- Governor proposes any city in Texas which defunds police will lose annexation authority forever, more – how’s he going to do this stuff he keeps threatening? Oh wait, I forgot, he’s a despot now and doesn’t need a legislature
- Abbott unveils new proposal to punish cities that cut police budgets, more
- Lubbock’s state lawmakers push city council to adopt anti-abortion ordinance
- Lubbock braces for abortion showdown as Planned Parenthood moves to open clinic
- Lubbock, Texas Seeking To Become ‘Sanctuary City For The Unborn’
- AG Paxton Warns State Bar of Texas Against Adopting Rule that Would Trample Attorneys’ First Amendment Rights
- Paxton, Religious Lawyers Say No To LGBT Rule Against Christians
- Abbott Appoints Three To Nursing Facility Administrators Advisory Committee
- Abbott, TxDOT Announce Federal I-20 Funding For Major Project In Permian Basin
- Report: U.S., Texas rank first in index assessing infrastructure project investment
- Sex Ed Dominates Texas School Curriculum Hearings
- It’s time for the State Board of Education to update its sex education standards – says the amoral Left
- Proposed Sex Ed Curriculum Caught Between LGBT Activists and Abstinence-Only Supporters
- A Former Justice Pursues Her Continued Passion: Access To Justice
- Bexar County administrative judge plans for virtual jury trials in October; in person in January – NO to online jury trials!
- Texas Secretary of State Hughs Announces “Ready. Check. Vote.” Statewide Grassroots Tour
- Voter Suppression in Texas: Examining The Fine Print – more inane B.S. from the Left.
- Rebuking Abbott, Texas Democrats release pledge of their own
- Abbott Calls on Candidates to Pledge Support for Police, Elicits Mixed Reviews
- Mike Siegel on why Texas is ready for progressive politics
- Texas Democrats leave most important Texas job to an outside super PAC
- Trump has stacked federal courts in Texas and beyond with conservative judges, but GOP, Cornyn want more
- SD30 candidate profile: Shelley Luther, Andy Hopper for TX Senate
- TX24: Candace Valenzuela wants to flip a Republican seat and become the first Black Latina in Congress – why the focus of sex and ethnicity? That is inherently a form of racist bigotry.
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- Federal/DC related to Texas
- Sen. Cruz Fights for Long-Term Recovery, Slams Democrats for Political Posturing
- Democrats block GOP’s fourth stimulus package from advancing in Senate
- Democrats Use Racist ‘Jim Crow Relic’ to Kill Coronavirus Relief Bill
- State Dept employee destroyed evidence in Russian collusion hoax
- The mysterious destruction of evidence related to Steele’s dossier, State Department contacts
- Federal court blocks Trump effort to exclude undocumented immigrants when congressional seats are divvied up
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- Presidential race / national politics
- Joe Biden’s Plan to Sunset Federal Drilling Permits Could Eliminate 120,000 Texas Jobs
- This presidential race is beginning to show some of the same characteristics found in 2016.
- Trump should take lessons in lying from Joe Biden. The one-sided reporting of undeniable goings-on in America is a real eye-opener.
- Coulter: Extra! Trump, a Fascist, Hates the Troops
- Michael Anton and the stakes of 2020
- New Braunfels mayor calls for peace, denounces racist social media post after Trump Train rally Leftist wanting to infringe on others’ right to protest!
- ‘My Mentally Unfit Guy Is Better Than Your Mentally Unfit Guy!’
- ‘A TERRIBLE question’: Trump shuts Jon Karl DOWN for asking repugnant question about Woodward interview VIDEO
- Trump’s No-Nonsense Response to Bob Woodward’s Question About His ‘White Privilege’
- ‘Lifelong Democrat’ Lieberman endorses GOP Sen. Collins’ reelection bid in Maine
- The Democratic Party: The party of riots, looting, and stolen elections
- Black Democrat urges governor to drop black court nominee in Florida
- Academy Awards establishes LGBTQ, racial quotas for best picture contenders
- California intent on driving its productive residents away
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- Border / immigration
- Bulk Cash Seizures Surge at U.S. Border in 2020
- U.S. and Mexican authorities collaborate to find Gulf Cartel faction boss ‘El Vaquero’
- U.S. revokes visas for more than 1,000 Chinese nationals under Trump proclamation
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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 9/10/2020 (pdf) – 13,692* deaths. The # viral tested in Texas is now 5,372,132.
- * 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
- ‘He’s decided he’s the king’: Gov. Greg Abbott’s COVID response leaves lawmakers on sidelines
- A Timeline of Gov. Abbott’s Executive Orders and Case Numbers
- 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
- Texas press just now discovering Abbott’s rule by decree power grab
- How Likely is a Second wave?
- Delingpole: Boris Johnson Has Led a Fascist Coup Against the United Kingdom – this is a good read
- Sweden declares victory over COVID-19
- The lockdowns were a bad idea and did not work
- The race to find a COVID vaccine has become a global power struggle – dangerous and what happens when a disease becomes a political disease.
- Federal prison in Big Spring has the most COVID-19 cases of all federal prisons
- Abilene City Council OKs sending COVID local control request to governor
- Dallas Attorney Develops Simple Form to Use to Avoid Eviction – pay your rent
- Cuomo hits back at Trump: Under my leadership, New Yorkers “flattened the curve” – easy to do when you do it by killing off more of the most susceptible
- VFW posts at risk of permanent closure under Abbott coronavirus order
- 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
- Sweden Close To Victory Over Coronavirus; Never Had A Lockdown Or Mask Mandate
- Canadian Flight Cancelled After Toddler Refused To Wear Face Mask – the utter absurdity of the comply-with-thy-masters culture!
- Mask comes off: Right for me but not for thee
- 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
- TEA creates COVID-19 Data Tracking System for Texas Public Schools
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- Business
- Texas sales tax to local government down 4.5% over same period 2019
- September Top 20 Cities Sales and Use Tax Comparison Summary, All cities
- Mall Owners Close to Buying JC Penney Out of Bankruptcy
- RIP: Famed restaurateur Tony Vallone, Houston’s king of fine dining, dies at 75
- Dallas Symphony Among 1st US Orchestras to Return
- Enterprise cancels Midland-to-Houston pipeline amid downturn
- Major League Baseball Plans Playoff Bubbles in California, Texas
- Bite Squad to double delivery area, hire 100 drivers in Wichita Falls
- Texas hemp growers adapt to challenging weather, market conditions
- National Finals Rodeo Moves From Las Vegas to Arlington, Texas
- ConocoPhillips withdraws flaring permit requests at 41 sites in west Texas
- Austin’s RigUp hiring 350 workers for Travis solar project
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- Protest, rioting, looting & more
- ESPN to Televise Protesting Players and Singing of So-Called Black National Anthem
- The Democratic Party: The party of riots, looting, and stolen elections
- Liddle: Falsehoods are running amok
- New Braunfels mayor calls for peace, denounces racist social media post after Trump Train rally Leftist wanting to infringe on others’ right to protest!
- America’s problem right now? It’s always us against them – sorry Leftists but suggesting we can create a utopia is stupid.
- Community activist called on Chiefs to add African American flag to social justice plans – if you have a different flag and anthem then you are not an American
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- Crime & general news of Texas
- Man charged in Lubbock federal court for threat to use an explosive
- Beaumont: Man Sentenced to 5 Years in Prison for 2018 Bombing
- Police union: 4 Houston cops fired over deadly shooting of Nicolas Chavez
- Houston police release body camera footage of deadly April police shooting, four officers fired
- Covid caregiver arrested for drug possession; Strip search at jail reveals more drugs
- Judge rejects lower bond for man accused of continuous sexual assault of young girl
- Burkburnett: Charges dismissed for teen who tweeted about ‘huntin’ boys in blue’
- Wichita Falls firefighters work to control a duplex fire
- Multiple law agencies, and a drone, assist catching burglary suspect
- Gardendale teenager dies in single-vehicle collision
- Odessa: Man arrested after ramming into vehicles, forcing drivers off roadway
- Cash rewards offered for info on wanted fugitives in Abilene
- Abilene grandfather indicted for child sex crime
- Abilene man indicted for child porn discovered during traffic stop
- Abilene police arrest drunk man passed out in unlocked vehicle
- Abilene man indicted after alleged fight with police officer
- Leander ISD elementary school students ‘Zoom bombed’ with porn, principal says
- Lubbock fugitive wanted for human trafficking found in California
- Slaton man charged with sexually assaulting woman with Down Syndrome and young boy
- Anti-Wimp: Armed woman scares off Lubbock burglar
- Teen charged with firing shots inside a Killeen apartment
- Former Bell County jailer under investigation for improper relationship
- Arrest made in Bellmead Lisa Drive shooting
- Man led deputies on car chase in Wimberley, authorities say
- Montgomery County Judge Mark Keough hospitalized after car crash with deputy constable, Stable and alert, per his staff
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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
- Lubbock’s state lawmakers push city council to adopt anti-abortion ordinance
- Lubbock’s amoral mayor, Dan Pope, compares a church and a grocery store to butchering babies in an abortion mill
- Wichita Co. Sheriff’s Office now hiring jailers
- Andrews asks for input on chickens
- Taylor Co. jury selection could be moving to Expo Center
- Abilene City Council OKs sending COVID local control request to governor
- San Antonio is asking where to put new bike lanes – easy, in some other city.
- Bexar County administrative judge plans for virtual jury trials in October; in person in January – NO to online jury trials!
- Lamesa budgets for more police officers
- Dallas mayor’s plan to “defund the bureaucracy” fails — again
- Will Dallas City Council Make Citizens a Priority?
- With U. Renee Hall’s departure, now Dallas needs to say what it wants in its next chief of police
- Northside ISD plans new high school focused on developing future teachers – I thought that was what teachers’ colleges do…
- Copperas Cove ISD Receives $1 million dollar federal grant
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- Colleges & universities
- MSU Texas’ Katumwehe receives National Science Foundation grant
- MSU: Renowned cartoonist illustrates campaign process has remained consistent
- Three Texas college towns could face financial devastation from pandemic, according to new study
- ACU hits record enrollment for third year in a row
- Texas Tech group recounts Hurricane Laura field research
- UT-Austin says it will require only student ticket holders to test negative for COVID-19 before Saturday’s football game
Pratt’s post for 9/10/2020
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