- Texas veterans can now be reimbursed for insurance exam fees
- Texas Workforce Commission Releases Child Care Data
- How a New Jersey Divinity Student Helped Transform the Texas Criminal Justice System
- Texas GOP Votes to Move Convention Online After Court Losses
- Bowing to reality, Texas GOP switches to virtual convention – no you liberal moron, the reality is we could have had a real convention but were stopped by those with a political agenda.
- Herman: The Texas GOP mulls ideas on English, COVID and a couple thousand other things
- Conservatives must wake up to social media reform
- GOP officials say Harris County party chair-elect is reneging on commitment to step aside after sharing racist Facebook post
- Texas Heads to Polls for Senate Runoff as Virus Rages – virus has nothing to do with it.
- 10 State Legislative Races to Watch Tonight
- 2020 Runoff Elections: Federal Races to Watch
- TX13: Winegarner, Jackson make final push for 13th District Republican candidacy
- TX13: Not a robocall: Trump gives ex-White House physician final push for West Texas congressional seat
- TX13 & TX23: Donald Trump makes last-minute pitches for Tony Gonzales, Ronny Jackson in Texas congressional runoffs
- Log Cabin [homosexual] Republicans Dallas meeting Thursday
- Houston-area Law Firms Are Using “Paycheck Protection” Funds to Bankroll Democratic Campaign Efforts
- Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick Reports $15.4 Million in Campaign War Chest
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- Federal/DC related to Texas
- Joaquin Castro to challenge party elders for chair of House Foreign Affairs Committee amid reckoning on foreign policy – if he wins all the Commie dictators will rejoice!
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- Presidential race / national politics
- Biden’s First Texas Ad Talks Masks, Not Trump – B.S: “The Democrat’s ad buy in the Lone Star State is a sign of the increasingly tenuous grip Republicans have on Texas.”
- Biden’s first TV ad in long-red Texas hits Trump over COVID: `People are frightened… Wear a mask’ – Leftist and other wimps are “frightened” the rest of us live our lives with responsible concern getting on with things.
- Biden is advertising in Texas. That’s ominous for Trump.
- Biden unveils $2 trillion climate plan with energy revamp
- Joe Biden’s Climate Plan: AOC’s ‘Green New Deal’ Plus 5 Years
- Cristina Tzintzún Ramirez makes the case for a Biden presidency
- Pollak: The Unabashed Socialism of the 2020 Democratic Party Primary
- A disturbance in the Trump campaign: Parscale’s ‘Death Star’ may soon meet its cinematic fate
- Rubin: This time, Texas actually is in play – I don’t see the evidence yet.
- Trump derides ‘phony polls’ in Texas, claims he ‘created’ the oil industry – it is tiresome how they pick apart Trump (& W.) statements but completely ignore inane things said by Biden and other Dems.
- CBS News/YouGov: Trump 46, Biden 45
- Tyrrell: Trump 100% American for America
- Advisory: The Return of Trump ‘Mojo’
- Hillary Clinton suggests Trump might not ‘go quietly’ if he loses election – well, she’s still making noise (but few listen.)
- Democrat Funded ‘News Outlet’ CourierNewsroom Floods Facebook with Election Ads
- Ted Cruz, Dan Patrick criticize liberal boycott of Goya Foods despite past support of Nike boycott – Nike attacked the nation and it’s history, the Goya boycott is because the firm’s chief said good things about President Trump, he also said nice things of President Obama. But leave it to the Leftist DMN to not recognize the difference.
- Ayala: A Goya boycott may not work, but the blow really has been to Goya’s reputation – see how the Left thinks (or doesn’t?)
- Bari Weiss Quits NYT for WrongThink, Accuses of Antisemitism
- Bari Weiss: ‘Twitter is editing the New York Times’
- The Fatuousness of the Harper’s Letter – Conrad Black joins me in using the term “morons” about, well, morons.
- False Alarm: How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions, Hurts the Poor, and Fails to Fix the Planet
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- Border / immigration
- $15M in Cocaine Seized in Single Texas Border Bust
- CBP Field Operations at Pharr POE Bridge 1527 LBS of Meth Worth $30 Million
- June Border Apprehensions of Single Adults Rise to Pre-Coronavirus Levels
- Border Patrol Agent Dies from Coronavirus Contracted On-Duty
- Cuellar hosts virtual meeting of US-Mexico Interparliamentary Group
- Heredia: Humanitarian tragedy occurring at Texas-Tamaulipas border
- In reversal, federal government will allow international students to stay in the U.S. while taking only online classes
- Immigration is the Ultimate Security
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- Coronavirus related
- Texas COVID-19 situation report for 7/14/2020 (pdf) – 3,235 deaths. 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 2,820,803.
- CDC says outbreak no longer qualifies as epidemic
- Amid coronavirus woes, hospitalizations in Texas hold above 10,000 – Note, we have over 58,000 staffed hospital beds in Texas at present with many more non-staffed beds in reserve. Yet we are being threatened with another killer shutdown because 10,000 WuFlu patients are in hospital. I will guarantee you that we see even higher patient counts from influenza some weeks of each year. (And for the bed wetting morons this does not mean we don’t take seriously COVID, it means we have the ability to judge things in context with other threats. Actually, your objection shows you do not take influenza seriously so are you responsible for the 10,000 who die from it each year in Texas?)
- Let’s Not Pretend This Is Constitutional
- Facts About COVID-19, CDC says virus close to losing epidemic status
- Herd Immunity: Is 20 Percent the Number?
- CDC: Considerations for Wearing Cloth Face Coverings
- Healthy People Should Not Wear Masks
- Some “experts” claim we need to wear masks “for several years.”
- Now Abbott’s chief wants you to wear masks inside your homes!
- Republican activist sues Gov. Abbott, challenging mask order
- Abbott: ‘Only Way We Can Prevent Texas From Being Shut Down’ Is for Everybody to Wear a Mask – Leftist-style political extortion
- Sheriffs Across Texas Say Governor Abbott’s Mask Order is Unenforceable – things I pointed out the day the decree was issued from King Abbott
- Sen. Bob Hall Criticizes Abbott’s Face Mask Order Shift: ‘We Are Expected to Live As If We Have a Monarchy’
- Colorado’s Democrat governor calls anti-maskers ‘selfish bastards’
- Man killed by police after mask dispute at Michigan store
- CDC director says closed schools pose larger public health risk for kids than reopening
- U.S. Pediatricians Call For In-Person School This Fall
- Dr. Scott Atlas: There Is No Risk To Children From Covid-19, I Don’t Know Why People Deny This. AUDIO
- Virus Spread, Not Politics Should Guide Schools, Doctors Say
- Scans Reveal Heart Damage in Over Half of COVID-19 Patients in Study – another scare headline and poorly written story that misleads.
- Ted Cruz spotted without mask on flight before attending rally with around 200 people – oh my! Nothing but hit piece prompted by a DCCC worker
- New York Pushes to Track Some U.S. Visitors to Stem Coronavirus Spread – the Left is being handed its desired police state by fearful citizens.
- FOX 35 Investigation Reveals Inflated Florida Coronavirus Numbers
- Florida hospital admits its COVID positivity rate is 10x lower than first reported
- California Gov. Gavin Newsom Poised to Release 8,000 ‘Most Dangerous’ Prisoners to Prevent Virus Spread
- Blame game? Cuomo takes heat over NY nursing home study
- AG noticed something familiar with NY’s COVID-19 curve that people seem to have missed
- Study Finds Oklahoma Trump Rally Didn’t Lead To COVID Spike, study – but local officials have claimed it did. Just like our state officials, they make claims with no empirical data.
- RGV county judges want authority to reimpose shelter-in-place – Dem tyrants
- Lubbock’s loser mayor appears on ABC’s GMA – he likes appearing places
- Lubbock family wants visiting changes to local nursing homes VIDEO
- Odessa hospital explains call for reinforcements – because the hospital itself has been under-staffed for some time.
- Texas counties are requesting refrigerated trucks as morgues fill amid coronavirus – we have flu season periods with higher death rates so what do they do with the bodies then? This seems much the same as we saw in NY, as much of a propaganda exercise as a necessary service.
- Texas hospitals are running out of drugs, beds, ventilators and even staff – we have plenty, supplies, equipment, and yes patients, get moved around. Not unique to coronavirus!
- Texas Coronavirus Update: Recoveries Continue to Soar
- A Red 51% Sign Stands Between Small Businesses and Survival
- Thousands of Texas prisoners still have the coronavirus. More than 25% of inmates at four units are infected.
- COVID-19 and labor reallocation: Evidence from the US
- How Austin is enforcing new coronavirus rules VIDEO
- El Paso health order closing classrooms could set precedent if governor doesn’t intervene
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- Business
- High Plains cotton crop struggling in heat wave, drought
- SpaceX about to set reuse record for fastest turnaround ever
- Passenger claims American Airlines flight attendant shook her ‘violently’, called police for using extra blanket – isn’t that what’s expected at AA where customers are an inconvenience to many of the union workers?
- Free pizza and a 75-foot statue of Elon Musk: The battle for the next $1.1 billion Tesla plant
- Red Lobster refusing to pay $250K in rent to landlords nationwide – can’t pay it if you don’t have it.
- Study: Midland County ranks 4th in Texas for taxes owed
- Dallas’ CBS affiliate, KXTA, to pay $215,000 in age-discrimination suit
- Texas employees would take pay cut to never have to go back to workplace, study finds – easy to say, hard to do.
- A Red 51% Sign Stands Between Small Businesses and Survival
- Is Houston Ready For The Big Oil Bust?
- Austin FC’s stadium design to include beer hall, two-level merchandise store VIDEO
- Investment in Dallas-Fort Worth startups cut in half amid pandemic uncertainties
- Deadline nears for bids to buy Tex-Mex chain Trudy’s
- BigCommerce’s IPO plans become public
- American, Southwest brace employees for potential furloughs
- Gold’s Gym set to be acquired by German firm, more
- GM to call up hundreds of laid-off workers at Arlington SUV plant and Indiana truck factory
- D-FW’s office market takes a hit from COVID-19
- D-FW retail vacancies are rising with the pandemic
- Neiman Marcus wants to raise pay for CEO Geoffroy van Raemdonck and 246 others
- Neiman Marcus is marketing store leases as part of its bankruptcy reorganization
- Luby’s regains NYSE compliance after announcing plans to sell business
- Billions of dollars in petrochemical projects put on hold due to Covid-19
- Houston chemical market intelligence firm Chemical Data acquired by ICIS
- Report: Wells Fargo layoffs could be in tens of thousands
- Walmart, Kroger impacted by nationwide shortage of coin change sparked by COVID-19 pandemic
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- Protest, rioting, looting & more
- Nolte: And Now the Left Is Coming to Destroy Our Church…
- NBA Allows Anti-Cop Slogans on Jerseys, Not ‘Free Hong Kong’; China: 600,000 People in Hong Kong May Have Violated Security Law by Voting
- Hanson: NBA has gone too far and too long without scrutiny on China VIDEO
- The History Behind Washington Redskins’ Logo Makes It All the More Disappointing They’re Dropping It
- Customers, Employees Boycott Cambridge Whole Foods Over BLM Mask Ban
- Idris Elba Against Canceling Old Comedies: ‘I Don’t Believe in Censorship’
- Univ. of Kentucky Faces Lawsuit over Plan to Remove Mural of State History
- George Washington U. Students Want to Erase Churchill, Madison from Building Names
- Rename Fort Hood to Uncover Our History
- Petition Calls for Fort Hood to be Closed – the stupid things people waste time on
- Virgil: Welcome to Year One—All Prior History Is Cancelled
- Gregg County listens to 2nd round of public comments as they decide future for statue of Confederate general
- Wichita Falls: Groups gather signatures in battle over Confederate monument
- Conversations begin after tempers flare at Daughters of Confederacy Monument
- Coalition asks Abilene ISD Board of trustees to rename schools named after Confederate leaders
- Amid nationwide discussions on race, Texas still celebrates Confederate Heroes Day
- Why Some San Antonio Students Want An End To School Policing
- In Fort Worth, activists are hoping voters will reduce the local police budget by as much as $80 million
- Mark McCloskey Says ‘Rumor’ Is They May Be Indicted Shortly for Daring to Defend Themselves; Just the News’ Solomon seeks judgment on St. Louis circuit attorney open-record request
- Poll: Voters reject ‘cancel culture’ by better than 3-1, but the ‘very liberal’ split almost evenly
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- Crime & general news of Texas
- Houses, cars burned by fire in Callahan Co.
- Fire in Clyde damages, destroys 7 homes, 12 cars
- Wind turbine sparks wildfire in Nolan County
- Wildfires break out in Nolan, Taylor counties
- Multiple agencies respond to wildfire southeast of Merkel
- Boy, 13, Driving Car in Texas Strikes Pedestrians, Killing 1, more
- Former Leader of Neo-Nazi Group Pleads Guilty to ‘Swatting’
- Round Rock man accused of possession of child porn
- Attorneys preparing insanity defense for man accused of El Paso massacre
- Panola Co. caretaker found dead in home, elderly woman found incoherent on floor
- Ector Co: Man charged with sexual assault of young relative
- DOJ: Houston man used $1.1 mil PPP loans to buy cryptocurrency
- Woman arrested for allegedly stealing two American flags
- Man dies after 1-vehicle crash at Big Spring park, more
- 40 firearms stolen from Gebo’s in early morning Lubbock burglary
- Lubbock Police Searching For Murder Suspect, 26
- Motorcyclist dead after crashing into tow truck on Gulf Freeway
- 3 pedestrians killed in overnight collisions throughout Houston area
- Center man charged in fatal wreck
- Major crash on TX Highway 35 leaves 1 dead, 2 others injured in Brazoria County
- Man fatally shot near Moore Park in East Oak Cliff, police say
- Dallas detectives seek help in finding suspect responsible for killing 28-year-old man
- Woman linked to Fort Hood soldier’s death pleads not guilty; bail denied
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- Local government
- Austin budget calls for 3.5% tax hike, $11.3M cut to police funding – rising crime but the libs will get what they want, less police!
- Travis County gives thumbs up to Tesla tax break
- Midland Co. hospital district’s sales tax election to be decided Tuesday
- Midland Co. SO creates position for community relations sergeant
- Wichita Co. commissioners working to consolidate $4 million in loans
- Brownwood council awards bid for Fire Station 2 addition
- Lubbock County hires new medical examiner after approving settlement agreement
- Lubbock Detective Receives 2020 Cherish the Children Award
- San Antonio ISD proposing to start in-person classes after Labor Day
- San Antonio’s CPS Energy sued over smart thermostat technology
- Chick-fil-A Law & San Antonio Council Back In Court
- Abilene ISD trustees approve pay raises for 2020-21 school year
- Dallas County Adds $30 Million to Small Business Relief Program
- Tarrant County Denies Request for Increased Number of Contact Tracers
- Round Rock and Leander ISD board of trustees ask TEA to suspend in-person learning until COVID-19 cases decrease
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- Colleges & universities
- In reversal, federal government will allow international students to stay in the U.S. while taking only online classes
- McMurry University eliminates Tipi Village at homecoming, says event could be ‘dishonoring American Indian tribes’, more, more – more Leftist crap
- Howard Payne Univ. names Liebrum vice president of external affairs
- TTU Family Addiction Recovery Researcher Joined Academia To Make A Difference
- TTU Professor from Jordan Remembered for Dedication to Improving Education in the Middle East
- Tejano Star Selena Is The Subject of A New College Course
- Alamo Colleges reveals its plans to return to campus
Pratt’s post for 7/14/2020
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