- The Texas Legislature meets in less than 100 days. Nobody knows how the session will look. – they should go to work as normal and be leaders but no doubt there will be a ton of reinforcing WuFlu fear.
- AG Paxton Releases Statement on Recent Allegations
- Pratt: Ken Paxton allegations: Do we know enough to form a fair opinion?
- Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton says he won’t resign despite bribery accusations – if he has done something illegal he should leave but if not then he should stay. We must stop this GOP sickness of quitting when the pressure is on.
- Texas AG Ken Paxton keeps probe into donor’s complaint alive over staff’s objections, lawyer says
- Ken Paxton faces a predicament familiar to Texas attorneys general
- Governor Greg Abbott writes letter to President Trump opposing storage of high level nuclear waste in Andrews County
- Texas Film Commission Announces Statewide Texas Film Round-Up – a commission we do not need to fund but Abbott supports.
- Texas DPS task force weekend operation nets 13 felony arrests, 10 DWI arrests, drug and gun seizures
- Texas Workforce Commission Payment Deadlines Extended for 3rd Quarter 2020
- Ginn: Texas work search requirements for unemployment recipients should be reinstated – agreed!
- Mailed medications, interstate travel: Texas abortion providers brace for post-Roe v. Wade world – overturning the case only returns the issue of legality to the states as it was before hand. The Satan-friendly baby murderers will then aggressively operate fundraising and distribution of free travel vouchers, lodging, etc.
- What Texas stands to lose by failing to require LGBTQ-inclusive sex education
- Governor Abbott, TDEM Announce Delivery Of Hand Sanitizer From Anheuser-Busch In Preparation For Election Day – good grief
- Trainor: The Unintended Consequences of Voting by Mail
- Gov. Abbott now faces 3rd lawsuit over limits on drive-thru delivery of mail-in ballots
- Houston-area postal worker indicted on federal charges in dumping of Republican’s campaign fliers VIDEO
- Hey Voter, The Texas Supreme Court Has Seats To Fill Too
- Author Of ‘Hispanic Republican’ Warns Politicians Not To Take Latinos For Granted AUDIO
- Homosexual advocate Equality Texas announces congressional endorsements
- 3 ways to watch the Cornyn-Hegar Texas Senate debate Friday
- MJ Hegar announces $13.5 million fundraising haul
- TX2: Democrat Sima Ladjevardian raises $1.5 million in latest fundraising quarter to challenge Rep. Dan Crenshaw
- TX11: Democrat Hogg gets endorsement of Democrat Rep. Cuellar – yeah, Cuellar and Stenholm are going to pull this liberal over the line! Laughable. Hogg looks a bit like WKRP’s Les Nessman.
- TX23: Democrat Gina Ortiz Jones raises $1.7 Million in latest quarter
- TX23: Democrat Gina Ortiz Jones’ big head start may prove decisive in battle for open seat
- Will Abbott Help Republicans Downballot? – Only 0.2% of his war chest so far to help the GOP hold Texas
- Texas Partisan Index: Rating Senate Districts From Most Republican to Most Democratic
- HD92: Tarrant County House District Up for Grabs in Race to Replace Rep. Stickland
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- Federal/DC related to Texas
- Trump halts COVID-19 relief talks until after election
- President Donald Trump’s doctor says president has ‘no symptoms’
- Sen. John Cornyn’s constituent services named best in Congress by nonpartisan group
- Barrett Sees No ‘Superprecedent’ in Roe
- High court won’t take up ex-Kentucky clerk Kim Davis’ Religious Liberty case
- Alito and Thomas on Obergefell
- Declassified memos: CIA feared Clinton was ‘stirring up’ false Russia collusion narrative
- ‘Deliberate coverup.’ Nunes says CIA withheld information from Russia collusion probe
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- Presidential race / national politics
- Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban to headline virtual fundraiser for Joe Biden’s White House campaign
- Oprah Winfrey, Willie Nelson to help Beto O’Rourke call Texas voters before start of early voting
- Biden makes $6M bet on Texas, ending drought for Democrats who’ve written off state for decades – FYI, $6 million is a very small amount in Texas. Beto Pancho spent about $125 million to lose statewide.
- Michelle Obama attacks Trump as racist; asks voters to think about ‘me and my ancestors’ – so Biden opposed bussing because it would create “jungle schools” and has honored segregationists and even a KKK leader but Trump, who has no racism in his New York background is the racist?
- Oops he did it again! Biden’s mask slips, reveals his inner racist one more time
- Joe Biden: Incoherent and Indefensible on Abortion
- Biden Reiterates Promise to Make Roe v. Wade the ‘Law of the Land’
- Biden laments: You know, I *used* to get the support of law enforcement … until just recently
- Biden mistakenly says 210 million people have died from the coronavirus
- Biden says he should not have called Trump a ‘clown’ during debate, calls Trump ’embarrassing’
- Joe Biden Has an Idea So Dumb That it Will Make Your Brain Melt
- The media meltdown over Trump’s ‘Covita’ moment
- Trump, Escaping Wile E. Coyotevirus
- What’s happening to Jennifer Rubin? The coronavirus appears to have claimed what remains of the Washington Post writer’s sanity.
- Zip codes from which most money donated to Donald Trump
- Pence, Harris reportedly disagree on plexiglass shield at debate for COVID-19 protection
- Traitor Update: Lincoln Project plans Texas offensive against Republican Donald Trump, steps up Hispanic outreach – these folk are frauds as they are not seeking to reshape the GOP to their view, they are seeking to elect Democrats
- Just Who Is the Real Blue-Collar President?
- Rio Grande Valley press publishes Presidential election opinion from Mexico City professor – I thought this was the evil “foreign meddling” but when it is pro-Leftist Democrat it’s OK!
- Has expert medical opinion become indistinguishable from political punditry?
- Democrats, Republicans each defending eight vulnerable trifectas this year
- Americans Are Moving in Droves: Will It Totally Remake the Electoral Map? – places with more freedom (that includes keeping more of your money) will always outperform those with less over time.
- Facebook Allows Lindsey Graham’s Personal Info on Its Site So Group Can Harass Him at His Home
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- Border / immigration
- Border Patrol Agent Fires Weapon After Assault by Suspected Smuggler
- Woman accused of smuggling more than $1M of methamphetamine at Hidalgo International Bridge
- Caplan discusses science, ethics of immigration
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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 10/06/2020 (pdf) – 16,033* deaths. The # viral tested in Texas is now 6,571,303. * 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
- ‘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
- ‘Cheers!’: Abbott tweet hints that Texas bars could reopen soon – disgusting behavior of a monarchical type leader. It’s all on his whim.
- Gov. Greg Abbott has closed Texas bars twice since the pandemic began. Now he’s hinting at opening them again. VIDEO
- Has expert medical opinion become indistinguishable from political punditry?
- Governor Abbott, TDEM Announce Delivery Of Hand Sanitizer From Anheuser-Busch In Preparation For Election Day – good grief
- Dallas-area Pastor Jack Graham opts not to follow CDC guidelines in wake of Rose Garden COVID exposure – good for him
- Amarillo hospitalization crosses 15% threshold, possible decrease of business capacity – the problem is that hospitals are coding folks as COVID patients who are not sick from it but are there for other problems.
- 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
- Chris Cuomo mocked for calling footage of Trump removing his face mask ‘propaganda’
- CNN Reporter Complains About Trump Taking His Mask Off at Home, Gets Busted With Her Own Actions
- CBS’ Paula Reid claims anti-mask Russian trolls are harassing her and it goes HILARIOUSLY wrong
- 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
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- Business/Economy
- United Supermarkets set to open 12th store in Lubbock as H-E-B enters market
- Musk to personally review SpaceX launch procedures
- SpaceX launched 13th batch of Starlink satellites today
- Texans’ head coach, GM Bill O’Brien fired
- Which Restaurant Chain did Texans Most Flock Back to After Re-opening?
- Texas restaurant advocate: ‘Industry is really on the precipice’ – thanks Abbott and a bunch of county judges and mayors.
- Quanah community leaders speak out on impact of potential Georgia Pacific facility closure
- Marathon Oil CEO responds to employees about deadly accident at future HQ building in Houston
- Texas energy expert: ‘Industry will continue to lead the way’ on environment
- Netflix Indicted for ‘Lewd Exhibition’ of Children in ‘Cuties’ Film by Texas Grand Jury
- CEO Says Southwest Needs Union Pay Cuts to Avoid Furloughs
- 2020 Amarillo Farm & Ranch Show canceled due to pandemic
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- Protest, rioting, looting & more
- Why are our police forces buying British-made riot gear?
- Texas police officer arrested on suspicion of murder in fatal shooting of Jonathan Price
- Smearing the Proud Boys as homophobes is a losing strategy
- New York has turned ugly: I haven’t seen so many overflowing garbage cans or homeless people since the 1970s.
- 20-year police lieutenant announces retirement, blames city council for lack of respect
- St. Louis ties record with 207 homicides after bar shooting
- Alums of Jewish-Founded Private School Outraged by Headmaster’s Condemnation of Anti-Semitism – we see this all around us, it’s what happens when one allows one’s political party position superiority over one’s moral and religious beliefs.
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- Crime & general news of Texas
- Houston-area postal worker indicted on federal charges in dumping of Republican’s campaign fliers VIDEO
- ‘Not safe yet’ to remove bodies in Houston building after stairwell collapse, officials say
- Officials plan removal of bodies at deadly Marathon Oil building collapse site
- Texas family seeks answers after officer killed unarmed man
- ‘They took my baby’: Former HSU football player killed by Texas police after intervening in dispute, family says
- Wolfe City police officer charged with murder in killing of Black man described as ‘hometown hero’
- Harris County Loses Track of Murder Suspect, Now Person of Interest in Shooting of Witness
- Payton: Federal agencies are investigating threats against Bob Fu
- DA: Child predator arrested for looking at pornography on MSU computers
- Police: Prostitute wants French toast sticks and $70 for services
- WCSO: Fake medical exams lead to sex charges
- Man charged with smuggling 7 persons after traffic stop on I-20 in Tye
- Murder victim shot multiple times on I-20 after fights with suspect over suspect’s wife
- Abilene police: Man emailed image of girl, age 4-6, being sexually assaulted
- Odessa man charged with sexually assaulting a child
- Lubbock County Sheriff’s Deputies Arrest Suspects After Car Chase
- 2 hospitalized after 2-vehicle crash in Plainview
- Lubbock motorcycle gang member acquitted of misdemeanor weapons charge
- Bodies of Harker Heights woman, son, found in vehicle after deadly shooting
- Thieves break into ATM at another Waco bank
- Teens in stolen car led Copperas Cove officer on chase that ended in crash
- Far east El Paso County massage parlor shut down amid prostitution allegations
- Former Mission pastor accused of aggravated sexual assault prohibited from practicing medicine
- Autopsy ordered after man drowns in Beaumont canal
- Criminal Complaint: Man found transporting $1 million worth of meth on I-40
- Beaumont ISD teacher received multiple social media threats VIDEO
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- Local government
- Engineer: City of Harlingen’s proposed new drainage ordinance falls short, may make flooding worse – about right for gov’t work
- Midland ISD board calls for negotiation of possible settlement with Riddick
- Wichita Co. commissioner hires son’s company to do precinct work, votes on payment
- Wichita Falls: Questions arise over addition of downtown recruiter position
- Abilene City Council preview: Downtown parking, neighborhood development & roasting beans
- Abilene ISD trustees approve renaming 4 elementary schools
- EDA grants to support rural business development in Abilene, Levelland
- KFYO’s Lubbock Mayoral Debate Is Scheduled for October 19th
- Parents react to Lubbock-Cooper ISD suspending virtual instruction
- Austinites Have Many Reasons to Question Local Officials’ Massive Tax Hike Proposal
- San Antonio’s Tax-Funded Pre-K Program on November’s Ballot
- Fort Worth Police Department Forming Civilian Response Unit – this new trend will change greatly when people are killed by criminals
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- Colleges & universities
- Student survey: University of Texas-Austin among worst environments for free speech on campus, Texas A&M among best
- UT committee to examine history of ‘The Eyes of Texas’ – typical Leftism
- FRONTLINE Selects Texas Tech Public Media As A 2020-21 Local Journalism Partner
- ACU to begin opening stores at new development next month, more apartments pending
- Child predator arrested for looking at pornography on MSU computers
- Lamar University health official says not enough students are being tested for COVID-19
Pratt’s post for 10/6/2020
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