- AG Paxton Urges Full Fifth Circuit to Prevent Federal Government from Granting Private Entities the Ability to Tax States
- Governor Abbott, Lieutenant Governor Patrick, Attorney General Paxton Issue Statement On Withdrawal Of Medicaid Fiscal Accountability Regulation
- Texas officials walk back $15 million proposed cuts to women’s and children’s health services
- Experts: Proposed state takeover of Austin police legal, but unprecedented
- Rep. Drew Darby wins spending award from special interest group
- Chairman Briscoe Cain’s Committee on Driver’s License Issuance and Renewal Requests Information on Charges
- SBOE gives preliminary approval to include birth control, ban LGBTQ issues from school sex ed
- Governor Abbott, HHSC Announce Federal Approval For Automatic SNAP Benefit Replacements For Eight Disaster Counties
- Gov. Abbott Appoints Freitag To 140th District Court in Lubbock
- Ag. Commissioner Miller recruits “star power” to promote farm fresh foods
- Prosecutors in State’s Largest County Now Know if it’s Hemp or Marijuana
- Can Ken Paxton legally pay ex-staffers? State auditor asked to investigate
- Fort Bend Rep. Gary Gates evicted over 100 tenants during the pandemic
- HD112: In key North Texas House race, Button touts experience, Chambers says district needs a ‘fighter’
- General election campaigns ramp up with Texas House GOP embracing traditional block walking, Democrats going a different direction
- Democrats Lose Another Challenge to Texas Vote-by-Mail Law
- Democrat PAC Pledges $6.2M to Flip Texas House
- Pratt: LBJ and others would be envious of modern Texas Democrats
- ‘Used-Mexicans’ billboard taken down after days of complaints in San Antonio VIDEO – read it and see how it works: no discussion or point allowed that does not bolster the Left.
- Cornyn, Mama Hegar to face off in Oct. 9 Senate debate
- What Do David French and John Cornyn Have in Common?
- TX7: Energy Policy Clash Looms in Houston Battleground Congressional District
- TX23: Gun banning group drops $200K on Spanish ads targeting Hurd’s seat in Congress
- Texas Supreme Court Orders Green Party Candidates Be Placed Back on Ballot
- Texas Supreme Court orders Green candidates returned to ballot as deadlines loom
- SD30: Early voting at a trickle in special election to succeed Sen. Pat Fallon
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- Federal/DC related to Texas
- Sen. Cruz Applauds Historic Peace Deal Between Israel-United Arab Emirates and Bahrain
- Trump administration cracks down on goods made by Chinese forced laborers
- Senator John Cornyn introduces bill to name Border Patrol Station after fallen Abilene agent
- Pompeo fears Biden will reverse ‘all the good work’ Trump admin did on Iran
- Texas Republican Lawmakers Push to Ban Netflix’s ‘Cuties,’ Pedophilia
- Pelosi says House will stay in session until next coronavirus relief package passed
- Ex-DEA agent pleads guilty to 19 federal counts in jaw-dropping corruption case
- House GOP unveils tax cuts, police funds in election agenda
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- Presidential race / national politics
- Kamala Harris Promises She and Joe Biden Will Be ‘More Progressive’ on Police Reform – how can you be farther Left?
- Why Has Kamala Harris ‘Been Silent’ on Ambush Attack on Los Angeles Deputies?
- Kamala Paints Picture of a ‘Harris Administration … with Joe Biden’ for Latino Voters
- Biden running mate Harris mistakenly refers to potential ‘Harris administration’
- Biden Climate Speech ‘One Falsehood After Another’
- Bernie Sanders: Biden win in November is no ‘slam dunk’
- Biden’s Sign Language Interpreter Is Declared ‘the Real MVP’ After Latest Virtual Appearance Disaster VIDEO
- The Democrats after Biden
- Biden’s Energy Plan Could Kill 5 Million Blue-Collar Jobs
- Scientific American Wades into the Presidential Election
- Abortion: The Stakes in the Election
- Jerry Brown Mocks People Who Want to Leave California: ‘Where Are You Going to Go?’
- Man Defecates in Nancy Pelosi’s Driveway as a Form of ‘Peaceful Protest’
- Own Patagonia clothing? You may want to shed it soon.
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- Border / immigration
- 42 Illegal Aliens Found in Horse Trailer near Inland Texas Checkpoint
- Reports of Dismembered Newborn Spark Terror in Matamoros
- Federal court rules Trump administration can end TPS status of immigrants
- ICE detainees faced medical neglect and hysterectomies, whistleblower alleges
- Senator John Cornyn introduces bill to name Border Patrol Station after fallen Abilene agent
- ICE deported a key witness in investigation of sexual assault and harassment at El Paso detention center – don’t worry, the person will likely just re-enter illegally
- Appeals court paves way for deportation of 300,000 here temporarily
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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 9/15/2020 (pdf) – 14,211 deaths. The # viral tested in Texas is now 5,213,247.
- * 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
- NYT: Conflicting Virus Data in Texas Raises Distrust of the Government
- 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
- Abbott Sued for Banning Families From Loved Ones in Nursing Homes
- Coronavirus Mandate Stories: ‘We Can’t Let This Keep Going and Going Anymore’
- Pennsylvania Governor’s COVID-19 business closures, limit on gatherings unconstitutional, federal court rules
- Judge rules Pennsylvania COVID-19 restrictions unconstitutional
- New coronavirus data offer cautionary tale for Abbott – AGAIN! The state changes how it “calculates” things!
- Updated COVID metric shows Texas outbreak on the decline since mid-July
- Texas Restaurant Association Disputes Findings about Spread of COVID-19
- Hong Kong virologist publishes paper claiming COVID-19 was created in a laboratory
- Hyper-Partisan Attacks Could Undermine a Covid-19 Vaccine’s Adoption
- Hidalgo County Judge Pares Back Lockdown, Leaving Curfew and Ban on Gatherings in Place
- 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
- CDC inadvertently admits the uselessness of masks against COVID-19
- State Informs Eastland County Mask Exemption Revoked – F* the state and Abbott. His decree is just that, a decree and not a law passed by our legislature.
- Business owners, hit hard by pandemic losses, fighting insurance companies in court
- The Dystopian Age of the Mask
- Americans Against Unconstitutional Mask Mandates
- 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
- Texas teachers call out numerous COVID-19 safety violations at schools in recent TSTA [union] survey – quit, we’ll all be better to be rid of these ignorant union paycheck taking “teachers.”
- Texas Teachers Union Launches Its Own COVID-19 Tracking Site
- College Kids Are Freaking Out About Their Infected Campuses – shockingly the “college class” appears the most ignorant and weakest in our society presently
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- Business
- BNSF’s Next CEO Will Be First Woman to Lead Major Railroad
- SpaceX SN8 to launch and fly to 60,000 feet next week, more
- U.S. airlines report second-quarter losses of $11 billion
- Report: Dell planning employee layoffs
- Houston Bars Are Doing Their Best To Survive The Pandemic – But Not All Of Them Will
- Governor Abbott Announces Wesco Aircraft Headquarters Relocation to Texas – from California!
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- Protest, rioting, looting & more
- Sen. Ed Markey: ‘Disarm’ All Police Officers of ‘Weapons of War,’ Ban Tear Gas
- Watch: Black Lives Matter Protesters Wish Death on Wounded L.A. Sheriff’s Deputies: ‘I Hope They F**king Die’ VIDEO
- Black Lives Matter Rioters Smash County Vehicles in Lancaster: ‘You’re the Real KKK’ VIDEO
- Abilene ISD Board unanimously votes to rename schools named after Confederate leaders
- Heritage Action Unveils “No Police, No Peace” Billboards in New York, Dallas, and Atlanta
- Boycott The Texans And The BLM Football League
- Plurality of voters say politicization of pro sports will drive down ratings
- Disgraceful is the word for the Denver Broncos as 18 players kneel for our national anthem
- Will Lynwood city council fire city manager over ambush-cheering comments — and will the media notice?
- Rochester Mayor fires police chief who already resigned over alleged BLM complaint
- Louisville settles suit with Breonna Taylor’s family, more
- LA Sheriff asks LeBron James to match reward for info on ambush shooter (Vanessa Bryant responds)
- Brandon Darby’s tweet about rioter jumping on cop’s car is hilarious and assist from Greg Gutfeld makes it PERFECT
- Unrealistic reaction from mother of crazed man shot by police
- Aurora man says police asked him to take down pro-police yard sign
- If U.S. cities defund police, we will end up relying on poorly trained security guards
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- Crime & general news of Texas
- Houston Police Chase of Stolen Vehicle Ends in Deadly Crash
- Texas Teen Charged With Murder in Shooting of Sleeping Woman
- Queen Isabella Memorial Causeway reopens after bomb threat VIDEO
- Bomb threat closes Causeway on eve of collapse anniversary
- Pair of Texans Rob Panda Express Because Their Order Took Too Long
- Graham PD investigating deadly shooting
- Two dead in Baylor County Greyhound passenger bus rollover
- Police: Accused church, Rider High burglar left wallet with driver’s license at scene – criminal genius!
- Abilene police: Man just out of prison gave beer to minor – another genius
- Two arrested on multiple charges after police find unlawful firearms in car, one kicks officer in groin
- Abilene ‘Patrol Officer of the Quarter’ recognized for saving infant, serving on SWAT team
- Second person missing where body was found during Jones County flooding
- Probation revoked for Abilene teen convicted in 7 convenience store robberies
- Midland authorities offering $500 reward in search for suspect wanted for sexual assault of a child
- Lubbock Man Arrested After Explosive Device Found in Car
- Two girls sexually abused, child pornography found, Lubbock man indicted
- Slaton man indicted, charged with sexual assault of non-verbal, severely disabled woman and a child
- Lubbock man indicted a 2nd time in strangulation death of girlfriend
- Woman dies from injuries after hit-and-run in August, police say
- Travis County deputies searching for man linked to assault at North Austin hotel
- Llano Co. rancher, former council member indicted on felony theft of livestock charge
- ‘OH GOD D—-T!’: Would-be lumberjack chops tree down directly onto house VIDEO
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- Local government
- Editorial: Lubbock Mayor’s Conflict of Interest Should Increase Scrutiny on Amarillo City Council
- Amarillo Citizens Protest Tax Increase, Bond Proposition
- Knox County Hospital District continues insurance claims battle
- Midland ISD board picks experienced interim superintendent
- Odessa raises water and waste fees on a hurting populace
- City of Odessa getting new mass notification system
- WF City Council to consider 4B Board resolutions at next meeting
- Report: COVID caused $3.2 million revenue loss for Wichita Falls – no, it was a much larger loss for the people who own and support the city, this was the smaller portion suffered by local gov’t.
- Brown Co. Commissioners: Capital lease to fund new radio system
- Stephens Co. Attorney requests AG’s decision on nepotism law for the upcoming election
- Lubbock receives $1.7M grant for coronavirus economic recovery
- Lubbock mayor’s Planned Parenthood opinion critiqued by national publication
- Dallas ISD has let Thomas Jefferson rot. Now is the time to get it right
- Dallas Mayor Blasts City Council for ‘Unconscionable’ Move to Defund Police Overtime
- Dallas police pay a homosexual “liaison”
- Dallas City Council member wants to decriminalize small amounts of marijuana
- Houston’s Turner set to propose cite-and-release ordinance. County judges say a program is already available
- Harris County may create corporation to free up toll road revenues for flood control, other uses
- Rios: Rockport Pushes Through $14.72M in ‘Tax Notes’ Without Voter Input – a common problem these days.
- North East ISD to convert Walmart into new cybersecurity magnet center
- San Antonio examines housing assistance needs once funding, eviction moratorium run out
- Experts: Proposed state takeover of Austin police legal, but unprecedented
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- Colleges & universities
- McMurry University Named to U.S. News and World Report Best Colleges Guide for the 25th Consecutive Year
- ACU again tops other Texas universities in ‘U.S. News’ national rankings
- LBJ School of Public Affairs to celebrate 50th anniversary
- Will new antibody test developed by UT scientists be a game changer?
- College Kids Are Freaking Out About Their Infected Campuses – shockingly the “college class” appears the most ignorant and weakest in our society presently
- 75 Texas Tech players have tested positive for COVID-19 since June – and note that no one actually had any serious illness and only 6 cases are still “active”
- MSU Texas radiology students complete leadership program
- Veterinary parasitologist becomes 23rd Tech vet school faculty member
- Tech strives to improve college access with Coalition for College membership
- Texas Tech adds George Floyd and Timothy Cole Memorial Scholarship Fund – that’s right, Geo. Floyd who has nothing to do with TTU
- Is Texas Tech doing serious damage to students with on-line testing deficiencies?
- UH launching addiction and cancer prevention center
- UChicago declares that English is racist
Pratt’s post for 9/15/2020
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