- Radio Ad Invites Texans to Protest Abbott’s Shutdowns tomorrow, 10 Octobers
- Texas Freedom Caucus Releases Video Pledging to Fight All Efforts to Defund Law Enforcement – “Public Safety Matters” VIDEO
- Accusations against AG Ken Paxton fueled by ties between two attorneys in Nate Paul case
- Paxton sought meeting with Travis County prosecutors over Nate Paul allegations – not illegal, not immoral, not even unprecedented. Note, this continues to appear as the classic staffers thinking they are, or should be, in charge of things! Paxton releases AG document proving outside counsel acting with authority AND that complaint was indeed referred to the AG by Travis Co. DA (pdf)
- Breaking: Paxton closes investigation after Travis DA withdraws support – so when it became political for the Democrat DA, she shifts into reverse. Who is playing politics with investigations? And read the letter of referral [page 2 of the pdf] from Travis Co., it does not say we are referring this to the AG directly because he, Paxton, requested it. No, it says the direct referral is because it cannot go to the DPS as is normal because DPS is part of what is being investigated! Also, the work was happening in Travis Co. courts and DA Moore never had a problem with the investigation, since her office referred it on 10 June, until this became a political story.
- Attorney General Ken Paxton Closes Investigation at Center of Criminal Allegations, Questions Remain
- In New Email, Senior Aides Say Ken Paxton Used Power Of His Office To Benefit Political Donor Nate Paul – again, it’s just the accusers repeating the accusations and slant they give such.
- GOP Judiciary Chairman Demands Investigation Into Allegations Against AG Paxton
- U.S. Sen. John Cornyn says he’s “not really happy” with the way Ken Paxton has run the Texas attorney general’s office
- On executive power and the role of the Legislature
- Education watchdogs give Texas an ‘F’ for its climate change curriculum – and now you understand that most, if not all, “education watchdogs” are simply front groups for the worldwide Leftists including Democrats.
- School Districts Raise Principals’ Pay During COVID-19 Slump Across Texas – see how it works, the admin pay just ratchets up no matter what’s happening
- Multistate Coalition Reaches $60 Million Settlement with C.R. Bard
- DPS Opens New Inspection Facility in Seguin on I-10
- Abbott Directs DPS To Increase Patrols Around UT Austin In Response To West Campus Robberies
- The Back Mic: Taxpayer-Funded Lobbying Pledge, New Rankings of Legislative Districts, Latest Campaign Ads
- Texas Right to Life Responds to Baby Nick Torres Story – Texas Children’s Hospital Could Just let a Grieving Family Grieve
- Baby Tinslee Receives Support from Disability Groups, Religious Leaders in Texas Supreme Court Brief
- Judge urged to void Abbott order limiting ballot drop-off sites – never had them before and the law doesn’t allow for such
- U.S. judge casts doubt on Abbott’s limit to mail-ballot drop-off sites – hack
- AG Paxton: Carrollton Mayoral Candidate Arrested for Mail Ballot Fraud
- Political Corruption Is Real… And It Is Our Fault
- Facebook Founder Funnels Millions to Dallas County Elections Dept.
- Facebook thinks it’s running the election
- As fears of election-related unrest rise, here’s what you need to know about poll watchers in Texas
- GOP opponent files ethics complaint against Democrat in Travis County DA race
- Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s ratings fell during the pandemic, UT/TT Poll finds
- HD45 & HD47: Zwiener, Berry lead in money race in 2 closely-watched Texas House races
- Is HD 84 becoming competitive in 2020? – no and it’s more wishful thinking. Those Dems that got 20% or less of the vote were never the legitimate candidate type. The district is about a ten to fifteen point Republican district then as well as now.
- HD102: In Texas House rematch, Ramos says she’s a voice for working class, Koop says she’s too liberal
- RA News Polling: Texas House Flip Likely, Abbott Approval Declining, Trump Slipping in Suburbs – could be but I doubt it (this is Leftwing group)
- TX23: Jones, Gonzales condemn KKK, spar on border wall during first debate
- Houston Chronicle editors praise Cornyn’s service and endorse liberal Dem MJ Hegar -with friends like that who need enemies?
- Cornyn-Hegar Texas Senate debate tonight at 7pm
- John Cornyn leads MJ Hegar by 8 points in U.S. Senate race, UT/TT Poll finds
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- Federal/DC related to Texas
- Pelosi Takes Airline Workers Hostage to Demand Blue State Bailout
- Stimulus checks: McConnell says stimulus package ‘unlikely in the next three weeks’
- Trump administration extends free meals for kids for entire school year
- Trump Says FEMA Is Prepared for Hurricane Delta
- Sen. Cruz Introduces National Child Identification Act
- FBI: More People Killed with Hands, Fists, than Rifles in 2019
- NSA O’Brien makes good on Trump promise, releases previously redacted Russia document
- Coalition Letter Opposing 5G Nationalization
- Coalition Letter Urging Senators To Confirm Amy Coney Barrett
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- Presidential race / national politics
- Poll: 56% Americans Say They Are Better Off Now Under Trump Than Four Years Ago Under Obama-Biden
- Biden Blames Trump for Gretchen Whitmer Kidnap Attempt, Without Evidence
- Trump Slams de Blasio’s Crackdown of NY Jews: ‘What Does this Grim Picture Remind You Of?’
- Another Trump Train Rally Is Happening in Lubbock
- Trump Strikes Back At Gov. Whitmer After She Blames Him For Kidnapping Plot
- Only a misinformed public would believe Democrats took COVID more seriously than President Trump
- Joe Biden sending Jill Biden to Texas as Dems ramp up investment in long-neglected state – in other words, we’ll help with down ballot races but that’s it
- Biden Can’t Have It Both Ways on the Virus
- Debate moderator Steve Scully had an odd exchange with Anthony Scaramucci and now claims he was hacked (Update: Not the first time he’s claimed this)
- Debate moderator Steve Scully’s tweet to Scaramucci raises questions about impartiality
- Blackwell: Abolish the Debate Commission If No In-person Debates
- Commission on Presidential Debates Cancels Oct. 15 Debate – no, they tried to go beyond their charge and when they did, Trump canceled the debate by saying “no” to a stupid online B.S. deal. Abolish the commission.
- Chris Wallace says Trump ‘made big mistake’ by bailing from second presidential debate
- Protesters arrested outside home of Midland pastor Bob Fu, more
- Biden Fundraiser Jane Fonda Says COVID-19 Is ‘God’s Gift to the Left’ – but the Left official does not believe in God.
- Blue State Blues: Once Socialism Gets In, You Can Never Vote It Out
- NJ Postal Service worker arrested in connection with tossing mail, including nearly 100 ballots
- Gun Ownership in a Time of Uncertainty
- Democrats Will Never Learn
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- Border / immigration
- Cuellar: Border bridges could be reopened on Oct. 21
- Mexican Border City Cops Suspected of Giving Radio Support to Gulf Cartel
- ICE Arrests 46 in Sex Trafficking Sting
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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 10/09/2020 (pdf) – 16,334* deaths. The # viral tested in Texas is now 6,703,106. * 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-19 and the false positive trap: Current test results should not be automatically accepted as real
- COVID Death Stats…Inaccurate or Just Misleading?
- Major Hospital CEO Refutes Austin Mayor’s Coronavirus Doomsday Prediction
- Nashville officials accused of hiding low coronavirus cases linked to bars and restaurants
- Let’s Not Pretend This Is Constitutional , ‘He’s decided he’s the king’: Gov. Greg Abbott’s COVID response leaves lawmakers on sidelines
- Federal judge rules Pennsylvania COVID-19 restrictions unconstitutional
- Michigan Supreme Court calls lock down orders by governor illegal
- 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
- 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
- A ‘Failed Strategy’: Doctors Review Abbott’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
- The Big COVID Con Exposed
- 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
- Texas Democrats remind they’d run Texas as a prison state
- The idiocy, ignorance, and corruption of California’s Governor Newsom
- Fort Worth Stock Show and Rodeo canceled, first time since 1943 – stupid
- Governor Abbott Updates Disaster Declaration for Regions With High COVID-19 Hospitalizations
- Only a misinformed public would believe Democrats took COVID more seriously than President Trump
- 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
- Four graphs prove the utter failure of lockdowns and masks
- Cuomo Rants: Wear a mask! that’s the law! blames cops, blames Jews, blames Trump
- Dallas Fed CEO: Face masks ‘No. 1 economic policy tool’ for financial recovery – he is an utter fool. Many of us are not going to places BECAUSE of the mask rule. Plus the data does not support that masks lower infection rates significantly.
- 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
- In person learning for children characterized as ‘racism toward Black and Brown families’ – the mentally diseased Left at work.
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- Business/Economy
- Baker Hughes oil & gas rig count update, Rig count rises for fourth straight week
- US oil and gas industry lost 107,000 jobs in the pandemic
- Texas Petro Index declines for 18th straight month to 150.4
- ConocoPhillips places domestic focus on Eagle Ford rather than Permian
- Astros hold off A’s to advance to fourth straight ALCS
- San Antonio exotic-wildlife breeder calls ex-exec ‘parasite’
- Pelosi Takes Airline Workers Hostage to Demand Blue State Bailout
- SpaceX: Starship prototype #8 passes tank tests; engine installation next VIDEO
- SpaceX: Military considering using Starship for point-to-point transportaion
- Musk: Starlink about to roll out commercial service
- Tilman Fertitta, Jefferies partner on another ‘blank check’ entity
- Stewart Information’s Eppinger to capitalize on century-old title insurance brand
- Pipeline Mogul Kelcy Warren Follows Playbook, Stepping Down But Staying
- How can you get your company to cover work from home expenses? – just take the home office tax deduction and pay for it yourself.
- Tecovas saddles up as it expands to The Woodlands
- The oil and gas industry revolved around a tiny Oklahoma town. Then Houston took over.
- Pabst Blue Ribbon moves headquarters from California to downtown San Antonio
- For Byron Nelson’s widow, her husband’s name on an apartment complex was a jolt. No one asked her
- Molly McAdams named executive vice president of the Texas Beef Council
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- Protest, rioting, looting & more
- Mother of Teen Killed by Wisconsin Police Arrested, Injured During Protest
- Looting Begins as Violent Protest Continues in Wisconsin
- National Guard Deploys in Wisconsin to Enforce Curfew
- Bozell: The Real Story of Black Lives Matter — Marxist, Anti-Family Radicals
- How Black Lives Matter’s Antagonism To Marriage And Family Hurts Black Americans
- Missouri governor says he’ll pardon St. Louis couple who waved guns at protesters if convicted
- Portland Mayoral candidate Sarah Iannarone once again stands with Antifa
- Bad Move: Yelp Creates an ‘Alert’ System to Label Businesses Accused of Being Racist – this will bring some expensive lawsuits
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- Crime & general news of Texas
- Hurricane Delta Slightly Weakens in Gulf; Category 3 Storm Now Has Maximum Sustained Winds of 115 Mph
- Jacksboro Chief of Police has charges dismissed
- Rodeo Austin’s ex-financial manager, indicted for stealing, takes plea deal
- Local SWAT team called out after online solicitation suspect hides in attic
- Odessa PD: Man arrested after standoff, charged with endangering a child, more
- Man charged with animal cruelty, bestiality wants examing trial and changes to bond conditions
- Alleged naked cake-eating burglar arrested for drugs
- Coppell man purchased houses, cars with PPP loans
- Abilene duo arrested in connection to Tennessee murder
- Police: 4 injured, 2 critically, after car going 100-plus mph, runs red light in Abilene, more
- Lubbock: Brother arrested after fight, knife attack, possible COVID-19 exposure
- Abilene police: Assaulted woman escapes residence, seeks help at convenience store
- Texas teen breaks Guinness World Records for world’s longest legs
- DPS Seeks Public’s Assistance in 1992 Cold Case Killing in Refugio County
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- Local government
- Austin ISD board candidates raise $158K in campaign donations
- Austin: Ethics complaints filed against anti-Prop A campaign, nonprofit
- City of Austin Hires Convicted Thief, Gets Robbed of Over $1.3M
- McLennan County: In-person trials to resume in November
- Voters to decide on creating Bell County emergency services district
- Judge will decide jurisdiction of newspaper lawsuit against City of Odessa
- Jacksboro Chief of Police has charges dismissed
- Lina Hidalgo: How the Times are Shaping Harris County’s Top Officeholder – puff-piece from a Leftwing publication
- Duncanville threatens to take church property through eminent domain
- Leander ISD Rejects LGBTQ Language At School Board Meeting
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- Colleges & universities
- Abbott adds DPS patrols to UT area after string of robberies in West Campus
- UT staff member dies after contracting COVID-19 – sad but why does this merit a big story unless the idea is to frighten about being open? UT Austin had 11,645 staff members (2015) and 3,722 faculty members (2019-20)!
- MSU pilots new “wellness” program “Let’s Chat.”
- Texas Tech Leftism: SGA considers cultural intelligence training for students, organizations
- On 3rd anniversary of campus shooting — killing TTU police officer, where do things stand?
- Baylor Pausing All Football Activities After Positive COVID Tests dumb
Pratt’s post for 10/9/2020
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