- Gov. Abbott and Leftist Judge Garcia not so different
- AG Paxton Statement on Fifth Circuit Upholding Texas Election Law
- Vote-By-Mail Advocates Lose Appeal in Texas
- Texas judge allows Harris County to send all voters applications for mail-in ballots – he, a liberal Democrat, likely will be overruled
- Houston judge rejects Paxton request to halt Harris County mail ballot plan
- Greer: Soros Messing With Texas Elections?
- Lawmakers call on Gov. Greg Abbott to plan to expand broadband access as pandemic worsens disparities – B.S.
- Lawmakers Call for Investigation Against Netflix for Child Pornography
- Records: Texas assistant AG who lost job over tweets was fired, had been warned about social media
- Sen. Perry: Government’s Obligation To Protect Unborn Lives AUDIO
- Governor Abbott Appoints Frausto To 181st Judicial District Court
- Governor Abbott Appoints Selleck Brazoria County Criminal District Attorney
- Governor Abbott Deploys Resources To Assist In Fighting California Wildfires
- Comptroller’s Office Now Accepting Applications for Match the Promise Scholarships and Tuition Grants
- Texas gives preliminary approval for revised school sex ed policy that excludes LGBTQ issues
- State board rejects charter operator in San Marcos, approves 2 others in Austin area, more
- Texas sees 400% increase in homeschooling
- Number Of Families Moving From Public To Home School In Texas Up 300 Percent
- Texas schools seeing steep declines in number of students getting free meals
- The Back Mic: Super PAC Pledges $6 Million to Flip Texas House, Democrats Reprove Abbott’s Pro-Police Pledge, New Campaign Ads Released
- Pratt: Texas Democrats leave most important Texas job to an outside super PAC
- Democratic super PAC invests millions in Texas as polling shows flippable statehouse
- Texas Democrats from the border team up for new PAC in effort to flip the state House
- Veteran House Incumbents Cling to Seats as Districts Evolve
- SD30: Candidate profile: Craig Carter, Chris Watts
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- Federal/DC related to Texas
- Democrats block GOP bill to provide Covid-19 relief to ordinary Americans
- Sen. Cruz Issues Statement Marking 19 Years Since the September 11th Terrorist Attacks
- As energy secretary, Rick Perry mixed money and politics in Ukraine. The deals could be worth billions.
- Donald Trump Honors Flight 93 Heroes on 9/11: ‘America Will Always Stand Tall and Fight Back’
- Edward Snowden was right, the NSA has violated our rights
- Russian, Chinese, Iranian agents tried to hack hundreds of computers in 2020 elections, Microsoft
- Inside Ted Cruz’s big play to block Putin’s pipeline
- Cornyn: More Coastal Protection is Coming
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- Presidential race / national politics
- Atlantic Editor Admits Key Detail of Anti-Trump Hit Piece May Be Untrue
- Texas Bar Owner Fighting Abbott’s Unfair Mandates Hosts Trump Rally
- Courting favor: is Trump remaking the conservative legal movement?
- Tilove: Will Democrats be safe and sorry for virtual approach to 2020?
- Dr. Anthony Fauci Defends Trump on Coronavirus
- Biden admits Trump’s U.S.-Mexico-Canada trade deal ‘better than NAFTA’
- Joe Biden’s WORST week? Biden spokesman can’t even defend Joe Biden’s comments!
- Joe Biden’s Interview With Jake Tapper Is a Dumpster Fire, Explains Why He Hides in His Basement
- The Biden Express is Headed Left?Bernie Sanders for Secretary of State in Joe Biden’s Cabinet VIDEO
- Joe Biden Falsely Claims He’s Never Made More than $400,000 a Year VIDEO
- Biden to Tapper: Our 2008-2012 voters responded to racist dogwhistles in 2016, or something
- Terrell to The View: Stop calling free-thinking black conservatives “props”
- The Oscars’ woke McCarthyism is a step too far
- What the hell happened to Bob Woodward? – that “problem” goes back to faked Watergate sources too.
- Alarmists Blame ‘Climate Change’ for Wildfires, Rains, Heat Waves
- Franklin Graham on 9/11: Pray for the Families and Nation, ‘Only God Can Fix the Problems We’re Facing’
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- Border / immigration
- Federal court blocks Trump effort to exclude undocumented immigrants when congressional seats are divvied up
- Bulk Cash Seizures Surge at U.S. Border in 2020
- Gulf Cartel Organizes Protests Against Mexican Border State Police
- Mexican Journalist’s Beheading Staged As Motorcycle Accident
- Farmers Hold Out at Mexican Dam as Tensions Build
- Cuellar: It’s time to re-open international bridges to Mexican shoppers, tourists
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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 9/11/2020 (pdf) – 13,853 deaths. The # viral tested in Texas is now 5,405,257.
- * 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
- VFW posts at risk of permanent closure under Abbott coronavirus order
- From Threats of Eviction to Crippling Fines, the All Out Assault on Churches Continues in the Golden State
- People trust the media less than Trump on COVID. Here’s why
- Coronavirus expert Dr. Peter Hotez reveals when we can expect a vaccine
- Dr. Anthony Fauci Defends Trump on Coronavirus
- The percentage of Texans testing positive for COVID-19 is dropping, but experts say the threat isn’t over
- Gov. Ron DeSantis shares EXCELLENT Florida COVID update in must-read thread and the Left just can’t DEAL
- Abilene Mayor describes ‘humbling experience’ battling COVID-19 VIDEO
- 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
- allahan County mask exemption decision creates contention, praise
- Callahan County Judge says Republican Party reportedly threatened censure over mask request – he’s a wimp of the worst order
- 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
- Baker Hughes rotary oil & gas drilling rig report
- Oil suffers consecutive weekly loss as demand recovery wavers
- Forbes: Cowboys most valuable NFL team at $5.7 billion – it will plummet quickly if they don’t stop the pro-Leftist stuff at games
- Austin-area landlords say new eviction protections aren’t sustainable
- Austin startup Sana Benefits raises $20.8M to continue growth
- Houston-based Weatherford appoints new CEO
- Oil-field services sheds more than 103,000 jobs
- Houston power trader loses pricing fight against ERCOT
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- Protest, rioting, looting & more
- As NFL kicks off, many Texans say athletes should not kneel during the national anthem, poll finds
- Chiefs’ Alex Okafor kneels for national anthem, fans in the seats boo ‘moment of unity’
- Texans Leave Field, Chiefs Stand Arm-in-Arm for National Anthem VIDEO
- Lubbock man pleads guilty after brandishing assault rifle at BLM protest, more
- Renaming Committee narrows list to three choices for renaming Midland Lee
- Portland mayor bans use of tear gas at protests and riots
- Arrest of Oregon political figure for ‘interfering’ with Portland police calls new attention to the offense
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- Crime & general news of Texas
- Odessa teenager in critical condition after collision
- Walters man killed in accident on US 82 in Baylor Co.
- Two men now charged with shooting at crowded nightclub
- Abilene bank robbery suspect attacked by teller identified, arrested nearly 1-year later
- LPD, U.S. Marshals arrest Lubbock man in Georgia for Drug Emporium aggravated assault
- Lubbock man pleads guilty after brandishing assault rifle at BLM protest
- Lubbock: One person seriously injured during overnight shooting
- Midland woman dies in Ector County crash
- Father, son killed in motorcycle collision
- 2 arrested in Buda drug bust, Hays County deputies say
- Grand jury weighs evidence in ‘Live PD’ Javier Ambler video destruction
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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
- Media investigation prompts Lubbock Mayor’s apology following failure to disclose VIDEO
- San Antonio water board appointment controversy may be at end; former assistant city manager nominated to remaining seat, more
- Cedar Park mayor calls councilmember’s abortion proposition an ‘attention-grabbing stunt’
- Lubbock Co: Records reveal more about resignation and settlement at medical examiner’s office
- Wichita Falls to apply for $1.1 mil in grants for airports
- Abilene City Council approves DCOA resolution for economic development
- Bastrop County commissioners iron out infrastructure funding rift
- Texas judge allows Harris County to send all voters applications for mail-in ballots – it will be overruled.
- Austin Officials Change Rules Again to Prevent City From Reopening
- Amarillo City Council Pushing for New City Hall Before Citizens Decide
- City of Dallas seeks contractor to clean up Shingle Mountain
- An Ellis County Man’s Lawsuit Brings Mental Health And Disability Training
- Garland ISD Referendum Would Increase Property Taxes, Trigger More State Funding
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- Colleges & universities
- UT’s Steven Weinberg wins $3M Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics
- MSU Kiowa Kooks disband after 40 years of service
- McMurry University Announces Fall 2020 Enrollment, slight decrease
- Tech CASNR program strives to promote diversity in agriculture industry – more Leftism
- Comptroller’s Office Now Accepting Applications for Match the Promise Scholarships and Tuition Grants
- West Texas A&M creates a model to bring higher education to America’s smallest communities
- ‘Wokeness’ Smothers Higher Education
- Plurality of voters say no more grants to U.S. colleges from communist Chinese government, poll
Pratt’s post for 9/11/2020
September 11, 2020 by 1 Comment
OMG! https://thefederalist.com/2020/09/14/texas-mayor-compares-new-planned-parenthood-to-opening-a-church/
“Lubbock, Texas Mayor Dan Pope is receiving backlash for comments likening opening a Planned Parenthood facility in his town to starting a new supermarket or church. “Telling Planned Parenthood they can’t come to Lubbock would be in some ways like telling United they couldn’t build another store or telling the Southern Baptist Convention they couldn’t do another church start in Lubbock,” Pope said on “The Chad Hasty Show” on Thursday. According to Pope, the ordinance is “a slippery slope” and he doesn’t think he should “be telling businesses what to do.” [like masks?]
An innocent baby is not a tomato. An abortion mill is not a church. Our household feels just sick. We have to get Pope out and any city council member who does not speak out against this.