- Appeals Court Grants Stay to Texas AG in Mail-In Ballot Case, more
- Abbott’s order limiting ballot drop-off sites stands, for now – even the headline is misleading.
- AG Paxton: Fifth Circuit Grants Stay in Appeal to Secure Ballot Hand-Delivery Locations
- Republican-led states made voting easier during the pandemic. And then there’s Texas. – more Democrat propaganda. We added another week of early voting; we allowed for personal delivery of mail-in ballot to the county all through the voting period (law allows for mailing only except delivery on election day.)
- Outside governor’s mansion, hundreds of conservatives call on Abbott to end COVID-19 restrictions
- State GOP Chair Allen West, Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller join anti-Greg Abbott protest outside Governor’s Mansion
- Texans Show up to Governor’s Mansion to Protest Abbott’s Shutdowns
- Donor Threatens to Sue Embattled Texas AG Over Dropped Case – hardly sounds like an insider deal to help a donor now does it?
- Prosecutors see irony, opportunity in $300 fee for Paxton’s outside lawyer
- Pratt: Beware “education watchdogs” in Texas
- Governor Abbott Appoints Three To Texas Southern University Board Of Regents
- DNC Launches New Radio Ad Campaign Reaching Latino Voters in Texas
- Tight Margins Highlight Danger of Voter Fraud Ignored
- Right to Vote Protected Even for Those in Nursing Homes
- Federal Lawsuit Filed Over Zuckerberg Grants for Texas Elections
- Record voter turnout expected, as Harris County roll grows by 234K since 2016
- Prescription drug costs take center stage in Texas races for Congress
- Sen. John Cornyn, MJ Hegar go on the offensive in first and only debate
- Cornyn, Hegar Clash Over Virus, Court in Texas Senate Debate
- Texas’ John Cornyn and MJ Hegar argue over coronavirus response, policing and the Supreme Court in U.S. Senate debate
- Senator Royce West, runoff opponent, won’t vote for MJ Hegar, says
- Inability to end spat with rival Royce West threatens MJ Hegar’s ability to rally Black voters
- TX6: In suburban D-FW congressional race, Wright touts conservative record, Daniel calls for end to ‘extremism’
- TX10: In rematch, Siegel pushes progressive agenda, McCaul attacks
- TX11: GOP’s Pfluger: Protecting oil industry will bring back strong economy
- TX11: Dem’s Hogg: Stopping pandemic will restore economy and oil market
- TX19: Watson vs. incumbent Arrington
- TX24: Beth Van Duyne and Candace Valenzuela, locked in congressional race, battle to define Texas suburban way of life
- TX32: Genevieve Collins pulls out of congressional debate after undergoing emergency surgery
- HD71 race: Experience versus new vision
- HD108: Meyer says he’s centrist, Cattanach says he’s out of touch in Texas House rematch for key Dallas seat
- HD112: Ad by GOP incumbent Button blasts Chambers for ‘diversity’ comment
- SD30: Governor Abbott Sets Date For Special Runoff Election In Senate – Sat. 19 December, more
- SD30: Luther-Springer Senate Runoff Set for December
- SD30: Special election runoff between Shelley Luther and state Rep. Drew Springer set for Dec. 19
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- Federal/DC related to Texas
- ABA standing committee rates Barrett as ‘well qualified’ for Supreme Court slot
- Cornyn, Cruz share spotlight as Barrett hearings begin
- Four of country’s 28 Republican governors don’t sign letter in support of Barrett confirmation
- Cornyn rebuked by Senate Democrat in Barrett hearing – that Cornyn was “startled” shows how ignorant are our old-hands at what the Left is.
- Cruz: ‘Complete Unanimity’ Pre-Existing Conditions ‘Can and Should Be Protected’ – then it’s not insurance but assurance
- Amy Coney Barrett Never Said ‘She Wants to Get Rid of the Affordable Care Act’ – too bad
- Democrats: Amy Will Kill Americans – risible morons
- Barrett vows to interpret laws ‘as they are written’ – a real threat to the Left
- Schumer: Democrats will boycott vote on Trump’s Supreme Court nominee
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- Presidential race / national politics
- Biden Says Voters ‘Don’t Deserve’ to Know His Position on Court Packing
- Pence: ‘Outrageous’ Biden Claims Americans Do Not ‘Deserve’ to Know Court Packing Answer
- Harris Claims GOP ‘Endangering Lives’ by Holding SCOTUS Hearing
- Teen climate change activist Greta Thunberg endorses Biden – oh boy! I better switch my vote!!!
- Biden Campaign Visits Texas Tuesday But Not Mannequin Joe
- Biden maintains solid 8-point lead on Trump just 3 weeks from election
- Biden Considering a Surprising Choice for Attorney General – given he won’t answer questions on much of anything, all would be a surprise.
- Trump in holiday proclamation bemoans ‘radical activists’ undermining Columbus
- Confessions of the Secret Suburban Trump Moms: Arizona -“The Wall is a practical solution to a long unsolved problem”
- Twitter has petty reaction to Trump’s tweet!
- Mark Levin Reminds Dr. Fauci That He DID Praise the Trump Administration’s Coronavirus Response
- Washed-up Keith Olbermann: Trump Supporters Are ‘Maggots,’ Must Be ‘Prosecuted’
- Fauci again runs to CNN to whine and complain
- California’s vote-by-mail campaign could affect election results, taxpayer group’s lawsuit says
- CNN Doesn’t Carry Amy Coney Barrett Hearing, Complains About Orthodox Jews Instead
- Double Standards and Cancel Culture at the US Naval Academy: Football Team Edition
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- Columbus Day Special:
- Our guest: Dr. Stephen Balch
- Institute for the Study of Western Civilization
- The Attacks on Christopher Columbus Expose the Crisis Within Western Civilization
- The siege of Western Civilization
- The Origins Of Western Civilization
- What’s So Great about Western Civilization
- The demise of American schooling
- Trump in holiday proclamation bemoans ‘radical activists’ undermining Columbus
- Canceling Columbus: How it started years ago, and escalated in 2020
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- Border / immigration
- Human Smugglers Pack 100 Illegal Aliens in Refrigerated Trailer in Texas near Border
- Shift to Armed Human Smuggling in South Texas Worries Feds
- Narco-Rapper Killed in Mexican Border City, Reynosa, Cartel Turf War, more
- Mexican Narco-Gun Runner Linked to Australian Drug Shipments
- Atlanta woman returning from “Nuevo Laredo vacation” found with $1.9M in heroin
- Film based on families who fled to El Paso running from drug cartels, wins international award
- President Trump can’t use $3.6 billion in military funds for border wall construction, federal court rules – more 9th Circus B.S.
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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 10/12/2020 (pdf) – 16,557* deaths. The # viral tested in Texas is now 6,887,551. * 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
- Only a misinformed public would believe Democrats took COVID more seriously than President Trump
- Outside governor’s mansion, hundreds of conservatives call on Abbott to end COVID-19 restrictions
- Wave of ‘Nutcracker’ Cancellations Hits Dance Companies Hard – an example of the hurtful stupidity of the WuFlu restrictions placed on a free people.
- Governor Abbott Surges State Resources To Support COVID-19 Response In El Paso
- Abbott’s Shutdown Orders Kill Thousands of Texas Businesses
- Dr. Li-Meng Yan Reveals China’s Fake Science and the COVID-19 Cover-up
- Look Who’s Skeptical of a Coronavirus Vaccine Now
- 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
- 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
- Austin teachers resign as classrooms reopen – good, saves from firing them!
- The demise of American schooling
- Dallas ISD Considers Extending School Year to Combat ‘Devastating Impact on Student Achievement’
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- Business/Economy
- Southwest Airlines will expand to Houston’s Bush Intercontinental Airport
- Report: AMD weighing $30B deal for rival chipmaker Xilinx
- Yelp’s anti-racist social credit nightmare
- Abbott’s Shutdown Orders Kill Thousands of Texas Businesses
- New Texas Opera Alliance bands five opera companies together
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- Protest, rioting, looting & more
- Rioters Topple Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt Statues in Portland; Museum Windows Smashed VIDEO
- Portland: ‘Day of Rage’ as rioters destroy statues, attack historical society
- Security guard jailed in deadly shooting at Denver protests; shot Trump supporter
- Patriot Shot Dead By News Media Security Guard After Dueling Rallies In Denver
- Denver Shooter Likely Faces an Uphill Legal Battle to Claim Self-Defense in Shooting Pro-Trump Rally Attendee
- Black Lives Matter supporters organize Minority Cruise around Lubbock
- Wolfe City police officer antagonized people in small Texas town prior to shooting of Jonathan Price, residents say
- Louisville cops collected “negative information” on Breonna Taylor’s boyfriend
- Mark Cuban on the NBA’s support for BLM and China – excuse making
- Eight officers injured, 76 arrested in LA after Lakers victory celebration turns dangerous
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- Crime & general news of Texas
- Driver killed in highway shooting in southeast Houston
- Man killed, wife wounded during possible drug buy near Houston Galleria
- Man, 28, arrested on suspicion of arson in connection to recent fires in Houston
- Second man killed in 2 days at Conroe bar
- Fourth person arrested in Sierra Rhodd’s killing
- Fire breaks out at Texas Renaissance Festival
- Man suspected of killing toddler, wounding mom is fatally shot by HPD
- 2 killed in Harris Co. crash with 18-wheeler making u-turn
- Car strikes, critically injures pedestrian in North Austin, EMS says
- Accused Texas Tech shooter still awaiting trial, 3 years after police officer’s death VIDEO
- Suspect in custody after pursuit ends in Lynn County
- Odessa couple charged in child’s death, Odessa police: 8-year-old girl who died of dehydration forced to jump on trampoline in 110-degree heat
- Midland Motorcyclist Killed in Head-on Near Eastland
- James May Murder affidavit reveals possible motive
- Wichita Falls mother arrested for attempting to use daughters urine for drug test
- Wichita Falls Fire Department responds to mail truck fire
- Step-grandfather charged with sex crimes
- Police arrest man for threatening to shoot deputy
- Ovalo man arrested for online solicitation of a minor
- 35-year-old Snyder man killed, 6 injured in crash reported in Garza County
- Shooting sends two to the hospital after dispute over Dallas Cowboys game
- Four Texans win top Lotto prizes in one night
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- Local government
- Donald Neely sues city of Galveston, police department for $1 million
- Lake Jackson splash pad was source of deadly brain-eating amoeba, CDC says
- Austin’s Prop A: What voters would get for $7.1 billion transit plan – massive debt, much higher property taxes immediately, and very little “transit”
- Council returns to creation of Public Facilities Corp.
- Judge rules in favor of Odessa American
- Iowa Park implements golf cart ordinance
- Why PIERS opposes Wichita Falls ISD school bond measure
- What would approving WFISD school bonds bring?
- Abilene PD chief finalist takes job at Victoria, race narrows to two final candidates
- RIP: Dawson County Commissioner Tony Hernandez
- After delay, Lubbock City Council to vote on impact fees Tuesday – Austin-style taxes on development
- Dallas City Council member Blackmon: Passing a budget was hard. The next step is going to be even harder.
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- Colleges & universities
- Governor Appoints Three To Texas Southern University Board Of Regents
- 10 Questions with ACU senior VP Linda Bonnin
Pratt’s post for 10/12/2020 Columbus Day
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