- Texas Supreme Court rejects challenge to Abbott’s pandemic powers – not really, it was a jurisdictional decision.
- Senator Bob Hall Hosts Medical Townhall, Criticizes Abbott’s Approach
- Gov. Greg Abbott defends mask mandate to “frustrated” delegates at Texas GOP convention
- Texas Gov. Greg Abbott says “there is no shutdown coming” as coronavirus cases surge – he has created this by threatening a new shutdown many times over the last week!
- Abbott: “Let me tell you, there is no shutdown coming”, stop panicking!
- Abbott Puts Cabal of His Billionaire Donors, Industry Lobbyists in Charge of Restarting Texas’ Economy – bad to the Left because only those hostile to business should ever have control over business!
- Governor Abbott, Lt. Governor Patrick, Speaker Bonnen, Senate Finance, House Appropriations Committee Chairs Announce eLearning – more money down the toilet of fake schooling.
- TEA extends ability of school districts to delay reopening classrooms to at least 4 weeks
- Texas gives school districts more leeway in reopening schools amid pandemic
- State Will Allow Districts to Offer Online-Only Instruction for First 8 Weeks of School Year
- Paxton: Religious private schools protected from local orders delaying in-person classes, more, more
- Proposed $133 Million State Health Budget Cut Could Mean Less Oversight For Troubled Day Care, Foster Care Systems
- Family of Tinslee Lewis Petitions Court to Allow Treatment from New Doctor
- State Bar’s Board of Directors Sets Meeting over President McDougal’s BLM Comments – no freedom of opinion with the lawyers…
- Federal judge rules Houston’s convention center must remain available for Republican Party of Texas convention – a little late…
- Texas GOP postpones convention a day due to technical problems
- Texas GOP starts glitchy online convention with jab at Mayor Turner
- Herman: When a Texas GOP convention convenes, but doesn’t start
- Texas GOP will try to restart virtual convention on Saturday – what a mess
- Tilove: In convention speech, Abbott grabs his party by the scruff of its neck – it’s not going to help.
- Abbott Tells Republicans He Shares Frustrations Over Coronavirus Orders
- With high-stakes election season looming, Texas GOP Chair James Dickey faces formidable opposition
- Lani Popp Overwhelmingly Defeats Robert Morrow in Race for State Board of Education
- Democrats hold sizable cash-on-hand edge over Republicans in Texas’ battleground U.S. House races
- Cash still flowing to North Texas battleground legislative races despite COVID-19 fundraising slowdown
- Latest Fundraising Totals in the Most Competitive Texas House Districts
- Dan Crenshaw, Wendy Davis Top House Fundraising in July Quarterly Filing
- HD25: Cody Vasut Will Succeed Retiring Texas House Speaker Dennis Bonnen in HD25
- SD27: Pro-Life Democrat Wins Texas Primary (Senator Lucio)
- DNC launches first Texas TV ad, signaling a play for Texas’ 38 electoral votes
- TX24: Former Irving mayor Beth Van Duyne cites FEC rule to collect salary from her congressional campaign – silly, Dems regularly do this and given that the money raised is private money, it is not an issue for anything but the campaign.
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- Federal/DC related to Texas
- Relief, Stimulus, and the Right Kind of Stimulus
- Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue meets with ranchers in Texas VIDEO
- US Postmaster General tells postal workers to leave mail behind if it slows down their route
- Defense Secretary Esper excludes Confederate flag from permissible symbols on military bases
- There’s Nothing New About Roger Stone Clemency
- Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg says she’s receiving treatment for liver cancer
- Just-released Trump-Russia documents show anti-Trump leaks to NYT were shockingly wrong — 9 times
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- Presidential race / national politics
- Joe Biden Promises ‘Second Great Railroad Revolution’
- Trump Campaign Official: President Will ‘Support’ DACA Migrants – will cost him support from the base and add nothing from the Left
- Quinnipiac Poll: Biden Takes Double-Digit National Lead over Trump – “self-identified registered voters” worthless poll
- Polls: Trump Continues to Lose Support from Seniors
- Donald Trump’s List of 42 Disastrous Things Joe Biden Would Do as President
- Is President Trump still mad at me? His emails make it feel that way…
- Trump Sketches Campaign Themes, Promises More on Suburbs
- Democratic officials tell Congress-members to skip the convention
- Lincoln Project Paid More than $2 Million to Firms Owned by Its Founders – more of how the swamp-insiders use politics to enrich themselves & friends
- New York Times Purge Offers Ominous Warning
- Atlanta Mayor Bottoms: Open Carry Partly to Blame for Rise in City Shootings – then why is the shooting increase limited to within her city and not statewide?
- NYT: Let’s face it — the mail-in state primary was a disaster
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- Border / immigration
- Trump administration waives federal regulations to expedite border construction in Rio Grande Valley
- Mexico Puts Military in Charge of Customs Operations – so much for Mexican claims of the U.S. “militarizing” the border! Wow!
- Armored Cartel Convoys Clash for Control of Unfenced Texas Border Section
- 35 Illegal Alien Found in Tractor-Trailer at Laredo Sector Checkpoint
- Trump Campaign Official: President Will ‘Support’ DACA Migrants
- Trump’s strict vetting delays citizenship requests, but uncovers scant evidence of fraud, report says – fine but it should remain “strict”
- Border Patrol Fires 4, Suspends 38 for Social Media Posts
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- Coronavirus related (while I hold over some stories for a while this is not a collection that grows each day. You must go to previous days’ posts.)
- Texas COVID-19 situation report for 7/16/2020 (pdf) – 3,561 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 2,992,102.
- Texas coronavirus deaths hit triple digits as cases rise – bad headline
- Medical adviser to Gov. Abbott says regional stay-home orders ‘worth considering’ – it is time to fight back, physically if necessary
- Gov. Abbott says if Texans follow mask order, no lockdown will be needed
- Governor Abbott warns if COVID-19 spread doesn’t slow, next step would be a lockdown – extortion
- CDC says outbreak no longer qualifies as epidemic
- Let’s Not Pretend This Is Constitutional
- Facts About COVID-19, CDC says virus close to losing epidemic status
- Hear much about those hundreds of doctors opposed to shutdowns?
- Thousands of scientists and doctors condemn COVID-19 panic, more
- Texas Health Dept. Reported Inflated Coronavirus Cases for Bexar County
- Military Medics Deploy in California, Texas as Virus Surges
- San Antonio officials permitted three large events in a city-owned venue as they urged residents to limit gatherings during the coronavirus resurgence – the amount of hypocrisy in the WuFlu “management” is one of the reason much of the public is simply ignoring government edicts.
- Texas nursing home COVID-19 cases jump 60 percent since July 1 – demonstrating that even in heavily regulated controlled environments there now seems little we can do to stop spread.
- Lubbock confirms COVID-19 outbreaks at more nursing homes
- Days grow long at nursing homes as virus lockdowns drag on
- Reopening plan for Texas nursing homes on hold after surge in coronavirus cases
- Blue Door bar owner wants to be heard over Abbott’s double shutdown
- ‘Coastal distancing’: Corpus Christi official asks San Antonians to stay away from beaches – screw them
- Couch Potatoes? Average Texan watched 406 hours of TV during lockdown, survey reveals – but of course there is no negative health effect from that
- Gonzalez: Gov. Abbott should allow Samaritan’s Purse to open a field hospital in RGV
- Shutdowns Are Not a Serious Solution to the Coronavirus Threat
- COVID-19: Scientific Disinformation is, Quite Literally, Killing Us
- Texas Biomed Focuses on Efficacy Ahead of Speed in COVID-19 Treatment R&D
- San Antonio Scientists Running Largest Remdesivir Trial in World Find Early Success
- COVID & masks
- CDC: Considerations for Wearing Cloth Face Coverings
- Now Abbott’s chief wants you to wear masks inside your homes!
- Healthy People Should Not Wear Masks
- MASKS – manners, manipulation and maths – what are your odds of getting or dying from COVID-19?
- Some “experts” claim we need to wear masks “for several years.”
- Republican activist sues Gov. Abbott, challenging mask order
- 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’
- San Antonio Officials: Report Those Who Violate Mask, Distancing Rules to Authorities – snitch lines, in America and Texas!
- ‘It’s NOT just about a mask!’ Conservative woman takes Lefty talking points about how ‘it’s just a mask’ apart in EPIC thread
- Feinstein Proposes Halting COVID Aid for States Without Mask Mandates – do you get it now? It’s all political control.
- Georgia Gov. Kemp Defends Absence of Statewide Mask Mandate: ‘Government Is Not Going to Be the Answer to All People’s Problems’ – Abbott used to talk like that but has now shown he didn’t believe it.
- Georgia governor issues order rescinding ‘legally unenforceable’ local mask mandates
- List of national retail chains requiring masks is growing – pure virtue signaling
- Citibus driver attacked with 2×4 after asking rider to wear a mask, Lubbock Police report says, more – same happening nationwide
- Southwest Research Institute finds ‘counterfeit’ masks among hospital supplies of coronavirus gear
- Colorado governor issues mandatory, state-wide mask order for ‘moral and scientific clarity’
- COVID & schools
- 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
- Dr. Scott Atlas: Too much hysteria over school reopenings VIDEO
- Virus Spread, Not Politics Should Guide Schools, Doctors Say
- Teachers hold sit-in protest at Texas Capitol to demand changes on reopening schools – in other words, they want to keep sitting it out while getting paid.
- Teachers call on Texas Education Agency to rethink reopening schools
- Texas gives school districts more leeway in reopening schools amid pandemic
- State Will Allow Districts to Offer Online-Only Instruction for First 8 Weeks of School Year
- Paxton: Religious private schools protected from local orders delaying in-person classes, more, more
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- Business
- June Texas Unemployment Rate Falls to 8.6 Percent – still disastrously high but improved because we went back to work!
- Texas’ June unemployment rate falls to 8.6%, but experts warn unemployment could worsen next month
- Baker Hughes oil & gas drilling rig count continues to fall in 21st week of declines
- Oil falls on signs global demand recovery is slowing
- First vessel loaded at new Ingleside export terminal
- Three energy industry vets choose downturn to launch new terminal company
- COVID causes delays in power plant building
- COVID resurgence casts shadow over earnings season for oil field service companies
- Austin’s Eterneva, which makes diamonds from cremated ashes, raises $3 million for expansion
- Realtor: Buyers return to welcoming housing market
- Abilene real estate industry seeing spike in home sales, purchases
- Walmart is Asking All Customers to Pay With Debit/Credit Cards
- Social distancing-friendly ‘Floating Cinema’ movie experience sailing into Austin
- Essay: Jollof to jambalaya: Houston’s Black restaurants sustain us and need your support – Yep but how would it go over to say “white restaurants” need help. Stop seeing the world through the lens of race.
- Federal Felony Charges Against Former Blue Bell CEO Dropped
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- Protest, rioting, looting & more
- DPS Makes Additional Arrests in Connection with Rioting and Assault During the Capitol Protests
- Victor Davis Hanson: The NFL Is On the Brink
- Fact Check: Police Do Kill More White People, but There’s More to the Story
- Gatherings planned for Saturday, Wichita Falls BLM not attending
- Basketball Coaches Urge End to ‘Racist’ Standardized Testing – I think it racist to assume that some minorities cannot pass basic tests on basic knowledge.
- ‘Race hustlers’ at BLM spent millions on travel, paychecks
- State Bar’s Board of Directors Sets Meeting over President McDougal’s BLM Comments – no freedom of opinion with the lawyers…
- McCarthy criticizes Pelosi for saying ‘nothing’ about St. Junipero Serra statue torn down in San Francisco
- House Republican leaders introduce bill to protect U.S. statues and monuments
- Hawley to Barr: Open a civil-rights investigation into DA’s “targeting” of McCloskeys
- Tyler ISD school board votes to change names of Robert E. Lee, John Tyler high schools – why not the district, town?
- Texas Tech Public Media drums up monument removal with your tax money: Confederate monuments still standing in Lubbock
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- Crime & general news of Texas
- Man shot by DPS trooper in San Marcos, officials say
- Witness describes scene leading up to Knox Co. Sheriff, trooper involved shooting VIDEO
- 2 from Lubbock arrested after officer-involved shooting in Knox County, more
- Missing Wichita Falls teen found in Colorado
- Wichita Falls firefighters tackled Seventh Street structure fire
- Man Steals Thousands of Dollars Worth of iPads From Deer Park ISD, Busted Selling Them on Ebay
- Man with multiple alleged groping arrests indicted on sexual assault charge
- Abilene police release new surveillance photos of graffiti suspects
- Abilene police chief calls recent cases of graffiti ‘hate speech’ – Leftist
- Abilene man indicted on 11 counts after hitting car with family of 5, house during chase
- Comet streaking past Earth is something to behold on the South Plains
- Chase Ends Near Funeral for Lynn County Sheriff Abraham Vega
- Citibus driver attacked with 2×4 after asking rider to wear a mask, Lubbock Police report says
- Before arresting him for arson, police reminded suspect that lighter fluid all over the house not needed to cook chicken in the oven
- Sundown man indicted for online solicitation of a minor
- Mother killed, 4-year-old shot in west Houston apartment
- FBI agents kill armed man outside SE Houston home, police say
- Abilene police arrest man hiding from them in woman’s house
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- Local government
- Austin airport expansion delayed
- San Antonio officials permitted three large events in a city-owned venue as they urged residents to limit gatherings during the coronavirus resurgence
- San Antonio Tax Deal Leaves Future of Aquifer, Trails Programs Unsettled
- To Truly Tackle Root Inequities, San Antonio Council Must Address CPS Energy’s Legacy of Disconnections – the Left is incapable of sanity
- Bexar C. Commissioners Draft Priorities for New Sheriff’s Deputies Contract
- New Eastland City Ordinance Prohibits Using Other’s Dumpsters, Meddling, Etc.
- Lamesa: Five-year plans are focus of city budget discussions
- Plainview council approves bid for StreetScape project construction
- Parent Asks for Lubbock ISD Police Chief to be Fired
- Arlington term limits group kicks off as alternatives weighed during heated debate
- HCAD Waited Three Months To Offer Virtual Hearings. Harris County Homeowners May Have Missed Out On Better Deals.
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- Colleges & universities
- Rice University plans to hold fall classes outside in tents – risible
- Southwestern University cancels fall athletics, except for football, because of coronavirus concerns
- TTU Animal & Food Sciences Expert Earns AMSA Distinguished Research Award
- San Antonio Scientists Running Largest Remdesivir Trial in World Find Early Success
- UT-Austin prepared a list of scenarios that could lead to a shutdown this fall. One trigger: a student dying of COVID-19. – students die every year but those deaths don’t trigger shutdowns
- How Sandra Bland’s Life And Death Will Forever Be Intertwined With Prairie View A&M University
- Texas Tech Public Media drums up monument removal with your tax money: Confederate monuments still standing in Lubbock
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- Military
- Pentagon bans displays of the Confederate flag on military installations
- One Mural, Two Lives: Death, Violence, and Trauma at Fort Hood
Pratt’s post for 7/17/2020
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