- Coronavirus splits Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and his own party
- Abbott: The eyes of Texas will be upon rioters in new get-tough legislation – red meat to distract from his rule by decree
- Rioting Would Become a Felony Under Gov. Abbott’s New Proposal
- Governor Abbott Announces Agreement With Health Insurers To Continue Payment Parity For Telehealth
- Governor Abbott Congratulates Texas’ Blue Ribbon Schools
- Texas Ranked a ‘Sinkhole State’ in Debt per Taxpayer Report
- When has more money made a bureaucracy less of a bureaucracy?
- DPS Reminder: Waiver Still in Effect for CDLs
- Gregg County Pct. 4 commissioner, others arrested in Democrat vote-harvesting scheme
- AG Paxton Announces Joint Prosecution of Gregg County Organized Election Fraud in Mail-In Balloting Scheme
- Mail-in Ballot Fraud Charges in Gregg County
- State Senator Perry explains early voting lawsuit VIDEO
- Box of mail, absentee ballots found in Wisconsin ditch
- ‘Simply inexcusable’: Dallas County sends voters conflicting instructions on voting by mail
- Race for Texas House majority has kept the contest for speaker quiet – but it is going on.
- The Back Mic: GOP State Rep. Withdraws Support from Abbott, New State and Federal Campaign Ads Launched
- Ron Paul appears to suffer medical incident during livestream
- American-Indian tribes in Texas rally to increase voter turnout
- American-Indian group files another lawsuit against Alamo restoration, George P. Bush
- Herman: A political ad that’s too revealing?
- Cornyn maintains single-digit lead over Hegar 43% to 37% – that’s a massive lead, don’t be fooled by “single-digit lead”
- Barack Obama endorses MJ Hegar for Senate, more – birds of a feather…
- Trump, Sen. Cornyn hold leads over Democrats in Texas, two new polls find
- Republicans as Avengers? Houston Rep. Dan Crenshaw goes all Captain America in new political ad – Save Texas spot focused on Congressional candidates a great spot VIDEO
- Coronavirus restrictions and remote learning may hamper college student voter turnout
- SD30: Republican dissent over Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s pandemic response animates state Senate special election
- SD30: Shelley Luther’s attacks on Gov. Greg Abbott in Texas Senate race open up new front in GOP civil war – headline aside, this is a pretty good rundown of the race
- HD132: Rep. Calanni up on TV VIDEO
- HD45: In flipped Texas House district south of Austin, Zwiener and Isaac battle it out amid a changing political landscape and a pandemic
- Federal judge in Laredo blocks repeal of straight ticket voting in Texas – this will mostly likely be stayed by the 5th Circuit quickly
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- Federal/DC related to Texas
- Trump Has Reportedly Chosen Amy Coney Barrett to Fill Vacant Supreme Court Seat
- Sen. Cruz Sets Record Straight on SCOTUS Precedent
- Senator Cruz Denounces Dems’ Calls to Keep SCOTUS Vacancy Open, Inconsistent with Precedent & Will of Voters VIDEO
- Federal judge blocks Trump administration from stopping census count next week
- New Mexico Democrats hold up Trump judicial appointments
- House Democrats to introduce proposal seeking term limits for Supreme Court justices
- Feds Put First Black Inmate to Death Since Execution Restart – he earned his spot on death row
- Primary sub-source behind Steele dossier likely a Russian agent FBI admits
- FBI agent: Never was evidence of Russia collusion but Mueller team had ‘get Trump’ goal
- FBI agent: Mueller team had a “get Trump” attitude on case built on “supposition upon supposition”
- U.S. Department of Labor Includes TWC Among First Group to Oversee Industry-Recognized Apprenticeship Programs
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- Presidential race / national politics
- Trump Leads Biden by 5 Points in Texas, Quinnipiac Poll Shows – that means 7 to 9 I think
- Ted Cruz explains how Supreme Court vacancy led him to endorse Trump in 2016
- No door knocks, little press access, early ‘lids’: Biden campaign stalls with 40 days left
- Joe Biden is retired
- The crown jewel of the shale patch braces for a Biden ban
- Is Biden really going to win Ohio?
- Y’All Remember Democrats Used to Win in the Midwest and South, Right?
- Fascism: the most abused term in America
- Box of mail, absentee ballots found in Wisconsin ditch
- Feinstein’s husband named in audit of preferred admission for connected students at Calif. schools
- When shepherds cower in fear from the howl of government wolves, they shouldn’t be surprised to find their flock in decline.
- Blue Today, Bluer Tomorrow
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- Border / immigration
- Pimentel: The checkpoints should be the border – a clear position to make it less likely to catch people once they’ve entered illegally. Shameful
- Five illegal immigrants found enclosed in crate
- Mexico Wants to Pay US Water Debt, Stay Out of US Election
- 2 Men Charged in Migrant Smuggling, Ransom Scheme
- Mexican Narco-Gun Runner Avoided Arrest, Death by Working with Numerous Rival Cartels
- Immigration policies hang in the balance as U.S. Senate prepares for fight over Ginsburg’s successor – right and that’s the problem – the court is not supposed to be involved in establishing policy.
- Mexican Government Releases a New 2020 Cartel Map
- At the six-month mark, El Pasoans face headaches and heartache over U.S.-Mexico border restrictions
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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 9/25/2020 (pdf) – 15,267* deaths. The # viral tested in Texas is now 5,860,833. * 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
- 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
- Judge Hidalgo Insists Harris County Businesses and Schools Should Remain Closed – a tyrant Leftist and they’ve kept so many “restrictions” so why are thye having an uptick in cases? Coronavirus expert Dr. Peter Hotez worried Houston is heading toward ‘third peak’ this fall – and? Worrying about it is pointless.
- Four graphs prove the utter failure of lockdowns and masks
- Only about 100 U.S. children, teens have died as result of coronavirus, report
- Two Massachusetts doctors charged with criminal neglect for 76 coronavirus deaths at veterans’ home
- Midland hospital CEO ‘encouraged’ by lack of Labor Day bump
- Dr. Fauci [Faulty] talks ‘stunning’ COVID-19 trends in Hispanic Texas communities
- Abilene City Council approves COVID letter to go to Abbott
- Lamesa doctor not too concerned over COVID cases “Cases are going up, yes. Deaths aren’t”
- I Went To A Bar… Oops Sorry, Restaurant Last Night
- Florida reopens: DeSantis lifts remaining coronavirus restrictions
- Colorado college town, Boulder, prohibits 18-22 year olds from any gatherings to stop COVID-19 – like most order how does this possible survive constitutional muster given it is blanket and has not due process?
- Two Massachusetts doctors charged with criminal neglect for 76 coronavirus deaths at veterans’ home
- 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
- Bexar County will give away another 250,000 masks to local businesses
- 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
- Baker Hughes oil & gas rig count, Texas up by 7, U.S. rig count rises again
- Oil slides with renewed virus surge weighing on markets
- Natural gas use by factories fell 20 percent during pandemic
- Households are using more power than last year, report finds
- Tyler Technologies: Hacked software provider acknowledges ransomware attack
- British grocery store and cancel culture — a cautionary tale
- Technical issues delay Blue Origin’s launch
- Former manager, Dallas meat plant settle lawsuit that alleged undocumented workers
- Commodity Classic 2021 in San Antonio
- How the coronavirus is causing San Antonio companies to rethink office space
- Cheniere Energy made big financial moves in September
- Neiman Marcus, Fresh Out of Bankruptcy, is Starting a New Round of Staff Cuts
- Tesla adding to land holdings for Austin factory
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- Protest, rioting, looting & more
- Curfew Passes in Louisville With Protesters Still Marching in the Streets Amid Heavy Presence of Police in Riot Gear
- Nancy Pelosi uses Breonna Taylor’s death to pour a few thousand more barrels of gasoline on the anti-police fire
- Daily Caller says Louisville PD ‘are going to learn a lot about’ about the First Amendment after arresting two reporters
- BLM Folks Sought Sanctuary in a Church In Louisville After Curfew, Riot Declared, and Had a Really Ugly Moment
- Breonna Taylor rally at MSU Texas Thursday afternoon VIDEO
- 12 arrests made in connection to protests in Downtown Austin on Wednesday
- Teen charged in Kenosha shootings fights extradition to Wisconsin
- Former Lubbock DA says Abbott’s new riot proposals would prevent crime
- Texas woman says she was fired from Whataburger for wearing Black Lives Matter mask – guess you should obey your employer’s dress code
- Racist post on Facebook page of 2 Fort Worth police officers draws ire, more
- Charles Barkley Defends Police in Breonna Taylor Shooting
- Black Lives Matter Is Bleeding as People Catch on to What It Really Is
- “What Killed Michael Brown?” Dr. Shelby Steele Releasing Controversial Documentary
- Turns out Antifa has its own version of Paul Krugman (who explains how burning down buildings stimulates the economy)
- Women raising money for pro-police billboards in one Central Texas county
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- Crime & general news of Texas
- Third man accused of killing pregnant Samantha Dean to face trial in 2022
- Round Rock man accused of sexually assaulting woman he met on dating app
- Pedestrian killed in Northeast Austin traffic ID’d, police say
- 1.5 pounds of meth found in Northwest Austin hotel, police say
- Man linked to Austin strip club beating attack arrested in Chicago
- Police: Caretaker caught on video stealing from elderly client in Round Rock
- Austin effort to fund homeless tent shelter falls short
- Trial on Harvey Plant Fire Resumes After COVID-19 Delay
- Reports of Officer Impersonation Between Ropesville and Lubbock
- Midland pastor, wife die in multi-vehicle collision in New Mexico
- Former Odessa teacher charged, booked
- Bridge hit closes part of I-20 in Midland
- Big Spring Police Department asks for help in murder suspect search, more
- WFPD investigate shooting at Highpoint Village Apartments
- Lujan sentenced for exploiting elderly man
- Police arrest woman for assault with cellphone
- Ranger Man Arrested for Storage Unit Burglary
- Abilene man arrested for Promotion of Child Pornography
- Abilene man arrested for child sex crime
- Abilene Fire Department battles two structure fires
- Lubbock Murder Suspect Turns Himself Into Police
- Lubbock woman murdered after argument over stealing crack cocaine, arrest warrant says
- Former Whitharral teacher gets prison sentence after sex with student
- Fort Worth ‘Barbie’, others charged with federal child sex trafficking in North Texas
- Woman hit by car, critically injured during dispute in Fort Worth neighborhood
- Two injured after planes collide at San Marcos Regional Airport, more
- Engine failure could be the cause of the plane crash Thursday near Killeen
- San Marcos police respond to two non-fatal shootings
- Car hits, critically injures person in south Austin
- Bell County Sheriff’s Department arrests six in prostitution sting
- 1 Dead, 1 injured After Tandem Tractor-Trailer Overturns On Interstate-30 In Dallas, Highway Shutdown
- A big mess on the Gulf Freeway: Southbound lanes reopen after concrete mixer crash
- 2 Teenagers Injured in Shooting at Carrollton Park: Police
- Reports allege Texas A&M students drugged, sexually assaulted off campus
- One shot, 2 stabbed during bar fight in Houston
- Houston PD: Son fatally shoots man who attacked his parents, inappropriately touched his mother
- El Paso police arrest dad, car driver accused of fleeing in collision that killed 3 kids
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- Local government
- Abilene pastors urge city council to keep Police Chief Standridge despite resignation, more – strange stance on marriage these pastors have.
- Abilene City Council approves COVID letter to go to Abbott
- Pandemic drives changes to Austin worker training plan – “workers” don’t need training from government unless the training is to do little to nothing.
- A conversation with Edinburg City Manager Ron Garza AUDIO
- Brownwood officer receives Life Saving Award
- Plainview passes budget, media doesn’t make clear if it includes tax increase
- Lubbock Co. to invest $500,000 in volunteer firefighter safety
- Conflict of Interest Allegation Dominates Lubbock Mayoral Race
- Dallas Budget Passes After Failed Effort to Restore Police Overtime Funding
- Dallas County Elections Department Awarded $15M Grant For COVID-19 Response
- ‘Simply inexcusable’: Dallas County sends voters conflicting instructions on voting by mail
- Gregg County Official [Democrat,] Conspirators Charged by Attorney General with 134 Counts of Mail-in Ballot Fraud
- Arlington library to close as city finishes ’first-of-its-kind’ community center
- City creates new plan to tackle climate change in Austin
- College Station City Council backs redefining ‘family’ and ‘related’ for housing purposes
- McAllen mayor discusses priorities for next legislative session
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- Colleges & universities
- The Self-Inflicted Decline of Science and the Academy
- Kilgore College fall enrollment drops 11%; LeTourneau down slightly
- University of Houston to aid southern states in carbon-saving research funded by DOE grant
- Odessa College Auto and Diesel Technology programs attain ASE accreditation
- Midland College Fire Department receives state compliance notification
- NEH awards $300,000 to team led by ACU professor
- Freshman enrollment down at Abilene universities
- TTU Engineering Professor Wants Devices To Stop ‘Fighting’ For Bandwidth
- TTU: Fall 2020 enrollment numbers show increases, other trends
- Is Texas More Worried About Tortillas or the Texas Tech Defense?
- A&M hires search firm to find next president
- A&M: Jay B. Silveria to serve as executive director of Bush School’s Washington D.C. site
- UNT climbs in U.S. News & World Report national rankings as the university’s enrollment hits an all-time high
- TAMIU to receive nearly $500K in funding for study on guns and gang violence
Pratt’s post for 9/25/2020
September 25, 2020 by 1 Comment
Two articles jumped out at me. Gov. Abbott sided with (his big political donors?) health management companies to reimburse zoom and phone calls to a doctor’s office the same as an office visit with an actual physical exam. Abbott is proving we don’t need doctors. Telehealth = an in person medical examination. But it sure can rake in the bucks. And Abilene City Council approved a letter “asking” the governor for more local control over covid nonsense. ASKING? He is not King. TAKE CONTROL over your own town, businesses, churches and lives. Until people Stop cowering to tryant Abbott we will never get our country back.