- Gov. Abbott asks that Texas flags be lowered to half-staff on August 31 in memory of mass shooting victims
- Sen. Cruz Issues Statement Marking One Year Since the Midland-Odessa Shooting
- An Overview of the Texas Disaster Act, the Source of the State’s Coronavirus Response
- AG Paxton Joins Amicus Brief Defending States’ Sovereign Immunity
- AG Paxton Joins Letter to President Trump in Support of Funding The National Child ID Act – The Act itself is of debatable merit but supporting funding it with “next stimulus package” is an example of how “stimulus” packages are nothing more than massive spending and have little to do with stimulating anything other than avarice.
- AG Paxton Defends Women’s Health and Safety in Multistate Amicus Brief
- John Fainter passed away after long career in state govt, including stint at Secretary of State
- Sister of Odessa shooting victim continues fight for gun reform – ignorant as if laws and rules would stop someone intent on breaking laws and rules
- Texas Senate Hispanic Caucus wants an investigation into Fort Hood
- Lubbock state senator says he wants to make city a ‘sanctuary for life’
- State of Texas: ‘We need it yesterday’ – hurricane fuels new call to fund barrier to protect Texas coast – OK, stop handing $ to cash-flush school district and build it. But, the Houston-area has a massive tax base and should carry the largest burden directly.
- It’s Time To Revisit Ike Dike!
- Rep. Landgraf: $2.5 Billion Tabbed for Permian Basin Roads
- Texas Lotto jackpot climbs to $36.75M, largest prize in more than a decade
- How Trump’s law and order rhetoric applies to Texas, and how it doesn’t
- Investigating COVID’s Economic Effect on Texas
- Governor Abbott, HHSC Announce Federal Approval For SNAP Benefit Replacements Due to Hurricane Laura
- Abbott Requests Federal Disaster Assistance for Hidalgo County Following Hurricane Hanna in July
- Governor Abbott Renews State of Disaster Following Violent Protests
- Court arguments: Does the Constitution require Texas to expand vote by mail?
- U.S. judge again orders Texas to fix voter registration violation, more – Clinton appointee Garcia is a Leftist activist and his position in this case is illegitimate.
- Federal appeals court hears arguments on Texas Democrats’ push for more to receive mail ballots
- Texas Democrats argue mail-in voting law discriminates based on age
- Harris County cannot send all voters mail ballot applications, Texas elections director says
- Texas tells Harris County to halt plan to send all voters applications for mail-in ballots
- Harris County GOP joins lawsuit asking Texas Supreme Court to halt mail ballot application plan
- Massive Mail-In Ballot Plan in Harris County Draws Concerns Over Cost and Integrity
- Dana DeBeauvoir in Travis Co., Another Democrat Lackey, Ignores Election Law
- Some Dallas County mail ballots went uncounted in July runoffs after being sent back to voters – ha, ha! Voting by mail is a system to make fraud easy. It should be used as a last resort for those few who truly cannot get to a polling place.
- Texas Democrats announce massive voter registration drive aimed at flipping the state
- League of Women Voters of Texas No Longer Allowed to Leave Voter Registration Forms at Post Offices – the “guides” are OK but the group is now a full-fledged Democrat front group.
- TX10: McCaul vote on Postal Service points to tight race
- SD30: Sen. Pat Fallon endorses Rep. Drew Springer VIDEO
- SD30: Did Drew Springer Vote to Ban Taxpayer-Funded Lobbying? – Springer said on my show he’d vote for Hall’s bill immediately. Middleton endorsed Springer in this race. According to Springer he was asked by Middleton et al to introduce a substitute bill to save the subject as it was going to fail.
- SD30: Four candidates join Shelley Luther, Drew Springer in race to replace state Sen. Pat Fallon – Luther appears to have never voted in a GOP (or Dem) primary and only in 4 of the past 6 General Elections.
- SD30: Field Solidified for Senate District 30 Emergency Election
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- Federal/DC related to Texas
- Texas, Orange officials welcome President Trump visit amid recovery efforts
- House to vote on removing cannabis from list of controlled substances
- Indiana rep. proposes bill preventing convicted protesters eligibility for unemployment assistance
- Rep. Arrington meets with law enforcement about new legislation
- Sen. Angus King: DNI Canceling Election Security Briefings ‘Looks Like a Pre-Cover-Up’ – silly
- EPA to monitor air, water quality in SE Texas following Hurricane Laura
- Sen. Cruz: ‘The Responsiveness of the Administration Throughout This Hurricane Has Been Extraordinary’ VIDEO
- Emails show FBI investigated Trump tweets criticizing Obama and FBI, watchdog says
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- Presidential race / national politics
- Party conventions showed a stark contrast between blamers and doers
- Donald Trump Challenges Joe Biden to Condemn Antifa
- Biden: Pro-Trump Protesters Were ‘Spoiling for a Fight’ in Portland – the weekend pivot from Dems supporting the riots by calling such “peaceful protests” to claiming such is supported by Trump and Republicans is obvious and vile.
- In Pittsburgh, Biden to Blame Trump for Riots, Violence Nationwide
- Stabenow: Trump ‘Wants the Violence’ VIDEO
- Trump, claiming the White House as his own, runs against the ‘mob’
- Trump boat parade to be held on Lake Arrowhead in North Texas
- Trump, GOP make diversity pitch in Texas and beyond; Democrats accuse party of ‘checking a box’
- Bovard: Ordinary Americans Make a Positive, Optimistic Case for Trump and America
- Swift Boat ad guru, top GOP donors launch new pro-Trump super PAC to counter Biden air attacks
- A racist’s endorsement of Biden comes as no surprise
- Al Sharpton, With Sheila Jackson Lee At his Side, Held A Rally Of 200,000 Trump-Haters
- Joe Biden’s ‘You ain’t Black’ Part 2? Media Mock Black Speakers at RNC
- It is the PARTY of Biden that must lose big in November
- Democrats: Abandoning Hardworking Taxpayers
- “Don’t let the mob win”: New Cotton 2024 ad hits Minnesota, Wisconsin
- McConnell: ‘Moderates are gone’ in today’s ‘radical’ Democratic Party
- Google Insider: Bombshell Book ‘Deleted’ Will ‘Shake the Foundations of Silicon Valley’
- Tilove: Let he who is without sin cast Roger Stone VIDEO
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- Border / immigration
- 53 Migrants, 7 Smugglers Busted in 8 Failed Human Smuggling Attempts in Texas near Border
- 160 Cartel-Connected Human Smuggling Stash Houses Busted in South Texas this Year
- US detaining more migrant children in hotels
- Judge Blocks Asylum Screening by Border Protection Agents
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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 8/31/2020 (pdf) – 12,510* 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 4,924,712.
- * Texas COVID numbers appear no longer trustworthy – a MUST read. Plus, according to the CDC only 9,856 have died nationwide with COVID-19 as the exclusive cause of death!
- 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
- Hydroxychloroquine Could Save ‘Thousands of Lives,’ Says Texas Freedom Caucus in Letter to Pharmacy Board
- Abilene mayor: I have recovered from COVID-19; let’s all recover from this pandemic – “As someone who has suffered the course of this disease, I believe we should respect the virus and exercise proven measures to stop its spread. But we should not at the same time economically devastate the families of our community.”
- COVID-19 infections spike among Fort Bend County young adults – note the panic-driving stupidity of this story all about “cases” but no mention of how rare are serious illness and complications of the cases.
- Investigating COVID’s Economic Effect on Texas
- Collin County Active Coronavirus Case Numbers Drop by 98 Percent – officials are right, the data is grossly defective
- 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
- 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
- “We’re all holding our breath”: Health experts on school reopenings in Texas
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- Business
- Texas Manufacturing Outlook Survey: Recovery Continues in Texas Manufacturing
- Friday’s oil & gas rig count no longer in free fall, 8/28 Baker Hughes report
- Oil climbs above $43 in New York as Goldman strikes bullish tone
- Spared from Laura’s wrath, refineries begin to restart operations
- Saudi Aramco discovers two oil, gas fields in Kingdom
- Electric vehicles solve some pollution problems, but not all – “Truth be told, a well-intentioned family in the Texas suburbs can unwittingly support slavery and environmental destruction in poor countries.”
- Pipeline to bring wastewater from Lubbock to Permian Basin
- Houston and 20 other Texas cities make list for best places to buy a house
- Longtime neighbors clash over planned Hill Country development
- This loan company was founded to help Latino immigrants. It has sued thousands of low-income Latinos during the pandemic.
- Oportun Inc. has filed nearly 10,000 lawsuits this year against lower-income Texans. This is how we found out.
- South Texas ranch owners sue, say they didn’t get the deer hunting mecca they expected
- Austin’s Epicor Software sold in $4.7 billion deal
- Austin’s Auctane leases 105,000 square feet at Grove project
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- Protest, rioting, looting & more
- The Twilight Of Great American Cities Is Here. Can We Stop It?
- What Is the Violence in American Cities All About?
- Stop Downplaying the Violence in Our Cities
- Pressure mounts on Barr DOJ to identify funders, organizers of violent riots
- Seahawks’ Pete Carroll: ‘This Is About Racism in America That White People Don’t Know’
- Rand Paul Wife Kelley on ‘Bloodthirsty’ DC Mob: ‘I Really Felt that We Were Going to Lose Our Lives — I’m Furious that Biden and Kamala Harris Are Not Denouncing This’
- Nothing to See Here: CNN’s Chris Cillizza Sneers at Trump’s Call of ‘Riots’
- Stabenow: Trump ‘Wants the Violence’ VIDEO
- St. Louis Police Officer Dies After Being Shot in the Head
- Kyle Rittenhouse Lawyer: My Client Legally Possessed Rifle in Wisconsin
- Americans divided over armed civilians who flock to protests – see the media twist in this story and narrative?
- Extremism at Kenosha ‘Justice for Jacob’ Rally: ‘If You Kill One of Ours, It’s Time for Us to Kill One of Yours’
- Rally supporting police drew scores to downtown Kenosha on Sunday
- Is Kenosha a ‘no-go’ zone for Republicans?
- NYT: Portland Homicide Victim Had ‘Patriot Prayer’ Hat
- Portland mayor says deadly shooting could be a “flashpoint” – flashpoint? The riots are weeks and weeks past the “flashpoint” that started it all.
- Man Films Portland Riots to Prove They’re Peaceful — Ends Up Capturing Killing of Trump Supporter
- Progressive community leaders call for Portland mayor, police chief to resign
- ‘Black Lives Matter’ protest scheduled for Tuesday at Rose Park in Abilene
- WFPD Chief Manuel Borrego comments on national protests, local impact at Back the Blue service VIDEO
- Astros protest racial injustice by sitting out game against A’s
- Has athlete “protest” led to more or less violence?
- Houston’s Mayor Turner, Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee hold “briefing” on “healing of our nation”
- Al Sharpton, With Sheila Jackson Lee At his Side, Held A Rally Of 200,000 Trump-Haters
- Governor Abbott Renews State of Disaster Following Violent Protests
- Wylie ISD assignment gone awry spotlights the challenges of teaching discussions – “lack of judgement,” yeah well it also shows who is teaching your children and how Leftist and ignorant/stupid many of them are.
- University of Chicago students call for defunding, abolishing school police
- NPR suggests possible connection between police declaring riots and racism
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- Crime & general news of Texas
- Police officer who shot Aug. 31, 2019 Midland/Odessa mass shooter speaks for the first time, more VIDEO
- Odessa Strong flags stolen from Memorial Gardens Park
- FAA: Airplane with 4 on board crashes in Bryan, more, Woman and Her Parents Killed in Texas Plane Crash
- Wichita Falls PD investigating two possibly related shootings VIDEO
- Burkburnett store owner asks for help identifying suspect
- Car slams into the front of a house as family sleeps VIDEO
- WFPD: Girlfriend says no to marriage proposal, gets beaten
- 11 pounds of meth seized in Wichita Falls
- Police arrest mom in reported knife attack on son
- Police: Loud music leads to alleged elderly assault
- RIP: Services set for long-time WFPD, WCSO chaplain
- Lubbock woman, 62, drowns at Lake Brownwood
- Homeless man drowns in Concho River after drinking with friends
- Abilene man killed in rollover accident
- Man arrested for shoplifting, stealing pickup in Abilene
- San Angelo man, 18, accused of getting 14-year-old girl pregnant
- Woman jumps out of 18-wheeler near Cisco
- Driver killed in collision with trailer on I-27 in Hale County
- Lubbock: Juvenile Arrested in Relation to Walk-On’s Robbery
- Murder suspect Casey Owens going back to jail, accused of violating conditions
- Escaped Bailey County inmate back in custody
- East Texas man killed by fallen tree is state’s second Laura-related death
- Generators, carbon monoxide poisoning have killed more people than Hurricane Laura itself
- Man admits to fatally shooting grandfather to protect family from incoming storm, prosecutor says – if not using WuFlu as an excuse, try hurricane!
- Woman stabbed in NW Harris County
- Suspected drunken driver hits police cruiser in SW Houston
- Vegan restaurant owner shoots suspected burglar over Houston break-in
- Fulshear police find 2 bodies inside home
- New photos show man accused of shooting driver in the head, killing him at Houston gas station
- Man upset he can’t buy beer before 7 a.m. brutally attacks clerk in Spring Branch, police say VIDEO
- Bags of stolen mail found in DWI suspect’s car, HCSO says
- Manor police caught off guard by 3.5 foot diamondback rattlesnake and 16 babies
- Waco Woman Arrested After Shooting Arrow At Officer, Police Say VIDEO
- RIP: Col. Donnelly: Marine who died was ‘rising star’ in Naval Aviation community
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- Local government
- Pipeline to bring wastewater from Lubbock to Permian Basin
- Lubbock city council tries new version age-old plan to mute East Lubbock complaints
- Lubbock state senator says he wants to make city a ‘sanctuary for life’ VIDEO
- Midland ISD: No progress leads to first step in superintendent search
- Abilene City Council awards T&P Warehouse bid to Charlie Wolfe, plans for late-night diner
- Abilene city council approves agreements with SkyWest Airlines
- Dawson Co. hospital district extends CEO’s contract
- ‘Waiting and waiting:’ COVID only made Harris County’s massive backlog of murder cases worse – what can you NOT blame on a virus?
- Harris County cannot send all voters mail ballot applications, Texas elections director says
- Texas tells Harris County to halt plan to send all voters applications for mail-in ballots
- Harris County GOP joins lawsuit asking Texas Supreme Court to halt mail ballot application plan
- Three years after Harvey, Houston’s home repair program continues to lag. Who is to blame? – gov’t period.
- Houston City Council members propose HPD policy changes in letter to Mayor Turner amid calls for police reform
- Dana DeBeauvoir in Travis Co., Another Democrat Lackey, Ignores Election Law
- Austin Sued for Spending Citizens’ Money on Killing Children
- Amid Austin budget cuts, police chief proposes slashing units, reassigning officers to patrol
- Dallas Mayor Calls City Salaries Bloated, Proposes Cuts
- Amarillo Approves Tax-Funded Perks for Water Bottling Company
- Amarillo Citizens Can Still Stop Further Tax Hikes
- Citizens Stress Local Values in Carroll ISD Superintendent Search
- Leander ISD Board of Trustees Scrap LGBTQ Language in Dress Code
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- Colleges & universities
- Two residents of on-campus dorms at UT test positive for COVID-19 – this is not newsworthy unless you admit the plan to maintain fear and panic exists.
- UT starts new ‘Leverage’ program to help athletes monetize their name, image, likeness
- Midland College and Consulado de Carrera de México partner to provide scholarships
- Midland College ranked among the top 10 safest campuses in Texas
- MSU’s fall 2020 EURECA scholars announced
- ACU largest Texas university using 100% renewable energy – not something to be proud of and it’s not “renewable.”
- Texas Tech President Dr. Lawrence Schovanec Speaks About Student-Athlete Protests AUDIO
- TTU’s Schovanec, coaches and fans stand with protesting student athletes as some threaten to cut support – Leftists
- Texas Tech President: University Has Adapted To Be Successful
- TTU Associate Professor Honored With 2020 Test-of-Time Award
- Abilene’s McMurry University Takes New Steps For Diversity – the diversity-hating Left rejoices because this isn’t pro-diversity, it shuts down points of view.
- STVT opens new campuses in Brownsville, McAllen, and Weslaco
Pratt’s post for 8/31/2020
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