- Analysis: Abbott losing support of many Republicans, Republican Party of Texas
- Rep. Steve Toth and Sen. Bob Hall Get It – Abbott is overreaching, violating basic law
- As battle for Texas House rages, Democrats, Republicans weigh bids to succeed Bonnen as speaker
- Federal judge in Laredo blocks repeal of straight ticket voting in Texas – this will mostly likely be stayed by the 5th Circuit quickly
- Appeals court blocks order requiring straight-ticket voting in Texas
- AG Paxton Seeks Stay After Federal Judge Reverses Course and Orders Straight-Ticket Voting
- AG Paxton Praises Statewide Recognition of Disabled American Veterans
- AG Paxton Releases Statement on U.S. Supreme Court Nominee Amy Coney Barrett
- Abbott Statement On Amy Coney Barrett Nomination To The Supreme Court
- Governor Abbott Reappoints Sen. Larry Taylor To Southern Regional Education Board
- RGV flood protection project secures state support
- TABC announces phased reopening of Lubbock Regional Office
- Craddick assumes RRC chairmanship for third time
- Lubbock-based conservative group files infringement lawsuit against California counterpart
- Houston Republicans sue to limit in-person and absentee voting options in Harris County
- Is the Democrat Judge Who Jailed Shelley Luther Biased?
- Can Texas Democrats count on the college vote during the pandemic?
- Lockdowns Are Fading, but GOP Outrage Isn’t in Campaigns
- TX10: Congressional Candidate Mike Siegel Has Close Ties to Progressive Group Pushing for Elimination of Prisons
- TX25: National Democrats add Oliver race to ‘Red to Blue’ program
- TX25: Julie Oliver seeks narrow path to victory in polarized district
- TX25: Julie Oliver is making democracy wholesome – delusions of the Left
- Pratt: Vote for Drew Springer on Tuesday for Texas Senate District 30
- After 2018 wake-up call, Tarrant Republicans scramble to fend off Democrats in Texas House races
- Cornyn: I’m ready to work with anybody to get job done for my people
- Hinojosa: Cornyn turned his back on South Texas residents
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- Federal/DC related to Texas
- NY Times Magazine journalist lambastes Barrett for being a working mother, then backtracks
- Homosexual advocates leery of SCOTUS nominee Amy Barrett
- The Barrett Announcement
- What’s next? Amy Coney Barrett Called ‘White Colonizer’ as Supreme Court Attacks Begin
- Hawley asks Democrats not to attack Judge Barrett’s religion in letter to Chuck Schumer
- Pelosi prepares her caucus for possibility of presidential election determined by the House
- It WAS a coup attempt
- Federal judge blocks TikTok download ban hour before deadline
- Acting director of the Bureau of Land Management served unlawfully for a year, rules judge
- A Ridiculous Recusal Demand Aimed at Clarence Thomas
- Federal judge orders stop to Postal Service cuts, echoing others – talk about the overreach of the judiciary!
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- Presidential race / national politics
- Trump supporters participate in miles-long caravan around Lubbock
- Thousands Rally in Pickups for Trump in Lubbock VIDEO
- Bovard: Trump Is Consistent and Truthful on Abortion
- President Trump disputes New York Times tax story, calling it ‘a total fake’
- It was Obama & the Democrat’s bill that provided Trump a $73 million tax refund – really!
- NYT: 18 Revelations From a Trove of Trump Tax Records
- Trump ex-campaign boss Brad Parscale hospitalized amid threat to harm self, more
- Bodycam footage shows Brad Parscale tackled by police after hours-long standoff
- Who cares about Trump’s tax returns?
- Giuliani, Christie helping play role of Biden in Trump’s debate prep
- In profane statement, Team Biden rejects Trump’s call for pre-debate drug tests
- Biden Calls His 8th Lid for This Month, Meanwhile Here’s What Trump Is Doing
- The Biden Express is Headed Left – Elizabeth Warren for Treasury Secretary in Joe Biden’s Cabinet VIDEO
- Breitbart’s Katherine Rodriguez Dishes on ‘The Quotable Joe,’ About Biden’s Sexist Comments, Lies, and Flip-Flops AUDIO
- As first debate approaches, Democrats worry about Biden’s temper
- Biden Anti-Business Agenda Would Wreck the Economy
- Are the polls worth your attention?
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- Border / immigration
- Six Month After US-Mexico Border Closure, Residents On Both Sides Struggle To Adapt
- Narco-Terrorist Cartel Now Operational in Mexican Border States
- Interview: Legendary Ex-ICE Agent Sets Record for World’s Longest Handgun Shot
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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 9/28/2020 (pdf) – 15,522* deaths. The # viral tested in Texas is now 6,016,907. * 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
- Texas reports more than 15,500 coronavirus deaths as cases, hospitalizations remain below July’s record highs
- Fauci: Florida’s decision to reopen bars and restaurants is “very concerning” – Dr. Faulty strikes again!
- New Yorkers will likely get Covid vaccine later than others and they can thank Cuomo
- Mexico says an official coronavirus death toll won’t be available for ‘a couple of years’ – none of the #’s are trushworthy.
- 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
- 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 officials rescind data on COVID spread in school districts
- Louise ISD cancels remote learning option, saying it has not been successful – good for them.
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- Business/Economy
- Texas Manufacturing Recovery Picks Up Steam
- Devon Energy to acquire WPX Energy for $2.56 billion
- Oil Market in a Muddle From Mixed Messages on Demand, Glut
- Texas Oil and Gas Production Statistics for July 2020
- Houston-area construction starts drop in August
- Bed Bath & Beyond, Justice close more Houston-area stores
- Tomlinson: Hospitals gouge private health insurance to care for others
- Pumpkin farmers pummeled by drought say crop will survive, demand is through the roof
- Just because your employer got a PPP loan doesn’t mean you’ll get your job back. Here’s why.
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- Protest, rioting, looting & more
- Kyle Rittenhouse’s Defense Team Releases New Video VIDEO
- BLM woman drives through Trump crowd injuring 2
- Armed Protesters on Streets of Texas Capital VIDEO
- NY Attorney General: We should just ignore some arrest warrants
- Here’s why Kenosha police officer shot Jacob Blake
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- Crime & general news of Texas
- Grand Jury Indicts Williamson Co. Sheriff on Evidence-Tampering Count
- Houston trainer, former NFL players indicted on fraud charges, more
- Police: 2 injured in shooting at Plainview convenience store late Friday, update
- Deadly Microbe Water Warning Lifted for Final Texas City, Lake Jackson
- Abbott Issues Disaster Declaration For Brazoria County In Response To Deadly Ameba Found In Lake Jackson Water Supply
- Dallas Police: Three Dead in Motel Room, Homicide Suspected
- Three women rescued Sunday at Lake Wichita, more
- Police: Woman causes damage at WFISD bus barn, more
- Plano man guilty of trying to entice girl, 12, into sex
- Arizona man in critical condition after car drives off roadway, hits tree in Haskell Co.
- Pickup strikes Bowie Mission building; 1 injured inside
- No injuries reported after 18-wheeler crashes into a pole Monday afternoon in San Angelo
- One person dies in Winkler County crash
- Drunk driver runs into Abilene police vehicle – genius!
- Abilene murder suspect back behind bars, accused of violating conditions of reduced bond
- Abilene man, 59, accused of sexually assaulting 10-year-old girl
- Abilene man arrested for sexual assault of a child
- Skimmers found in 3 gas pumps at south Abilene convenience store
- Lubbock Police Release Details in Kyera Jones Murder Case
- One dead, 4 injured in Slaton crash Sunday night
- Garza, Scurry County officials searching for accused squatter
- Police arrest 19-year-old accused of killing teen, injuring 2 others in Odessa
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- Local government
- Harris County’s ambitious election plan calls for 11,000 poll workers; 29,000 people applied – interesting because we’ve been told there are not enough people willing to work the polls due to COVID fear
- Dallas budget fight did real political damage
- Abilene moves to new HR management system – wonder what that cost
- Lubbock Co. Commissioners vote to no longer continue disaster declaration for COVID-19
- Lubbock to hold Unified Development Code Open House events
- Final decision on impact fees heading to Lubbock city council – tax on growth!
- San Antonio drops Stage 1 watering cutbacks as region exits drought
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- Colleges & universities
- Abbott Statement On A&M’s Dr. Roderic Pettigrew, GURI Recipient, Winning National Science Board Vannevar Bush Award
- Should Colleges Focus on Religious Diversity Too?
- TTU Hosts Latinx/Hispanic Heritage Month Discussion Series
- MSU degrees place high on college-ranking lists
- McMurry University Announces Alumni Association Awards
Pratt’s post for 9/28/2020
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