- Facing a crisis, Abbott charts a lonely middle course – he’s a fence sitter trying to play the popularity angle and in so he turned his back on his conservative, constitutionalist base. May the barb of the wire get him where it hurts.
- As Gov. Greg Abbott tends to pandemic, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick to lead 6-person Texas GOP delegation to Charlotte convention
- Gov. Greg Abbott will skip Republican National Convention to deal with coronavirus – he’s not needed at the almost nothing convention. He has no role.
- Texas Attorney General: Informal Guidance Concerning Foreclosure Sales
- Has the Mystery of the Chinese Seeds Been Solved?
- TDI applies advanced technology to policy reviews
- Tampons and pads are no longer banned at Texas bar exams
- Zebra mussel infestations growing in Texas lakes
- For the sake of public trust, AG Ken Paxton’s criminal fraud case must be resolved soon – remember, all the delays come from the prosecution side – Paxton’s lawyers asked for immediate trial over and again years ago.
- Texas Freedom Caucus Calls on Land Commissioner Bush to Protect Access to Public Beaches
- Record-Breaking SCOTUS Advocate Lisa Blatt Talks Texas
- Texas Bar to Fifth Circuit: Mandatory Membership and Dues are Constitutional
- Bipartisan balanced billing law puts a dent in consumer, provider complaints – it was a Republican bill that Dems joined, tone-down the “bipartisan” crap.
- Court case could reveal unprecedented insight into dark money group Empower Texans – there is no such thing as “dark money” and they’ll find that the background is quite boring. It’s just well-known conservatives giving money to push for conservative candidates and legislation.
- He’s Back: Obama Endorses Liberal Candidates in Texas but not MJ Liberal Hegar, more
- MJ Liberal Hegar: Abbott has not displayed crisis management skills during pandemic – but her alternative is even heavier handed gov’t control of people!
- TX13: Ronny Jackson Not In Favor Of National Mask Mandate
- TX23: Raul Reyes seeking recount in Republican runoff against Tony Gonzales for U.S. Rep. Will Hurd’s seat
- TX23: Gonzales Wins District 23 Nomination by 45 Votes, Reyes Requests Recount – you really want ballot-by-mail? So easy to cheat an election like this.
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- Federal/DC related to Texas
- Capitol Hill reconsiders approach to coronavirus after Texas Rep. Louis Gohmert’s COVID-19 diagnosis
- Sen. Cruz Issues Statement Marking One Year Since the El Paso Shooting
- Ted Cruz to hold hearing on how violence by Antifa, other anarchist groups marring peaceful protests
- Sen. Cruz Urges Defense Secretary to Protect Religious Freedom in the Military
- Dallas Fed: Universal access to broadband is a cornerstone to a strong economy
- Alan Dershowitz: ‘We will get her…she will end up in prison for perjury’
- Mitt Romney Sides with Democrats on Mail In Voting amid Coronavirus
- After Flynn unmaskings, U.S. intel won’t answer whether agencies spy on Congress
- Trump signs order banning federal agencies from firing U.S. citizens to replace them with foreigners
- IG Report Shows State Governments Sitting on CARES Funds
- Nancy Pelosi, Always Finding Ways to Make a Bad Situation Worse
- Dr. Birx Responds After Nancy Pelosi Trashes Her, Trump Jumps Into the Fray
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- Presidential race / national politics
- Communist Party Leader Endorses Joe Biden
- Joe Biden announces key staff hires in Texas, an emerging battleground state
- Joe Biden staffs up in Texas, assembling team in emerging battleground with three months to go
- Clyburn: Demings ‘under serious consideration’ for Biden’s VP, her work as police chief is an asset
- Clinton Aide Advises Joe Biden: ‘Whatever You Do, Don’t Debate Trump’
- New Poll: Trump Takes Lead over Biden, more
- 4 Reasons Why Trump Can’t Be Written Off–Yet
- Trump, Conservatives Cry Foul as Nevada Senate Rushes Vote-by-Mail Through Chamber – vote by mail is terrible.
- Arrington provides insight to Trump Texas trek
- In Midland, Donald Trump calls Democrats a threat to Texas oil
- The New York Times thinks ‘nice white parents’ are the root of all evil
- How the New York Times profits from self-censorship
- Who deserves a funeral?
- Colorado to list racism as a public health crisis -and under current precedents this could require compelling action (think masks, distancing and then think no flags, no pro NRA symbols, etc.)
- Alleged Journalist Claims Pickups Were Built to “Kill and Intimidate Pedestrians”
- Peter Berkowitz on Unalienable Rights, the American Tradition, and Foreign Policy AUDIO
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- Border / immigration
- No immunity: State judge who helped illegal alien escape to face rare trial
- Trump administration to increase immigration fees, impose fee for asylum claims
- ICE deputy director resigns
- Stash House Search Finds 51 Illegal Aliens in Texas near Border
- Salvadoran Wanted for Murder in Virginia Found near New Mexico Border
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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.)
- A third more died of flu in Texas by 31 July 2019 than died of COVID-19
- Texas COVID-19 situation report for 8/03/2020 (pdf) – 6,837* 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 3,747,779.
- * 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?
- Texas Doesn’t Report COVID-19 Case Count Amid System Upgrade
- 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.”
- Thousands of Texans are getting rapid-result COVID tests. The state isn’t counting them.
- 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!
- Podcast: Every word Gov. Abbott said on his RGV visit AUDIO
- Abbott returning to South Texas for opening of COVID-19 facility
- Cuellar announces COVID-19 vaccine clinical trials in South Texas
- COVID taking emotional, physical toll on Houston health care workers
- Dr. Fauci tells MarketWatch: I would not get on a plane or eat inside a restaurant – Dr. Faulty is trying to set records for obvious hypocrisy!
- Did George Floyd protests add to San Antonio’s coronavirus spike? Most likely not, experts say. – more of the same hypocrisy!
- Texas Rep. Louie Gohmert to take hydroxychloroquine to treat COVID-19
- Pennsylvania gym owners defy governor, break into their business, let in customers
- Coronavirus Mandate Stories: ‘Restrictions on Visiting My Husband Are Cruel’
- 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
- Fauci urges Americans to wear goggles with their mask
- ‘Not handling the pandemic well’: Man fires at officers with AK-47 after refusing to wear a mask, police say
- Poll: 9 of 10 Americans Wearing Masks in Public – proud to be among the 10% of those who resist rule by decree.
- Judge Bars Cowboys for Trump Leader From Son Over Posts – it’s all politics
- TX13: Ronny Jackson Not In Favor Of National Mask Mandate
- Turner: Houston police to begin enforcing mask order with citations, $250 fines – going to get people shot…
- 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’
- Nolte: School and Church Closings, Anti-Police Movement Blow up U.S. Homicide Rate
- Austin teachers union demands no in-class school until mid-November, Abbott says educators should have no safety concerns
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- Business
- State Sales Tax Revenue Totaled Nearly $3 Billion in July
- SpaceX conducts successful engine test on Starship SN5 in Texas
- SpaceX capsule and NASA crew make 1st splashdown in 45 years
- With Loan Money Gone, Restaurants Are at Mercy of Virus – thanks Abbott, mayors and county judges; you did it not a virus.
- Texas Company Looks to Unload 42 Excess Tons of Airline Nuts
- XFL purchased by group that includes Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson
- It Turns Out, Humans Are Pretty Smart: Developing Self-Driving Cars Is Harder Than We Thought
- ‘It’s Terrible’: Downtown San Antonio Businesses Struggle Without Tourists – well there have been no louder voices of fear and actions against commerce and freedom in Texas than from the San Antonio mayor and Bexar Co. judge.
- Akin Gump Helps 7-Eleven Take Speedway for $21B
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- Protest, rioting, looting & more
- Texas Tech athletes push BLM-style protest walks
- Members of the Tech community joined for the Red Raiders United Walk
- Ratings Crash for NBA, MLB After Protest-Filled Debuts
- Nolte: School and Church Closings, Anti-Police Movement Blow up U.S. Homicide Rate
- Shakedown: BLM Demands Protection Fees from Louisville Restaurant
- Business Owner Calls out ‘Mafia Tactics’ of BLM Activists Against Louisville Businesses
- Minneapolis Police Department Advises Residents to Give In to Criminals
- U.S. Army sergeant who shot Austin protester Garrett Foster posted tweets about retaliating against demonstrators – the Leftist media goes on the attack of the man who defended himself against the thugs
- Austin protesters clash with police in the wake of Garrett Foster’s death – this is written to leave out key detail and inflame more violence and rioting
- Austin protesters clash with police in the wake of Garrett Foster’s death
- Did George Floyd protests add to San Antonio’s coronavirus spike? Most likely not, experts say. – more of the same hypocrisy!
- Confederate Statue Will Stay After Vote by Parker County Commissioners Court
- Many Americans are concerned that violence will break out in November
- Ted Cruz to hold hearing on how violence by Antifa, other anarchist groups marring peaceful protests
- My Dear Wormwood, on the Matter of ‘Social Justice’
- Over 200 BLM People March on the Home of the Seattle Police Chief, But the Neighbors Weren’t Having It
- Pro-Trump Grandma Outs Own Grandson as Protester Who Allegedly Bombed Portland Courthouse
- Teen Social Justice Activists Devastated by Trump’s TikTok Ban: Huge Blow to Black Lives Matter
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- Crime & general news of Texas
- Sullivan City commissioner’s death in hail of gunfire with police stuns officials, more
- Hidalgo sheriff’s office opens homicide probe after driver, passenger shot
- Ceremonies for El Paso Shooting Anniversary Shaped by Virus
- Texas Man Jailed in Stabbing Death of His 7-Year-Old Brother
- Lubbock man shot, attacked with machetes and sledgehammers while fishing at Canyon Lake
- Affidavit details man started bathroom fire with lighter he bought from same gas station, more
- Big Spring man killed in car-pedestrian crash
- Earthquake reported near Coyanosa
- WFPD murder suspect in custody in Clay County, DPS release new information on how homicide suspect was caught
- Wichita Falls man indicted on charges of four child sex-crimes, fleeing the cops
- Abilene man arrested for child sex crime, more
- Man shot multiple times at Abilene apartment complex, suspect unidentified
- Abilene: Man arrested for shooting spouse with BB gun
- Police say body found in West Lubbock Saturday morning was 1-month-old child
- Amarillo Police looking for missing 12-year-old
- Man gets stabbed in the head with ice-pick during argument
- Man accused of grabbing people’s groins, making lewd comments on a Lubbock Citibus
- Lubbock Fire Rescue responding to fire at Purina Mills
- 2 arrested in connection to vandalism of predominantly black churches in Texas
- Winona man indicted for hindering a secured creditor
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- Local government
- August agenda for local government includes schools, police spending, property taxes and a pandemic
- Local officials lie when they blame property tax increases on anything but the tax rate they set each summer
- Midland ISD will start school year with at-home learning – rebate our tax money!
- Wichita Co. taxpayers to pick up tab for Watts’ legal bills for allegation of abuse of official capacity
- Captain Jerry Medley retires after 47 years with Abilene Fire Department
- Confederate Statue Will Stay After Vote by Parker County Commissioners Court
- On bond election reforms and the upcoming Dallas ISD school bond election
- Citizens Poised to Win Referendum Fight With Plano
- El Paso Transit Center Named In Honor Of Bus Driver Killed In Walmart Attack
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- Colleges & universities
- At the University of North Texas, the Mob Comes Calling for a Music Theorist
- UTPB’s Rajalingam Dakshinamurthy
- Tarleton State inks deal with Breckenridge ISD
- HSU Alumnus, Jeff Garrett, Promoted to SVP & CF/RO of Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
- Wayland Flying Queens legend Harley Redin passes away at 100
- TTU Sociologist Studies What Leads Mothers To Kill Their Children
- Applying to college should be a lot easier, and North Texas colleges are working to make it so
- College Applicants Have More to Worry about Than Ever
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- Military
- 7 Marines, 1 sailor identified in training accident off San Diego coast, all presumed dead VIDEO – Cpl. Wesley A. Rodd, 23, of Harris, Texas, a rifleman with Bravo Company, BLT 1/4, 15th MEU.
- New Braunfels Marine identified as one who died during training accident
Pratt’s post for 8/3/2020
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