- Top aides accuse Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton of bribery, abusing office
- Austin investor Nate Paul at center of allegations against Texas AG Ken Paxton – possibly the best story out on it but still full of innuendo. What is presented raises many questions and provides nothing from which to reach a fair opinion.
- Federal Investigation of Attorney General Ken Paxton Requested by Top Aides
- Top aides accuse Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton of bribery, abusing office
- See “mutiny” letter here.
- Attorney General Ken Paxton’s choice of outside lawyer to investigate Nate Paul complaint stunned aides – “stunning” aides is not violation of anything.
- Who is Nate Paul? Linked to Paxton complaint, Austin businessman is known for real estate empire, legal entanglements
- Austin businessman Nate Paul tied to Texas AG Ken Paxton complaint
- Embattled Texas Attorney General Blames ‘Rogue Employees’ for Bribery Accusations
- GOP Rep. Chip Roy calls on Paxton to resign as AG – stunning that Chip would take such a position based on what is known at this time. Sounds like the typical resign do to the seriousness of the charge and not the evidence the GOP has long fallen for.
- Attorney General Ken Paxton says he’s staying after U.S. Rep Chip Roy calls for his resignation
- Will political shrapnel from Paxton’s bombshell hurt the Texas GOP?
- Paxton Taps Brent Webster as New First Assistant Attorney General
- The People of Texas v Greg Abbott
- Abbott Is Killing ‘51-Percenter’ Small Businesses
- A Conversation with Texas Attorneys Warren Norred and Matt Rinaldi on Abbott’s pandemic legal battles
- A ‘Failed Strategy’: Doctors Review Abbott’s Coronavirus Response
- Greg Abbott’s latest retreat comes at the expense of Texas voters – framing violations of election law as a good thing to help people vote.
- The Alamo Master Plan seems like another lost cause – it hints that there was much lying and denying going on if simply not moving the Cenotaph ruins the entire master plan.
- Would making Lubbock a ‘Sanctuary City’ pass constitutional muster? Lawyers debate.
- Governor Abbott Appoints Three To Texas Crime Stoppers Council
- Governor Abbott Issues Disaster Declaration In Response To Drought Conditions
- TEA Announces Additional Innovative Learning Solutions for K-12 English and Spanish, and K-5 Science to Support Schools Across Texas
- Texas History: The wacky world of Texas water policy
- Midland: Protesters gather outside house of ChinaAid founder, more
- Errors lead some Dallas County voters to question election office’s ability to handle mail ballots
- Real Stories of Real Election Fraud
- Left sues Texas to keep extra ballot drop-off sites open
- ‘Latino Vote’ Documentary Follows Emerging Bloc in US
- TX13: Who is running for 13th Congressional seat: A ‘Trump man’ and a former Thornberry intern
- 3 factors that could determine key North Texas elections
- Texas House Democrats, HDCC, to report $3.6 Million
- National Democratic super PAC floods swing districts with negative mail pieces against Texas House GOP
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- Federal/DC related to Texas
- US Attorney for Much of West and South Texas, John F. Bash, Resigns
- Walter Reed Medical Team: Donald Trump Could Be Released As Soon As Monday
- Trump’s doctor says he is ‘cautiously optimistic’ after the president announces he’s leaving Walter Reed Medical Center VIDEO
- Ted Cruz tests negative for coronavirus but will stay home until Barrett hearing
- Pence ordered borders closed in early March after CDC experts refused – another example of the duplicity of the “experts” all along.
- 2 Supreme Court justices slam court’s 2015 decision in same-sex marriage case
- To Save the Lie, Lie Some More
- Sen. Ted Cruz’s Book on the Supreme Court Hits Number One on Amazon’s Best Seller List
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- Presidential race / national politics
- How the biggest Democratic stronghold in Texas could cost Joe Biden a win here
- Godforsaken: religion is vanishing from American politics – this is very bad
- The conspiracy and credibility of Trump’s COVID diagnosis: It’s sad.
- CNN’s Sanjay Gupta: Trump Doctors, Team Are ‘Purposely Misleading’ — ‘They Are Hiding Things’ – how would he know! What a tool.
- Mixed messages and media narcissism: Trump’s illness is a perfect opportunity for journalists to talk about themselves. – much of everything is that today
- Donald Trump Surprises Supporters Gathered at Walter Reed Hospital in an SUV Drive-by
- Trump Rally Continues at Walter Reed After President Pays Surprise Visit VIDEO
- As Trump Shows Improvement, the Media Become More Unhinged
- Protester Punched During Denton Trump Parade Stop at Buc-ee’s VIDEO – You should not punch face diaper wearing communists at Buc-ee’s. Trump supporter will face serious assault charges. Laugh at these morons, don’t give them violence unless they go that route first – then finish it.
- Fake-news PolitiFact says Trump claim “Mostly False” that Obama left 128 judgeships open, number was 105 – so the claim is mostly true but they rate it mostly false – typical of this risible “service”
- A sample of how Texas Leftists see Trump
- Joe Biden Proposes ‘Nationwide Mask Guidance’ Instead of ‘Mandate’
- Biden’s Shocking Tribute To KKK Leader
- Joe Biden Breaks Promise? Negative Campaign Ads continue while Trump has Covid-19
- ‘The Melania Tapes’ reveal she’s even cooler than we thought – another CNN miscalculation
- The real reason for Pope Francis’s disgraceful Pompeo snub: We’ve never seen the text of the Vatican-Beijing pact
- America has a long tradition of voter fraud – good read
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- Border / immigration
- Border Patrol Agent Fires Weapon After Assault by Suspected Smuggler
- Heavily Armed Human Smugglers Operating in Texas — 80 Miles from Border VIDEO
- U.S. Consulate Employee Killed in Mexican Border State
- Mexico’s President Suggests New Migrant Caravan Timed to Influence U.S. Presidential Election
- Appeals Court Upholds Ban on Holding Migrant Kids in Hotels – so Obama-cages are better than hotels? I still do not understand this.
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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 10/05/2020 (pdf) – 16,025* deaths. The # viral tested in Texas is now 6,537,885. * 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
- Cornerstone Church says pastor John Hagee has COVID-19
- ‘Slow decline’ in coronavirus cases continues in San Antonio — no new deaths
- Pence ordered borders closed in early March after CDC experts refused – another example of the duplicity of the “experts” all along.
- A ‘Failed Strategy’: Doctors Review Abbott’s Coronavirus Response
- Texas colleges offer free coronavirus tests. Why aren’t more students getting tested? Because they aren’t sick, aren’t that worried, and don’t want to be on a list that lets the gov’t tell one what to do. It’s not difficult to understand except to the bed-wetters hiding under the mattress.
- Justice Department backs D.C. church case in which city limits attendance at services
- 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, Michigan Supreme Court calls lock down orders by governor illegal
- 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
- Abbott Is Killing ‘51-Percenter’ Small Businesses
- Texas Gun Sales Down Slightly, but New Annual Record Reached Before End of Year
- More details about plans for $560 million mixed-use development near Pearl in San Antonio
- Dancers [strippers] sue Austin strip clubs, allege unfair pay scheme by owners
- Can Austin’s restaurant sector bounce back?
- Chevron completes $13B acquisition of Houston-based Noble Energy
- Texas-based Vistra Corp. to Close Coal Power Plants in Illinois, Ohio
- Regal Cinemas owner considering closure of all theaters worldwide
- State OKs merger between Hendrick and Abilene Regional hospitals
- Olton’s Carson to lead National Sorghum Producers Board
- New Data Suggests Sharper Fall in Austin Rents
- World Series to be Played in Arlington
- Reports: Houston Texans fire Bill O’Brien as coach and GM
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- Protest, rioting, looting & more
- Citizens Defeat ‘Black Lives Matter’ Disruptors in Dallas
- Reparations for the transblack community! – right-on brother!
- ABC’s ‘Black-ish’ Election Special Casts America as Racist and Rife with Voter Suppression
- Portland on course to have most deadly spate of violence in years
- Breonna Taylor’s family asks Kentucky governor to appoint new special prosecutor, convene another grand jury
- Armed blacks lead march to protest police shooting in Louisiana
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- Crime & general news of Texas
- Man arrested for assault at Denton Buc-ee’s, Man Accused of Punch Amid Trump Argument Turns Self In
- Austin police seek public’s help finding man missing for 8 years
- DPS: Collision on SH 349 near Rankin kills Midlander, three others
- Ector Co. man charged with sexually assaulting 2-year-old daughter
- Wichita Falls police rescue woman from burning house
- Downed power line possible cause of WF house fire
- Wichita Falls police: ATM Burglarized
- Woman arrested for attacking husband with sword
- Police: Man arrested for wearing a bulletproof vest
- Cleburne toddler killed in carjacking, Fort Worth police say
- Murder victim shot multiple times on I-20 after fights with suspect over suspect’s wife, Abilene police make arrest in deadly I-20 shooting; Accused shooter was former co-worker
- Former Austin Public Library worker bought, stole at least $1.3 million in printer toner
- Former HSU football player reportedly killed by police after intervening in domestic fight
- Abilene man arrested for possessing child pornography
- 1 killed, 1 injured in crash with Abilene garbage truck
- Lubbock man called the cops on himself, charged with sexual abuse of a child
- Man Accused of Repeatedly Sexually Abusing Underage Relatives
- Head-on crash south of Sweetwater kills Lubbock woman, two Bandera residents
- Seminole Man Shot in Hand and Leg Morning of Saturday
- Austin Crime: 4 Shot in 35-Hour Period, One Victim Dies
- Three dead, one injured in west Houston building collapse VIDEO
- Two more Waco convenience stores robbed at gunpoint
- Shots fired in 2 Waco neighborhoods; bullets struck house in one incident
- Man killed in Cedar Hill shooting, police say
- 19-year-old man injured in drive-by shooting, Dallas police say
- Man killed in Wolfe City police shooting was ‘pillar of the community,’ witness says
- University of Texas professor charged with five counts of possession of child pornography
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- Local government
- County officials from across Texas meeting this week in Abilene – this is the group of folks who lie to you about tax increases annually.
- Loan company sues City of Hutto for $15 million over Perfect Game project
- Would making Lubbock a ‘Sanctuary City’ pass constitutional muster? Lawyers debate.
- Larry Holland Talks Lubbock Sanctuary City For The Unborn Petition
- Abilene ISD considers plan, timeline for school names
- Finalists for Abilene police chief share stances
- Enrollment Drops by More Than 5,000 at Austin Public Schools
- Errors lead some Dallas County voters to question election office’s ability to handle mail ballots
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- Colleges & universities
- Army Futures Command, UT-Austin unveil robotics lab
- UT Austin Struggles To Follow Through On COVID-19 Prevention Plan
- Recognizing online success at Midwestern State
- TTUHSC pulmonologist receives 2020 C. Frank Webber, MD Award
- TTU wind energy degree offers variety of skills to students
- Texas Tech Wins 2020 Financial Planning Challenge
- ESPN honors Texas Tech for partnership with Special Olympics Texas
- Texas Tech ROTC see decrease in enrollment, adapts to pandemic
- Texas colleges offer free coronavirus tests. Why aren’t more students getting tested? Because they aren’t sick, aren’t that worried, and don’t want to be on a list that lets the gov’t tell one what to do. It’s not difficult to understand except to the bed-wetters hiding under the mattress.
- University of Texas professor charged with five counts of possession of child pornography
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- Military
- Department of Defense holding virtual public hearings for B-21 bombers coming to Dyess Air Force Base
- Army Futures Command, UT-Austin unveil robotics lab
Pratt’s post for 10/5/2020
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