- Texas spends $900 million on connectivity gap for public school students – this should not be a taxpayer funded endeavor.
- Biedermann Pledges to File Constitutional Carry Legislation
- Nearly 350,000 unemployed Texans don’t qualify for extra $300 weekly benefit
- Additional $300 unemployment checks run out after 3 weeks; to continue, Texas must reapply every week – I like the re-application requirement. If you are not working you have time.
- Former parliamentarians Keel and Wilson outline for Abbott how a state takeover of the Austin Police Department could work, While popular, move for state to “police” Austin a terrible, costly idea
- Texas Renews Court Effort to Ban Abortion Procedure
- AG Paxton Files Amicus Brief in Texas Supreme Court Defending Religious Liberty (Lubbock Roman Catholic Diocese case)
- No, murder hornets have not made their way to Texas, TPW says
- Texas oil and gas regulators offer a weak fix to flaring – says Leftwing environmental activist.
- Gov. Abbott wants Wylie ISD teacher fired for using cartoon comparing police with KKK
- AG Paxton Warns Texans of Price Gouging and Scams in Wake of Tropical Storms Laura and Marco – supply and demand should rule, no one is coerced to buy anything and thus gov’t should stay out of it.
- Republican John Browning Appointed to Texas Court of Appeals
- HD47: Judge dismisses Fleck’s contest, Justin Berry is GOP nominee
- Texas Senate District 30 “Emergency Special Election” – when & why.
- SD30: Texans for Lawsuit Reform PAC endorses Drew Springer
- SD30: Abbott reinforces head start for Rep. Springer in expedited race for Texas Senate seat to be vacated by Pat Fallon
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- Federal/DC related to Texas
- Trump nominates Acting Homeland Security Director Chad Wolf, Texan, for the job, more
- Rep. Arrington: Postal Service Squabble Is Predatory Scam
- Sen. Cruz Co-Sponsors Paycheck Protection Small Business Forgiveness Act
- Sen. Cruz Marks Third Year Since Hurricane Harvey’s Landfall
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- Presidential race / national politics
- Trump says Texans won’t pick Democrats: ‘No religion, no guns, no oil and gas.’
- Republicans actually make better TV: On night one, the GOP offered consistency and stability
- Populist Trump can win
- Trump talked his way into the White House; can he talk his way into a second term? – what a shallow view of Trump’s election, typical for Tilove.
- Meme warfare on the convention stage
- Melania Trump to praise her husband in Rose Garden RNC speech Tuesday
- Amazon Livestreamed All 4 Nights of DNC, Ignores RNC Day 1
- CNN Cuts Out of Trump RNC Speech — ‘A Lot of What You Just Heard From the President of the United States Is Wrong, Misleading and Outright Lies’
- Buchanan: A Most Consequential Presidency
- Secretary of State Pompeo to address Republican National Convention from Jerusalem
- Convention highlight: Cuban-American Trump supporter warns of Democrats and socialism
- Tim Scott Wins The First Night Of The Republican Convention
- Night one of GOP convention draws many more CSPAN livestreams than night one for Dems did
- Nikki Haley Causes a Great Triggering After Her Speech at the RNC
- Kimberly Guilfoyle Unleashes MAGA Scream at RNC – Terrifies Liberals With Her Fiery Patriotism
- RNC Opening Video Narrated by Jon Voight Lights Up the Internet VIDEO
- Minorities Are Skeptical of Democrats’ Latest Conspiracy
- Joe Biden Toes Democrat Fault Lines in Energy Plan, Hot Button Issue in Texas
- Playing with fire: Democratic leaders who fail to condemn the West Coast rioters may get burned
- Watch: ‘Fox & Friends’ Cuts Away from Donna Brazile Meltdown — ‘You Cannot Erase My History’ VIDEO
- Professor’s proposed ‘Dept. of Anti-racism’ panned
- Would a Democrat Have Managed the Pandemic Better?
- Five Million Americans Became First-Time Gun Owners in 2020
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- Border / immigration
- Two Deported Sex Offenders Arrested After Illegally Crossing Border from Mexico
- Nuevo Laredo: Kidnapping victim was the person moving in the truck bed and is ordered killed after shooting stopped
- Mexican Drug Cartel Carries Out ‘Drone Strikes’ In Narco War
- Los Angeles County declines to turn over 25,000 illegal immigrants to ICE, report
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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 8/25/2020 (pdf) – 11,395* 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 4,668,028.
- * Texas COVID numbers appear no longer trustworthy – a MUST read.
- 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
- Abbott: State COVID-19 Data Problems Have Been Fixed – sure, and today the same tested number was presented as yesterday!
- Texas positivity rate, Abbott’s key metric in fight against COVID, proven to be unreliable
- 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
- Texas GOP, doctors to Abbott: Data, science doesn’t warrant five months of shutdown
- Dr. Sonal Desai: They Blinded Us From Science
- Dying of COVID vs dying with COVID: Swedish authorities are trying to find the answer
- Make America Normal Again: Trump should double down on his COVID skepticism, just as Lukashenko did
- COVID-19: Hispanics have a different view than Anglos – really? Just like that? If a person is Hispanic their view is automatically different than an Anglo? B.S.
- COVID hospitalizations in Houston below 900, lowest amount since mid-June
- Bexar County’s battle against the coronavirus shows improvement
- Amid drop in coronavirus cases, Austin health officials ready to ease restrictions
- Austin parks officials urge kindness after attacks on rangers, monitors – Leftists in action! Why not quit trying to tyrannically micro-manage citizens?
- Coronavirus Mandate Stories: ‘He’s Hurting Texas’
- Whether it’s hurricanes or COVID-19, disasters are driving a mental health crisis – actually, it’s more the media coverage, propaganda and ceaseless drumbeat causing the mental health problem.
- Texas Wineries and Distilleries Call on Governor Abbott to Open Tasting Rooms, Relax Operating Restrictions
- EPA approves coronavirus cleanser for emergency use in Texas
- 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…)
- Sheriffs Across Texas Say Governor Abbott’s Mask Order is Unenforceable – things I pointed out the day the decree was issued from King Abbott
- MASKS – manners, manipulation and maths – what are your odds of getting or dying from COVID-19? Healthy People Should Not Wear Masks
- 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
- 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
- The danger of following ‘the science’
- More on face masks and why we should object to decrees to wear such
- 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
- Technical difficulties plague school districts’ online learning platforms as students return to school
- Texas Parents Opting for At-Home Learning Over the Classroom
- Teachers Weigh In On Lubbock School Districts Returning In Person
- Georgetown Teachers Say Reopening Complicated by Resignations Over COVID-19 Fears
- Back to School: Know Your Rights
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- Business
- Exxon Mobil dropped from the DJIA after 92 years, replaced by a software stock
- American Airlines Plans 19,000 Furloughs, Layoffs in October
- Influence of Mexican shopper on RGV economy not as great as it used to be
- California firm buys BAE Systems’ Austin campus
- Howmet Aerospace to start another round of layoffs VIDEO
- Sprawling, $200 million ‘fulfillment center’ headed to East Bexar County
- Texas firm gets its coronavirus cleanser for emergency use in Texas
- As eviction cases resume in parts of Houston, low-income Texans fear losing a place to live – I know someone who was working but chose to stop paying rent because of the ban on evictions. Scum and landlord is hurting terribly.
- Texas Wineries and Distilleries Call on Governor Abbott to Open Tasting Rooms, Relax Operating Restrictions
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- Protest, rioting, looting & more
- Playing with fire: Democratic leaders who fail to condemn the West Coast rioters may get burned
- Actress Taryn Manning Will Terrorize Black Lives Matter-Supporting Neighbors in Movie ‘Karen’
- Kenosha Eyewitness: Police Told Jacob Blake to ‘Drop the Knife’ Before Shooting; Did Not See Knife
- Video Shows Jacob Blake Brawling with Police Before Shooting VIDEO
- Dallas County will consider spending $3 million on policing alternatives after summer protests
- Portland police decision not to step in during dueling demonstrations under review, mayor says
- NFL’s Goodell continues to apologize to Kaepernick
- Democrats cannot continue to maintain silence on left-wing violence
- Apparently Governor Evers, Wisconsin, thinks more laws will stop rioting
- CNN briefly describes Wisconsin protests as ‘violent’ before scrubbing word from broadcast
- BLM Burns Down Kenosha — A City of 100,000 — With Police and National Guard Deployed
- BLM Burns Down Mostly Black Neighborhood in Kenosha, Including Businesses and People’s Homes
- BLM Rioters Knock Out Older Man Defending His Business, Business Owners’ Heartbreaking Reaction to Destruction
- Antifa Portland Acting Like Jealous Girlfriend — “Who Is Kenosha And Where Did You Meet Her?”
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- Weather / hurricane news
- Hurricane Laura poses threat to Houston and Galveston, expected to make landfall as Cat 3
- Gov. Abbott provides update on response to Hurricane Laura approaching Texas Gulf coast
- Governor Abbott Adds 36 Counties To State Disaster Declaration
- Hundreds of Thousands Ordered to Flee Coast Ahead of Laura
- National Hurricane Center Says Hurricane Laura Has Formed, Projected to Cause Devastating Damage Along U.S. Gulf Coast
- ‘In the Bullseye:’ Gulf Preps for Laura to Slam as Hurricane
- As twin hurricanes converge on the Gulf Coast, $31 billion ‘Ike Dike’ still in planning stages
- Judge Hidalgo orders voluntary evacuation for coastal Harris County residents amid Hurricane Laura
- Galveston issues mandatory evacuation
- Aldine, Pasadena, other school districts closing ahead of Hurricane Laura
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- Crime & general news of Texas
- Travis County grand jury indicts former DPS trooper in 2018 shooting
- Police ID bicyclist killed in traffic outside Austin airport
- Wichita Falls police identify body after reports of shots fired
- Robbery suspect shot at Andrews County store
- 1 arrested after overnight armed robbery in Lubbock
- Earthquake reported near Coyanosa
- Abilene police: Man walking with pole saw arrested on multiple charges
- Gilmer Woman Ripped Off Stimulus Checks Using Stolen Identities, Feds Say
- Fort Worth Woman Accused of Fatally Stabbing 4-Year-Old Daughter
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- Local government
- Water conservation expert withdraws from SAWS board consideration
- Austin parks officials urge kindness after attacks on rangers, monitors – Leftists in action! Why not quit trying to tyrannically micro-manage citizens?
- Former parliamentarians Keel and Wilson outline for Abbott how a state takeover of the Austin Police Department could work
- Midland ISD business continues without superintendent Riddick
- Frenship ISD moves bond election to November 3
- City of Lubbock proposes property tax increase
- San Antonio councilman criticized for abstaining from vote that declared “racism” a “public health crisis”
- Bexar County Commissioners likely to keep tax rate the same; gets first look at pandemic-trimmed county budget
- Dallas Budget: Higher Taxes and Spending, but Fewer Cops
- Dallas newest rental relief program is an effort to reach more of the most vulnerable during coronavirus crisis
- Dallas County will consider spending $3 million on policing alternatives after summer protests
- Dallas Jail Guard Sues for More Coronavirus Testing
- New auditor appointed for Wichita County
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- Colleges & universities
- A&M professor writes that Trump is similar to Hitler in communication – how’s that honor code holding up at A&M?
- UT to offer some classroom instruction, but will it last? – wimpism to the extreme
- MSU Texas students put new rules into practice for first day of Fall 2020 semester
- UT Permian Basin is providing free masks for all students, staff, and faculty – worthless
- Face Masks, Social Distancing, Compliance Highlight First Day Of Fall At Texas Tech
- TTU: Plains Bridges To The Baccalaureate Program Earns Diversity Award
- TTUHSC announces new mental health collaborative
- Lubbock Fire Rescue, Texas Tech partner to help improve firefighter safety VIDEO
- Texas State University welcomed students back in person Monday. Campus was a ghost town.
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- Military
- Fort Hood Crime Rate Center of Several Probes AUDIO
Pratt’s post for 8/25/2020
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