- Texas AG Ken Paxton keeps probe into donor’s complaint alive over staff’s objections, lawyer says
- Paxton releases AG document proving outside counsel acting with authority – makes a liar of staff on a big point.
- Paxton’s involvement in rushed AG opinion raised red flags – so now acting quickly is a crime to the bureaucrats? Yes, hasn’t such always been? This is the standard disgusting press practice of taking something that is not illegal or unethical and structuring it in such a manner as to suggest bad action.
- Foundation’s lawyer suspected ‘something fishy’ when Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton intervened in case – more hearsay
- Travis County D.A. Casts More Doubt on Paxton Activities – ‘Moore says Paxton agreed to accept the referral and hired a private attorney to look into Paul’s complaint.” And there is nothing illegal or unethical in a personal request from the A.G.
- Ken Paxton defends hiring of outside counsel, which deputy warned may have occurred ‘under duress’
- Developer linked to criminal allegations against Texas AG Ken Paxton promises legal action
- Texas Comptroller’s Office Hosting Virtual Meeting to Provide Updates on Endangered Species Research, Listing Decisions
- Governor Abbott, TDEM Move Resources Into Position As Hurricane Delta Enters The Gulf
- Abbott Renews the State Disaster Declaration for Counties Impacted by Hurricane Harvey – from 2017, do these declarations ever end?!
- Abbott Gives Support to High-Speed Rail in a Letter to Japanese Government
- ‘You seem nervous to me’: Why most police vehicle searches in Texas turn up nothing – I’m amazed at why people grant permission.
- Federal appeals court says Texas doesn’t have to give geriatric inmates hand sanitizer for now
- The General Land Office Is Taking Over Houston’s Harvey Housing Funds
- Voting rights advocates and some Texas counties in federal court to keep expanded mail-in ballot drop-off locations – they are not voting rights advocates, they are Leftist front groups.
- Texas Supreme Court Stops Harris County Clerk from Sending Out Millions of Unsolicited Mail-In Ballot Applications
- Texas Supreme Court Rules Against Unsolicited Mail-Ballot Application Scheme
- Top Texas court rejects GOP leaders’ bid to limit early voting time – stupid ruling
- Texas Supreme Court Strikes Down GOP Lawsuit Against Abbott’s Early Voting Extension
- Fight to Vote: why Texas is a problem in 2020 – how the Left paints following the law to ensure fairness: Texas is restricting voting – a complete lie. Note that poll watchers are considered a threat as they may “intimidate” voters!
- Carrollton mayoral candidate arrested after police find forged mail-in ballots, more
- The Reality of Voter Registration Records
- Texas Democrats remind they’d run Texas as a prison state
- Austin City Councilman Endorsed by Local Socialists
- TX21: Wendy Davis raises $3.4M in 3rd quarter – Chip Roy may lose this seat for the GOP and in many ways has himself to blame.
- TX21: Rep. Chip Roy, Wendy Davis Square Off in Battleground Debate
- TX21: The harrowing road to Wendy Davis’ `historic haul’
- Democratic U.S. Senate candidate MJ Hegar voted against Obama twice
- MJ Hegar: Texans are not going to vote for me just because I am not John Cornyn – some Republicans might, except that you’re now a full-out Leftist.
- Herman: A ticket-splitter’s lament in the time of Trump
- TX50: Former New Yorker Runs for Texas House Seat on GOP Ticket
- Democrats raise big cash in push to take Texas House but GOP candidates also ramping up
- Fundraising in Texas House races signals a wildly competitive contest for control of the chamber
- Texas has the U.S.’s second-largest Indian American community. Politicians are starting to take notice
- Texas House Dem chair asks colleagues to roast him for cash
- How down-ballot candidates could help Democrats flip Texas
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- Federal/DC related to Texas
- Pelosi: No standalone aid for airline industry without bigger stimulus deal
- Sen. Cruz Applauds the Trump Administration for Sanctioning Iran’s Financial Sector
- Sen. Cruz, Colleagues Submit Amicus Brief to Supreme Court in Religious Freedom Case
- Trump orders release of all Spygate documents, with no redactions
- National Park Service names new San Antonio Missions National Historic Park superintendent
- President Trump tweets that all U.S. Troops should be withdrawn from Afghanistan by Christmas
- DNI Ratcliffe says office has given nearly 1,000 documents to Durham in support of Russia probe
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- Presidential race / national politics
- Second presidential debate will be virtual, Trump says he won’t participate
- Pence, Harris spar over COVID-19 in vice presidential debate
- Pence takes Harris to the cleaners in VP debate
- Did the VP debate change a single mind?
- Hollywood Elites Gush over Kamala Harris During VP Debate: ‘Mamala Whooped Dat A**!’ – funny what the most superficial people in the world think
- Scarborough: Kamala Harris ‘Outperformed Expectations’
- AOC: Pence Asking Harris Questions Was ‘Gross’ and ‘Exemplary of the Gender Dynamics’ Women ‘Have to Deal With’
- Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez didn’t like Vice President Pence in debate calling her AOC
- ABC’s Raddatz on Mansplaining Charges: Harris ‘Should Be Able to Stand Up for Herself’
- Harris, Pence clash over fracking
- At VP debate, Harris refuses to answer court packing question
- China censored Pence during TV debate when he criticized county’s COVID-19 response – all you need to know about who China’s communist party is backing
- Biden rated “False” on claim of Obama granting 18,000 people clemency
- Church/State and Trump/Biden
- Biden’s gun-grab vow no secret if you look
- Being pro-Trump has caused me more grief than being Osama bin Laden’s niece
- Pelosi hints at new plan to remove Trump from office before election: ’25th Amendment’
- Dangerous Talk From Stupid People
- Portland Correctional Officer Allegedly Pulls Knife on Trump Supporter
- Midland’s Bob Fu says he never expected to be target of Chinese billionaire, Bob Fu protests continue in Midland
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- Border / immigration
- Border Patrol Agent Fires Weapon After Assault by Suspected Smuggler
- Human Smuggler Arrested in South Texas with Pistols
- Deported Child Sex Offender Arrested Moving Around Texas Checkpoint
- Man Smuggled Meth Among His Tacos at Border, Say Feds
- 34 Migrants Found in Tractor-Trailer 80 Miles into Texas
- 13 Migrants Found in Sealed Cardboard Boxes at Texas Checkpoint
- Mexican Military Raids Narco-Terrorist Propaganda Production Base
- Wood: Border bridges may not reopen until a COVID vaccine is widely available
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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 10/08/2020 (pdf) – 16,230* deaths. The # viral tested in Texas is now 6,664,440. * 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
- Has expert medical opinion become indistinguishable from political punditry?
- Abbott Issues Executive Order To Open Bars In Qualifying Counties
- Gov. Greg Abbott will reopen Texas bars. But in Houston, they’re already swinging. – and yet all the headlines this afternoon is that the Leftist Harris Co. Judge is not going to let them re-open!
- County Judges will make the call for when bars can reopen VIDEO
- Abbott Encourages Health Care Providers To Enroll In DSHS Immunization Program In Preparation For COVID-19 Vaccine
- Governor Abbott Renews State Disaster Declaration For COVID-19
- Small-Business Owner Shares Personal Pain From Abbott’s Shutdowns
- Radio Ad Invites Texans to Protest Abbott’s Shutdowns
- Texas Democrats remind they’d run Texas as a prison state
- Dr. Kenneth Cooper: Vitamin D supplements can help avoid COVID-19 infection
- 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
- 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
- Sales tax remitted to local governments 2.8% less than October of 2019, Top 20 Cities Sales and Use Tax Comparison Summary, All cities
- Nasdaq Stock Exchange Weighs Relocating Trading Systems to Texas
- Olin chemical company converts former Randalls grocery store to Texas HQ
- Complaint: Houston’s CenterPoint Energy failed to disclose New York hedge fund’s $1.3B investment
- Chevron overtakes Exxon Mobil as America’s largest oil company
- Wichita Falls housing prices outpace median wages
- Abilene’s Ortiz builds a sound-lights business
- Electric trucking company Hyliion goes public through merger
- Texas Association of Business ‘cautiously optimistic’ about economy
- Small-Business Owner Shares Personal Pain From Abbott’s Shutdowns
- Texas Tenants Are Still Struggling To Stop Evictions A Month After Federal Moratorium Was Announced
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- Protest, rioting, looting & more
- National Police Union: ‘Ideas Don’t Throw Bricks at Officers’ Heads’ Like Antifa
- DC Antifa Ringleader Jason Charter Charged with Assaulting OANN’s Jack Posobiec
- Black Wisconsin Police Officer Isn’t Charged in the February Fatal Shooting of Black Teen Outside Mall
- Wisconsin Rioter Brandishes Gun After Police Fire Tear Gas VIDEO
- Wisconsin Protesters Ignore Curfew to March Through Neighborhoods VIDEO
- Police in Wisconsin Begin Arresting Rioters Blocking Freeway
- ‘Protesters’ riot and loot in Wauwatosa, WI after black officer cleared in shooting of black male
- Police Tackle and Dogpile Portland Protester VIDEO
- Portland ‘Protester’ Injured After Allegedly Violating Court Order
- Video Journalist Attacked While Filming Portland Protest
- 40 days later, Rice sit-in leader isn’t giving up on removal of ‘racist’ founder’s statue – an utter fool
- Burleson Mayor to Black Lives Matter: ‘We’re Listening to You’
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- Crime & general news of Texas
- Lubbock Man, Seller of Gun Used in West Texas Mass Shooting, Pleads Guilty
- Smith Co. Grand Jury Indicts Netflix for Promotion of ‘Cuties’
- Firefighters Recover 3 Killed in Houston Building Collapse
- Odessa Police investigate convenience store burglary
- Midland Police charge suspect with capital murder of infant
- Wichita Falls Police: Alleged Bahama Bucks’ burglar busted
- Wichita Falls Police Chief: Staley accused of Wilder murder, more
- Charged with murder, Vrana no billed on robbery
- Wanted man arrested after struggle in Brownwood Walmart
- Cash rewards offered for info on wanted fugitives in Abilene
- Affidavit: Former HSU football player fatally shot by Texas cop offered handshake
- Second suspect indicted in Austin Public Library printer toner case
- Road Rage Results in Arrest in Gaines Co.
- 16-year-old arrested in connection to Allsup’s shooting in Plainview
- Chili peppers on the highway; DPS says semi-truck tips over on Highway 62/82
- Williamson sheriff says tampering indictment against him not based on physical evidence; DA disagrees
- Pair of robbers targeting women walking alone at night, UT police say
- San Antonio Man Will Be Tried for 12-Year $100 Million Air Force Fraud
- Florence man faces burglary charges in case of missing cedar posts
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- Local government
- State district judge rules part of Houston’s pension reform is unconstitutional
- Harris County cannot send mail ballot applications to all voters, Texas Supreme Court rules
- Midland ISD: Cost of renaming Lee could cost $3.469 million, Trademark filing now part of Lee renaming issue
- City of Wichita Falls: Construction projects may require permit
- Dixon to follow the Athenian Oath as interim city manager of Breckenridge
- Taylor County Judge on bars reopening: ‘the goal here is trying to get everything to open’
- Longtime Taylor County Commissioner Stan Egger dies
- Abilene council approves downtown parking changes
- Abilene Wylie denies rumors Lubbock ISD ordered football players to stay in locker room for anthem
- Levelland announces hiring of Cole Kirkland as new Emergency Management Coordinator
- Fort Stockton father says high school staff and coaches refused to help passed out daughter VIDEO
- Frenship ISD $300M bond ballot includes plans to renovate, build new schools
- Bastrop approves $12.5 million budget, tax increase
- Former police chief sues Liberty Hill, mayor over firing
- Officials ask: What’s next for embattled Austin DNA crime lab?
- Grammy winners urge Austin leaders to find more money for music venues
- Duncanville Church Fights Eminent Domain Seizure in Court
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- Colleges & universities
- 40 days later, Rice sit-in leader isn’t giving up on removal of ‘racist’ founder’s statue – an utter fool
- Odessa College gets ExxonMobil support for BAAS degree
- Vernon College opens scholarship to help students pay for classes during COVID-19
- ACU welcomes three National Merit finalists
- WBU closes campus events to public
- TTU Research Team Receives USDA Grant To Further Research On Imported Food Safety
- Texas Tech Chancellor tests positive for COVID-19 – he’s an MD
- South Plains College to Host a License to Carry Course
- UT gets Energy Department grant to advance predictive science using plasma torches
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- Military
- ‘The Military’s #MeToo Moment:’ Fort Hood Victims Speak Out
- Army, Air Force Cancel San Antonio Thanksgiving Traditions
- San Antonio Man Will Be Tried for 12-Year $100 Million Air Force Fraud
Pratt’s post for 10/8/2020
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