- Senator Hall to Abbott: ‘Revoke Your Executive Orders’
- Texas Renews Court Effort to Ban Abortion Procedure
- AG Paxton Continues Fighting for Sanctity of Life, Defends Texas Ban on Barbaric Abortion Procedure at the Fifth Circuit
- AG Paxton Urges Congress to Adopt Measures to Expand Funding for Crime Victims
- TTI, German Aerospace Center Promote Mutual Research Interests and Technology Transfer
- Women’s Preventive Health Care May Be Cut as State Balances COVID-19 Shortfalls
- TABC Eases Rules to Allow More Texas Bars to Reopen as Restaurants
- Here’s how education in Texas looks as public schools begin reopening with mostly online classes
- Governor Greg Abbott Issues Proclamation Calling a General Election in Texas on November 3, 2020
- GOP candidate for state oil and gas regulatory agency faces fraud accusations – this is a bit of a smear job because it is about arms-length transactions of a sold and bought firm.
- Hollins, the Hack in Harris County Elections, Texas’ largest county sending mail-in ballot applications to millions of registered voters
- Harris County to Spend Unprecedented $27 Million on 2020 Elections
- TX25: Democrats add Roger Williams to target list
- National Democrats add 3 North Texas seats to 2020 GOP congressional targets
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- Federal/DC related to Texas
- Texas oil industry leader calls new EPA rules on methane emissions key for economic recovery
- Rep. Joaquin Castro launches probe into Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s speech at GOP convention – as laughable as are the two Castro borthers!
- Democrats level Hatch Act concerns over Pompeo, Wolf speeches, White House setting for convention
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- Presidential race / national politics
- Rising Republican stars of Texas lose out with virtual RNC – such B.S. from the press trying to create trouble. The convention is organized to help with key swing states which Texas is not.
- Dan Crenshaw will make a prime time appearance at the RNC Wednesday
- Trump’s Convention Gives Platform to Some With Fringe Views – “fringe” views to the Left are generally anything traditional and not dogmatically Leftist
- NYT’s Ken Vogel Falsely Suggests Jon Ponder Committed Crime in RNC Appearance
- Left Fumes over Naturalization Ceremony Featured at Republican National Convention VIDEO
- Rand Paul: Trump’s Anti-War Stance ‘a Clear Distinction’ Between Him, Joe Biden
- Democrats melt down over Mike Pompeo’s RNC speech
- Chinese State Media: RNC Selling ‘Fear and Xenophobia’ – I saw a ton of different folks from different backgrounds, with heavy accents and more.
- Donald Trump is still the greatest show on Earth
- The GOP’s ‘Great American Story’ will play well at the ballot box
- The most memorable RNC speakers are not the stars – exactly what many in the media do not understand.
- Trump smashes political rules anew while first lady makes serene case for re-election, national calm
- RNC Recap: Melania Trump talks virus, racial strife VIDEO
- Bette Midler Gets Hammered After Calling Melania Trump an ‘Illegal Alien’ Who ‘Can’t Speak English’
- CNN denigrates Nick Sandmann: ‘A Snot-Nosed Entitled Kid From Kentucky’
- Bill and Deborah Owens: ‘Many Blacks’ Quietly Supporting Trump
- Carlson: ‘CNN Is Lying to You — They’re Trying to Manipulate You, They’ve Got an Election to Win’
- Jack Brewer, ex-NFL player charged with insider trading, disappears from GOP convention schedule
- Black Republican Dubbed Future of Party After Shaming Biden at RNC: ‘A Star Is Born’
- CNN’s Lemon Begs Rioters to Stop Now Because They’re About to Reelect Trump
- China Leaves Russian Meddling in the Dust
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- Border / immigration
- US Crackdown on Nonessential Border Travel Causes Long Waits
- Mexican Army Finds Narco-Tunnel Under Texas Border
- Roberts: Trade will bounce back on Cameron County international bridges
- Mexican Cartel Deploys Explosive Drones on Civilian Self-Defense Militia
- Female Los Zetas Cartel Commander Faces Murder Charges for Dead Prosecutor
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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 8/26/2020 (pdf) – 11,576* 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 4,724,559.
- * 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
- 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
- WAPO: Coronavirus has left the Rio Grande Valley riven by death and anxiety – typical hyperbole of the Left.
- CDC guidelines now say those exposed to coronavirus may not need testing if asymptomatic – more “expert” twisting in the wind back and forth
- Those aren’t just COVID-19 numbers. They’re Texans.
- Dallas Cardiologist Offers Guidance on Early Treatment of COVID-19
- Poll: 47% of voters think pandemic will shutter businesses for at least six more months
- 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
- Montague Co. no longer exempt from face coverings – so now they can have the same 10 to 20% compliance rate of everywhere else!
- 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
- CDC to release new resources to support reopening schools
- AG Paxton Issues Legal Guidance on School Reopening
- TEA creates COVID-19 Data Tracking System for Texas Public Schools
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- Business
- Roberts: Trade will bounce back on Cameron County international bridges
- Houston Firm Drops Bribe Suit Against Ex Venezuela Oil Czar
- Sixth SpaceX Starship prototype completes static fire engine test in Texas VIDEO
- Texas housing market continued boom in July
- Solar farm in Nolan Co. helping power the State of Texas
- Is something squirrely going on at San Antonio company that breeds exotic wildlife?
- USAA Insurance approves, then denies an auto claim by a Green Beret who lost his leg in Afghanistan
- TABC Eases Rules to Allow More Texas Bars to Reopen as Restaurants
- Company-Administered Healthcare Key to Stable, Secure, and Strong Benefits for Workers
- Oil Industry Shuts Platforms, Rigs, Refineries Before Storm
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- Protest, rioting, looting & more
- Kenosha Protests Escalate: 2 Shot Dead and 1 Injured, Police Search for Assailant Armed with Long gun
- Kenosha Residents Fire Warning Shots as Rioters Threaten Neighborhoods VIDEO
- Man Shot in Head at Kenosha Riots VIDEO
- Illinois teenager charged with first degree murder after fatally shooting two people in Wisconsin
- Shaun King Doxing Kenosha Police One by One — Each ‘May or May Not’ Have Shot Jacob Blake
- Night 3: Joe Biden, Kamala Harris Have Yet to Condemn Deadly Kenosha Riots Personally
- AOC: ‘Profoundly Exciting’ that People Are ‘Discovering Their Own Power’ and Taking It ‘in the Streets’
- Mark McCloskey: Democrat Prosecutor Hounding My Family, Releasing Rioters from Jail
- Oregon Gov. Kate Brown Could Release 400 Prisoners for Virus Fears as Nightly Riots Continue in Portland
- Anti-Israel Linda Sarsour Arrested at Louisville Protest
- President Trump Sending Federal Law Enforcement to Kenosha, Wisconsin, to Help Quell Riots
- BLM Suppresses the Truth About Poverty
- ‘It Was A Release For Me’: How Collective Action Is Helping Protesters Avoid Burnout
- ‘Derogatory and offensive.’ Tahoe ski resort Squaw Valley
- CNN’s Lemon Begs Rioters to Stop Now Because They’re About to Reelect Trump
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- Weather / hurricane news
- Hurricane Laura Strengthens Into a Category 4; Catastrophic Strike Ahead Near Louisiana and Texas Border VIDEO
- Abbott: Window to evacuate dangerous Hurricane Laura will close in hours
- Gov. Abbott: 7 p.m. to 9 a.m. will be hardest time for Hurricane Laura rescues; urges evacuations VIDEO
- Governor Abbott Provides Update On Hurricane Laura, Urges Texans To Prepare For Impact Of Storm
- Abbott Adds 3 Counties To State Disaster Declaration in the Wake of Hurricane Laura
- Hurricane Laura: The latest on storm’s impact on Houston
- Louisiana News Laura Gains Power, Could Come Ashore as Category 4 Hurricane
- Hurricane Laura: Prepare for high winds in Houston
- Hurricane Center Warns Storm Surge From Hurricane Laura Could Reach ‘Unsurvivable’ 20 Feet in Parts of Texas, Louisiana
- Houston PD Chief warns he won’t tolerate looters ahead of Laura
- Photos: Texas preps for the worst as Laura threatens coast
- Houston area grocery stores, restaurants, attractions close
- Footage of Hurricane Laura from the International Space Station
- Governor Abbott Waives Houston-Area Tolls Ahead Of Hurricane Laura
- As Laura looms, Port Arthur mayor pleads: ‘If you stay, it is you and God’ – it’s always just you and God, it’s just many don’t realize such but we get the meaning
- Sweetwater firefighters travel to Texas gulf for Hurricane Laura preparations
- Galveston Island could be first major community in Texas hit by Hurricane Laura
- Texas Tech’s National Wind Institute Team Prepare for Hurricane Laura on the Gulf Coast VIDEO
- Heeding Warnings, Gulf Coast Residents Flee Coming Hurricane
- Oil Industry Shuts Platforms, Rigs, Refineries Before Storm
- Governor Abbott Suspends Certain Commercial Trucking Regulations Ahead Of Hurricane Laura Landfall
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- Crime & general news of Texas
- Sutherland Springs gunman spoke of mass shooting years before attack – another example of how gov’t, and other, bureaucracies fail to do even the obvious and yet people want to turn things over to government bureaucracies – insanity.
- Attorney: Missing Fort Hood Soldier’s Body Found in Texas
- Two women, one child held at gunpoint in Central Lubbock home invasion, police report says
- Man caught in Snyder with images of little girls
- Former Parker Co. insurance agent, Skipper Strickland, sentenced to 14 years
- Suspect in custody following deadly shooting in Ector County
- Ector Co. ISD teacher arrested for inappropriate relationship with student
- Burglary suspect with expensive taste arrested
- Former Allred inmate gets three more years for deadly weapon charge
- Brownwood police make six arrests in narcotics-related incidents
- Cellphones in ‘suspicious package’ at Abilene Walmart, no threat found
- Cash rewards offered for info on wanted fugitives in Abilene
- Lubbock Police Searching for Vehicle Theft Suspect
- One Arrested Following Early Morning Robbery in Lubbock
- Lubbock PD asks for help identifying suspect in May fatal hit and run
- Man charged with multiple warrants, charges after Sunday crash in Plainview
- Lubbock infants test positive for meth, living in home with no working utilities
- Man accused of duct-taping Central Texas woman, stabbing her to death indicted
- Waco high school football player critically injured when train strikes SUV
- Victims of deadly Central Texas fire identified
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- Local government
- Amarillo Activists Organizing Anti-Propositions Campaign
- Hollins, the Hack in Harris County Elections, Texas’ largest county sending mail-in ballot applications to millions of registered voters
- Midland ISD board proposes to terminate Riddick’s contract
- City of Midland could allow TABC to take lead on alcohol service
- Waterline replacement project underway in Fort Stockton
- Tensions high at public meeting Lake Ringgold application for water-use permit draws opposing views
- Montague Co: Tensions rise as county VSO asks court to rescind assistant VSO appointment
- Brownwood looks at LCRA proposal to lower cost of radio upgrade
- Lubbock ISD Begins New Teacher Incentive Allotment Program
- Lubbock lends 4 firefighters to assist in California wildfires
- Lubbock County resident calls for county to pick up trash along roads
- New city of Big Spring payment kiosk
- Jackson: Dallas City Council Misleading Citizens on Police Funding
- Dallas County Judge Wants $5 Million in ‘Social Justice’ Spending in Response to George Floyd Incident
- San Antonio School Officials Want to Strap Struggling Citizens With Record Debt
- San Antonio City Council to discuss bans on police use of chokeholds, no-knock warrants
- Was Vehicle Damage In Austin Tied With Police Funding Cuts?
- Carroll ISD School Board Texts About Diversity Plan Raise Open Meetings Act Concerns
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- Colleges & universities
- Texas A&M being ruined by Leftist faculty hires
- MSU Texas course offers chance to learn centuries old craft VIDEO
- MSU Texas Family Nurse Practitioner Program earns No. 2 national ranking online
- Wayland Baptist Univ. Design Professor Stands Out in Contest
- TTU’s Schovanec, other university leaders address higher education amid pandemic
- TTU Professor Receives Grant To Lead New Growing STEMs Consortium
- Texas Tech’s National Wind Institute Team Prepare for Hurricane Laura on the Gulf Coast VIDEO
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- Military
- Fire at Dyess Air Force Base Tuesday burns 41 acres
- My brother made history as the first Black chief of a military branch, and, having grown up with him, I’m hardly surprised
Pratt’s post for 8/26/2020
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