- Dow: An Open Letter to All Texas Legislators
- Midland mayor voices displeasure at how Abbott has unilaterally handled COVID
- GOP leaders revolt against Abbott, ask court to void order extending early voting
- Unreliable Texas COVID data spotlights ‘decades worth of underfunding’ – this B.S. began in the state press, coordinated it seems, about 10 days ago. It’s the typical load of bull that if these agencies had been given tons of your money they would have magically been able to not act as slow bureaucracies but fast and innovative. As I said: “B.S.”
- New investigative series ‘Exposed’ reveals government failures in COVID preparation– really? Gov’t bureaucracies failed in something?
- As legislative session like no other looms, Texas lawmakers face huge budget shortfall, COVID-19 challenges
- Abbott unveils proposals to strengthen penalties for rioting, more – using the red meat for popularity (it’s a legislative issue) to distract from the rule by decree.
- Alamo Cenotaph Will Remain In Place, Texas Historical Commission Says
- American-Indian group brings another Alamo lawsuit
- Abbott Appoints Wang To Family Practice Residency Advisory Committee
- Christi Craddick of Midland elected chair of Railroad Commission
- Railroad Commission plugs 1,477 abandoned wells to exceed goal
- Lotto Texas jackpot largest in North America, third-largest in world
- Texas DPS debuts state’s first online voter registration form
- TX6: U.S. Rep. Ron Wright is out of the hospital following treatment for lung cancer complications
- HD64: Facing serious Democratic challenge, Rep. Stucky cites experience as veterinarian and legislator
- HD134: Watch state Rep. Sarah Davis and Democratic challenger Ann Johnson debate hurricane relief, flipping the House and more
- TX7: Is the GOP punting
- New Cornyn ad features the namesake of Jenna’s bill on child sex abuse OK’d by Senate last week
- RIP: Ross Kecseg, president of Texas Scorecard
- Democratic candidate for Texas Railroad Commission makes major ad buy
- Gregg County Pct. 4 commissioner, others arrested in Democrat vote-harvesting scheme
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- Federal/DC related to Texas
- With Unemployment Rate Dropping Texas will not receive HUP extension
- Lawmakers tout effort to create Juneteenth federal holiday – ridiculous, it’s a Texas event. Gohmert should seek to amend to add Texas Independence Day or San Jacinto Day as such.
- Thornberry introduces ‘Accurate Weather for Public Safety Act’
- U.S. Rep. Thornberry’s portrait, painted by Vietnam vet, is added to House collection
- VP Pence to ABC: Don’t repeat “intolerance” shown Barrett over her faith
- Faggioli’s Dishonest Questions about Judge Barrett
- Pelosi says ‘large number’ of Dems wanted her to shut down gov. to stop GOP filling court vacancy
- Sens. Cruz, Cotton, Colleagues Introduce Bipartisan Bill to Award Medal of Honor to SFC Cashe
- As part of revived federal death penalty, Christopher Vialva set for execution in Texas double murder
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- Presidential race / national politics
- Leftists Boo President Trump as He Pays Respects to Justice Ginsburg
- Biden’s lead over Trump is about the economy – if folks had any knowledge of the economy they’d not give Dems and Biden a thought.
- Joe Biden Panders To BLM, Ignores Facts In Breonna Taylor Case
- Biden takes a jab at Bernie: I beat the socialist
- 15 Times Chris Wallace Went After Trump
- Presidential debates rarely affect the outcome of an election
- Democrats Threaten to Burn Down the Republic to Stack the Supreme Court
- Why is the media downplaying the Hunter Biden story?
- The ‘Peaceful Transition’ Hysteria
- Don’t count on giant waves of voter turnout from the very young
- Even Environmentalists Now Want Better Forest Management
- Democrats rush in Pennsylvania to limit ‘naked’ mail-in ballots on Nov. 3, after court rejects them
- Election Watchdog Finds 350,000 Dead Registrants on Voter Rolls In 42 States
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- Border / immigration
- 63 Arrested in Mountain Smuggling Operations in New Mexico near Border
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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 9/24/2020 (pdf) – 15,129* deaths. The # viral tested in Texas is now 5,740,674. * 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
- Mayor Payton: Midland is ‘open for business’
- Major Hospital CEO Refutes Austin Mayor’s Coronavirus Doomsday Prediction, Texas Supreme Court clarifies CDC eviction order
- Nashville officials accused of hiding low coronavirus cases linked to bars and restaurants
- Despite fading epidemic governments vow to maintain lockdowns
- Anthony Fauci: ‘I try my best..’ but ‘divisive’ society gets in the way – precisely the way elitist autocrats always claim. Says much about him.
- Dr. John Lee: The dangers of a COVID ‘elimination’ policy
- Dr. Daniel Jeanmonod: “Do you remember a winter without a cold?”
- The real sickness afflicting America
- COVID-19: Parliamentary Brief
- New State Nursing Home Guidelines Allow for Long-Awaited Reunions
- A Texas Tycoon Throws Millions at the Covid-19 Testing Puzzle
- Four graphs prove the utter failure of lockdowns and masks
- More contagious coronavirus now virtually only strain in Houston
- San Angelo mayor supports state rep’s request to reopen bars
- Judge Hidalgo Insists Harris County Businesses and Schools Should Remain Closed – a tyrant Leftist
- Gov. Kristi Noem Triggers Leftists Bigly in Video Demonstrating ‘How We Do Social Distancing in South Dakota’
- 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
- Majority of voters take relatively relaxed approach to mask-wearing in public
- Mask Fanatics Have Officially Abandoned Science To Control Your Life
- Idaho Police Arrest 3 at Outdoor Church Worship Event in Defiance of Mask Mandate
- 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 school coronavirus cases rising, new data show – so what? Cases themselves are not meaningful as to
- Few on-campus cases as Austin ISD launches covid dashboard
- A Texas Tycoon Throws Millions at the Covid-19 Testing Puzzle
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- Business/Economy
- Data Breach at Software Provider to Local Governments, Tyler Technologies
- H-E-B yanks Swoon Mixers from stores, sues maker over name
- Austin’s Spirit 105.9-FM sold to California company
- With Unemployment Rate Dropping Texas will not receive HUP extension
- Southwest Airlines could cut cities without additional coronavirus aid
- American Airlines updates mobile app with touchless check-in experience, useful widget
- Dallas Federal Reserve survey shows contraction on oil field getting better for Q4
- Georgia-Pacific Gypsum building second $285 million plant in Nolan County
- Aerospace manufacturing company, RAM Inc., celebrates 30 years in Cisco
- SpaceX destroys Starship prototype #7, as planned in Texas
- Lubbock production ‘Next Great Builder’ hopes to become next great building show – good luck
- After brutal spring, Austin auto dealers see reasons for optimism
- As Austin’s I Luv Video closes, owner tries to keep film library alive
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- Protest, rioting, looting & more
- Twitter: ‘Louisville Will Burn’ Doesn’t Violate Our Rules
- Two Louisville Police Officers Shot Amid Breonna Taylor Protests
- Two police officers shot in Louisville race riot
- Employees told they can’t wear BLM buttons at Seattle-area Fred Meyer and QFC stores
- BLM pro athletes speak about investigation of Breonna Taylor’s death
- Democrat Antifa
- Ex-NBA player Rex Chapman caught spreading a debunked hoax about the Breonna Taylor arrest warrant
- Portland riot: Mostly peaceful Molotov cocktails thrown at police – great headline!
- Seattle Antifa and BLM Attempt to Retake the CHOP/CHAZ Area but Seattle PD Wasn’t Tolerant
- CNN Reporter Gets Upstaged After DC Rioter Makes a Certain Obscene Gesture as Cameras Roll VIDEO
- CNN’s Jim Sciutto Shifts Focus from Riots and Shootings to Suggest Legal Louisville Militia are “White Supremacists”
- BLM Harasses Diners at Restaurant in Florida, Sharyl Attkisson Has the Perfect Response
- Former NFL Player Marcellus Wiley Calls Out BLM for Hiding Its Call for the Destruction of the Nuclear Family
- LeBron James Sinks to New Low in the Wake of the Shooting of Two LA Deputies
- 13 Shot, 3 Fatally, Wednesday in Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s Chicago
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- Crime & general news of Texas
- Two men die in crash of small plane in Killeen-area I-14 highway median
- ‘Dangerous’ suspect in 2019 beating of gay couple sought after missing court date
- Man wanted in deadly Central Texas shooting arrested
- Caldwell woman accused of stealing more than $15,000 from Little League group
- Teams try to unearth mysterious 2002 cold case in McLennan County
- One person in custody following high-speed chase in Wichita Falls
- Judge orders Jody Wade released from D.C. jail
- Abilene man sentenced to 50 years for killing woman with cleaver, burying remains under home
- Police: Group home assault leaves resident jailed
- Abilene police arrest 2 men inside abandoned clinic
- 1 arrested in Lubbock police undercover operation targeting online predators
- Lubbock woman faces up to 20 years for providing child pornography to her husband
- Lubbock man caught in sexual relationship with underage girl after she was reported missing in Missouri
- Littlefield man pleads guilty to possession of child pornography involving prepubescent minor
- Burkburnett Police arrest suspect after he allegedly assaulted his brother
- Gregg County Pct. 4 commissioner, others arrested in Democrat vote-harvesting scheme
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- Local government
- Foreign hackers compromise Hamilton County’s email system, raising election security concerns
- Data Breach at Software Provider to Local Governments, Tyler Technologies
- Feedback sought on Austin’s climate equity plan – expensive Leftism that makes living in Austin too expensive for the very people these Dems claim to support
- After the fad has passed, San Marcos gets scooter rental program going
- Entrepreneurs propose take over management of Wichita Falls’ MPEC
- Mayor Payton: I will be a voice for a safe, secure Midland
- Midland City Council selects assistant city manager for interim position
- Dallas City Council cuts overtime for police but resists push for broader defunding – that’s a massive cut already
- Dallas City Council increases police budget overall, but reallocates $7 million from overtime budget
- Lubbock police say ‘8 Can’t Wait’ reforms part of continuing effort to improve
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- Colleges & universities
- Trinity University announces plan to cover all financial need for students
- Team led by ACU professor receives $300K grant from National Endowment of the Humanities
- LCU named great college to work for
- U.S. Farm Report College Roadshow Returns To Texas Tech
- Loneragan provides update on Tech School of Veterinary Medicine
Pratt’s post for 9/24/2020
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