- Texas Gov. Greg Abbott abused his emergency powers, 5 GOP lawmakers allege in lawsuit – sad that only 5 are behind the suit! – This was covered yesterday on Pratt on Texas.
- Five lawmakers sue Gov. Greg Abbott over $295 million contact tracing deal
- In a shift, Abbott holds coronavirus press briefings – and again it is at a place for the optics.
- Governor Abbott, HHSC Announce Deadline Extension For Medicaid, CHIP Providers To Apply For Federal COVID-19 Relief Funds
- Gov. Abbott: School boards will dictate reopenings. Teachers: Abbott is ‘passing the buck.’ – laughable as these folks are always screaming “local control” when it fits their agenda, when it doesn’t they want state control!
- $400 Million Plan to Help Close the Tech Gap for Texas Schoolchildren
- Analysis: The Texas Legislature can meet for up to 140 days. The pandemic raises a question: Should it? – of course it should you bunch of Leftist panty-waists
- New TABC Guidance Allows Businesses to Adjust Their 51 Percent Alcohol Sales Classification
- AG Paxton Applauds President Trump, White House Title 32 Extension of Texas National Guard
- TTI’s Pedestrian Hybrid Beacon Study Wins National Award
- Predatory Pricing in the Texas Electricity Market – “Renewable energy generators are driving other, more reliable sources of energy out of the Texas electricity market.”
- Texas Windstorm Insurance Rates Unchanged Now, but Regulators Plan Another Look – raise the rates!
- An abrupt change to the census deadline shortened the response period by a month, increasing fears of an undercount in Texas
- The Texas Supreme Court Justice and the Felonious Lawyer
- Organizers blame city of Dallas for cancellation of Young Americans for Liberty training event
- South Dakota Governor Calls Out Texas After Pro-Liberty Conference Cancellation
- HD108: Poll finds Joanna Cattanach, Democratic challenger to Rep. Morgan Meyer, leading 48 to 43
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- Federal/DC related to Texas
- Trump Appointee Highlights Unfairness of Speech Regulations in First Act on FEC – our friend Trey Trainor
- Sens. Cruz, Cornyn Introduce Legislation to Provide Certainty for Nationwide Permit Program for Texas Critical Infrastructure
- Ted Cruz Triggers Mazie Hirono So Badly That She Storms Out of the Hearing VIDEO
- Appeals Court: NOAA Can’t Make Rules for Offshore Fish Farms
- Rather than pour trillions into infrastructure funding, the feds should get out of the way of private investment – right!
- DC Circuit Directs Gen. Flynn, DOJ, and Judge Sullivan to Be Prepared to Answer Questions Regarding Judge Sullivan’s Bias and Lack of Impartiality
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- Presidential race / national politics
- Biden won’t go to Milwaukee to accept Democratic nomination
- Biden Ripped For Deciding Not to Go to Wisconsin to Accept Nomination
- Biden says border wall construction will stop if he’s elected president
- ‘Are you a junkie?’ Joe Biden stuns reporter with bizarre question
- Biden reverses on cognitive tests: “Why the hell would I take a test?”
- Biden to Black Journalist: ‘Are You a Junkie?’
- Joe Biden’s trainwreck interview flies even more off the rails with his take on dealing with China VIDEO
- Trump Responds to Hillary’s Attack on His Reelection ‘Strategy’ With Harsh Reality-Check
- Has Trump’s COVID-19 response really been so dire?
- The soft bigotry of lowering exam standards
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- Border / immigration
- $2.5M in Cocaine Found at Texas Immigration Checkpoint 80 Miles from Border
- Stash House Search Finds 51 Illegal Aliens in Texas near Border
- 201 pounds of pork confiscated from truck engine at Texas-Mexico border, CBP officers say
- Mexican Border State Teen Kidnapping Shakes Farming Community
- Border security should also include safety for asylum seekers petitioning to enter the United States – that’s not the responsibility of U.S. taxpayers
- Biden says border wall construction will stop if he’s elected president
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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 8/05/2020 (pdf) – 7,261* 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 3,884,848.
- * Texas COVID numbers appear no longer trustworthy – a MUST read.
- A third more died of flu in Texas by 31 July 2019 than died of COVID-19
- ‘Major disconnect’ between state, counties on COVID-19 deaths
- Abbott uses amalgamation of statutes to skirt due process
- Let’s Not Pretend This Is Constitutional
- 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
- A Phony “Pandemic” of Stats and Symbolism
- America’s Frontline Doctors SCOTUS Press Conference Transcript
- City of Dallas Cancels Young Americans for Liberty Convention
- Texas medical board takes warning shot at Dr. Stella Immanuel, others touting COVID ‘cure’, more, more – another way Abbott is letting Texas become New York and California like: Harass doctors treating WuFlu.
- Bobby Kennedy Jr. Claims Dr. Fauci and Gates Foundation Will Make Billions on Coronavirus Vaccine
- Hydroxychloroquine: Fauci silences Henry Ford researchers
- The U.S. failure to contain the pandemic has been laid bare in the Rio Grande Valley in South Texas. – just what I reported on yesterday, utter hyperbole. See: 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!
- Gonzalez laments Valley passing 1,000 COVID deaths
- Governor Abbott Visits McAllen Convention Center For Opening Of Temporary Health Care Facility
- Midland Health: Monday’s coronavirus number spike is ‘little bit stunning’
- Backlog of Texas data pushing up COVID cases in Fort Bend, officials say – I think they mean case numbers, not that data backlogs infect people.
- Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson calls for probe into coronavirus testing contract after News investigation
- Trial Lawyers Looking For a $100 Billion Coronavirus Jackpot
- Mission COVID-19 Response: How an Army Doctor and Nurse Are Supporting Care at Baptist Hospital
- A white MIT professor created a bisexual, Native American persona online and then killed her off with coronavirus
- Gretchen Whitmer Opens Detroit Ca$ino$ While U.P. Bars Remain Closed Because COVID.
- Austin Public Health to resume virus testing for people without symptoms
- Sweden’s COVID-19 strategy is already paying off
- 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
- 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
- Paxton: Face mask mandates OK for counties, public transportation
- Tarrant County Commissioners Extend Coronavirus Mask Orders
- McDonald’s CEO instructs employees to call cops if you show up without a 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
- Abbott Provides Update On PPE Distribution To Texas Schools
- Gov. Abbott: School boards will dictate reopenings. Teachers: Abbott is ‘passing the buck.’ – laughable as these folks are always screaming “local control” when it fits their agenda, when it doesn’t they want state control!
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- Business
- SpaceX’s Starship Test Rocket Makes 1st Flight, Landing Upright, Great short videos of everything in the lauch VIDEO
- New TABC Guidance Allows Businesses to Adjust Their 51 Percent Alcohol Sales Classification
- Willis acquires Texas Moving Company
- Orkin Pest Control manager admits he’s racist to biracial employee, company sued
- How Central Texas wineries are handling harvest season in a pandemic
- Skanska USA buys key Montrose corner for $27 million
- 339-unit apartment project planned for North Austin
- Rackspace IPO Pricing at Low End of Company’s Targeted Range
- Canceled Valero Texas Open Sinks $14M Into Struggling Nonprofits
- Predatory Pricing in the Texas Electricity Market
- NY Judge Dismisses $130M Lawsuit Against Trinity Industries Spinoff
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- Protest, rioting, looting & more
- 40 People Arrested in Austin During Weekend Protests
- Americans Have a Right to Peaceably Protest, Not Engage in Violence & Anarchy VIDEO
- Sen. Cruz: ‘Those Who Are Peaceably Protesting Are Seeing Their Protests Hijacked by Violent Anarchists’ VIDEO
- Montgomery County Moves Forward with Property Tax Increase Below the Voter-Approval Rate – but still raising taxes significantly!
- Herman: Two men, two guns, one death
- Couple who painted over a BLM banner on the street charged with a hate crime
- Black Lives Matter-Inspired Mural Surfaces on San Antonio Downtown Streets
- “I’m about done with this crap”: Documents, voicemail show prosecutors pressured detective into signing off on McCloskey charges
- University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Punishes Doctor Who Questioned Affirmative Action
- More Activist Lessons for the NBA to Ignore – Player Who Stands for Anthem Now Has a Best-Selling Jersey
- WaPo: Your Jesus Paintings Are Rabid White Supremacy
- The Media and the Left Continue to Insist Antifa Does Not Exist as a Group but They Are Lying
- The Seattle City Council Recently Screened “The Road Warrior” Movie and Liked What They Saw: A Future With No Police
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- Crime & general news of Texas
- Houston Officer Fatally Shoots Armed Assault Suspect on Bus
- Brownfield police officer arrested, charged with evidence tampering
- Texas Man Accused of Threatening Fort Hood Mass Shooting
- Fort Hood Soldier Drowns; 4th From Base Dead in Months
- Texas High Schooler Among Named National Student Poets
- Dallas Developer Facing Bribery Charges Put on House Arrests
- San Saba Co. wildfire at 9,500 acres, 60% contained
- Motorist parked vehicle in dry grass ignited 9,500-acre Mays Fire in San Saba County
- Midland FD respond to tank battery fire south of I-20
- League City dad rescues four-year-old daughter from 11-foot alligator
- Affidavit leaves some questions about stolen Odessa PD unit
- Midland police arrest suspect in deadly hit-and-run
- Earthquake reported near Coyanosa
- WF man jailed on $2 million bond on 20 sealed indictments
- Man accused of involvement in sexual photos, videos of children
- Baugh pleads guilty to indecency with child
- Final suspect gets probation in shooting of Abilene teen who was driving
- As Texans swarm beaches during COVID, so too does ‘gross’ fecal bacteria
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- Local government
- Midland’s district attorney files civil suit against county judge, Judge Johnson issues statement on lawsuit
- Odessa City Council planning to put CARES Act money towards protecting first responders
- Wichita County Commissioner’s Court approved to pay legal bills of fellow Commissioner
- Newly appointed Anson Police Chief continues mission of late predecessor
- Old Taylor County Jail now a pile of rubble
- Abilene’s new smart water meters so accurate they are causing higher water bills VIDEO
- City of Lubbock awarded more than $9M to improve transit during virus outbreak – an example of the massive waste of the DC virus bills
- Lubbock’s proposed budget includes nearly $1 million for tornado sirens
- Austin police budget debate may be punted to next year – trying to wait out the protests?
- Austin’s Socialist Councilmember Wants to Take Police Money and Spend It on Killing Children – police protect children but Casar is too stupid to know such
- Petition to put Austin’s homeless camping ban on ballot fails, city clerk says
- Organizers blame city of Dallas for cancellation of Young Americans for Liberty training event
- Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson calls for probe into coronavirus testing contract after News investigation
- An Insider’s Take on Allen’s Latest School Bond Proposal
- SAWS CEO Robert Puente Gets 4% Raise But No Bonus
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- Colleges & universities
- Is UNT Covering up Plans for Conservatives on Campus?
- Odessa College board approves slim budget
- Ranger College Planning to Utilize Hybrid System for Fall Semester
- ACU receives $30.5 million for nuclear research reactor
- Toxicology, Cancer Research Expert Joining Faculty Of Texas Tech School Of Veterinary Medicine
- Former Lady Raider Players Allege Abuse by Coaching Staff, more, more
- Texas Tech alum sworn in as first Black Air Force chief
- TTU Interfraternity Council places social moratorium on large gatherings
- Texas Tech refunding online access, student athletic access fees for fall semester
- UT-Austin Students Create Social Network For Seniors and Younger Adults
- University Students Push Back on Tuition Prices for Online Fall Classes
- The soft bigotry of lowering exam standards
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- Military
- San Antonio in hunt to land U.S. Space Command
- Gen. Charles “CQ” Brown, Texas Tech grad, sworn in as the next Air Force chief of staff
Pratt’s post for 8/5/2020
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