- Senator Hall: 25% Tyranny Is Still Tyranny
- Abbott relaxes limits on restaurants, retail and gyms, but keeps bars closed
- Nursing Home Visitation Expanded, Bars Still Closed: Abbott’s Second Effort to ‘Reopen’ Texas
- Leaders of Five Major Texas Health Systems Applaud Abbott, Patrick, Paxton for Leadership in Withdrawing Medicaid Fiscal Accountability Regulation
- Texas Supreme Court clarifies CDC eviction order
- Texas Highway Funding Advocates Push for More Toll Roads
- Consumer advocates ask Abbott to appoint an Insurance Commissioner who will put Texans first
- TxDOT to “help” parents as agency reports most car seats are used incorrectly – another example of why there is little wisdom in passing these laws.
- Governor Abbott Readies Resources As Tropical Depression Travels Through The Gulf
- Public facility corporations provide alternative source of project funding – more ways to spend our money with less accountability to us.
- Texas Unemployment Rate Falls to 6.8 Percent in August
- The Back Mic: Gun Control Group Targets Texas House, Straus Advocates Expanded Mail-in Ballot Use, More Campaign Spots Released
- Texas Supreme Court explains its Green Party ruling
- Texans with disabilities are eligible for mail-in voting, but people must decide for themselves if they qualify – as has always been the case.
- Texas is ground zero in voting rights war. – a typical one-sided and ignorant explanation of voting and why and how rules work.
- From Protests To The Polls: North Texas Activists Mobilize For Fall Election
- 2nd court rejects Paxton bid to halt Harris County vote by mail plan
- TX7: Republican U.S. House campaign arm cancels $2 million in Houston-area advertising, moved to San Antonio & D/FW areas
- TX24: Beth Van Duyne’s No Police, No Peace campaign ad VIDEO
- MJ Hegar wants to make it illegal to carry your rifle or shotgun (or any gun)
- MJ Hegar wants to use campaign funds on childcare as she runs against John Cornyn, and he’s OK with that
- Joe Biden endorses Texas Democratic candidates for Congress – news?
- SD30: Sept. 25 is last day to vote eary in special election
- Texas Realtors support Rep. Drew Springer for Senate District 30
- Blame the Pandemic: Latino voters in Dallas not showing up to get registered – well maybe the mostly Democrat-led WuFlu panic will cost them at the polls.
- Voto Latino, Texas Organizing Project leaders discuss mobilization of Latinx voters – there is no such thing as Latinx
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- Federal/DC related to Texas
- Senate OKs Cornyn bill to combat child sex abuse
- USDA to provide additional direct assistance to farmers and ranchers impacted by the coronavirus VIDEO
- USDA designates Texas counties as primary natural disaster areas
- Donald Trump: States Sending Unsolicited Ballots Should ‘Give It Up NOW’
- Congressional investigation into soldiers’ deaths at Fort Hood gets underway
- Congressional delegation arrives at Fort Hood
- Cruz Calls on CDC Director for Coronavirus Data to Inform Policymakers, Restore Americans’ Trust
- Ted Cruz dismisses concerns over Attorney General Bill Barr and the federal coronavirus response as politically motivated
- Tulsi Gabbard Proposes Plan to Ban Ballot Harvesting for 2020 Election
- Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Dies at 87
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- Presidential race / national politics
- Rasmussen: Donald Trump Reaches Highest Job Approval Since Pelosi Announced Impeachment Inquiry
- Nearly 800 Military Family Members Sign Open Letter in Support of Trump
- Donald Trump: defender of classical liberalism
- Dems Call Trump a Mass-Murdering Racist; His Poll Numbers Rise
- Biden on fracking: I won’t close it down, but I won’t let it continue either
- Biden: China’s not an opponent of the US, just a “competitor”
- Joe Biden Resurrects False College Claim That Helped Ruin His 1988 Presidential Run – Biden is not the first person in his family to attend college. But he has a lengthy history of claiming otherwise, no matter how much the lie gets him in trouble.
- Twitter Public Policy Director Carlos Monje Joins Joe Biden’s Team
- Catholic Group to Spend almost $10 Million in Biden Opposition Ads with Little Media Interest
- Kamala Harris not new to deception
- Cruz: Obama-Biden Admin Appeased the Chinese Communist Party, That’s Changed Under President Trump
- The Biden Express is Headed Left – Alexandria-Ocasio Cortez for EPA Administrator in Biden’s Cabinet
- Blue State Blues: Joe Biden Is Already Irritating — and Worrying — U.S. Allies
- Fauci Praises Ex-Pence Aide Who Endorsed Biden: ‘Good Person,’ Was ‘Important’ to Task Force
- Levelland couple wants state judge to declare abortion still technically a crime
- Kotkin: Why the 2020 election will be decided in suburbia
- The Democrats suppress the Green vote
- NRA Raised More Money in August 2020 Than in Any Month of 2016
- The Great Betrayal: How Republican Wunderkind Became Democrat Darling at the Chamber of Commerce – an important read but note that in our local “conservative” areas of Texas our local Chambers are often THE single biggest backers of public debt and spending programs, often for frivolous projects.
- The problem isn’t some devolution of campaigning, but the corruption of the human heart.
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- Border / immigration
- Border Patrol Agent Charged with Violating Woman’s Civil Rights for Allegedly Forcing Deletion of Cellphone Video
- Darling: We tried to get the federal government to move the border to Falfurrias
- Despite AMLO’s declaration that massacres, and disappearances no longer exist…this year counts 45 so far
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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 9/18/2020 (pdf) – 14,590 deaths. The # viral tested in Texas is now 5,345,176. * 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
- 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
- Lawsuit Filed Against Gov. Abbott Over Nursing Home ‘Edicts,’ Alleges Constitutional Violations
- Abbott relaxes limits on restaurants, retail and gyms, but keeps bars closed
- UT researcher: 20% of Houston may already have been infected with COVID – yes, as we’ve long said. It’s not the death sentence disease it is portrayed as and it is likely that millions more have had it than gov’t testing numbers show. Get on with life.
- Mayor Payton: Midland is ‘open for business’
- Van Morrison Attacks ‘Fascist Bullies’ In Anti-Lockdown Protest Songs
- Cortez: Abbott is right to exclude Hidalgo County from eased coronavirus restrictions – these Democrats love their lockdown power
- Texas reopenings tied more to COVID-19 severity than to spread – as should have been the case from Day-1.
- Harris County keeps its ‘stay home’ threat level, even as state of Texas, schools reopen – of course, drunk with power elected officials
- San Antonio restaurant and bar owners still feeling squeezed despite loosening coronavirus restrictions
- Major Hospital CEO Refutes Austin Mayor’s Coronavirus Doomsday Prediction
- Texas Supreme Court clarifies CDC eviction order
- Bill Gates: Trump’s Travel Ban Worsened Coronavirus Pandemic: It ‘Seeded the Disease Here’ – no matter what you do these libs claim it was terrible! Worse Gates’ correlative idea is baseless and not worthy of 7th grade.
- Nashville officials accused of hiding low coronavirus cases linked to bars and restaurants
- CDC makes another change on testing, says those in close contact with COVID should get tested – more CDC flip-flopping.
- UT-Austin student spends 2 nights in city of Austin isolation facility despite negative coronavirus results
- 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
- State releases numbers showing low Texas public school infection rates, but the data is limited – all data is “limited”
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- Business
- Texas Unemployment Rate Falls to 6.8 Percent in August
- Oil & gas rig count inches up, Baker Huges North America report (pdf)
- Saudis defend oil recovery with warning for shorts, OPEC+ cheats
- Pemex sees plunge in oil exports while supplying AMLO’s refinery – what you get with a gov’t directed economy.
- FERC opens grid to power aggregators
- Cheniere gets $615M infusion from Abu Dhabi
- TXOGA virtual summit focuses on Permian, Panhandle
- New100-megawatt stand-alone batteries planned for Texas Hill Country
- Unique hotel coming to the Basin
- Walmart raising wages for about 165,000 workers
- Texas Unemployment Claims Continue To Recover
- San Antonio restaurant and bar owners still feeling squeezed despite loosening coronavirus restrictions
- Amazon opens 2 storefronts in the Houston area featuring its top-rated items
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- Protest, rioting, looting & more
- Police: Minneapolis ‘Autonomous Zone’ Delayed Emergency Response to Brutal Beating
- New Jersey Police Chief: Two Officers Targeted by Suspect Who Shot into Their Home, Infant Inside
- Texas doctor falsely claims his daughter was attacked by Black Lives Matter activists in Baltimore – OK, other Baltimore street thugs did it.
- Midland ISD naming committee selects new proposed name for Robert E. Lee High School – Legacy of Equality and Excellence High School or L.E.E. High
- Racism and the destructive power of language
- Out of a job over face mask, former teacher in San Antonio pushes anti-racism plan at charter network
- FBI Director testifies that ‘Antifa is a real thing,’ dispelling non-violent talking points
- PBS ‘Reporter’ Yamiche Gets a Rude Awakening After Declaring 1619 Project Founder ‘a National Treasure’
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- Crime & general news of Texas
- FBI: Gang activity has decreased in West Texas
- 16-year-old Odessa boy is missing
- Wichita Falls man indicted on seven child sex crimes allegedly involving little boy
- Police charge Martez Vrana with capital murder in Jason Baum homicide
- Man arrested for drug possession following report of gunshots
- Electra ISD serves distance learning student raw meat, superintendent issues statement
- Man connected to fatal shooting at Graham motel charged with murder VIDEO
- Indictment: Brother-in-law was suspect who shot and killed Abilene realtor
- Jailhouse Interview: Brother-in-law says he was framed for Abilene realtor’s murder – by whom and why?
- Dyess AFB airman indicted for possession of child pornography
- Man arrested in attempted kidnapping of Early 4-year-old
- San Angelo Police searching for suspect in Wednesday night shooting at MLK Park
- HPD: Wrong-way driver caused big rig to fly off I-45, crash onto Downtown Aquarium parking lot
- DPS troopers rescue 500th child
- Police Charge 2 Men With 2018 Murder of Brownfield Teenager
- Former Lubbock woman charged with sexually assaulting child
- Lubbock police make arrest in robbery at gunpoint inside Fast Stop
- 3 arrested in armed robbery at North Lubbock convenience store
- Son of elderly Central Texas couple found shot to death charged with capital murder VIDEO
- Killeen man shot in the head dies at hospital; photos of suspect released
- Family, friends of Central Texas teen found near death in home devastated, awaiting answers VIDEO
- Charred remains found in burned vehicle behind Copperas Cove business
- Waco: Man who spent time in state hospital, jail arrested again
- Teenage driver of truck that struck Waco woman named in two-count indictment
- Arrest made after suspicious package reported at Austin airport
- El Paso man faces added charges after arrest for statue destruction because Jesus’ skin color ‘wrong’ – a complete moron
- Reward in Dallas Security Guard Slaying Grows to $50K
- 1 killed, 1 injured in Harrison County rollover crash
- Payne Springs city councilman, wife arrested in Henderson County for abuse of office, forgery
- 40-year-old arrested for solicitation of a minor was already wanted for elderly injury: deputies
- Serial sexual assault suspect preyed on patients at his treatment facility, Houston police say
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- Local government
- Public facility corporations provide alternative source of project funding – more ways to spend our money with less accountability to us.
- Farmers Branch Citizens Stop City From Issuing Debt Without Voter Approval
- City of Lubbock to hold open house on unified development code
- City hires law firm, considers sanctuary status for the unborn – it’s a dirty trick, the law firm hired has ties to Planned Parenthood. Kristen Olson, wife of Charles Olson, a member of the family of the founder of Olson & Olson, is a former board chair of Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas.
- Cedar Park City Council at Odds Over Outlawing Abortion
- Houston Police Department to join county courts’ cite-and-release program
- Harris County Toll Revenues Redirected to County Coffers
- Dallas County government gives taxpayers a tiny break, but we need to go further
- Watch as Fort Worth officer punches handcuffed woman who police say kicked him first VIDEO
- Interview with Kevin Hunter, candidate for mayor in Wichita Falls AUDIO
- Austin Plan Hopes To Find City Money To Keep Live Music Alive After The Pandemic
- Brazos County official warns mailed ballots could be ‘slightly delayed’
- Lawyer: Baytown’s Police Leaders Must Reform or Resign
- Williamson County ex-deputies: Leaders gave gift cards for using force
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- Colleges & universities
- New clean energy accelerator at Rice
- MSU Texas creates special housing for COVID-19 students – like their special bathrooms signs for men pretending to be women and vice versa?
- Tech System leaders provide insight on achievements, upcoming milestones – it seems that most big milestones they celebrate are how much Leftism they’ve institutionalized at the school.
- With protocols in place, Schovanec confident Texas Tech will stay open
- TTUHSC, Tarrant County College announce concurrent enrollment program
- South Plains College chefs serve first responders
- Blinn, A&M officials celebrate opening of RELLIS complex
- Texas A&M University enrollment grows despite pandemic
- With a Program Full of Transfers, NCAA Eligibility Questions Meet Interesting Test at SMU
- UT Student Government budget allocates money to masks, hand sanitizers
Pratt’s post for 9/18/2020
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