- Budget plan offers glimpse at state agency cuts
- Agency Budget Cuts Enforced by State Leaders Begin to Take Shape, Won’t Solidify Until Fall
- Comptroller Glenn Hegar Announces Revenue for Fiscal 2020, August State Sales Tax Collection
- It’s not just local elected officials who mislead voters on tax increases
- Texas legislature’s top-down groundwater grab violates our contractual land patent rights
- New Texas Supreme Court Order Allows Citation by Social Media
- With time running out, Texas abruptly launches a $15 million ad campaign chasing an accurate census count – wasted money
- Harris County Murder Suspect With Six Prior Convictions Released on Fourth Bond in Two Years – an example of what Democrat “bail reform” brings!
- An Overview of the Texas Disaster Act, the Source of the State’s Coronavirus Response
- Gov. Abbott hints at rollback of coronavirus restrictions
- Texas Largest Police Union Says Gov. Abbott Has Abandoned State’s First Responders During COVID-19
- Abbott Announces Approval Of Emergency Designation For Small Business Disaster Loans From SBA Following Hurricane Hanna
- AG Ken Paxton: Mail-In Ballots: A Threat to Democracy
- Texas Supreme Court Halts Harris County Plan of Mass Mailing Ballot Applications, more
- Harris Co. changes course on mail-in ballot applications after lawsuit filed by state
- Texas Democrat’s lawyer addresses court hearing on vote-by-mail lawsuit
- ACLU urges West Texas school districts to remove ‘discriminatory’ dress code rules
- GOP seeks to strike 41 Libertarians from Texas ballot – the Dems got a bunch of Green Party folk off the ballot too.
- Leading Texas Forward PAC, with assistance of Rove, announces first large investment to protect incumbent GOP Texas House members
- TX11: Dem nominee says “The Hispanic culture is Texas…”
- TX13: Ronny Jackson Details Confrontation With Antifa
- TX32: Dallas Democrat Colin Allred nabs endorsement from U.S. Chamber of Commerce, a traditional GOP ally – very few “chambers” at any level are trustworthy advocates for business and that includes the pro-illegal immigration US Chamber.
- HD113: East Dallas County Texas House race turns ugly quickly with accusations over race and residency
- SD30: NRA endorses Rep. Drew Springer in senate race
- RIP: Former Texas GOP Chair Susan Weddington passed away
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- Federal/DC related to Texas
- Trump’s payroll tax holiday sounds nice, but it only delays payments
- Houston Democrats press for vote on police reforms inspired by George Floyd
- Feds Post Online Map to Track Autonomous Vehicle Tests
- What the arrest of Texas A&M professor says about China and the need to protect intellectual property
- D.C. committee suggests removal of federal monuments, White House calls recommendations ‘ludicrous’
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- Presidential race / national politics
- Biden Claims, Without Evidence, Portland Victim Incited His Own Death
- Race Dramatically Narrows in Pennsylvania as Trump Experiences a Major Bounce
- Trump’s ability to simplify a message resented by some pundits
- Blaming Trump for the riots is a Democratic disaster
- Joe Biden raises over $360 million in August, shattering record
- Homosexual chamber of commerce endorses Joe Biden – so they’re not about commerce but about a social agenda
- Chris Wallace, Steve Scully, Kristen Welker to moderate presidential debates
- Nolte: 6 Things We Learned From Queen Pelosi’s Wash and Blowout
- Ilhan Omar Rages after Trump Calls for Joy Reid Firing over Muslim Remark: ‘We Reject Your Fascist Solidarity’
- Bush judge upholds Washington state’s voter-approved gun control laws
- Obama judge rules ballots mailed by Nov. 3 in Georgia must count
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- Border / immigration
- Trucker Disrupts Human Smuggling Attempt in South Texas near Border
- Mexican Army Finds Narco-Tunnel Under Texas Border
- Mexican Government Probes Soldiers for Killing Cartel Gunman After Shootout
- Bloomberg: Illegals Are Taking Needed Delivery Jobs from Americans
- Engineer report: Privately built wall will fail
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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 9/02/2020 (pdf) – 12,681* 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 5,033,554.
- * 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
- Some Texas VFW posts risk permanent closure after getting grouped with bars in Abbott’s COVID-19 order – thanks Tyrant Abbott
- The Big COVID Con Exposed
- Nolte: 6 Things We Learned From Queen Pelosi’s Wash and Blowout
- Sen. Joni Ernst suggests COVID numbers are inflated
- COVID-19 is simply not life-threatening
- Fauci: ‘Cautiously Optimistic’ We’ll Have Coronavirus Vaccine by End of 2020 – Dr. Faulty back flapping his gums.
- Health Officials Worry Nation Not Ready for COVID-19 Vaccine – how can a “nation” be ready or not ready? Stupid headline.
- New CDC order protects nearly all S.A. renters from eviction until 2021 – bankrupting smaller landlords
- ‘Rolling back will work against us’: Why Houston is in disease ‘purgatory’ – more scare tactics that are B.S.
- COVID-19 threat level in Dallas County lowered for first time since May
- Australian police arrest pregnant woman after she calls for protest against COVID lockdown – the disease is now political and used to bring tyranny
- HHS is cancelling hundreds of millions in ventilator contracts, says national stockpile is full
- New study suggests coronavirus antibodies last longer than thought, promising news in vaccine search
- 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
- Unmasked Citizen With Medical Exemption Cuffed and Warned – the Guv’s decree does not even allow detaining someone over this. Thug cop.
- 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.
- Absent widespread testing, Texas schools have limited tools to prevent coronavirus spread
- Falcon: I cannot recommend in-person instruction at public schools at this time
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- Business
- United Airlines to furlough over 16,000 employees, including 1K+ in Houston
- SpaceX wins launch contract for unmanned lunar lander
- New CDC order protects nearly all S.A. renters from eviction until 2021 – bankrupting smaller landlords
- Buyer of Schlumberger frac unit now eyes lead over Halliburton
- Researchers Warn Community Banks Are ‘Dying Out’ Just When Needed Most
- Austin’s Job.com grows with first acquisition
- SmileDirectClub pulls plug on $37 million project in Kyle
- Tilman Fertitta donates $1M to help Landry’s employees affected by Hurricane Laura
- Texas woman’s side hustle takes off after creating face mask homecoming mums
- 52 Black former owners hit McDonald’s with discrimination suit
- Gun Sales in Texas Remain High Throughout August
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- Protest, rioting, looting & more
- Biden Claims, Without Evidence, Portland Victim Incited His Own Death
- Never! Woke! Enough! Portland’s Wheeler to Move After Rioters Target Condo Building
- Portland Police Association Pres: Other Agencies Won’t Help Us Because ‘They See the Political Dynamics’ in Portland
- NBA BLM LOL: Ratings Crash Continues, Lakers Crushed
- Nick Saban leads Alabama football team on march for social justice
- California Schools Kowtow to Black Lives Matter’s Marxist Agenda
- Kyle Rittenhouse Speaks From Jail – Makes a Promise to ‘Every Single One’ of His Supporters
- D.C. committee suggests removal of federal monuments, White House calls recommendations ‘ludicrous’
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- Crime & general news of Texas
- Crews battling Smith Canyon fire in Pecos Co.
- Evicted Woman Set Fire to Louisiana Apartment Complex, Arrested in Huntsville
- Plume Spews From Natural Gas Well off Texas Coast
- Man charged with firing handgun at brother
- Ector Co. DA wants excessive force review of jailers
- WFPD: Man arrested after stealing truck, hit-and-run wreck, fleeing on foot
- Man jailed after being chased by owner of alleged stolen television
- WF man charged after getting entangled with roommate in barbed wire used as weapon
- Woman charged after breaking into father’s home
- Multiple people injured after morning crash in Hale Center
- Vehicle Hits Man in Lubbock After He Runs Into Traffic
- Motorcycle and semi collide in Lubbock
- Two houses caught fire in Central Lubbock
- Authorities identify body of swimmer recovered from Lake Travis
- Newborn girl found abandoned near mailboxes in Northeast Austin, police say
- Bomb squad ‘neutralized’ suspicious package in Blanco County, DPS says
- Mathias Ometu, Black jogger arrested by San Antonio police, describes emotional two days in jail
- Harris County Murder Suspect With Six Prior Convictions Released on Fourth Bond in Two Years – an example of what Democrat “bail reform” brings!
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- Local government
- It’s not just local elected officials who mislead voters on tax increases
- Pandemic, Down Economy Don’t Stop Texas Cities, ISDs From Asking Voters to Hike Taxes
- San Antonio city employees could see a two-year pay freeze as leaders seek to ease budget fallout from coronavirus pandemic
- Payton: Midland is ‘ready for what’s next’
- Wichita Falls raises propety taxes on citizens.
- Abilene PD’s Standridge one of 5 finalists up for San Marcos PD chief
- Taylor Co. Expo Center facilities can be used as court annexes
- ACLU urges West Texas school districts to remove ‘discriminatory’ dress code rules
- Randy Jordan Shares Update On Lubbock County Expo Center
- Renovation project at Lubbock’s airport enters Phase 3
- Williamson County approves $75,000 settlement with former sheriff’s deputy
- Texas Supreme Court Halts Harris County Plan of Mass Mailing Ballot Applications
- Harris Co. changes course on mail-in ballot applications after lawsuit filed by state
- Dallas pulls plug on rental scooters, ending mobility alternative Houston did not even try
- Late-night joyriders led to electric scooters’ suspension in Dallas, officials say
- Dallas County commissioners reject raises for elected officials amid COVID pandemic
- Dallas County Drops Controversial Raises for Elected Officials
- Acting DeSoto superintendent criticized for social media posts disparaging Colin Kaepernick, Democrats – but of course pro-Leftist stuff would be fine
- Carroll ISD Charging Parents High Prices for Public Information
- Bexar County commissioners keep hospital district tax rate steady for 2021 – it’s a near 2% tax increase due to raising appraisals
- Updated transportation plan gives Bexar County more than $2 billion for highways
- Tarrant County Budget Proposal Includes Salary Increases for Commissioners
- Austin drivers the first to use Google Maps to pay for parking, city says
- Fired Liberty Hill police chief alleges mayor used racial slurs, interfered with job
- Lubbock mayor apologizes for his vote providing public money to a Lubbock restaurant – he knew and didn’t update his financial disclosure and then he knew when the item came before council. He only “apologized” because he got wind that a KCBD reporter was investigating it. He’s not trustworthy.
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- Colleges & universities
- Texas A&M President Michael Young says he will retire May 31 to return to faculty
- What the arrest of Texas A&M professor says about China and the need to protect intellectual property
- TTU Researchers Warn Community Banks Are ‘Dying Out’ Just When Needed Most
- Texas Tech Libraries’ Annual Sowell Conference Goes Virtual
- Abilene Universities Take New Steps on Diversity: ACU – no, it’s not diversity as that exists naturally, it’s stepping Left.
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- Military
- US Army: New Leadership at Fort Hood; Guillen Probe Widens
- 26 Fort Hood soldiers have died this year, officials say – is that a lot given the total population?
- State Senator Says Independent Fort Hood Investigation Is ‘The Most Patriotic Thing We Can Do’
Pratt’s post for 9/2/2020
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