- Republican Lawmakers Sue Abbott Over $295M Contact Tracing Agreement
- Sunset Commission melts down over how to conduct its business during the pandemic – great for Sen. Hall. Stop this virtual crap and get to work like the rest of us.
- Planned Parenthood baby killers hiring for new Lubbock location
- Planned Parenthood [baby killers] releases statement on opening of Lubbock clinic “later this year”
- Need to Get Your Driver’s License Renewed? Book it and Wait.
- Editorial: Victory in the courts for Texas property owners
- Texas on pace for record number of firearms background checks
- Dan Patrick: Higher Gun Sales Foretell a Trump Victory
- Henderson County Republicans divided on censure – ‘It’s not about masks’
- The Mess Now Happening in New York Shows Why Mail-In Voting Would Be a Complete Nightmare
- HD47: Fleck seeks to overturn loss to Berry in state GOP House race – this challenge is crazy, she lost by 9.4%, more than a 1000 votes.
- SD14: Sarah Eckhardt joins Texas Senate in pandemic-muted way – she’s one the mask wearing benefits.
- TX4: In unusual closed door election, 150 NE Texas GOP officials will choose likely member of Congress – it is why you should serve as a precinct chairman
- National Democrats’ $1M-plus boost for Hegar reflects high hopes to flip Texas and oust Cornyn
- National Democrats commit at least $1 million to MJ Hegar’s effort to unseat U.S. Sen. John Cornyn
- Democrats plan seven-figure investment in Texas Senate race as Cornyn’s lead slips to 6 points over Hegar
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- Federal/DC related to Texas
- Second stimulus checks: Progress slow on virus relief bill with $1,200 payments
- Cruz To Hold Hearing On Riots
- Cruz Previews Hearing on Antifa & Anti-American Violence VIDEO
- Trump Administration to Announce $35 Million Housing Grant for Trafficking Victims
- Why the US assassination of Iran’s top general didn’t spark a war – Trump did good work and the fears were overstated to begin with.
- The media’s TikTok blindspot
- Conaway meeting with food bank officials on Farmers to Families program
- Nearly 60% of voters say government should break up or take other action against social media giants
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- Presidential race / national politics
- Pierson: Texas Cities Will Go the Way of Seattle If Biden Wins
- Joe Biden Leaves the Basement for Delaware Beach House Getaway
- Have we passed peak Biden?
- RNC chair: If Biden doesn’t debate, ‘he should be disqualified from actually running for president’
- In contentious Biden VP sweepstakes, contender Rep. Bass says, ‘I’m not a communist’
- Biden’s VP Vetting Turning Into a Game of Three Card Monte
- Carlson: In a Normal Year, All Biden VP Possibilities ‘Would Be Disqualified Without Debate’ VIDEO
- Nolte: Brian Stelter Is Gaslighting You About CNN’s Push for Biden to Skip Debates
- Democrats’ ‘War Game’ for Election Includes West Coast Secession, Possible Civil War
- Trump’s ‘Blasphemous’ Answer When Asked About Death of John Lewis Sends Critics Into a Frenzy
- Manhattan D.A. Investigating Trump for ‘Possible Fraud’ Based on Media Reports – a “broad inquiry,” in other words a fishing expedition.
- Oprah Hosts White Guilt Session: ‘Whiteness Gives You an Advantage No Matter What’ – says the incredible wealthy success story who is not white.
- City of Dallas Cancels Young Americans for Liberty Convention
- Illinois state Rep. La Shawn K. Ford wants the subject of History abolished
- Pete Buttigieg Takes a Faculty Post at Notre Dame – “There’s much to be said for diversity of thought and ecumenism, but those values should never be taken so far as to excuse the employment of public figures such as Buttigieg who, aside from having little to offer in the way of intellectual rigor or genuine expertise, have repeatedly and in the most public way possible contradicted and flouted Catholic doctrine on key, non-negotiable issues such as abortion and the nature of marriage.”
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- Border / immigration
- Border Wall Construction Crew Caught Smuggling from Mexico in Texas
- Trump’s ‘unprecedented’ fee hikes for green cards, naturalization raise alarms in Texas
- Federal agents are expelling asylum seekers as young as 8 months from the border, citing COVID-19 risks
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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 8/04/2020 (pdf) – 7,016* 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 3,834,586.
- * 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.”
- State overcounts COVID-19 deaths in Bexar County, officials say
- Thousands of Texans are getting rapid-result COVID tests. The state isn’t counting them.
- Editorial: Don’t keep Texans in the dark on COVID testing results
- Why Texas’ coronavirus data comes with caveats
- CDC director: ‘Possibility’ some individuals not ‘diagnosed with COVID’ are in death count
- Texas Coronavirus Update: Approaching 300,000 Estimated Recoveries
- 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!
- City of Dallas Cancels Young Americans for Liberty Convention
- COVID-19 deaths top 1,000 in Rio Grande Valley – 1,377,861 total 4 co. population. 1000/ 1377861 = 0.0007257. 1/10th of a percent is 1,377.861. The death rate in the RGV is well below the expected fatality rate of flu and yet the region is being portrayed nationally as a disaster!
- Texas medical board takes warning shot at Dr. Stella Immanuel, others touting COVID ‘cure’, more – another way Abbott is letting Texas become New York and California like: Harass doctors treating WuFlu.
- Abbott Announces White House Title 32 Extension Of Texas National Guard COVID-19 Mission
- Report shows Midlanders still staying away from public spaces
- Abilene Mayor self quarantined in hotel after testing positive for COVID-19, had had moderate symptoms
- Houston Officials Are Using Sewage To Help Fight Coronavirus. Here’s Why
- Bobby Kennedy Jr. Claims Dr. Fauci and Gates Foundation Will Make Billions on Coronavirus Vaccine
- Hydroxychloroquine: Fauci silences Henry Ford researchers
- Covid-19 Proves Patents and Competition Are Compatible
- New York City health commissioner resigns after constant clashes with Mayor de Blasio
- Mike Pence Check Mates Andrew Cuomo On His Horrible Handling of COVID-19 In New York
- ‘Shame on all of you’: Texas wife blames Trump and Gov. Abbott for husband’s COVID-19 death – disgusting scapegoating.
- Houston man accused of spending COVID relief funds on strip clubs, Lamborghini
- 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
- More on face masks and why we should object to decrees to wear such
- Masks, social distancing, and mass hysteria
- Escalation: Mayor tells Houstonians to mask up or pay up
- 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
- Abbott: Texas has ‘abundant’ protective equipment for school reopenings
- Abbott Provides Update On PPE Distribution To Texas Schools
- Abbott Goes to San Antonio, Talks PPE, Schools Reopening
- New Mexico High Court Sides With Governor on Fines for Businesses Open Despite Health Order – of course, they are part of the corrupt NM cabal.
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- Business
- Flight From the Cities: Home Prices See Fastest Monthly Gain Since 2013
- Torres: Valley economy will not rebound until COVID-19 is defeated – and then it will still trail Texas until Democrats there are defeated.
- Men’s Wearhouse, Jos. A. Bank owner files for bankruptcy in Houston
- US airlines send another 10,500 furlough notices as industry faces dramatic contraction
- SpaceX Starship SN5 test hop scrubbed on Monday
- Oil rises with signs of economic recovery buoying demand view
- BP cutting oil production by 40 percent, slashes dividend
- Reagor-Dykes estate files suit against AimBank
- ZenBusiness Joins Forces With Austin Financial Technology Startup Joust
- Amazon sellers are sending unordered packages to customers in a scam to boost their ratings
- Texas Craft Brewers Navigate Confusing Coronavirus Mandates
- Southwest Airlines scales back on disinfecting planes
- Austin’s Mood Media emerges from Chapter 11 bankruptcy
- Austin-based Cirrus Logic beats Street expectations
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- Protest, rioting, looting & more
- Nadler Calls Riots ‘Myth’ — Then Blames Them on Trump and Barr
- Another teacher targeted by the thought police: Calling Black Lives Matter a terrorist organization loses you your job
- Body Cam Footage of George Floyd Encounter Leaked, more
- Full Body Cam Video from Two of the Minneapolis Police Officers Undercuts Charges Filed By Minnesota AG Keith Ellison
- George Floyd Was an Excuse, Never a Cause
- Pierson: Texas Cities Will Go the Way of Seattle If Biden Wins
- After protesters arrive in her neighborhood, Seattle police chief asks City Council to intervene
- Taking down Richmond, VA’s Robert E. Lee statue just got a bit harder
- Illinois politician calls for statewide abolishment of history classes
- Cuccinelli at congressional hearing: ‘Rioters are not protesters and protesters are not rioters’
- Minneapolis mayor says Governor Walz hesitated to send in National Guard after May riots
- In show of ‘resistance,’ teachers unions demand police-free schools, moratorium on voucher programs
- BLM Protester Stabbed in Portland as Another Anti-Police Protester Shouts, ‘Call the Police!’
- Anti-Cop Insanity in Portland Just Took Down a Ridiculous Target
- ‘We Always Knew What It Stood For’: Small Texas Town Torn Over Its Confederate Statue
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- Crime & general news of Texas
- Sixth nurse charged in inmate’s death at Midland County jail, more
- Mother killed in Baytown home invasion as teen sons fought off attackers
- 2 teens die after trying to rescue 5-year-old girl in Trinity River, authorities say
- Man killed in shooting in Sharpstown
- Second MSU dorm burglar sentenced to probation, fines
- Police: Man tried to steal a baby monitor
- Man indicted after fiery drunk-driving crash in Wichita Falls burns motorcyclist
- Brownwood police recover 17 grams of meth, arrest 2
- Police searching for suspect who assaulted woman in line at Abilene convenience store
- ‘My son is a hero,’: inmate who died after ingesting meth saves multiple lives – what a perverted view of life
- Police Arrest Lubbock Man for Stabbing Person With Ice Pick
- Amarillo police arrest one person for stealing car with child inside
- Lubbock police identify shooting victim found near South Loop 289 & Indiana
- First Texas case of anthrax in 2020 confirmed
- One dead in police shooting at Houston Metro transit center
- Bicyclist killed in crash near Austin airport, medics say
- Body found in Williamson County where search for missing man conducted; death deemed suspicious
- Lubbock Police Arrest 7 in Prostitution Operation
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- Local government
- Lubbock city staff ready to propose ‘no-new-revenue’ tax rate – Pope can’t take any more hits politically
- Levelland mayoral recall petition lacks sufficient signatures
- Wichita Falls council approves eminent domain for drainage, street projects
- Wichita Falls ISD to buy new Chromebooks, wifi devices
- Plainview City Council authorizes surveillance, broadcast connection purchases for new City Hall building
- Austin City Council to End Ban on Public Drinking in East Austin
- Op-Ed: At Every Turn, Austin Officials Look to Raise Taxes
- Carroll School District Delays Decision on Controversial Pro-LGBTQ+ Plan
- Carroll ISD Diversity Policy Stalled by Board for More Public Input After Emotional Meeting
- Dallas County may withhold payment to coronavirus testing company, citing concerns over contract
- After month of work, Dallas County cities are ready to invest in underserved communities but not ‘defund’ the police – “invest” means spend money on likely worthless projects and programs.
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- Colleges & universities
- Big 12 approves plan to play 10-game season with one non-conference game
- Wilbarger Co. wildfire now 100% contained
- ACU NEXT Lab to lead $30.5 million research collaboration, more
- Texas Tech Offers Free COVID-19 Tests to Students and Faculty
- TCU coach Gary Patterson apologizes for repeating racial slur
Pratt’s post for 8/4/2020
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