- An Overview of the Texas Disaster Act, the Source of the State’s Coronavirus Response
- Gov. Abbott hints at further reopening Texas, with ‘next steps’ next week – oh thank you lord Abbott for granting us our freedom back in little bits as only you see fit. You’re a tyrant Abbott who has shown your true colors in the WuFlu panic.
- Texas wants to cut women’s health services while preserving an anti-abortion program – abortion is not a woman’s health service, it’s a death to a baby service
- Crime rising fast in Austin but Statesman calls it “half true” when Abbott calls attention to such
- TTI Researchers Receive U.S. Patents for Pedestrian Safety, Traffic Data Systems
- As the school year begins online, thousands of Texas students are being left out of virtual learning so what? Many who go to school in-person never pay attention or bother to learn anything.
- Report: Jury Attendance Down Even Before Pandemic
- Federal Judge Orders Texas to Allow Online Voter Registration, Again
- AG Paxton Sues Harris County Clerk to Prevent Him from Unlawfully Sending Out Millions of Unsolicited Mail-In Ballot Applications
- Democrat Harris County Clerk Sued Over Mail-Ballot Plan
- Court arguments: Does the Constitution require Texas to expand vote by mail?
- Democrat Insider Details Mail-In Voting Fraud Operation: ‘This Is a Real Thing’
- Make a Real Difference in the November Election: Work the Polls
- National shortage in poll workers could affect Dallas elections
- After 16 years at the helm, Kathy Miller to step down as Texas Freedom Network President
- North Texas Grassroots Rise to Protect Children From Gender Modification
- TX32: Incumbent [Democrat] Colin Allred drops 1st campaign ad in reelection bid against Republican Genevieve Collins
- Democrats Seek Inroads with Tarrant County Slate of Contested Judicial Races
- The Case for Matthew McConaughey to run for Texas Gov. – Leftists are pushing the actor to run. “Is a Hollywood actor the best qualified to be governor? Not exactly. But does he have the best shot at winning? I believe so, and that’s what matters most.” I actually think he would be a terrible political candidate.
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- Federal/DC related to Texas
- Cornyn: Unlicensed gun dealers need to be ‘eliminated’ – almost sounds close to caving on private sales.
- AG Barr: ‘What happened to the Trump presidential campaign … must never happen again’
- Sen. Ted Cruz says chances for another stimulus package before Election Day are unlikely
- FBI, DOJ announce sweeping new FISA reforms in aftermath of Russia debacle
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- Presidential race / national politics
- Party conventions showed a stark contrast between blamers and doers
- Kimball: After the RNC, I am confident Trump will triumph
- Protesters are clearing a path for Trump
- Six Minnesota Mayors Just Abandoned Their Party – “They Left Us,” So They’re Joining Trump
- Jeb Bush Consultants Working to Help Joe Biden, Kamala Harris Win Florida
- Who’s cheering for violence? It isn’t Republicans
- Democrats fall into pit they dug for Trump
- Biden slams Trump for refusing to ‘repudiate’ Kenosha shooter Rittenhouse before trial – so, like most Dems Biden does not support the right of self defense
- Mr. Magoo [Joe Biden] In Turkey
- Biden, Trump Teams Plan for Midcrisis Transition
- Michael Moore: Biden ‘swears like a sailor,’ but ‘we want crazy Joe’ in the campaign against Trump
- Joe Biden’s Neat Trick
- Not Exactly a Busy Week for Biden So Far
- Democratic leaders must get comfortable talking about the rule of law – the very fact that this headline makes sense shows how depraved are Dems
- Democrat Insider Details Mail-In Voting Fraud Operation: ‘This Is a Real Thing’
- Facebook Announces It Will Censor Content that Could Cause ‘Regulatory Impacts’
- Google Refuses to Show Negative Search Suggestions About Black Lives Matter
- Black Pro-Life Leaders Urge Planned Parenthood to Disavow Margaret Sanger
- The National GOP Gets the Memo on School Choice
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- Border / immigration
- 300 Miles of Border Wall System Completed, CBP Official Says It ‘Shapes the Behavior’ of Drug Cartels
- Convoy of Cartel Gunmen Ambush Police in Reynosa
- Border agents turn back two large groups of migrants attempting illegal entry in New Mexico – NM’s governor is probably angry as she wants ‘em. More folk to boss around and make wear a mask.
- Another judge tries to pry open the southern border
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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 9/01/2020 (pdf) – 12,536* 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 4,961,553.
- * 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!
- CDC’s COVID-19 fatality numbers suggest fraud to cause panic
- 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
- Florida Gov. DeSantis: ‘We Will Never Do Any of These Lockdowns Again’ – he’s a read deal conservative
- An Overview of the Texas Disaster Act, the Source of the State’s Coronavirus Response
- Gov. Abbott hints at further reopening Texas, with ‘next steps’ next week
- Texas Coronavirus Update: More Than Half a Million Recoveries
- Despite ‘glimmer of hope,’ UTHealth researchers urge caution in fighting COVID with plasma
- Some Texas VFW posts risk permanent closure after getting grouped with bars in Abbott’s COVID-19 order – thanks Tyrant Abbott
- ‘Everyone wanted to say it was all in my head’: patients cope with the long-term effects of COVID-19 – yes but such is not unique to COVID. Many routine illnesses, and medication, have long term negative effects for a small percentage of patients.
- Los Angeles County seeks to evict Grace Community Church after losing lawsuit
- 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
- Texas coronavirus hospitalizations are at a two-month low, but school reopenings pose new risks – sewing the panic.
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- Business
- Texas Service Sector Activity Stabilizes; Texas Retail Sales Continue to Decline but at Notably Slower Pace
- Schlumberger sells North American fracturing business after slump
- Panda Biotech Selects Wichita Falls for New Facility – hope they build it.
- Golden Chick now serving State Fair of Texas legend Fletcher’s Original Corny Dogs
- Big Oil is in trouble. Its plan: Flood Africa with plastic. – this is an odd hit piece from the New York Times. Typically, the Leftists do not want the poor of Africa to have access to efficient plastics.
- Dallas planning to buy grocery store in food desert and try something new – more socialist insanity from the Democrat nuts running Dallas
- Chevron’s Noble Acquisition Bets on Future Gas Demand
- OleumTech Opens Midland Office
- Global O&G Deals Reach $28B in Q2
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- Protest, rioting, looting & more
- Rioters Loot Stores, Set Fires at Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler’s Condo
- Four Rioters Indicted By Federal Grand Jury – They Have Been Charged With Setting Fire To Minneapolis Police Department
- DOJ ‘Targeting and Investigating’ Far-Left Groups and Rioters; Says Organized Agitators Being Funded to ‘Move Across the Country’ VIDEO
- Abilene community members preparing for ‘Black Lives Matter’ protest in response to Jacob Blake shooting
- Biden slams Trump for refusing to ‘repudiate’ Kenosha shooter Rittenhouse before trial – so, like most Dems Biden does not support the right of self defense
- Jesse Jackson tells agitators not to march in Kenosha today
- Who’s cheering for violence? It isn’t Republicans
- Democrats fall into pit they dug for Trump
- Chicago passes 500 homicides, on track for one of the most violent years in decades, Chicago’s Lightfoot says huge budget problems not ‘our own darn fault’ – historically nothing is ever the fault of Leftists and their policies, it’s always outside forces working against them like Jews, reactionaries, bankers (another slur to mean Jews, and a host of others. Sickening.
- Oregon sheriffs refuse governor’s request to send deputies to Portland’s endless Antifa riots
- NFL to allow more social justice warrior slogans in games
- To understand Black experiences with racism, skip cable news. Watch the Spurs. – what B.S. from Leftist Rick Casey
- Those ‘Food Deserts’ May Become Food Wastelands
- Video: Black Lives Matter protests come to Cajun country VIDEO
- D.C. Mayor Bowser tells prosecutors they need to do their job, go after violent protesters
- Beloved 62-Yr-Old Black Caretaker Fatally Shot at His Church; BLM, Dem Party, CNN Unavailable for Comment
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- Crime & general news of Texas
- Firefighters working to contain wildfire in Throckmorton Co.
- Smith Canyon Fire burns 4,000 acres in Pecos County, 0% contained Firefighters are battling a large fire near Iraan.
- Police: Dallas man killed wife, 2 sons for being too loud
- 2 North Texas men, including church pastor, indicted on child pornography charges
- San Antonio police body cam video shows officers detaining jogger – the law requires a person to give his name and correct place of residence if asked, and that’s all by the way, by police if they have a legitimate reason to ask. In this case they have probable cause, a legitimate reason to question this man. His behavior is what escalated this case.
- Police say 7-month-old boy from Mineral Wells died after he was shaken
- Irving police investigate hate crime after resident receives letter saying, ‘return back to your country’
- Families of Odessa Mass Shooting Victims File Suit, Seek $1M
- Man charged with assaulting girlfriend multiple times in a month
- Man charged with punching, kicking, choking woman
- Woman charged with assaulting boyfriend with knife
- Man charged with choking pregnant girlfriend
- No indictment issued in death of Ector County inmate, District Attorney says Ector Co. deputies used excessive force on prisoner who later died
- Second female connected to sex trafficking incident in Cisco found safe, feds still looking for suspects involved
- Abilene police need to identify suspect behind multiple robberies last week
- San Angelo police investigating reports of men trying to lure kids into pickup, ‘vigilante justice’
- San Angelo man indicted for double murder in Lubbock
- Man accused of killing his 9-month-old daughter, who investigators say was sexually assaulted
- DPS: Reward Increased to $4,000 for Texas Most Wanted Sex Offender from El Paso
- Plainview man assisted in Bailey County inmate’s weekend escape
- Patients Moved at Lubbock’s University Medical Center Due to Power Outage, update
- 3 Suspects Kick in Door at North Lubbock Home – be armed and ready
- Lake Brownwood officials identify Lubbock woman who drowned while swimming
- Police identify victim in deadly Lamesa shooting
- Child’s body found in Brays Bayou identified as Maliyah Bass
- RIP: Lubbock weather forecaster ‘a smile as big as Texas’ dies suddenly, Kelly Plasker – a sad end to a troubled life
- Anti-Wimp: Not all Houston vegans are wimps
- San Antonio resident Paul Rusesabagina of ‘Hotel Rwanda’ fame arrested
- Dove Season Opens in Texas, Ushering in a Prized Fall Tradition
- “In survival mode”: How some evacuees are still dealing with the dual challenge of a hurricane and a recession
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- Local government
- AG Paxton Sues Harris County Clerk to Prevent Him from Unlawfully Sending Out Millions of Unsolicited Mail-In Ballot Applications
- Democrat Harris County Clerk Sued Over Mail-Ballot Plan
- Harris Co: How the Soft on Crime DA and Criminal Friendly Judges are Impacting Neighborhoods
- DeSoto ISD superintendent issues statement after abrupt resignation VIDEO
- Midland ISD board puts Riddick on administrative leave, more
- Wichita County DA wants changes made to bail recommendations VIDEO
- Cypress Water Treatment Plant awaits WF city council’s $2.35 million decision
- City of Wichita Falls moves budget forward with no tax-rate hike – the tax “rate” tells you nothing of whether or not they are raising taxes. They raised taxes and made ridiculous claims such as the effective rate would have decreased revenue.
- Taylor County commissioners approve $87.82 million fiscal year budget – they adopted the effective rate/ no new revenue rate
- Compromise reached on Lubbock’s brick streets VIDEO
- Seagraves receives $4M loan from USDA to improve water infrastructure
- Is Houston ISD’s school turnaround plan working? The results are mixed.
- Dallas planning to buy grocery store in food desert and try something new – more socialist insanity from the Democrat nuts running Dallas
- Those ‘Food Deserts’ May Become Food Wastelands
- San Antonio River Authority leader departs for Nature Conservancy role
- Texas mayors warn pandemic’s effects on city budgets will linger for years – boo hoo, spend less.
- Austin ISD fights to keep superintendent records secret – of course, Liberals don’t actually support open government.
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- Colleges & universities
- Texas Tech Libraries’ Annual Sowell Conference Goes Virtual
- Texas Tech’s STEM CORE Receives Inspiring Programs In STEM Award
- Tech System, MSU partnership requires legislative action
- Texas Tech Slashes Salaries and Workforce in Athletics Department
- Texas Tech Athletics: 40 positions cut because of COVID-19
- Texas colleges see surge in COVID cases as students return to campus – so? They have big cold and flu outbreaks each year too at these places. Flu is statistically much more of a danger for college-age people than COVID.
- Kendra Scott to teach UT course on women entrepreneurs
- UT announces salary cuts for coaches, 70 positions eliminated as a result of COVID-19
Pratt’s post for 9/1/2020
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