- Political pressure must be placed on the governor in sufficient amount that he realizes that his political future is in jeopardy
- Gov. Greg Abbott considering legislation to put Austin police under state control after budget cut, more, more – popular politics, very bad policy
- Federal judge says she will again hold Texas in contempt of court for failing to meet foster care reforms – she’s what is worst in the federal judiciary as she wants to govern instead of rule on points of law.
- ‘Children are dying,’ federal judge laments in hearing over Texas foster care lawsuit – more hyperbole from this Leftist judge and court
- Federal judge ‘concerned’ over high rate of COVID-19 among Texas foster children – this Leftist judge never stops wanting to run Texas from her office
- After a teen’s death, Texas cuts ties with a rural foster care facility, then gets a tongue-lashing from a federal judge
- Veterans of Foreign Wars, American Legion posts receive help from new TABC initiative
- Property Tax Reform Didn’t Force Cities to Spend Less … Or Cut Texans’ Tax Bills
- Rampant lying by local officials on property taxes
- Texas Assistant AG who sent bigoted, QAnon-promoting tweets loses job, more, more – funny Dems are not fired for their outrageous positions including that cops are murderers.
- AG Paxton Sends Letter Supporting Section 230 Rule Promoting Transparency and Accountability for Large Tech Platforms
- Paxton Leads Effort to Regulate Facebook, Twitter, Google, Others
- RRC Commissioners Assess More Than $400,000 in Penalties
- Investment giants urge Texas to end most natural gas flaring
- State Board of Education to tackle sex ed standards
- Sex Ed Standards on Upcoming Texas Education Board Agenda
- Delayed driver license renewals causes confusion at Texas pharmacy
- Sweeping police reform efforts continue in Texas as racial tensions rise
- The Back Mic: Planned Parenthood Endorses a Republican, GOP PAC Pledges Fundraising, Latest Campaign Ads
- ACLU warns 500 Texas school districts to revise discriminatory dress codes
- ACLU of Texas flags 16 counties with possible Voting Rights Act violations – they go around doing this all the time, mostly little comes of it.
- Tilove: Is God punishing America for not electing Ted Cruz president?
- SD27: Texas GOP says it will not support state Senate candidate arrested for DUI with kids in her car – yeah, she’s not a Republican, she was a Green Party candidate for Congress in 2016.
- Homosexual group endorses 14 Democrats for the Texas House
- HD113: Texas House Democrat on her Republican foe: ‘That boy needs a whipping’ – the loving, accepting, non-violent Dems. If a white republican said these things of a black man he’d be condemned (GOP nominee is black.)
- TX17: Poll has Sessions 45, Kennedy 42 – Dems are dumb to think this is -suddenly competitive. It’s a Dem poll and a heavily GOP district.
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- Federal/DC related to Texas
- Horowitz: Venezuela in America: CDC to confiscate property rights with new anti-eviction order – this order is as bad as anything Obama did.
- The CDC Is America’s New Landlord
- Wildlife Agency Seeks to Carve Out Areas From Protections – such B.S. from the Left. For example the prairie chicken is growing & growing. And that lizard is doing just fine, it doesn’t seem to care much about oil field work.
- No, a Texas man was not indicted for filling out 1,700 mail-in ballots, despite what Attorney General William Barr said
- Cornyn, 2 Democrats push for Senate hearing on Fort Hood after soldier deaths
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- Presidential race / national politics
- Three Things Trump Is Getting Right, and Democrats Ignored
- ‘You are the engine’ — Trump campaign aims to fire up supporters with bus tour of Texas, more, more
- Fraternal Order of Police endorses Trump, including lodge in Biden’s home state
- President Trump Furious at The Atlantic Claiming He Disparaged Fallen Soldiers
- John Bolton Rejects Atlantic Story: ‘I Was There’; ‘I Didn’t Hear That’
- Trump made a promise to save coal in 2016. He couldn’t keep it.
- Joe Scarborough reminds Mika Brzezinski that Donald Trump ‘would shoot us if he could’ VIDEO
- Biden diminishes police on-the-job risks in saying WuFlu kills more cops – I changed the headline to the story to show you how it would have been reported, even if true, had Trump said it.
- Biden in Kenosha
- Biden responds to jobs report, appeals to working class, says ‘economic pain remains unrelenting’ – caused mostly by his Dem guvs, mayors and judges.
- Jacob Blake Sr. Has Long History of Racist, Antisemitic, Anti-Christian Posts; Set to Meet Joe Biden
- Joe Biden: ‘A Black Man Invented the Light Bulb, Not a White Guy Named Edison’
- Tomlinson: Biden must reject extremist demands by fringe climate activists – example of ignorant media folk – Biden has expressly agreed with them is carrying their agenda!
- Fact Check: Would Biden ban fracking as Trump claims? No. – Biden said: “No more — no new fracking.” These folk are so ready to cover for him. Yes he put out a flip-flop statement after but then he’s flipped and flopped several times.
- Even Biden Allies Say That His Election Might Not Be a Return to Normalcy
- Ted Cruz Evokes Rage from the Left for Simply Stating Pregnancy Isn’t a Deadly Illness
- Pratt: Choosing love over hate makes us truly unique
- Meaningful Work
- Trump Team Shreds ‘Nancy Antoinette’ over Salon Hypocrisy in Fiery Ad VIDEO
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- Border / immigration
- 17 Previously Deported Felons Arrested Re-Entering U.S. in El Paso Sector in August
- 400 Pounds of Drugs Seized in Two Days at Southwest Border Crossings
- Mexico Struggles With US Water Debt, Suggests UN Audit
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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 9/04/2020 (pdf) – 13,091* deaths. The # viral tested in Texas is now 5,107,503.
- * 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
- COVID Death Stats…Inaccurate or Just Misleading?
- 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
- The Lockdown Has Gone From a Mistake to a Crime
- Sen. Cruz: Democrats Are Keeping Economy Shut Down to Benefit their Partisan Interests VIDEO
- Dallas and Harris county judges criticize Gov. Greg Abbott’s coronavirus response for putting politics ahead of science – Abbott’s been bad but these bastards don’t know what science is! The Dallas Co. judge was making decisions for months off of a website created by Democrat activists using the now discredited data from the guy in England.
- New COVID testing strategy could be ‘a game-changer’ for Harris County
- Alpacas May Hold Key to Preventing Covid-19 Infection
- I reported on the coronavirus for five months — then I caught COVID. Here’s what I learned – his line that the virus is smaller than a speck of dust shows how unable people are to truly understand how small is a virus particle.
- 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
- Popularity of face diapering shows submission and obedience to the masters – “The Undiapered are the heretics of our time.”
- Missouri man shot after mask argument at St. Louis Family Dollar
- 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.
- Cowardly new world: Video shows insane dystopian rules for school reopening – in Texas! Disgusting and shameful. VIDEO (where did this get this pretentious narrator who says some vowels like some 1930’s New England blue blood?)
- Percentage if infection among school aged is same in countries with schools open as closed
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- Business
- Better Than Expected! U.S. Economy Added 1.37 Million Jobs in August, Unemployment Fell to 8.4%
- Baker Hughes Oil & Gas Rig Count Summary, more
- Oil sinks below $40 a barrel first time in month on stock losses
- Investment giants urge Texas to end most natural gas flaring
- Landlords take San Antonio tenants to court over rent during pandemic
- Economists: State’s economic outlook hinges on virus fight – no, it depends on politicians like Abbott and local judges and mayors getting the hell out of our way.
- Hedge Fund Founder Arrested in Neiman Marcus-Linked Case
- NPC International prepares to sell Pizza Hut portfolio and close up to 300 restaurants after reaching agreement with Yum Brands
- Dancers sue Houston strip club over unpaid wages
- What Tesla’s Texas takeover means for oil-dependent Houston
- Texas company produces first and only EPA-approved sanitizing surface spray
- Bruin E&P emerges from Ch. 11 bankruptcy
- Exxon’s Imperial shuts oil-sands mine after pipeline spill
- Aramco shelves $20 billion petrochemical plan after oil’s crash
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- Protest, rioting, looting & more
- Suspect in Fatal Shooting of Conservative Activist Killed by Police – sounds like instant justice
- Protesters gather outside Pelosi’s California home after her salon visit VIDEO
- Sweeping police reform efforts continue in Texas as racial tensions rise
- Minority-owned security company hired to watch Seattle park quits on first night after being harassed by Antifa
- BLM protesters halt Senator Loeffler’s campaign event with Tom Cotton in Georgia
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- Crime & general news of Texas
- Missing Odessa Teen Girl Found at Border Patrol Checkpoint
- Odessa Police investigating robbery at Prosperity Bank
- 3 injured in Howard County explosion
- At least 1 person dead in Bastrop County crash along Texas 21
- Her neighbors called for help. When deputies came, they attacked the abuse victim – more anti-police spin from the Statesman. Sometimes it is very hard to know who is the “victim” if there even is one; have you ever watched COPS or other live-filmed domestic disputes?
- Bexar Co. deputy who killed Daniels also shot man in distress 10 years ago, more
- Police investigating death of man found unresponsive in SE Houston parking lot, 1 detained
- Gunfight between husband, ex-husband in Houston leaves 1 dead
- Wichita Falls HS choir teacher arrested for improper relationship with a student, more, more
- New charges shed light on Wichita Falls nightclub shooting
- Appeals court upholds convictions of woman who killed two men in crash in Montague County
- Brownwood man missing for 4 months found safe
- Masked robber targets north Abilene convenience store – aren’t they all now?
- Abilene firefighters battle south-side blaze
- Lubbock Detectives Arrest Murder Suspect for 2003 Cold Case, more, DPS ties murder of young woman in Lubbock Co. to second murder investigation, Lubbock man sent cyber stalking threats just minutes before he was arrested, now he’s charged with murder, more
- Battling the blaze: Lubbock crews continue fight against one of California’s largest wildfires
- ISIS Conspirator with Dual Citizenship in U.S., Turkey Pleads Guilty in Dallas to Aiding Terrorism
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- Local government
- Property Tax Reform Didn’t Force Cities to Spend Less … Or Cut Texans’ Tax Bills, Rampant lying by local officials on property taxes
- Midland parting ways with city manager Courtney Sharp
- Sweeping police reform efforts continue in Texas as racial tensions rise
- Despite Riots, Dallas Pursues Defunding Police and Fire Departments
- Dallas Police Chief U. Reneé Hall deserves a fair assessment, not political undermining
- Dallas mayor opposes cuts to police overtime and doubles down on defunding City Hall bureaucracy
- Hutto Council Member Tom Hines resigns, citing family reasons
- Bastrop County commissioners, judge spar over road fund, budget
- City of Lubbock moves forward with raising propety taxes, ignoring citizens – The AJ carries no quotes of the citizens wanting no tax increase but 8 paragraphs dedicated to the leftist group trying to tax and slow city growth.
- Lubbock Officials Eye Outlawing Abortion After Planned Parenthood Heralds New Facility
- Houston FD chief disputes union complaint that city has docked pay of firefighters under COVID quarantine
- ‘Please don’t take these jobs away’ — constable pleads with Bexar County commissioners not to cut staff
- City of San Angelo wins first place for promotional video
- Government Officials on Brink of Killing Austin’s Live Music Venues
- Carroll ISD Board Faces Lawsuit Over Alleged Open Meetings Act Violation, more
- ACLU warns 500 Texas school districts to revise discriminatory dress codes
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- Colleges & universities
- A UT professor researches pederasty. Why are we paying for it? – see the clarifications, it seems like so many the DMN didn’t know the difference between pederasty and pedophilia – this is a common problem.
- Without Child Care, A UT Austin Professor Struggles To Help Both Her Students And Her Children – grow up.
- MSU Texas earns approval for first doctoral program
- MSU Texas starts renovations for a new campus center
- An Online Degree From Texas Tech Can Earn You A High Salary – no, you earn your salary
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- Military
- Fort Hood Soldier Dies After Collapsing at the Texas Base
- Cornyn, 2 Democrats push for Senate hearing on Fort Hood after soldier deaths
Pratt’s post for 9/4/2020
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