- California, Texas executive orders have permanently killed more than 28,000 businesses, report finds – King Abbott
- Abbott Proposes Action For Texas Cities Looking To Defund Police…But Is It Legal?
- Texas residents pay 20 cents per gallon in wine taxes – pro business?
- Texas ranks 36th highest on state-by-state prosperity index
- Rep. Patterson lauds property tax savings from HB3
- Residents of 27 Dallas-area cities saw increased property taxes in 2019
- Sunset recommends Texas Department of Agriculture absorb Texas Racing Commission
- Texas House Homosexual Caucus calls for Medicaid expansion
- Rep. Biedermann Pledges Legislation to Take Back Control Over Alamo
- New Alamo cry: Beware lieutenant governors – the losers are upset.
- Federal court orders Texas prison system to provide hand sanitizer for some geriatric inmates during pandemic – how many will drink it or trade it to drink?
- Lawsuit Alleging River Authority Knowingly Flooded Homes Reaches Texas Supreme Court
- Reimplementation of Straight-Ticket Voting Temporarily Halted by Court of Appeals
- Court Blocks Democrats’ Attempt to Revive Straight-Party Voting in Texas
- Governor Abbott Provides Update On Texas’ Response To Deadly Ameba Found In Lake Jackson Water Supply
- Governor Abbott Reappoints Four To OneStar National Service Commission
- Affidavits Allege Democrat Officials Planning Colossal Illegal Ballot Harvesting Scheme
- Biden Campaign Operative, Texas State Senator Accused of Mail-in Ballot Fraud
- Biden’s Texas Political Director Accused of Illegal Ballot Harvesting At Texas Supreme Court
- Election Integrity Group Sues Harris County Over Noncitizens on Voter Rolls
- Harris Co., largest in Texas, accused of approving voter registrations of non-citizens
- SD30: Shelley Luther, railing against ‘tyrant governor,’ seeks Texas Senate seat Tuesday
- Voters go to polls Tuesday in race between Shelley Luther, Drew Springer for North Texas senate seat
- 2020 Houston Judicial Appellate Races: The Candidates, The Issues & Factors
- Democratic super PAC to target Houston-area GOP lawmakers in $2 million ad blitz
- Democratic super PAC targets North Texas GOP legislative hopefuls in TV ads on health care, schools
- TX11: Stenholm endorses liberal Democrat Hogg in open seat race
- TX10 New poll: Toss-up; Mike Siegel about even with Michael McCaul – Siegel is a super-radical leftist. Poll shows McCaul up 2% but is not credible as it is a Dem-internal poll released to media.
- Stacey Abrams endorses MJ Hegar, 15 Texas Democrats – would sane people want that known?!
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- Federal/DC related to Texas
- Senate is right to move swiftly to confirm Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court
- Trump tweets Texas Sen. Ted Cruz’s new book is ‘the best’ read for impending SCOTUS fight
- U.S. intel referred Clinton campaign to FBI, alleging it concocted Russia collusion story
- Trump Administration Likely Exceeded Legal Authority With TikTok Ban, Judge Rules
- Rep. Michael McCaul Releases Final Report on China’s Role in COVID-19 Pandemic
- It’s a GOP report about Hunter Biden … so just ignore it
- Flynn lawyer in case to dismiss the former national security adviser says she’s talked to Trump
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- Presidential race / national politics
- Sorry, but tonight’s Biden vs Trump debate will disappoint
- Which drugs should Biden take?
- How far will media lower the bar for Joe Biden in debate?
- Pre-debate drama: Ear Inspections, Break Requests, Taxes
- Five things to watch for in tonight’s first Trump-Biden debate
- The Trump campaign’s best line of attack against Joe Biden – quite right
- It was Obama & the Democrat’s bill that provided Trump a $73 million tax refund – really!
- On Trump’s ballyhooed tax returns
- They Wanted Disruption in 2016. Now They’re Trump Defectors – this is a template-type story that is done in each election.
- Texas GOP Chair Allen West calls on Donald Trump to visit Texas before Election Day
- Alarm bells: Two new polls show Trump down nine in Pennsylvania
- Biden maintains steady six-point lead against Trump among likely voters
- Trump’s Jobs Record Fell Short of Promises Even Before the Virus – this latest hit-piece by Bloomberg is absurd and shows how far the Left will go. Equating record unemployment (and especially for minorities!) with falling short of promises is beyond risible.
- Sen. Ted Cruz says President Trump’s tax records don’t matter to Texans
- Biden’s Texas Political Director Accused of Illegal Ballot Harvesting At Texas Supreme Court
- Election Will be a Referendum on Widely Different Health Care Visions
- Minneapolis police: Vote fraud caught by Project Veritas “being evaluated”
- The Mail-In Ballot and Voter-Fraud Threat: A Conversation with John Fund
- Antifa made me Christian; If religion is opium, Marxism is crystal meth. – sadly true piece including the Left’s capture of many churches
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- Border / immigration
- Deported Child Rapist Arrested in Texas After Illegally Crossing Border
- As Texas reopens, border leaders say restrictions at international bridges should be lifted – the same border officials insisting on severe lockdowns of their people!
- Narco-Terrorist Cartel Now Operational in Mexican Border States
- Mexican Border City Cartel Lord’s Car Collection Seized in Raid
- Veteran, war hero, defendant, troll: Man who raised millions for border wall uses social media to attack his detractors – Leftists use the press, like the Texas Tribune.
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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 9/29/2020 (pdf) – 15,533* deaths. The # viral tested in Texas is now 6,171,755. * 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
- Exposed: COVID-19 was spreading in Houston before the rodeo, records show – right and all the overreach was not necessary as it continued even with such.
- Trump administration to ship 100 million rapid COVID-19 tests for schools and nursing homes
- San Antonio: WuFlu positivity rate falls below 6% for first time since early June
- Declining coronavirus cases could soon allow larger gatherings in Austin, officials say
- 5 Central Texas counties told to roll back reopenings as area case count rises to nearly 20,500
- 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
- Conservative legal group asks court to immediately halt enforcement of statewide mask mandate in Wisconsin
- Ohio mom tased for not wearing mask during football game charged with criminal trespassing VIDEO
- Sen. Feinstein caught with no mask in airport – even though she backed ‘mandatory’ masks at airports
- 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 Service Sector Growth Rebounds in September; Retail Sales Rise Sharply
- Former Lakeway hospital to pay over $16 million to settle false claims allegations
- NASA & SpaceX set Oct 31st for next manned Dragon mission
- U.S. military okays use of SpaceX Falcon 9 reused boosters
- Airline Workers Brace for Mass Layoffs
- Evolve Energy sold for $5 million to Octopus Energy
- Prominent Christian publisher sues its former CEO
- The crown jewel of the shale patch braces for a Biden ban
- Abernathy’s Loper honored by Texas Bankers Association
- Entergy: Post-Laura electricity restoration could cost up to $1.7 billion
- Union Fights Against Stable, Secure Healthcare Benefits for Kroger Workers
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- Protest, rioting, looting & more
- 4 Months Of Riots In Democrat Controlled Portland Celebrated With Another
- Whose streets? Portland police try new tactics, 24 arrested
- Seattle Mayor’s $100 million pledge for Black, Indigenous, People of Color communities stirs questions
- Could Adding More Women Be The Best Police Reform? – doubtful. The most pedantic cops/agents I’ve ever met were female.
- NYPD again rousts BLM protesters
- In Louisville, Blackmail Lives Matter
- Kentucky AG will release grand jury transcripts in Breonna Taylor case, allow juror to talk
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- Crime & general news of Texas
- Ex-wife of imprisoned San Antonio politician Carlos Uresti, feds fight over his state pension
- Prosecutors reject drunken driving charges against conspiracy theorist Alex Jones
- Lubbock-native Mac Davis ‘Critically Ill’: Country Singer Had Heart Surgery
- Grand Jury: No Action Against Jack Wilson, Killer of Church Shooter
- Margo Graham, the first WNBA player in UH history, dies at 49
- 2 children die from injuries in NW Houston crash
- Man charged with assault, choking pregnant ex-girlfriend
- Accused claims victims shot first
- Wichita Falls houses evacuated due to natural gas leak
- Wichita County Deputies stop human smuggler
- Police arrest alleged underwear thief, Police probe Mickey Mouse theft
- Former Burk Grace Ministries director arrested again
- Abilene police investigating robbery at First Abilene Credit Union
- Police looking for driver who hit, killed elderly San Angelo man in motorized wheelchair
- One person dies in Fort Stockton house fire VIDEO
- Texas Tech police report non-student with gunshot wound
- SFA police storm Black cheerleader’s dorm room with guns after false report, family says – does color play a role here from the police angle?
- Police Detail Plainview Gas Station Shooting That Injured 2
- 17-Year-Old Arrested for Aggravated Sexual Assault of a Child
- Lubbock man indicted on a charge of failure to stop and render aid in a crash that caused injury
- Lubbock man indicted on a charge of abandoning a 7-year-old child
- Warrant: Lubbock man admitted to shooting brother
- Lubbock man indicted on charge of criminally negligent homicide after karaoke assault
- Prisoner pleads guilty to threatening to bomb Montgomery Co. courthouse – another criminal genius
- 3 Injured in Plane Crash Near Austin Identified
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- Local government
- A year after failed tax hike, Harris County mulls small rate decrease – again, the “rate” is not meaningful in itself.
- Harris Co., largest in Texas, accused of approving voter registrations of non-citizens
- Election Integrity Group Sues Harris County Over Noncitizens on Voter Rolls
- Archer City approves tax rate, budget
- Lake Jackson residents adjust as process of purging water containing brain-eating amoeba begins
- Midland Co. commissioners vote against hiring attorney to review Horseshoe contract
- Lakeside City raises trash services charges
- Abilene PD Chief Standridge one of two finalists for same job in San Marcos
- Taylor Co. commissioners revise out-of-state travel policies
- Howard County commissioners place burn ban back on for 90 days
- City of Lubbock to be recognized for its commitment to veterans
- Residents of 27 Dallas-area cities saw increased property taxes in 2019
- Austin Council Election: Will Multiple Pro-Citizen Candidates Split Vote Against Tax-Hiking Incumbent?
- Austin proposes $15 million in aid for music venues, bars, childcare – as always, soak the taxpayer for bad gov’t policy
- San Antonio Poll: Voters favor pre-K and VIA tax measures, but support for workforce development is softer
- Lawsuit Alleging River Authority Knowingly Flooded Homes Reaches Texas Supreme Court
- Abbott Proposes Action For Texas Cities Looking To Defund Police…But Is It Legal?
- Falls County sheriff has 20 days to contest license suspension
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- Colleges & universities
- MSU Texas offers online adult education degree
- UT to offer incentive for COVID-19 testing, planning for spring semester to mirror fall
- TTU Professor’s Artificial Crowd Noise Research More Applicable Now Than Ever
- A&M AgriLife expands statewide water commitment
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- Military
- Texas has 16th highest share of military personnel among the 50 states
Pratt’s post for 9/29/2020
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