- New Texas GOP chair addresses November, Abbott – says Abbott should have called in Legislature after 30 days.
- Greg Abbott’s drift from conservatism easy to track, appears he’s betting on a Trump loss, Abbott uses amalgamation of statutes to skirt due process
- Governor Abbott Renews State of Disaster Following Violent Protests
- Abbott Sees Largest Drop to Date in Approval Rating
- State officials warn of taxpayer abuse from local officials
- The “tax rate” doesn’t tell you if locals are raising your property taxes
- Attention: You cannot count on press to warn you of local property tax increases
- Rep. Howard, Other Texas Lawmakers Try Again to End Tampon Tax – end the tax on shaving supplies too
- Patrick Teases Prolonged Legislative Session, Abbott Extends Early Voting, New Commissioner Announced
- State Rep. Tony Tinderholdt was was hospitalized for coronavirus – wore mask as directed.
- House Freedom Caucus Letter to Land Commissioner George P. Bush: Enforce the Open Beaches Act!
- AG Paxton Issues Guidance Letter on Postponed Elections
- Abbott: local health authorities can’t shutter schools to prevent covid spread VIDEO
- Governor Abbott, Lt. Governor Patrick, Speaker Bonnen, Chairman Taylor, Chairman Huberty Release Statement On School Re-Openings
- Education Commissioner Says Funding Waivers Still Available to Districts Delaying In-Person Opening
- Wind and Solar Subsidies Increase Texas Electricity Costs
- Electricity subsidy remains secret to most Texans, critics say
- Opinion: Protecting the Right to Vote More Important Than Ever Before – fine but no one is trying take away the right to vote, they are trying to protect the integrity of people’s votes by stopping fraud which robs them of their vote.
- TX13: Ronny Jackson Takes Steps to Keep Campaign Promise – he will appear on Pratt on Texas next Wednesday, 8/5
- Texas Republicans Take Sharp Turn to the Right With New Chair – ha!
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- Federal/DC related to Texas
- Four main takeaways from the House’s Big Tech antitrust sideshow
- President Trump to order Chinese company to sell TikTok’s U.S. operations, report says
- US, China Consulate Closures Deal Losses to Both Nations – it’s a gain even with the costs if it curtails economic and technical espionage
- U.S. Officials: Chinese Hackers Targeted Biotech Firm Working on Coronavirus Vaccine
- Trump extends LNG exports through 2050
- 2 American Oil Execs Jailed in Venezuela Put on Home Arrest
- Mike Cernovich: FBI ‘Completely Ignored’ Epstein’s Victims’ Requests for Help
- Sen. Cornyn: Congress must do more to provide critical COVID-19 assistance and financial relief – B.S. End restrictions and get back to work!
- House and Senate Duel Over Phase IV Coronavirus Relief Plans
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- Presidential race / national politics
- Rasmussen: Donald Trump Approval Rating Bounces Back to 50 Percent
- Tilove: Trump’s white flight fright won’t stall suburbs’ swing against him – Tilove lives in a bubble of Leftists with a few defeatist pseudo-Republicans thrown in for taste.
- Best Photos and Video from President Trump’s Appearance in Midland
- Scenes from President Trump’s arrival in Midland
- King Trump? Leftwing MELTDOWN as Trump Tweets on Delaying the Election
- Victor Davis Hanson: Trump is ‘protector’ of traditions that Dems want to disrupt
- Karen Bass’s Long March from Communist Fringe to Biden’s VP Shortlist
- Karen Bass? Really?
- Kamala Harris vs. Susan Rice for Biden’s VP
- Biden and Taxpayer-Funded Abortion
- Obama Privately Warns Top Dem Donors: Trump Voters ‘Glued’ to Breitbart, Fox News, Rush Limbaugh – dumbass Leftist forgot Pratt on Texas!
- Alveda King: Obama Politicized John Lewis’ Funeral– He Took Us Back to Segregated 1960s
- Obama for Gives a ‘Campaign Speech’ at a Funeral: ‘Hard to Believe’ This Is Real
- Obama blatantly political as he stands over John Lewis’ coffin
- Maxine Waters Says Trump’s ‘Henchmen’ Are Stopping People From Getting Their Mail
- The US ‘Gun Culture’ That Saved Europe does not occur in a vacuum
- ‘Cancel Culture’: Old Tyranny in New Bottles
- Four more plead guilty in Los Angeles homeless voter fraud scheme
- Dem Pol Took Bribe From Chinese Billionaire to Pay Off Sexual Harassment Lawsuit
- Alan Dershowitz, Prince Andrew, Bill Richardson and … Bill Clinton: All Named in Epstein Court Documents as Involved With Underage Girls
- “Ellen DeGeneres Show” Behind the Scenes — A Bacchanal Playground of Sexual Harassment and Misconduct
- California’s Woke Hypocrisy: Leaders offer platitudes and counterproductive policies rather than opportunities and better living standards for the state’s minorities.
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- Border / immigration
- Images Show Mexican Cartel Smuggling into U.S. During Hurricane Hanna
- State Cops Seize Cartel Weapons Caches in Piedras Negras
- Two Former Mexican Federales Face Drug Charges in U.S.
- LeBaron family sues Juarez Cartel for the massacre that killed 9 family members
- Unlawful detention of immigrant families; MALC calls for probe
- Illegal Aliens Expelled Under COVID-19 Rules Land In Mexico City
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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 7/31/2020 (pdf) – 6,190* 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. The # viral tested in Texas is now 3,476,926.
- * Texas’ count of coronavirus deaths jumps 12% after officials change the way they tally COVID-19 fatalities – more evidence of unreliable numbers. The 313 deaths added yesterday were from over a “week or more,” showing more problem with the numbers. Does that mean the daily death totals were, or still are, wrong? What was done to ensure the new numbers are not duplicative?
- State Adjusts Surging Total COVID-19 Deaths Slightly Lower – another change! “State health officials have lowered their surging total COVID-19 death count slightly, saying an automation error in a switch in its counting method erroneously added about 225 fatalities to the total.”
- Abbott uses amalgamation of statutes to skirt due process
- Let’s Not Pretend This Is Constitutional
- Individual Liberty in a Pandemic: Government’s Power to Restrict Your Freedoms in a Crisis
- Texas bar owners suing Abbott over booze ban: ‘Bar Lives Matter’
- Facts About COVID-19, CDC says virus close to losing epidemic status
- Thousands of scientists and doctors condemn COVID-19 panic, more
- Shutdowns Are Not a Serious Solution to the Coronavirus Threat
- Unemployment in Costa Rica reaches 20.1%, the highest in its history, in midst of pandemic – the cost of ill-advised “shutdowns”
- Pandemic tensions revive protests in Latin America
- Time is Running Out for Coronavirus Course Correction
- Country-by-country data on mortality risk of the COVID-19 pandemic
- A Phony “Pandemic” of Stats and Symbolism
- America’s Frontline Doctors SCOTUS Press Conference Transcript
- COVID-19: Bad policy rules!
- Nueces County beach restrictions will be extended until August 17
- WuFlu cases continue to shoot up in San Antonio, but hospital cases decrease
- Aiming to stymie COVID-19 spread, Fort Hood bars personnel from visiting Austin and other major Texas cities
- Johns Hopkins Experts Address COVID-19 Vaccine Challenges, Realistic Timelines
- Coronavirus vaccine trials underway at San Antonio clinics
- Despite sinking hospitalization rate, Austin to keep coronavirus restrictions in place
- Expiring unemployment money could push Dallas restaurant worker to ‘seek out work that really isn’t safe’ – how the Left always sees work.
- Can Workers Return to Offices Safely? Geekdom’s Testing Program Hopes to Show the Way
- State Rep. Tony Tinderholdt was was hospitalized for coronavirus – wore mask as directed.
- Coronavirus expert Peter Hotez reveals how Texas can reopen by October — maybe even for football
- Baylor Scott & White Health in Waco temporarily slashes patient bills due to COVID-19
- COVID & masks
- CDC: Considerations for Wearing Cloth Face Coverings
- How much do face masks actually help?
- Now Abbott’s chief wants you to wear masks inside your homes!
- Sen. Bob Hall Criticizes Abbott’s Face Mask Order Shift: ‘We Are Expected to Live As If We Have a Monarchy’
- Some “experts” claim we need to wear masks “for several years.”
- MASKS – manners, manipulation and maths – what are your odds of getting or dying from COVID-19? Healthy People Should Not Wear Masks
- 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
- Woman takes Lefty talking points about how ‘it’s just a mask’ apart
- SRI finds ‘counterfeit’ masks among hospital supplies of coronavirus gear
- In an age of science, why are face masks a matter of opinion?
- Hotze Calls Out Ken Paxton for Siding With Democrat Mayor in Mask Mandate Lawsuit
- The face mask hypocrisy of Lubbock’s Mayor Pope VIDEO
- Rapper Post Malone Mocks Mask Fines: ‘You Shouldn’t Be Forced to Wear a Mask — But You Should’ Wear One – he needs a full balaclava!
- Why I hope every single airline follows Delta’s latest mask move
- Citations being issued over masks in San Antonio, Bexar County
- This Texas man refuses to wear a mask, but will gladly sell you one from his Trump trailer – voluntary action versus coercive action always confuses Leftists
- Dr. Fauci now says we should wear goggles or a face shield to protect ourselves from COVID-19 – it will not end until we, the people, end this charade
- Fauci urges Americans to wear goggles with their mask
- 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
- UIL announces plan for high school sports
- Amid calls for school shutdowns, U.K. scientist says student-teacher infections ‘incredibly rare’
- CDC to release new resources to support reopening schools
- AG Paxton Issues Legal Guidance on School Reopening
- Attorney General Paxton Says Local Health Authorities May Not Order School Closures, more
- Abbott: local health authorities can’t shutter schools to prevent covid spread VIDEO
- Texas Education Agency will not fund schools closed under unlawful health orders
- Dr. Anthony Fauci to Teachers’ Union: ‘You’ll Be Part of the Experiment’ – Dr. Faulty is simply unable to inspire confidence in anything except panic
- CDC director: Schoolchild mortality risk from COVID-19 is ‘one in a million’
- Teacher’s union president says strikes probable in Texas, Arizona, Florida – good way to get rid of some bad teachers
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- Business
- Rig Count Summary: Texas gains one rig in dismal report
- Oil prices inch up on crude inventory draw
- Oil and gas production jobs in Texas could hit bottom this fall
- Oil Giants Lost Billions as Pandemic Crushed Demand for Fuel
- Exxon, Chevron earnings gutted by virus-driven demand dollapse
- Phillips 66 narrows losses in second quarter
- ConocoPhillips reports $260M profit in second quarter
- Chevron loses $8.3B in second quarter wrecked by coronavirus
- Enterprise Products Partners shrugs off downturn with $1 billion profit
- Houston companies seek to enter LNG as ship fuel market
- Trump extends LNG exports through 2050
- Apache posts $386M loss, makes oil discovery off Suriname
- Carbon capture gamble could cost Big Oil – appeasing the greenies seems to always be a failure
- Halliburton launches new tech lab to speed development of clean energy
- U.S. Silica sees frac sand demand plummet by more than half
- Bankruptcy judge gives BJ Services another 30 days to continue operations
- Owners of Murdy’s, House of Rock speak out about bars being shut down since June 26 per Gov. Abbott’s executive order
- Thousands of new jobs coming to Port of Brownsville
- Two years after Reagor Dykes collapsed, where do things stand?
- Dallas Entrepreneur & New Healthcare Venture Sued in Trade Secrets Dispute
- Space X Starship fifth prototype set for first 500 foot hop in Texas
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- Protest, rioting, looting & more
- A near riot at the Weatherford courthouse all came down to one misunderstood symbol on a protest flyer
- Man arrested at May Lubbock Black Lives Matter rally pleads to disorderly conduct charge
- Governor Abbott Renews State of Disaster Following Violent Protests
- The Left’s Willingness to Tolerate Violence Should Frighten All Americans
- Riots for thee, but not for me
- Conservative journalist, 25, is stabbed in the back by Portland protester
- Minneapolis ‘Umbrella Man’ who sparked AutoZone fire is Hells Angels member: police
- DAs backed by Soros, other liberal activists join fray in clash with police
- The brilliance of the ‘Black Lives Matter’ slogan
- Tear gas Ted: the mayor manning Portland’s barricades
- St. Louis prosecutor tries again to find grounds to prosecute cop who shot Michael Brown; fails
- New web tool shows how Austin can reinvest from police
- For Austin officials investigating Garrett Foster’s death, a key question may be which party acted in self-defense
- Army sergeant working as ride-hailing driver shot protester Garrett Foster in self-defense, his lawyer says
- Shootings Rage Across NYC; Hapless De Blasio Fights Crime by Painting Another Street
- Oregon Had to Clear Parks and Streets of Staging Areas to End Riot Activity — They Did and No Rioting at Federal Courthouse on Thursday
- Six Additional Arrests Following May Protests at Texas State Capitol
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- Crime & general news of Texas
- Hurricane Hanna SITREP 8 07/31/2020
- Back end of Bob Hall Pier collapsed as Hurricane Hanna approached
- Plane crashes in San Antonio, killing one, injuring two last Sat.
- All clear given after two people considered armed and dangerous detained by Live Oak County authorities south of Three Rivers
- Ex-Houston Officers Indicted in Wake of Deadly Drug Raid
- Robert Durst Murder Trial to Resume in 2021 Because of Virus
- Austin Police Look to the Public for Help in Austin Shooting
- This Fort Bend narcotics unit overwhelmingly stops, searches Hispanics. Is it racial profiling?
- Retired San Antonio police officers scammed in $14M fraud scheme, SEC alleges
- Army sergeant working as ride-hailing driver shot protester Garrett Foster in self-defense, his lawyer says
- Midland SWAT uses gas to force man from apartment
- Man charged with starting fire at Odessa gas station
- Crime Stoppers tip leads police to suspected hand grenade thief
- WFPD: Ex-boyfriend drove through garage door
- Gates suspected of beating pregnant woman
- TPWD: O.H. Ivie Lake fully ‘infested’ with zebra mussels
- Abilene police looking for missing 13-year-old girl
- Wildfire doused Thursday in Taylor County
- Littlefield police called to shooting along West 3rd, teenage girl died, more
- Texas woman finds coral snake in her dog’s mouth
- Colt .45-packing Texas lawyer accused of smuggling meth into county jail
- Who should prosecute the El Paso Walmart shooting suspect?
- Police: Man attempts suicide by explosion in Wichita Falls
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- Local government
- AG Paxton Issues Guidance Letter on Postponed Elections
- AG Paxton Rebukes Round Rock Officials for Decreeing Themselves an Extra Year in Power, more
- Cedar Park council approve motion to censure member Tim Kelly
- Wichita Falls council considers eminent domain for drainage project
- ‘Bare bones budget’ could leave Taylor Co. teen court without funding – and yet they are still raising taxes!
- Drop in property tax values stymie Dawson County jail effort
- Plano Proposes Another Pro-Taxpayer Budget
- New web tool shows how Austin can reinvest from police
- Arlington group finishes term limits suggestions that some say disrespect 2018 vote
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- Colleges & universities
- MSU will not require students to self-quarantine before returning to campus
- TTU Assistant Professor Finds Way To Suppress Coupling Between Optical Waveguides
- Texas Tech Offers Free COVID-19 Testing to Students, Faculty
- Texas Tech alum wins global art campaign for COVID-19 awareness
- UTSA Launches Research Center to Expand Reach of Artificial Intelligence
- After voluntarily publishing its data, UT-Austin now has the unwelcome distinction of leading U.S. colleges in COVID-19 cases
- At the University of North Texas, the Mob Comes Calling for a Music Theorist
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- Military
- Texas WWII veteran receives Congressional Gold Medal, 75 years after sinking of USS Indianapolis
- Navy’s first Black female tactical jet pilot gets her ‘Wings of Gold’ today at Kingsville VIDEO
- Aiming to stymie COVID-19 spread, Fort Hood bars personnel from visiting Austin and other major Texas cities
- Lubbock native named Junior Sailor of the Quarter for Naval Weapons Station Yorktown
Pratt’s post for 7/31/2020
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