- Everything you need to know about Gov. Abbott’s new COVID reopening plan for Texas – King Abbott grants little bits of freedom back to some businesses and people. His decreed restrictions are mostly unconstitutional to begin with.
- Governor Greg Abbott Issues Executive Order Relating to Hospital Capacity
- Governor Greg Abbott Expands Capacity for Certain Services in Texas
- State Mask Mandates Don’t Apply to Businesses, Say Lawyers for Local Chamber of Commerce
- Houston-area has highst number of unsinured [health insurance] people in the country – how is this possible? Obamacare was passed and implemented – it was promised to end the problem of the uninsured. Stupid sheeple.
- Rep. Landgraf wants broadband access expansion
- Texas Senate may grind nearly to a halt if pandemic still rages in January
- Governor Abbott Appoints 11 To Task Force on Infectious Disease Preparedness and Response
- Texas Comptroller Announces $300 Million in Unclaimed Property Returned in Fiscal 2020
- How years of underfunding public health left Texas ill prepared for the pandemic – really? More money in the off-times would have made these folk smarter?
- How Paxton backed GOP, opposed Democrats in legal fight over minor party candidates – but GOP did not prevail in court, Dems did early on and then it was overturned – a wash
- New voter registrations plummeted during the pandemic in Texas, where you can’t register online – notice the idea that “online” is some magical deal, all you have to do is fill out the form and mail it, free.
- Texas Values Announces AG Ken Paxton, Trump Officials, Abby Johnson to Speak at Texas Faith, Family, and Freedom Forum
- TX21: Wendy Davis and Chip Roy differ over coronavirus response
- TX24: Candace Valenzuela endorsed by Biden, Buttigieg as race against Beth Van Duyne heats up
- TX25: Rep. Roger Williams 45, Oliver 43
- Texas Democrats Snag Hillary Clinton for Annual Johnson-Jordan Dinner – tells you all you need know about modern Texas Dems.
- Democratic allies fighting to flip Texas House join forces for $1.1 million digital ad campaign
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- Federal/DC related to Texas
- Sen. Cruz Introduces SUSPEND Act To Sanction China for Arms Control and Nuclear Weapons Violations
- Rep. Jodey Arrington Talks State of D.C., Nancy Pelosi, Riots, & More AUDIO
- AG Barr rebukes career DOJ prosecutors for political ‘headhunting,’ insubordination
- Attorney General Bill Barr Uses Hillsdale Speech to Hammer DOJ’s Culture of Political and Extreme Prosecutions
- Barr Scorches His Own Justice Department — Tells Underlings to Stop Meddling in Politics
- House GOP Leader says Trump deserves Nobel Peace Prize for UAE-Israel-Bahrain peace deal
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- Presidential race / national politics
- Give Trump credit for his foreign policy successes
- America’s allies don’t like Trump. So what? The Pew Research Center offers all emotion and no evidence.
- Hiding Biden from tough questions hurts him more than it helps him
- Ocasio-Cortez: ‘We Can Likely Push’ Biden in a ‘More Progressive Direction’
- The Folly of Biden’s COVID-19 Advisers
- North Texas mom details son’s fight with leukemia, urges support for Biden in campaign ad – her claims are absolutely without merit
- 72-year-old Hillary Clinton says it’s safe enough for her to vote in person
- Pennsylvania Supreme Court Sides with Democrats: Mail-In Ballot Deadline Extended 3 Days After Election
- Romney: Hunter Biden Probe a ‘Political Exercise’ — ‘Not the Legitimate Role of Government’ – Romney has become a joke
- Fox News Cuts Off Newt Gingrich After He Points Out George Soros Role in Electing Prosecutors VIDEO
- Incomes were up and poverty was down across America in 2019 – and then COVID-19 hit
- MTV campaign will pay for printing and mailing ballot applications
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- Border / immigration
- Obstacles mount for ‘Remain in Mexico’ migrants
- 48 Migrants Found in Crowded New Mexico Stash House near Border
- Deported Sex Offenders, Gang Members Arrested Arrested in Texas near Border
- Twice-Deported Honduran Charged with Sexual Assault of Pre-Teen Girl
- Female Migrant Found Dead on Texas Ranch — 80 Miles from Border
- AG Barr: ‘Decisive Action Needed in Mexico’ Against Cartels
- Mexican President Vows to Pay US Water Debt, Thanks Trump
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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 9/17/2020 (pdf) – 14,478 deaths. The # viral tested in Texas is now 5,299,620. * 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
- San Antonio Metro Health: Diabetes most common condition for people hospitalized with COVID-19
- Everything you need to know about Gov. Abbott’s new COVID reopening plan for Texas – King Abbott grants little bits of freedom back to some businesses and people. His decreed restrictions are mostly unconstitutional to begin with.
- Abbott relaxes limits on restaurants, retail and gyms, but keeps bars closed
- Governor Abbott allows expanded visitation at nursing homes, assisted living and intermediate care facilities
- Lawsuit Filed Against Gov. Abbott Over Nursing Home ‘Edicts,’ Alleges Constitutional Violations
- An Open Letter to President Trump from Daniel Bobinski
- Former state rep candidate Fernando Herrera with thoughts on the term ‘disproportionately affected’ and ‘people of color’
- 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
- State Mask Mandates Don’t Apply to Businesses, Say Lawyers for Local Chamber of Commerce
- Seven weeks after mask mandate, 40% of Ohio counties show an INCREASE in COVID-19
- 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
- They Loved Their School, But Laptop Learning Led This Family To Home-School Instead
- Faceless avatars and microphone malfunctions: A Houston teacher wonders if his students are learning
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- Business
- ‘Wave of foreclosures’ expected to hit commercial real estate market – I explained early that the damage would continue for a very long time to come.
- Half of Texas restaurants might shut down in 6 months, survey says
- 60% of U.S. businesses closed during pandemic have shuttered permanently, Yelp says
- Blue Bell hit with $17M penalty for listeria outbreak
- Two businesses moving to Fort Worth with $2.58 million in tax incentives
- Corpus Christi nurse asks federal agency to intervene in union case
- Texas Petro Index declines to 154.5 in July for 17th consecutive month
- Despite outbreak, Austin home prices hit record highs
- Tesla’s Austin site plan outlines footprint for huge factory
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- Protest, rioting, looting & more
- Jussie Smollett, reigning queen of the gaslight
- Report: AG Barr Asked Federal Prosecutors to Explore Criminal Charges Against Seattle Mayor over Autonomous Zone
- 300 and Counting: Push by Feds to Arrest in US Protests
- Midland: Committee to hold last vote on Robert E. Lee High School name
- Hispanic Leadership Council praises Abilene ISD vote to rename schools named after Confederate leaders
- As NFL Supports on-Field Activism Carolina Panthers Broadcaster Loses His Job for Private Trump Support
- Minneapolis Residents Beg Dem Mayor to Do Something About Crime: ‘We’re in a War Zone’
- Suspect in Killing of Protesters Listed in ‘Hero’ Assignment – good
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- Crime & general news of Texas
- Former Harris County judge, Democrat, pleads guilty to embezzling campaign funds; is sentenced
- Two Texas Men Arrested for Allegedly Sex Trafficking Teen Girl
- Police identify man shot, killed in South Austin
- New details emerge about fatal shooting of West Side man by San Antonio police
- Sheriff: Texas Man Dies While Diving in the Florida Keys
- Fort Hood: Shooting Reports Were False; Soldier Arrested
- USGS records quake near Midland
- Wichita Falls man arrested for impersonating police officer
- Electra daycare embezzler finally sentenced
- 18 years later, KRBC reporter’s murder case remains unsolved VIDEO
- Abilene police: Woman causes $400 in damages at convenience store
- Midland authorities offering $2,500 reward in search for suspect wanted for sexual assault of a child
- Lubbock Hit and Run Suspect Arrested for Hitting Construction Worker
- Brownfield Man Arrested for 2018 Murder
- 18-year-old sentenced to 5 years for sexual assault on Texas Tech campus
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- Local government
- Too many local elected officials benefit from tax and spending increases
- Hale County raises pay for elected officials
- Kyle residents invited to learn more about $37M public safety center bond project
- Austinites Launch Effort to Force Mayor, City Council Members to Resign
- Governor Abbott, Austin Mayor Adler Spar Over Austin Police Funding
- Controversial McKinney Councilman Refiles Anti-Recall Lawsuit
- Southlake Mayor Sides With Citizens Against School Board on Divisive, Pro-LGBTQ+ Culture Plan
- Pro-Taxpayer Rates Adopted in North Texas
- San Antonio petition calls on CPS to serve the public instead of business interests
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- Colleges & universities
- UT will maintain automatic admission cutoff at top 6%
- AMD’s tech to power Texas universities’ COVID-19 research
- Vernon College invited to discussion with Vice President Mike Pence
- Tech System mourns death of former vice chancellor, Mike Sanders
- A conversation with the new dean of business at South Texas College
- Dr. John Krouse stepping down as dean of UTRGV School of Medicine
Pratt’s post for 9/17/2020
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