just fiat things to work right.
- Disability Advocates Want Statewide Protections Against Health-Care Rationing
- ALERT: Texas voters do not have to wear masks
- Texas GOP Moves Forward with In-Person Convention Plans
- Fearing government intervention, Republican Party of Texas adopts backup plan for online convention
- Texas GOP Strongly Rebukes Abbott, Moves to Continue In-Person Convention
- As Texas Reverses Course on Masks, GOP Digs in on Convention – Texas didn’t reverse course, King Abbott did. The people’s representatives have not voted.
- Lt. Gov. Patrick: In-person GOP convention in Houston may be bad idea but he’ll be there
- More at stake than 1 Senate seat in Texas election
- West seeks to overtake Hegar in changed racial terrain
- MJ Hegar, Royce West fighting to become Democratic Senate champ against GOP incumbent John Cornyn
- KVUE debate between U.S. Senate Democratic candidates gets heated VIDEO
- SD27: Planned Parenthood Uses Racial Slur in Campaign Efforts Against Democratic State Senator – B.S., “sucio” simply means dirty.
- SD27: Sen. Lucio debates runoff challenger Sara Stapleton Barrera VIDEO
- HD60: Jon Francis Stands Up for Rural Texas, Condemns Abbott’s Mandatory Mask Order
- Inside Associated Republicans of Texas’ Support for Pro-Gun Control Democrats – ART is untrustworthy and has been for many years.
- ——————————–
- Federal/DC related to Texas
- Supreme Court: States Can Punish ‘Faithless Electors’; Unanimous Decision
- Treasury names 650K small businesses receiving government loans
- ———————————————
- Presidential race / national politics
- Trump accuses protesters who tear down statues of wanting to ‘wipe out our history’ in Mount Rushmore speech – not arguable.
- Newt Gingrich: Joe Biden’s 4th of July Video ‘Most Anti-American’ Speech by Presidential Candidate — Ever
- Democrats, Biden Look to Accelerate Southern Political Shift
- Susan Rice touts her experience, support for Joe Biden as he seeks black female running mate
- Kanye West announces he’s running for president
- 1 Ad, 3 Accents: How Democrats Aim to Win Latino Votes –
- New gun owners say they bought firearms because police might not reach them in time
- How America’s view of socialism has shifted
- ——————————————–
- Border / immigration
- Multi-Deported Sex Offender Caught Crossing Border into Texas
- Mexican Soldiers Kill 12 Gunmen in Nueva Laredo, more
- Dozens Killed in Mexican Drug Rehab Center by Cartel Gunmen
- Jorge Torres analyzes USMCA
- Wood: A storm is coming for Mexico under USMCA
- ——————————————–
- Coronavirus related
- Texas COVID-19 situation report for 7/02/2020 (pdf) – 2,637 deaths in Q1 and 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 2,371,709.
- Governor Abbott Establishes Statewide Face Covering Requirement, Issues Proclamation To Limit Gatherings, more – told you he would cave to pressure!
- Midland Mayor Payton: Civil liberties have been violated during pandemic
- Map of Texas COVID-19 Test Collection Sites
- Senator Charles Perry asking for special session to prevent ‘overreach’ during COVID-19 response
- 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
- U.S. Pediatricians Call For In-Person School This Fall
- COVID-19 update: CDC says virus close to losing epidemic status
- NPR: “Coronavirus is more common and less deadly”
- CDC: Considerations for Wearing Cloth Face Coverings
- Healthy People Should Not Wear Masks
- Half of U.S. voters say every American should be required to wear a mask in public at all times – sure they do, we’ve lost much of the country to the Left
- Midland’s Mayor Payton on mask mandate: Police will be prioritizing calls as normal – in other words, cops are going to run around to catch people without masks
- ‘Unconstitutional’: Kerr County Sheriff won’t enforce Gov. Abbott’s face mask order
- Evidence for the specific probabilities of effectiveness of facemasks doesn’t exist
- Some Texas Leaders Warn of Hospital Capacity, Ask for Lockdowns
- Former UK Spy Chief Tells Security Services: Don’t Dismiss Theory Coronavirus Came from Chinese Lab
- DSHS Distribute Additional Cases Of Antiviral Drug Remdesivir Across Texas
- In West Texas, Lingering Distrust in Public Health Measures as Virus Spreads
- Austin’s mayor bans social gatherings of more than 10 people
- Austin Mayor’s Coronavirus Hypocrisy
- COVID-19 pushes San Antonio hospitals to the limit – “If the surge continues, it could overload the local health care system in the next week or two.”
- Ten out of the 12 hospitals in Texas’ Rio Grande Valley are now full – but COVID is only 40% of patient count
- ICUs could be overrun in 10 days amid coronavirus spike, Austin mayor says
- Collin County document said to prove COVID cases being inflated massively in Texas – I’ve not had the time to watch the video that supposedly confirms the vercity of the document. The document itself seems to have been pulled down from SCRIBD.
- West Texas Blowout canceled after Midland upholds Abbott’s order
- Experts discuss COVD-19 impact on rural hospitals
- New Mexico implements 14-day quarantine to combat COVID-19 – NM has had mask mandates and extremely strong rules since March so how can they have rising case numbers if these things work?
- Texas Still In Better Shape Than New York During COVID-19
- So why have there been as many coronavirus deaths in Dallas as in Houston?
- Some San Antonio hospitals willing to pay more for front line workers amid coronavirus pandemic
- When COVID is over, let’s keep working from home
- Poll says Texans’ hopes for quick return to pre-coronavirus life are fading – just shows how the media/gov’t propaganda is working
- Some Texans Aren’t Being Notified About Positive COVID-19 Test Results
- An Information Battle Looms If A COVID-19 Vaccine Is Approved
- Airline executive says social distancing on airplanes would be nothing more than a ‘PR strategy’
- Coronavirus Daily Deaths Down 92.4% From Peak, Have Declined Ten Straight Weeks
- ——————————————–
- Business
- Nearly 6,300 Texas companies received PPP loans of more than $1 million
- Oilfield service job losses near 90,000, data shows
- Tourism in turmoil
- Shutdowns kill off more Wichita Falls-area restaurant jobs
- Do department stores have a future? It’s complicated
- San Antonio Baseball Fans Return to the Ballpark Amid Coronavirus Surge
- ———————————————
- Protest, rioting, looting & more
- 1 of 2 Protesters Hit by Car on Closed Seattle Highway Dies
- Black driver charged with hitting white protesters at BLM march on Seattle Interstate
- Indiana Bishop Suspends Priest for Criticizing Black Lives Matter
- Facebook Groups Pivot to Attacks on Black Lives Matter
- ANTIFA Group Stomps, Dances on U.S. Flag Outside White House
- Pro-Palestinian BLM Rallies in U.S. Call For Death to Israel, U.S.
- Kaepernick’s Independence Day Message: ‘We Reject Your Celebration of White Supremacy’
- Report: Nike Won’t Sell Redskins Gear Until Team Name Changes
- Who Killed Austin, Texas? The Live Music Capitol of the World Yields to A Communist Revolution
- College elites and defunding the police
- Can the republic survive?
- Dallas: Black Lives Matter/Pride banner slashed again
- Atlanta mayor to Black Lives Matter: ‘enough is enough’, you can’t blame this on police
- Armed Black Militia Marched Through Georgia’s Stone Mountain Park
- Texans across the state march to demand justice for Fort Hood soldier Vanessa Guillén – yet there is zero evidence her case is being handled differently than any other.
- Texas voters split on police violence protests, open to moving Confederate statues, poll finds
- Black Professor Says It’s Every American’s Job To Fix Systemic Racism
- The Consequences of Two Centuries of Slavery in America
- Newest target for statue vandals: Frederick Douglass?
- Frederick Douglass statue torn down in Rochester, N.Y. on anniversary of famed abolitionist speech
- A Data Double Take: Police Shootings
- ‘Patriotism Is Becoming “White Supremacy”
- Activists Demand University Fire All Professors Deemed ‘Racist,’ Hold Black-Only Graduation
- ———————————————
- Crime & general news of Texas
- Irving Police Officers Fatally Shoot Man Who Shot His Wife
- Lawyer: Remains of Missing Texas Soldier Identified, Complaint: Missing Texas Soldier Was Killed at Fort Hood
- Woman tied to slaying of Fort Hood soldier Vanessa Guillen appears in court
- Odessa fire dept. battles numerous grass fires Saturday
- Fireworks cause grassfire in Odessa on Saturday night
- ‘There was one big boom’ Lake Brownwood’s full fireworks show blew up., more
- Texas teenager loses eye in firework accident
- Amarillo police officer burned by exploding firework shot into his patrol vehicle
- Man with several arrests involving Bowie knife allegedly assaults Electra city administrator
- Police: Man bashes head of another with gun
- 43-year-old man drowns in Brazos River in Shackelford County
- Lueders man drowns while fishing on the 4th of July
- One dead, another injured after wreck in Sweetwater
- Abilene man arrested after shooting gun in parking lot
- Sundown ISD Board Member Indicted for Misapplication of Funds
- Seminole Woman Dies After Police Chase
- Levelland: DPS executes search warrant, arrests two for manufacture, delivery
- Man sought in fatal shooting of pregnant wife
- Pasadena man dies in late-night ATV crash
- 28-year-old drowns in Missouri City pool
- Woman dies after falling off car in east Houston
- Man visiting from Louisiana fatally shot in north Houston drive-by
- Gunman opens fire in busy south Houston intersection, striking 4
- A 13-year-old girl was sold for sex in Irving. She deserves her trafficker’s money
- ———————————————
- Local government
- Three San Antonio police officers, fired by SAPD, were later hired in Leon Valley. Here’s why.
- Audit Criticizes Houston Police Unit Tied to Fatal Drug Raid
- Midland to close various city offices, more
- Archer County courthouse, annex begins operating by appointment only
- Wichita Co: New memorial will honor fallen county law-enforcement officers and volunteer firefighters
- Stephens County purchases Breck Airways fuel farm
- Plainview Aquatic Center still not ready, could be done by mid to late July
- Pecos-Barstow-Toyah ISD names lone finalist for superintendent
- Lubbock County authorizes gathering of more than 10 people
- City of Kyle planning to bust 3.5% voter approval threshold and raise property taxes
- Dallas County launches housing assistance program outside city of Dallas
- Controversial Dallas County Elections Administrator Will Retire After General Election
- ———————————————
- Colleges & universities
- Wayland: Hartman Named New Dean of Education
- ACU changes COVID plan for fall semester
- Texas Tech Picks Up Three Telly Awards
- TTU: COVID-19 Shines Spotlight on Gender Inequity in Academia – read it, it’s an example of TTU is full of extreme Leftists just like most other schools.
- College elites and defunding the police
- Universities Roll Out Reopening Plans Involving Masks, Hybrid Learning
- Texas universities are moving more classes online but keeping tuition the same. Students are asking if it’s worth the money. – it wasn’t worth it before COVID
- ———————————————
- Military
- Soldier From Texas Died in Accident in Afghanistan, more
- Will USAF Major Daniel Schultz Be Court Martialed for Going to Church?
- Wind farms threaten unspoiled West Texas river and Air Force pilot training routes
- At Joint Base San Antonio-Randolph, pilot training is still essential, but different in COVID era
Pratt’s post for 7/6/2020
July 6, 2020 by 1 Comment
Robert, thank you for your platform to spread liberty. Could one of the reasons we have such wussified men in Texas be the fact that most have been taught to keep their head down and mouth shut. And go with the flow? I have seen this the oil industry first hand. After many years of farming in Texas without the pressure to have such an attitude of shrinking back my thoughts, I had to learn a few lessons on going with the flow after joining the ranks of oil working men. What I have realized is, it most likely the same in most industries. I do feel a loss of great men to take the lead. Maybe this is the “why” we have such weak minded leaders these days. Thank you for your stand and your role as a strong leader for Texas.