- Legislators: Budget, redistricting will dominate next session
- Speaker’s race? What Speaker’s race?
- While Other States End Mandates, No End in Sight for Texans – King Abbott cannot let go, he things as governor he is our protector, or daddy if you will. Sorry your lowness but you were elected to execute the laws, not be our collective parent – such is a Leftist concept of government.
- While a strong leader—a ruler, a king, a dictator—might allow his subjects varying degrees of freedom, only a self-governing people can truly have liberty
- Left sues Abbott to block order limiting ballot drop-off sites, more
- Gov. Abbott’s Mail Ballot Drop Off Location Limits Challenged by Advocacy Groups
- Clearing Up Confusion Over Abbott’s Order – excellent description
- AG Paxton Files Brief at SCOTX Defending Texas Election Law on Mail-In Ballots
- Texas Ag Commissioner featured in new “Borat” movie, more
- Governor Abbott, HHSC Announce $3.5 Million For Nursing Facility Safety Projects
- Grade F: A new report from Texas lawmakers on your Internet privacy is a dud and waste of time
- Far-right extremists pose rising threat in North Texas around election, FBI’s Dallas office says – absolute B.S. Who, where? Remember all the talk of the “militia” movement in the 1990’s? Was that ever a real thing that actually did much? No, but the media presented it daily as if it such were true.
- Record-Setting Year for Texas Lottery as Texans Play More During Pandemic
- Supreme Court Changes Reinvigorate Texas Heartbeat Bill Sponsors
- Democrats Urge Abbott to do What Trump Has Not — Denounce White Supremacy – such a lie.
- The Back Mic: Former Senate Candidate Launches PAC, Public Education Group Endorses, New Campaign Ads
- Officials react to recent polls in the state of Texas
- Tilove: Has Cornyn’s quiet on Trump enabled him to get more done or just enabled Trump?
- ‘We’ve all tried to do our best’: Cornyn defends Trump’s COVID-19 response after president tests positive for virus
- TX2: Rep. Dan Crenshaw calls wind and solar energy ‘silly solutions’ to climate change
- SD30: Salon owner who was jailed during COVID restrictions pulls ahead of 4-term state representative in special election
- TX23: Tony Gonzales, Gina Ortiz Jones debate as they vie to replace U.S. Rep. Will Hurd VIDEO
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- Federal/DC related to Texas
- Judge: Census violated order; demands mass text to workers
- U.S. Stimulus Talks in Limbo After Vote on Democrat-Only Plan
- Cruz at Senate Commerce: Big Tech Poses the Single Greatest Threat To Our Free Speech & Democracy VIDEO
- Senate panel approves subpoenas for CEOs of Twitter, Facebook, Google
- What we know about Hope Hicks, SMU grad and Trump aide who has COVID-19
- Barrett Confirmation: Make It All About the Constitution
- Amy Coney Barrett Participated in a ‘Mock Court’ on the Obamacare Case
- Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York praises Judge Amy Coney Barrett
- Four Texas Republicans vote against U.S. House resolution condemning QAnon – I’ve not seen anyone in the riots claiming to be “QAnon”
- After a summer of unrest, Texas police are preparing for possible election night protests
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- Presidential race / national politics
- Poll: Trump holds slight lead over Biden in Texas
- The “debates” are awful because they are not debates
- The Next Debate Moderator Is a Former Biden Intern
- Chris Wallace says ‘I’m a Pro’ after 2020 Debate MELTDOWN, blames President Trump
- The Proud Boys Have a Black Leader
- Don’t Be Suckered Into Diversion Over Debate Chaos
- Donald Trump Jr. event in Texas postponed after president tests positive for coronavirus
- Trump campaign suspends all in-person events, after president tests positive for COVID
- President Donald Trump, First Lady Melania Trump Test Positive for Coronavirus
- Dr. Ronny Jackson on Donald Trump’s Coronavirus Diagnosis: I ‘Fully Expect’ It ‘to Resolve Itself in the Next 7-10 Days’
- New York Times questions whether Trump will remain on ballot after COVID-19 positive test – reminding all they are lunatics at the Times
- Michael Moore: It’s Possible Trump ‘Lying About Having COVID-19’ to ‘Gain Sympathy’ – from the “brain” of a moron.
- “Let me be clear again”: Trump issues explicit condemnation of KKK, “all white supremacists,” and Proud Boys
- Reagan Battalion fact-checks Jim Acosta claiming Trump ‘finally condemned white supremacists’ with … Jim Acosta
- Herschel Walker Slams Democrats’ Pandering Pay-Off of Reparations
- Biden rep: Texas should lead energy transition – transition to no energy!
- Biden’s Trouble In Florida Due to GOP Translating the Hispanic Vote
- Biden’s Reason for Refusing to Answer One Particular Question Said Far More Than We Would’ve Learned From an Answer
- Melania Derangement Syndrome: Media Distort Leaked Phone Call
- No need to freak out about early voting
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- Border / immigration
- Thousands of Caravan Migrants Push into Guatemala VIDEO
- A new migrant caravan is marching north as arrests at the U.S. border rise for fourth straight month
- Mexican workers send home huge amounts of money amid virus
- Cornyn gets behind efforts to re-open border bridges
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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 10/02/2020 (pdf) – 15,823* deaths. The # viral tested in Texas is now 6,282,329. * 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
- Why the numbers are meaningless and inflated by Dr. Kristin Held, president, Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons
- 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
- Michigan Supreme Court calls lock down orders by governor illegal
- 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.
- Poll finds most Bexar County parents think distance learning is working better this fall – they’ve been propagandized heavily to panic over WuFlu by SA media and politicians.
- Texas republishes data on school coronavirus cases but omits hundreds of districts
- 850 Austin district teachers pledge not to return to school buildings on Monday – fire them. How safe is standing up out of a car’s sunroof while going down a street?
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- Business/Economy
- Baker Hughes oil & gas rig count update, more
- U.S., European oil companies make opposing bets on future
- Noble Energy shareholders approve Chevron deal
- Devon Energy sells Barnett shale assets for $570 million
- Enchanted Rock CEO turns power reliability into a moneymaker
- Oxy to sell Colombia assets for $825 million
- Dallas Fed: Most oil executives say U.S. production has peaked – how many times of the “experts” said this? Many.
- American Airlines to Begin Furloughing 19,000 Workers After Pelosi Fails to Agree to Deal with Mnuchin – if they could make money and do so, AA would “furlough” customers!
- Carnival cancels 2020 cruises out of most U.S. ports, including Galveston, due to COVID-19 – terrible
- This Year’s Pecan Crop Is Strong, But Growers Are Having To Adjust To A Very Different Market
- IndyCar Series won’t stop at Circuit of the Americas in 2021
- Austin-based Icon looks to the moon in latest construction project
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- Protest, rioting, looting & more
- Texas ACLU criticizes the extensive law enforcement presence at George Floyd’s burial – shows how these Leftists think.
- After a summer of unrest, Texas police are preparing for possible election night protests
- NYT editor: By golly, these anarchists just want to watch the world burn
- Far-right extremists pose rising threat in North Texas around election, FBI’s Dallas office says – absolute B.S. Who, where? Remember all the talk of the “militia” movement in the 1990’s? Was that ever a real thing that actually did much? No, but the media presented it daily as if it such were true.
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- Crime & general news of Texas
- Austin Murder Rate Spikes 43% Compared to 2019
- Odessa: Arrest made in crash that killed three
- Abilene woman arrested for sexual assault of a child
- 2nd victim dies after Slaton Highway crash outside Lubbock
- Lubbock fistfight leads to gunfire, 20 to 40 shots, man suffered “serious injuries”
- Two Lubbock gang members sentenced to combined 50 years in prison for drug trafficking
- Littlefield man receives 6.5 year sentence for possession of child pornography involving prepubescent minor
- Victims of deadly double shooting identified as Central Texas woman, son
- Amber Alert for missing Texas infant canceled, search continues
- 7 taken to Temple hospital after jumping from 2nd floor window of burning home
- Internal affairs investigates after Temple police officer ‘drive-stuns’ suspect
- Bastrop County man sentenced to 30 years for murder after killing, burying woman in woods
- Alvin football coach Tim Teykl resigns after racially insensitive remarks surface
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- Local government
- Meet the 3 finalists up for Abilene chief of police
- Abilene Convention and Visitors Bureau reports $14M loss since March
- Wichita Falls EDC budget up $37,907 over last year
- Wichita Falls mayoral debate centers on MPEC, city spending, replay
- Lubbock Co. commissioners address budget and more on KFYO AUDIO
- County Judge: Lubbock is still under state’s disaster declaration
- Williamson County provides details on parks pass benefits
- Austin city council approves $15 million for music venues and child care, but some members want more
- Travis County leaders OK property tax hike, cite costs of pandemic – there’s always a reason to raise taxes but never a reason to reduce spending…
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- Colleges & universities
- Students vandalize conservative group’s abortion memorial at UNT
- UTPB reports record enrollment
- MSU: Black Student Union responds to professors accusation of anti-Semitism
- MSU President outlines action items to address controversial professor
- University, embattled MSU prof address controversy
- WT’s Buffalo Stadium named top Division II football stadium in the nation
- LCU inaugurates seventh president
Pratt’s post for 10/2/2020
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