- Experts: Proposed state takeover of Austin police legal, but unprecedented
- Families sue Abbott, nursing homes over coronavirus restrictions causing isolation of elderly residents
- Appeals Court Commutes Death Sentence of Texas Inmate from Mexico
- Texas economic recovery depends on pro-business environment, education investment
- Gov. Greg Abbott used pandemic as cover to ban abortions in Texas, former Planned Parenthood head says – sure can’t have a slowdown of baby butchering!
- Texas AG Commissioner Miller in favor of medical marijuana for toothaches, other conditions, he says – Sid is cutting each string of the rope….
- Governor Abbott Appoints Three To Governor’s Commission for Women
- DPS Troopers Hit Milestone in Child Rescues
- Secretary Of State’s Office Awards Contract To Bolster Texas 2020 Census Efforts
- How the Texas GOP Missed the Revolutions AUDIO
- Texas Supreme Court orders Green candidates returned to ballot as deadlines loom
- Unsolicited Mail-Ballot Application Scheme Stopped by Texas Supreme Court
- Straus Scolds Republicans: Stop Fighting Democrats Over Vote-by-Mail
- Return to sender: Postal Service sends wrong info to Utahns about mail voting
- As the Postal Scandal Died Off We Now See USPS Problems With Mail-in Voting
- Lots of leftist money pouring in to fund state and local election process
- In Senate race, MJ Hegar calls for end to open carry – she’s anti 2nd Amendment all the way folks. Her move would make us all subject to arrest when hunting, etc.
- Cornyn: To continue essential education, we must bridge the digital divide
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- Federal/DC related to Texas
- Ambassador: Time Is Right for New Arms Control Agreement
- Bill honoring Vanessa Guillen set to be introduced in Washington
- House report on deadly 737 Max jet crashes finds ‘horrific culmination’ of failures – maybe, but I’d bet that a good deal of this is politician hyperbole
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- Presidential race / national politics
- Trump’s ABC News town hall: Full transcript
- ABC town hall: Trump versus hostile television host and audience
- Donald Trump Opposes National Mask Mandate During Pandemic: A Lot of People Don’t Want to Wear Masks
- Trump: Biden Says ‘Harris-Biden’ Because He Thinks She’s President
- Democrat Michigan Secretary of State Misprints Trump Ticket on Ballots for Troops, Puts Libertarian with Trump & Leaves Off Pence – Michigan – a key battleground state!
- National Poll “likely voters” poss: Donald Trump 47%, Joe Biden 46%
- Trump’s Job Approval Rebounds to 52%, Just 46% Disapprove
- Biden Tops 50 Percent in Wisconsin Polling Average
- Rasmussen: Riot-zone voters tilt 2:1 for a law-and-order message
- In Defense of Trump’s Efforts to Quell Pandemic Panic
- Biden-Harris campaign makes $65 million healthcare-focused swing-state ad buy
- Biden’s ‘Pathetic’ Attempt to Appeal to Hispanic Voters Backfires Spectacularly VIDEO
- Pew: Majority of Young Americans Live with Parents for First Time Since Great Depression – “Parents” have brought this generation of non-mature little Lefitsts upon us by not parenting.
- Predictable Leftist Democrat ‘October Surprises’ Already Happening
- Alaska Democratic Party objects to ballot format change allow independents to runs
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- Border / immigration
- Border Patrol agents seize pot, arrest 2 suspects trying to cross Rio Grande
- Alleged gang member, sex offender caught entering country near Laredo College South
- COVID-19 spotlights patient transport delays at the border, but we can slash wait times
- Sen. Cruz Introduces Bill Honoring Fallen Border Patrol Agent Donna Doss
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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 9/65/2020 (pdf) – 14,343 deaths. The # viral tested in Texas is now 5,247,542.
- * 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 overstated COVID positive testing rate by about 100%
- COVID Death Stats…Inaccurate or Just Misleading?
- Let’s Not Pretend This Is Constitutional , ‘He’s decided he’s the king’: Gov. Greg Abbott’s COVID response leaves lawmakers on sidelines
- Texas press discovering Abbott’s rule by decree power grab months late
- A Timeline of Gov. Abbott’s Executive Orders and Case Numbers
- An Overview of the Texas Disaster Act, the Source of the State’s Coronavirus Response
- Never has a virus been so oversold, Dr. Sonal Desai: They Blinded Us From Science
- 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, Sweden declares victory over COVID-19
- 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
- Texas GOP, doctors to Abbott: Data, science doesn’t warrant five months of shutdown, The Lockdown Has Gone From a Mistake to a Crime
- The lockdowns were a bad idea and did not work
- The Big COVID Con Exposed
- Tucker Carlson: From Its Very First Days This Pandemic Was Shrouded in Lies
- Federal judge rules Pennsylvania COVID-19 restrictions unconstitutional
- Liberty Going Out of Fashion: 69% of Britons Support 9pm Coronavirus Curfew
- 24 COVID-19 cases connected to Snyder assisted living center
- Families sue Abbott, nursing homes over coronavirus restrictions causing isolation of elderly residents
- Chinese virologist: China’s government ‘intentionally’ released COVID-19
- COVID-19 and the false positive trap: Current test results should not be automatically accepted as real
- Share of positive COVID-19 cases as Texas reopened was higher than originally reported, new state calculations show
- It’s hard to make good pandemic policy if the Texas data is fuzzy
- Balancing higher health risks and spotty internet, reopening college in the Rio Grande Valley is a challenge
- COVID & masks
- 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 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…)
- 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
- CDC inadvertently admits the uselessness of masks against COVID-19
- 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’
- The Dystopian Age of the Mask
- Americans Against Unconstitutional Mask Mandates
- Donald Trump Opposes National Mask Mandate During Pandemic: A Lot of People Don’t Want to Wear Masks
- CDC director: Masks may protect people better than future COVID-19 vaccine – The incredible statements and hyperbole continue to boil out of these morons
- 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
- Business leader: Texas economic recovery depends on pro-business environment, education investment
- Draw on U.S. crude inventories boosts oil prices – it’s too low still
- As pipeline projects cancel, future falls into question – when demand and price go up, projects will be back
- BP buries a dagger into the heart of the oil industry – they’ll be wrong just as all the others have over the years.
- Cheniere gets $615M infusion from Abu Dhabi
- Citgo, Phillips 66 may see weeks of downtime from Laura’s damage
- Deshaun Watson sued for use of photos on Instagram – I understand this but how do you copyright the image of someone else who did not expressly give permission for such?
- Midland continues to attract space business
- Conn’s settles suit for charging excess interest
- 70 years of West Texas ag reporting comes to an end
- Family-owned real estate company, Chas. S. Middleton & Son, celebrates 100 years of business – way to go!
- Many Fuddruckers to stay open despite Luby’s liquidation
- Austin’s data.world raises $26M to speed growth
- Tech giant Intel bringing startup program to Austin
- Navistar to make electric trucks in San Antonio
- Texas wineries form committee to educate, advocate for industry recovery
- Abbott Announces New Ariat Regional Headquarters In Fort Worth
- Half of Texas Restaurants Could Fail With No Aid: Survey
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- Protest, rioting, looting & more
- BLM Riots Are the Most Costly Manmade Damage to U.S. Property Ever
- Triggered Woman Repeatedly Screams ‘F**cking Racist Dirty C**t’ at BLM Philly Protest VIDEO
- Report: 15 Shot, 2 Killed, Tuesday Alone in Mayor Lightfoot’s Chicago
- Oregon Poll: Majority Say Protests Violent; Trump Tops Local Leaders
- Weak 1: Monday Night Football Ratings Crash by 27%
- BLM ‘Protesters’ Surround and Harass Homeowner, The Homeowner Ends Up Being Arrested VIDEO – this will be the law in Texas if Dems win.
- Protesters Attempt to Block Traffic, Harass Restaurant Patrons in Philadelphia VIDEO
- BLM Co-Founder and Pro-Communist China Group Are Partnering Up. Here’s Why.
- The Devil and Karl Marx
- ‘If We Go Off-Script We’re Race-Traitors’ – Black Educator Mobbed After Criticising BLM, Critical Race Theory
- America has to deal with its past, but not the way we think
- Minneapolis city council contradicts itself: Defund the police or law & order?
- After Months of Demonizing the Police & Violent Crime on the Rise, Minneapolis City Council Asks: ‘Where Are the Police?’
- California cop released on bail after being charged with fatal shooting of Black man
- Aurora, Colorado police stand down twice to avoid arresting violent felon. Guess why
- Lynwood city council puts ambush-cheering city manager on paid leave … for now
- Rasmussen: Riot-zone voters tilt 2:1 for a law-and-order message
- El Paso’s St. Patrick Cathedral vandalized, 90-year-old statue of Jesus destroyed
- Embattled McKinney Councilman Files Lawsuit Over Recall Election
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- Crime & general news of Texas
- 16 people hospitalized after 2 cranes collide at east Austin construction site, 1 operator still on crane to prevent possible collapse
- Police investigating suspicious death at bus stop in south Austin
- Man hospitalized, suspect at large after shooting in east Austin
- Stephenville’s Jake Pratt wins calf roping national title
- Ex-Deputy Texas Sheriff Gets 18 Years for Exploiting Young Girls in Massachusetts
- Tarrant Co. Sheriff’s Deputy Charged With Murder of Girlfriend
- South Texas woman catches 9-foot, 300-pound tiger shark
- Federal jury finds robbery suspect guilty on pair of firearms charges
- High-speed chase ends with deputies taking a woman into custody
- Early Police: Woman reports attempted abduction of 4-year-old daughter
- Anson PD arrests two accused of online solicitation of a minor
- Man wanted in Mexico for wife’s murder commits suicide in Coleman
- Abilene police: Woman awakened by naked man who then fled
- Police: Louisiana man reported missing in Lubbock
- State looking for missing three-year-old, last seen in Plainview
- Lubbock: Two killed in motorcycle crash Tuesday night
- Brownfield murder suspect arrested in Seagraves
- 62-year-old Lubbock man pleaded guilty to possession with intent to distribute alprazolam
- Owner of Houston-area firm charged with fraud boasted access to 1 trillion N95 masks
- San Antonio police fatally shot a man wanted on two family violence warrants
- 22 charged, 25 vehicles towed in weekend car club bust, Austin police say
- After 23 years, photos returned to family that lost them when moving from the Hill Country
- Man accused of killing Fort Hood soldier named in murder indictment
- Bellmead woman charged with beating, choking her father
- 19-year-old charged with Manslaughter in July assault in Waco
- Bell County Sheriffs investigating suspicious deaths
- Lorena traffic stop leads to meth seizure and arrest
- Robinson police: Man arrested after impersonating officer
- Southlake Police Arrest Teenager in Connection With Burglary at Carroll High School
- RV Bus Rolls Over, Closes Interstate 35W Near US 287 Split in North Fort Worth
- Dallas Police Search for 2 People in Connection With Robbery at Super 8 Motel
- Arlington officer who shot, killed woman as he aimed at dog indicted by grand jury
- 2 Dallas men arrested for sex trafficking in connection to 13-year-old rescued from Irving hotel last November
- Pleasant Grove ISD aide arrested for alleged improper relationship with student
- Houston ISD investigating ‘inappropriate messages’ sent to students online
- Former Petersburg ISD teacher pleads guilty to harassing 16-year-old student via text messages
- Jake’s Fireworks to remain closed for now, federal judge rules
- Fiery crash in Sugar Land caught on security camera VIDEO
- 37-year-old man accused of child sex assault, wanted by Houston police
- Man accused of sexually assaulting girl, 6, on multiple occasions, San Antonio police say
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- Local government
- Harris County creates corporation to free up toll road money for flood control, other unrelated uses
- Houston to boost road repairs with eye to longer lifespans for city streets
- Austin ISD officials concerned with low enrollment numbers, particularly in Pre-K and Kindergarten
- 4 more women file suit over Austin sexual assault investigations
- Investigation: Austin City Councilwoman Garza’s law license payments may violate city rules
- Bexar County to Cut 19 Constable Posts in 2021
- Bexar County commissioners OK 2021 budget, leaving property tax rate unchanged – more useless reporting, the new tax rate (and it is new and not something left the same) is a big tax increase of $15,900,000.
- Lubbock’s only local government conservatives turn their backs on citizens
- Montague Co. commissioners question sheriff as he asks to move budget money around to buy vehicle
- Wichita Falls city council approves 4B Board project funding
- Abilene’s $18 million water meter replacement project 60% complete
- Hale Co. commissioners opt out of payroll tax deferral for employees
- SPI mayor discusses second causeway, annexation, economic impact of COVID
- Bastrop County will have curbside drop-off site to hand-deliver mailed ballots
- Advocates “demand” City of Dallas spend more on bureaucracy for homeless
- Dallas County Commissioners Question Coronavirus Support Spending
- Will Cities in Dallas County Lower Property Tax Bills?
- Collin County Judge to Receive National Award for Leading Virtual Court Effort
- Ex-Waco police officer sues the city, the department and its former chief
- Bryan City Council approves lower tax rate for fiscal year 2021 – more awful reporting.
- Williamson County launches new park pass program, raises park fees
- Waco wraps up work at formerly segregated Greenwood Cemetery
- Embattled McKinney Councilman Files Lawsuit Over Recall Election
- Lufkin approves budget, tax increase, eliminates curbside recycling
- Nacogdoches city council says no to tax increase
- Webb County commissioners increase spending in new budget
- League City Police chief thinking progressively
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- Colleges & universities
- MSU Texas promoting trans-sexualism
- MSU Tutoring Center: Revamped and Ready for the Semester
- ACU Summit moves online for 2020, focuses on peacemaking
- Former Tech Athletics Director T. Jones dead at 89
- TTU group recounts Hurricane Laura field research, more
- Blinn College District sees overall drop in enrollment for fall 2020
- Federal judge grants two, denies one motion to dismiss lawsuit against Angelina College
- Texas A&M graduate workers protest working conditions – A&M’s march Left
- Texas A&M opening sea turtle hospital on Galveston campus
- TCU Neeley School of Business appoints director for inclusive excellence
Pratt’s post for 9/16/2020
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