- Midland’s mayor calls for Special Session to allow our representatives to debate policy “rather than [Abbott] running this thing by dictate.”
- Legislators ask Abbott to amend order impacting Texas restaurant, beverage industry
- Texas House Public Education Committee Seeks Input on Handling of COVID in Schools
- ‘A winning message’: GOP lawmakers seize on Austin vote to cut police spending – but overall bad policy
- Austin residents need to live with their political choices
- Democrats’ Destructive Decisions Spark Austinites to Take Back City -Government – this is my point, if shielded from consequences natural movements of change do not happen.
- While popular, move for state to “police” Austin a terrible, costly idea
- With elections coming, Texas Republican leaders join the thin blue line
- Austin made a bad choice with its police, but Gov. Abbott shouldn’t interfere
- P. Bush gets it wrong trying to play a tough on crime
- The Alamo grounds are now open but buildings remain closed
- Texas Ag. Commissioner Miller visited South Plains VIDEO
- Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton loses bid to remove fourth judge from fraud case – cheated again. This is a most obvious case of conflict of interest.
- Governor Abbott Statement On Federal Approval For Lost Wages Assistance Funds
- Governor Abbott Appoints Skinner To 144th Judicial District Court
- Governor Abbott Appoints Landrum To 164th Judicial District Court
- When are Local and State Governments Illegitimate?
- Guilty Until Proven Innocent?
- AG Paxton Files Amicus Brief Defending First Amendment Liberties for Religious Institutions
- Texas ranks 8th highest for racial equality in education
- Tropical Depression 14 expected to become a hurricane before landfall in Texas
- Hurricane center commits to ‘Texas turn’ for likely Tropical Storm Marco
- Abbott Urges Texans To Monitor Weather As Tropical Depression Approaches Texas
- TX21: Wendy Davis Campaign Wins Temporary Restraining Order to Knock Green Party Opponent Off Ballot
- The Back Mic: Candidate Seeks to Limit Governor’s Power
- Are Texas Republicans embracing the QAnon conspiracy theory? – the story itself seems to be generating its conspiracy theory that using “We are the storm” means a recognition of QAnon. I’ve heard “we are the storm” used in many ways for years but am rather ignorant of the QAnon stuff.
- Cuckoo Q: are the QAnon crowd as crazy as they seem?
- Democratic ad buys continue in key Texas congressional swing races
- TX23: Tony Gonzales has 40-vote lead as GOP primary recount nears end
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- Federal/DC related to Texas
- Houston toad case can move forward, federal judge rules
- Sen. Cruz Launches Second Statewide Tele-Tour Focused On Texas’ Long-Term Recovery
- Too bad you’re not an airport. You could get gobs of cash from the feds
- Ted Cruz Letter to FDA Says Hydroxychloroquine Restrictions May Be ‘Directly Costing Lives’
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- Presidential race / national politics
- Democrats Refuse to Condemn Riots, Crime During Convention
- Joe Biden accepts Democratic nomination: ‘I will draw on the best of us’ – how when you are surrounded with the worst of us?
- Joe Biden offers platitudes, not policies
- Biden devotes convention speech to Trump-bashing
- Daniel McCarthy Liberalism Politics US Politics
- What Texans are saying about Democrat Joe Biden’s chances here
- Democratic Party Chair Says Joe Biden’s Words About The Pandemic Speak To Texas Voters
- Radical Left-Wing Group to Aid Biden Election and Fulfill Progressive Agenda, ‘We’re Damn Serious’
- Valerie Jarrett on Criticisms of Kamala Harris: Would You Use the Same Language to Describe a Man? – Is she a man?
- Kamala Put Illegal Alien Criminal in Jobs Program — Then He Brutally Assaulted Young Woman
- Abortion Industry Ally Kamala Harris: ‘Every Human Being Is of Infinite Worth’
- DNC Features Convicted Murderer Who Squeezed Victim’s Testicles with Pliers
- Scalise: What Problems Has Biden Addressed, Delivered On in 47 Years of Public Service?
- Some Conservatives Praise Joe Biden’s DNC Speech; ‘The Bar Was Pretty Low’
- Phony Lines From Barack Obama’s Speech
- Barack Obama Shares Article Claiming Coronavirus ‘Defeated America’
- Tilove: Why Brayden was featured at the Democratic Convention and Julián wasn’t – these folk just cannot figure out that Julian Castro is a lightweight
- For hungry Texas Democrats, national convention offered mostly ‘B roll’ cameos
- That dreary Bloomberg speech cost him $18 million
- Two Full-Grown Democratic Men Compete Over Who Cried Most Recently
- Donald Trump: ‘Gloomy’ Democrat Convention Attacked America as Racist and Horrible VIDEO
- Furious AOC attacks Nancy over her support for less radical candidate
- Star Parker’s anti-poverty billboards under attack as racist – demonstrating the complete bankruptcy of America’s Leftist Democrats
- Hillary Clinton Campaign Veteran: To Succeed In Politics, Women Need Role Models – what that says is that they can’t be self-starters, it is insulting
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- Border / immigration
- Border Patrol Officer Arrested in Texas in Border Drug Smuggling Sting
- DPS arrests 26 illegal aliens inside Mrs. Baird’s truck
- Hundreds more federal agents en route to southern border to deter crossings
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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 8/21/2020 (pdf) – 10,793* 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 – a moderate to mild flu year. The # viral tested in Texas is now 4,547,069.
- * Texas COVID numbers appear no longer trustworthy – a MUST read.
- Texas positivity rate, Abbott’s key metric in fight against COVID, proven to be unreliable
- Collin County Slams State’s Bad Coronavirus Data – Judge Chris Hill says the county is “100 percent certain” the numbers reported by Texas DSHS are not accurate.
- Collin County Pushes for Fix as State Agency Admits ‘Significantly’ Overstating Coronavirus Cases
- Texas 2019-2020 flu fatalities through 8/14 report: 10,053 (32.92 per 100K) – clearly lockdowns and the other “decrees” do NOT work to stop viral spread.
- Abbott uses amalgamation of statutes to skirt due process
- Let’s Not Pretend This Is Constitutional
- Never has a virus been so oversold
- Thousands of scientists and doctors condemn COVID-19 panic, more
- Has Sweden been vindicated?, More data from Sweden demonstrates failure of lock downs everywhere else
- How Reliable Are COVID-19 Tests? Depends Which One You Mean
- Could mass testing for COVID-19 do more harm than good? – a must read
- After Criticizing Hydroxychloroquine Use, Texas Medical Board Says Doctors Free to Use Drug – and this isn’t the outside TMA but Abbott’s appointed board that polices physicians! They were as Leftwing political as others.
- Houston pastor Stella Immanuel tweets Texas Medical Board is investigating her – typical
- Dr. Sonal Desai: They Blinded Us From Science
- Texas GOP, doctors to Abbott: Data, science doesn’t warrant five months of shutdown
- CDC Study Suggests Inmates Should Have Been Tested in Mass
- Midland Mayor Payton: Leeway needed in virus restrictions
- State officials investigating Nocona care facility after positive COVID-19 test
- It’s a mistake to think all positive COVID tests are the same
- Your dog may be able to smell COVID on you, Texas A&M-Texarkana expert reveals
- Cuomo splits hairs trying to keep official Covid nursing home death count down
- Texas Finally Releases Data on Coronavirus Cases at Child Care Centers
- Paroled Inmates Still in Texas Prisons — and in Danger
- COVID & masks
- Masks are neither effective nor safe: Summary of the science – ignore who the author is, it does not matter, simply check the sources/footnotes.
- Wearing face masks more than doubled Texas COVID-19 fatality rate! (But wait there’s more…)
- Now Abbott’s chief wants you to wear masks inside your homes!
- Sheriffs Across Texas Say Governor Abbott’s Mask Order is Unenforceable – things I pointed out the day the decree was issued from King Abbott
- 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
- Fauci urges Americans to wear goggles with their mask
- More on face masks and why we should object to decrees to wear such
- Europe’s Top Health Officials Say Masks Aren’t Helpful in Beating COVID-19
- Face masks are ‘NOT necessary’ and could even harm the fight against coronavirus, say Holland’s top scientists
- Government routinely warned against mask use — before it was political – exactly as I have written and spoken about. See: More on face masks and why we should object to decrees to wear such
- Oxford: Evaluation of the Filtration Performance of Cloth Masks and Common Fabric Materials Against 20–1000 nm Size Particles
- Unmasking the surgeons: the evidence base behind the use of facemasks in surgery
- The danger of following ‘the science’
- Joe Biden Calls for National Outdoor Mask Mandate, Regardless of Age
- Young Children Pose a Dilemma for Airlines With Mask Rules – airlines, due to dumb customers, are being as stupid as Biden on masks.
- Coronavirus causing big conflicts at work over masks, cleaning and more
- Student with Medical Exemption Faces ‘Heartless and Discriminatory’ Campus Mask Mandate – sue, sue, sue
- 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; Too much hysteria over school reopenings VIDEO
- 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
- Texas announces new way to track WuFlu in schools – daily reporting
- TEA creates COVID-19 Data Tracking System for Texas Public Schools
- Houston-area schools lost contact with tens of thousands of students during COVID, TEA data shows
- Schools Use Empty Classes for Expensive Day Care, and Parents Are Charged Twice. This Needs to End.
- Bucking local health warnings, two private religious schools are set to reopen in hard-hit Rio Grande Valley
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- Business
- Texas Unemployment Rate Falls to 8.0 Percent in July – way too high
- Baker Hughes Oil & Gas Rig Count Summary
- Permian oil drillers bounce back with biggest rig hike this year
- U.S. rig count rises for first time since oil bust
- Oil and gas industry sheds 118,000 jobs during pandemic
- Saved by Suburbs: Food Trucks Hit by Virus Find New Foodies
- ‘Downtown is dead:’ How COVID turned Houston into a ghost town – thanks politicians.
- Frustrated Houston-area homebuyers face dwindling supply amid hot market
- Listener: Lubbock AJ’s choice to engage in hiring discrimination harmful
- Ruszczak: ‘COVID shift’ in shopping patterns is good news for bedroom communities – something I pointed out after the first sales tax report covering the shut down decree.
- Trinity Groves highlights one of many challenges facing Dallas’ small businesses
- Texas bar owners and employees are on the brink of losing everything
- Houston oil company returns to Permian Basin
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- Protest, rioting, looting & more
- When are Local and State Governments Illegitimate?
- Texas put hundreds of hours into finding and arresting police brutality protesters. Lawyers call it a “witch hunt.” – well if the violent and criminal are witches I guess it fits.
- Democrats Refuse to Condemn Riots, Crime During Convention
- BLM Activists Storm Neighborhood in Seattle, Demand Residents ‘Get the F*** Out!’ ‘Open Your Purse!’
- After negative press Lightfoot defends ban on protesters at her home, says residents understand
- Denver councilwoman will propose replacing police department with peace force
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- Crime & general news of Texas
- 4 people still missing, at least one person suffered severe burns in explosion near Corpus Christi Ship Channel, more
- Governor Abbott Statement On Pipeline Explosion In Corpus Christi
- DPS Seeks Information in 1979 Slaying of Dallas Child Elizabeth Lynne Barclay
- Shooting at McDonald’s near La Palmera Mall, suspect is in custody
- Two people dead after car crash near Beeville, DPS investigating
- RGC man who died in Starr Co. jail identified
- Four in custody following car chase from Hidalgo to Starr County
- Police officer fatally shoots man; Rangers investigating San Benito incident
- Army Asks for Help in a Search for Missing Fort Hood Soldier
- Judge denies motion for gag order on Vanessa Guillén’s family in federal trial
- Affidavit: Fort Hood soldier admits to sexually assaulting woman at San Antonio hotel
- Houston: Homicide investigators probing infant death at Greenspoint apartment
- Two 20-year-olds killed in North Odessa early morning crash
- Wind gusts create havoc in Archer County
- Abducted Texas sisters found safe in Waco, more
- WFPD: Wife assaults husband during celebration of her sobriety
- Electra man charged with sexual assault of a child
- 12 units damaged in 2-alarm fire at Abilene apartment complex
- Four years before SAPD officer was fired for using a knee restraint, he was involved in the death of San Antonio man in custody
- San Antonio hospital accused of firing ICU nurse who reported that patients were in ‘grave danger’
- Former Dallas police officer pleads guilty to possession of ‘sadistic’ child porn
- Sentencing set for Shallowater man who pleaded guilty to enticement of a minor
- Former Llano council member charged with livestock cruelty after pigs found dead on ranch
- Family of man killed by Austin police files suit, says he didn’t point gun at officers
- Police arrest 2 after body found buried in South Austin backyard
- Deadly Shooting: Taylor Co. Sheriff’s Office looking for 30-40 people who attended party
- Colorado City police issue AMBER Alert for missing baby boy
- AR-15 wielding suspects rob San Antonio convenience store
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- Local government
- Judge rules property owners’ lawsuit against GBRA can proceed
- Williamson County to pay $42 million in debt, adds employee raises to proposed budget
- TPPF: Travis County Property Tax Profile
- While Austinites are Struggling, Austin Officials Keep Plundering
- Democrats’ Destructive Decisions Spark Austinites to Take Back City Government
- Avg. Lubbock citizen to pay more under city, county proposed tax rates
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- Colleges & universities
- Student with Medical Exemption Faces ‘Heartless and Discriminatory’ Campus Mask Mandate – sue, sue, sue
- MSU Moffett Library renovation complete
- Hardin-Simmons University making online learning more personal, wins ‘Course of the Year’ award
- Most classes are online, but apartments won’t let UT San Antonio students break leases – welcome to part of the real world
- TTU: Women’s basketball coach deal is 5-year, $2.9 million
- Texas Tech waiving some fees for distance learners
- Texas A&M Regents Give Final OK to WT’s Amarillo Campus Renovations
Pratt’s post for 8/21/2020
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