- Fifth Circuit Halts District Court’s Unlawful Order Requiring Straight-Ticket Voting – this is in addition to the “emergency stay” already issued.
- No straight-ticket voting in Texas in 2020, appeals court rules
- Too Late for Texas to Use Straight-Ticket Voting, Court Says
- Governor Abbott Issues Proclamation Enhancing Ballot Security – this should stop the Harris County effort at multiple ballot drop-off sites.
- Abbott orders counties to close multiple ballot dropoff sites
- Texas Takes Pecos River Water Grievance to U.S Supreme Court
- TEA Updates Pandemic School Funding Formula
- Alamo redevelopment plan lives on after Cenotaph battle, but details are scarce
- Cleanup of abandoned oil and gas wells could cost Texans $117 billion – more extreme hyperbole “could cost” from a “climate change” group. Meaningless.
- Governor Abbott Appoints Three To Texas Council On Sex Offender Treatment
- Abbott Appoints Castro To Texas Appraiser Licensing And Certification Board
- State Sales Tax Revenue Totaled $2.6 Billion in September, 6.1% less than Sept. 2019
- Tracing Virus’ Effect on Texas Revenues
- New property tax study shows that if homeowners get help on how to protest, they will
- $47 million lottery-winning ticket sold in Seguin; largest Lotto Texas jackpot in 10 years
- David Sauceda to retire as Texas House Sergeant-at-Arms, is succeeded by Mike Black
- Hollywood celebs join with Democrats in Turn Texas Blue campaign
- A Lot on the Line as Both Parties Seek to Flip the Texas House
- TX2: Democrat opponent can’t take Rep. Dan Crenshaw’s COVID response
- TX10: Uber-Leftist Democrat Siegel reports $1 million in third-quarter donations
- SD30: Shelley Luther a Sign Texas Republicans Must Win Back Voters – the real message is that her campaign is a proxy vote against Abbott who is not on the ballot.
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- Federal/DC related to Texas
- Rep. Van Taylor Introduces Vital STATS Act
- AG Paxton Joins Letter Supporting the Confirmation of Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the United States Supreme Court
- Black pastors demand end to attacks on Barrett’s faith
- Vanity Fair writer questions Supreme Court nominee’s mothering – I question the sanity of anyone working for Vanity Fair.
- Feinstein, Senate Dems: You’re not giving us enough time to “vet” Barrett
- Mitch McConnell Should Try to Cap the Number of Justices at Nine
- Taxpayer help could be on the way for Austin’s live music venues, restaurants – yes, you will pick up the tab for the closures done by local and state politicians.
- Sen. Cruz To James Comey: You Were Either Deliberately Corrupt or Woefully Incompetent VIDEO
- CDC Director Redfield overruled, U.S. cruise ships will sail again Nov. 1, reports – good
- Leftist “Pope” Francis refuses audience with U.S. Secretary of State – he sold the Church in China out to the Communists so what do you expect?
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- Presidential race / national politics
- The Presidential Debate Show in Summary
- Nolte: Donald Trump Sees Approval Rating Rise in Post-Debate Poll
- Kayleigh McEnany: Donald Trump Has Condemned White Supremacy More than Any Modern President in History
- Ann Coulter: Is Chris Wallace a White Supremacist?
- Moderator Chris Wallace Receives Blowback After Rocky Debate Performance
- Fox News’ John Roberts Loses Temper at Critics of His ‘White Supremacist’ Questions
- Nolte: CNN Lies in Fact Check About Biden Calling Trump’s China Ban ‘Xenophobic’
- MSNBC’s Giridharadas: Trump Supporters Are ‘People Who Like Fascism’
- Faith leaders say Trump’s refusal to denounce white supremacists will fuel hate, violence – be honest, these are activist Leftist clergy
- Biden’s rejection of Green New Deal and other progressive policies in debate, irks radical left
- Debate commission tries to muzzle Trump by changing the rules
- Biden Family’s shady deals compromise candidate
- Attorney demands Biden retract ‘false accusation’ that Kenosha shooter is ‘white supremacist’
- The press’s strange fascination with the Proud Boys
- Biden botches the Constitution again: Americans get ‘to choose who they want on Supreme Court’
- FBI Director Wray Didn’t Call Antifa an ‘Idea,’ He Called It a ‘Movement or Ideology’
- Nick Kristof’s Times Colleague Kindly Helps Him ‘Find Trump’s Anarchists in Portland’
- Biden Is Having Another Quiet Day . . . Which Is What His Campaign Wants
- Biden Launches Seven-Figure Ad Campaign to Target Religious Voters as Dems Attack Catholic Woman
- Trump has enough support from Latinos to win Texas, study finds
- Gallup: Trump job approval rises to highest level since May, majority expect him to win
- Ted Cruz: Joe Biden Would Pack the Supreme Court, End Filibuster to ‘Entrench’ Democrat Power
- While Texas Democrats cash in on Trump’s Supreme Court gambit, Biden treads lightly
- Parscale steps away from Trump campaign after incident related to mental health incident
- American cyclist suspended after posting support for Trump on Twitter – backing his candidate was termed ‘divisive, incendiary’
- Will the economy recover enough to help Trump win?
- What if no one accepts the election result? – what if a meteor hits?
- Just over one-third of voters consider themselves ‘woke’ – most “don’t know what it means.”
- New contender for worst debate: Cuomo-Cruz meltdown on CNN
- Chris Cuomo Comes Unglued When Ted Cruz Asks Him on Air About His Brother’s Virus Nursing Home Order
- Will 100,000 Brooklyn voters have 2 ballots and use them both?
- Americans Won’t Live in the Pod: Blue-city urbanization imposes a downward mobility people don’t want and don’t need.
- Former Twitter CEO Dick Costolo: Capitalists Will Be ‘First People Lined Up Against The Wall and Shot in the Revolution’ – he forgets that most often the Leftists have murdered their fellow Leftist political rivals first, then others.
- California governor signs corporate boardroom diversity law – this will spread and likely be mandated nationally if Dems win control. This is the first step in nationalizing private business.
- Did you hear the one about California fighting wildfires by banning gasoline cars?
- California adopts law to consider paying reparations for slavery – it was a non-slave state!
- A tech company CEO said he doesn’t want politics in the workplace and people are upset
- Bovard: yes, big tech censorship affects election outcomes
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- Border / immigration
- Contracts Awarded for 40 Miles of New Walls on Texas Border
- Migrants Lost in Arizona Mountains Rescued by CBP Helicopter Crews – we spend an enormous amount of money and time rescuing and caring for these folk who illegally enter our country.
- Chinese National Convicted for Laundering U.S. Cash for Mexican Cartels
- Judge’s order leaves many visa lottery winners out of luck
- CBP inks $13 million deal for body cams and cloud platform
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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 10/01/2020 (pdf) – 15,711* deaths. The # viral tested in Texas is now 6,237,157. * 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
- U.S. Won’t Need 700 Million Covid-19 Vaccine Doses Anytime Soon
- COVID-19 illustrates ‘historic decimation’ of Hispanic population in southern U.S., Texas doctor says – the type of medial bull bleep that destroys our country. This Leftist Dr. Hotez (proven with his use of Latinx) has been behind a lot of horrible, tyrannical policy across Texas and especially in Houston.
- Some 34 million jobs lost in Latin America due to pandemic – and yet people, even in these countries, still back these lockdowns that are killing far more than the virus.
- Texas leaders hope rapid testing will restore normalcy in the pandemic. Health experts caution the tests have limitations. – where and when are these “health experts” going to admit the extreme limitations of lockdowns, masks, social distancing and the rest of it?
- How Texas became a leading COVID-19 research hub
- Chris Cuomo Comes Unglued When Ted Cruz Asks Him on Air About His Brother’s Virus Nursing Home Order
- Two experts from the La Jolla Institute of Immunology describe their groundbreaking work on COVID-19
- 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
- TEA Updates Pandemic School Funding Formula
- Texas updates coronavirus case totals in schools, but the data remains limited and murky – oooo, “murky.” Despite the scare tactics it’s all a bit unimportant.
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- Business/Economy
- State Sales Tax Revenue Totaled $2.6 Billion in September, 6.1% less than Sept. 2019
- High-profile Arkema trial ends with no convictions as Harris County judge acquits final defendants – good, this was demonization by media report
- Changes in engineering and procedures for next manned SpaceX Dragon flight
- American, United Airlines to begin furloughs for tens of thousands of workers as federal payroll program expires on October 1
- Kickapoo casino once again beckons gamblers in Eagle Pass
- San Antonio meat cutter sues former employer over leg amputations
- Matador Resources completes first four of 13 Boros wells in Stateline
- Kinder Morgan starts Lockridge gas pipeline in Permian Basin
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- Protest, rioting, looting & more
- Portland Protesters Gather to Honor Man Who Shot Two Men, Pointed a Gun at Police
- Chicago: Crisis response team – without cops – would be sent to mental health emergencies under proposal
- Attorney demands Biden retract ‘false accusation’ that Kenosha shooter is ‘white supremacist’
- St. Louis officials decline to prosecute trespassers in run-in with ‘Missouri gun couple’
- NBC’s Ben Collins blames ‘white supremacists’ not Antifa for ‘organized violence’ and ‘domestic terror’
- Nick Kristof’s Times Colleague Kindly Helps Him ‘Find Trump’s Anarchists in Portland’
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- Crime & general news of Texas
- Lubbock man hit or dropped baby so hard she has little hope for a normal life, arrest warrant said
- Odessa: Arrest made in connection to fatal motorcycle crash
- Odessa PD, Texas Rangers make arrest in 38-year-old cold case
- Man charged with punching, slapping pregnant girlfriend
- Mother, daughter charged with poisoning neighbor’s dogs
- Explosive item removed, scene cleared in Ector County
- Big Spring Police identify suspects in homicide investigation, more
- Fatal crash involving semi-truck reported in Young County
- Wichita Falls: Central Freeway closed at Bacon Switch Road after fatal head-on collision
- Thief steals horse statue from Wichita Falls school
- Taylor Co. grand jury indicts man for murder in 2019 shooting
- Runnels County Sheriff asking for outside law enforcement help to end 5-month crime spree
- Clyde man indicted for shooting Abilene house, killing 1
- DPS investigating deadly 2-vehicle crash on Highway 84 near Lubbock
- Woman killed in Wednesday afternoon collision on Slaton Highway
- Police: Skeletal remains identified as local missing woman
- CPS says missing Smith Co. child may be in silver Toyota Camry after family sells truck
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- Local government
- Abbott orders counties to close multiple ballot dropoff sites
- Taxpayer help could be on the way for Austin’s live music venues, restaurants
- Cahn: The Growing Human Tragedy of Austin’s Homelessness Policies
- More Than 100 Recommendations Made to Improve Houston Police
- Fort Worth PD officer who posted racist meme put on ‘indefinite suspension’
- Szwarc: Looking Past the Campaign Signs – Mayor Pope of Lubbock
- Midland ISD: Riddick requests hearing regarding termination
- Montgomery County commissioners use budget carryover to pay down retirement liability
- City of Abilene creating new ‘comprehensive plan’
- $1.5 million grant awarded for Levelland rail park
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- Colleges & universities
- Wayland Baptist Alumni start petition following program cuts – write a check if you want the programs. A petition doesn’t pay for such. No wonder so many “college educated” are stupid Leftists these days, they have no clue how things work.
- Report: University of Texas One of Nation’s Worst Campuses for Free Speech
- Tech Costa Rica satellite campus continues all-online learning
- Texas Tech Athletics Releases Internal Review of Softball Program
- Review of Texas Tech softball program showed concerns over baptisms
Pratt’s post for 10/1/2020
October 1, 2020 by 2 Comments
Mr. Pratt, Someone on your Facebook page appears to have misquoted or misunderstood Steven Sanders concerning his U.S. Army service, believing he had claimed to be in Special Forces.
Sanders website states he was an Army Unit Supply Specialist.
Clara, as much as I like Mr. Sanders he did make such claims according to friends who have spoken with him.