- Texas GOP Rift Emerges Over Discontent With Gov. Abbott’s Executive Orders – no kidding! It hasn’t just “emerged,” it has been there since April.
- Abbott Follows Florida, Falls Short on Police Proposals
- Who on SREC Opposed Texas GOP Resolution to ‘Open Texas’?
- Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick Calls for Audit of Alamo Preservation Project
- Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick: Full Alamo story focuses on battle of 1836 – told you so (what the real agenda is…)
- A Rep’s Push For More Female Leaders In The Texas House – you think they’d be happy with more committee chairwomen if such were conservatives?
- As Texas Economy Continues to Re-Open, TWC Reinstates Unemployment Insurance (UI) Work Search
- AG Paxton: Updated Settlement Reached with Opioid Manufacturer Mallinckrodt Following Company Bankruptcy
- Nate Paul, attorney demand Paxton’s office ‘set the record straight’
- Changes in Funding for Texas Special Ed Needed Now, Committee Says
- Texas receives $3.5 million for distance learning, telemedicine
- Governor Abbott Appoints Short To Governor’s University Research Initiative Advisory Board
- Justice Eva Guzman Charts Trailblazing Course Through Texas Judiciary
- AG Paxton: Fifth Circuit Grants Stay Halting District Court Order, Secures Ballot Hand-Delivery Locations, more – the full “stay,” not just the emergency stay.
- Appeals court backs Abbott’s voter suppression – how the Left terms following the law.
- LULAC to appeal ruling that limits Texas counties to 1 mail-in ballot drop site to Supreme Court – good luck there Democrat front-group LULAC
- Days before early voting begins, court’s issue competing rulings over Gov. Abbott’s ballot security proclamation
- Despite Virus Fears, Texas Sends Most Voters to the Polls – what virus fears?
- Texas adds 1.8 million registered voters since 2016 presidential election
- Early voting opens with long lines at some Houston polling sites, glitches in Fort Bend
- Harris County breaks record for the first day of early voting with hours to go before polls close
- ‘Issues’ with voter list delays early voting in Wichita County, fixed
- Boundary hiccup causes hundreds of mail-in ballots to be reprinted in Caldwell County
- Euless: Voters Turned Away, Polling Place Closes After Worker Tests Positive for COVID-19
- Party chairs: No straight-party voting means longer time at polls
- Texas Republican Party sues Harris County over drive-thru voting – there is nothing in the election code which permits “drive-thru” voting and curb-side voting is limited to those who cannot physically enter a polling place.
- Study says many Latinos don’t vote because they aren’t sought, and they aren’t sought because they don’t vote – what soft-racism and B.S.
- How Police Reform Is Playing A Role In The Harris County DA’s Race
- SBOE 9: Retired teacher faces incumbent for State Board of Education seat
- Grassroots America Releases Endorsements for Pivotal November Election
- Rep. Katie Porter and progressive PAC make a play for Texas
- TX3: GOP incumbent Rep. Van Taylor faces Democrat Lulu Seikaly in fast-changing, competitive Collin County – Liberal Lulu!
- TX11: Three seeking Conaway’s seat give views
- John Cornyn challenger MJ Hegar fails to secure support from Dem rival
- Cornyn ad exploits MJ Hegar-Royce West spat, drawing West’s ire for trying to ‘sow racial divisions’
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- Federal/DC related to Texas
- Sen. Cruz on Day One of SCOTUS Hearing: ‘Nobody Laid a Glove on Judge Barrett’
- Cruz: Senate Can, Should, and Will Confirm Judge Barrett
- Senator Whitehouse’s attack on Cornyn during Amy Coney Barrett’s hearing was… very odd
- Sheldon Whitehouse Is a Loon, Sheldon Whitehouse’s Funhouse Math
- WaPo tries to link Barrett children to positive COVID-19 tests
- Barrett says she won’t give issues ‘thumbs up or thumbs down’ as Dems grill nominee on ObamaCare, Trump
- Barrett affirms repeatedly that she made ‘no commitment’ to the White House on how she will rule
- Dem uses question time in Barrett hearing to suggest ‘dark money’ ‘scheme’ behind court’s 5-4 decisions
- Media taking “Mean Girls” approach to Coney Barrett
- Democrats tout anti-Barrett letter from Notre Dame faculty – but no signers are from law school
- The GOP’s Faustian bargain with Trump pays off – I don’t think it was a “Faustian” bargain.
- Declassified FBI spreadsheet exposes folly of Steele dossier’s uncorroborated claims
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- Presidential race / national politics
- Do you want a Trump or Biden economy?
- Dr. Scott Atlas blasts critics of Trump’s comeback rally
- White Evangelicals Hope to Keep Changing Texas Red for Trump – B.S., evangelicals in Texas are not the central core of Trump support
- Why Secret Trump Voters Are The Crucial Bet For Shifting Election Odds
- Trump getting support from those most affected by ‘asymmetrical’ COVID lockdowns: Hanson
- The Preexisting Condition Issue Is All About Politics, Not Policy
- Trump fires back at Fauci in growing dispute between the scientist, campaign
- Are Either Trump Voters or Biden Voters Particularly ‘Shy’?
- Nearly 60% of likely voters — including 70% of undecideds — believe U.S. shouldn’t lock down again
- Biden’s son-in-law advises campaign on COVID-19 while trying to invest in related start-ups
- ‘Not up to the job’: Former White House doctor says Biden lacks ‘mental capacity’ for presidency
- Biden: The 56% of voters who think they’re better off than four years ago “probably shouldn’t” vote for me, more – OK
- Jill Biden in El Paso: ‘For the first time in a long time, winning Texas is possible’
- Biden: Look, Jack, I’m not a fan of Court-packing, more
- Even Leftwing “PolitiFact” says Biden “false” in saying SCOTUS appointment in election year “not constitutional”
- Tara Reade penning memoir on coming forward as a Biden accuser, will be released before election
- Western Civilization and cultures are superior as a whole so why decry it?
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- Border / immigration
- Tripwires and Triggers: Ride in an Armed Cartel Smuggling Truck Deep into Texas VIDEO
- Under the U.S.-Mexico border, miles of tunnels worth millions
- Facebook Message Leads Mexican Border State Cops to Kidnapped Migrants
- Affidavit: Smuggler said he was en route to a karate tournament in San Antonio
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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 10/13/2020 (pdf) – 16,558* deaths. The # viral tested in Texas is now 6,951,394. * 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
- 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
- The curious case of the man who caught COVID twice
- People who survive serious COVID have long-lasting immune response, MGH study shows
- Johnson & Johnson pauses its coronavirus vaccine trials as volunteer falls ill
- The incredible vanishing World Health Organization
- After months of encouraging lockdowns WHO officials now condemn them
- 30 to 40% of Lubbock’s COVID hospitalizations are from other hosptial jurisdictions – another reason Abbott’s regional percentage triggers are stupid.
- Nearly 60% of likely voters — including 70% of undecideds — believe U.S. shouldn’t lock down again
- 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
- Florida proves (again) the stupidity of mask mandates
- 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’
- Texas Teachers Are Demanding That Schools Be Safe Before They Return. But They Have Little Leverage Short Of Quitting. – but what is “safe?” They just don’t want to go to work.
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- Business/Economy
- Blue Origin successfully completes another unmanned suborbital test flight of New Shepard from Texas, more VIDEO – not much in these continued suborbital launches.
- SpaceX begins installing Raptor engines on Starship prototype #8
- Alamo Drafthouse Mueller faces lawsuit over rent payment
- Southwest Airlines to Expand in Houston and Chicago in 2021
- American Airlines completes Beijing realignment with move to new Daxing airport
- State-Funded Horse Shows Still On Despite Fort Worth Rodeo Cancellation – good. The Rodeo folks are wimps.
- A Massive Threat to Innovation Dodged–for Now
- Chevron to lay off 700 employees in Houston, reports say
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- Protest, rioting, looting & more
- Police Warn of Escalation of Force as Wisconsin Protests Continue
- Civil War-Era Obelisk in New Mexico Toppled After Police Left, Say Locals – New Mexico was a UNION state!
- Vandals Deface Chicago Blackhawks’ Statue with Defund Police Message
- ‘Protests will be harder, heavier this time:’ New Yorkers are girding for Election Day unrest
- At New York’s PBS station, the Inclusion and Diversity Council demanded the CEO resign – another liberal hung with the rope he gave his accusers!
- Denver Patriot Rally shooter pleading self-defense
- Colin Kaepernick, Essayist: The Athlete Pens a Series on the Superior Safety of No Prisons or Police
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- Crime & general news of Texas
- El Paso Woman Drowns After Falling off Boat in Lake Tahoe
- Alleged donation box thief arrested
- Police: Woman assaulted boyfriend with air-freshener
- Mother jailed after infant tests positive for drugs
- Tyler family shocked after babysitter is arrested for leaving their child alone for hours VIDEO
- Cooke County searching for missing senior
- Midlander dies after being ejected from vehicle
- Man, woman charged in connection to death of 8-year-old girl
- Woman charged with intoxication manslaughter for head-on crash in Eastland County
- Abilene police: Man chokes ex-girlfriend who rebuffs him
- Lubbock Police seeking public’s help finding vehicle burglary suspect
- Suspect arrested in Sept. hit-and-run crash that killed two in Lubbock
- Abernathy 17-year-old indicted on 2 counts of aggravated sexual assault of a child
- Fort Worth Police Investigate Home Invasion Shooting That Injured 2 People
- Man Found Dead at Rowlett City Jail After DWI Arrest
- Tarrant County Detectives Investigate Shooting That Left One Man Injured
- Southlake Town Square Murder Suspect Added To FBI’s 10 Most Wanted List
- Former Whitehouse ISD employee guilty of indecency with a child
- 64-year-old man fatally struck while pushing ice cream cart, Irving police say
- 2 people arrested in connection with deadly shooting at hotel near Dallas Love Field
- Mission man scheduled for arraignment in fatal Alamo shooting
- Woman arrested, accused of killing young Texas woman and stealing baby from her womb
- Innocent bystander shot in the face after gun fight breaks out in downtown Houston
- 18-wheeler hits, kills man in east Bexar County
- Union Pacific employee falls off railroad car
- Buda police investigating hit-and-run collision that killed woman Saturday
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- Local government
- Austin Small Business Owners Rail Against Transit Plan Tax Increase
- Austin setting up $15M relief lifeline for music venues, legacy businesses, child care
- News Channel 6 to host Wichita Falls mayoral debate Wednesday
- Baylor County and state officials discuss petition on dangerous intersection
- Eastland County Burn Ban in Effect
- Burn ban extended for Midland County
- Strength of Midland ISD’s case reflected in settlement with Superintendent Riddick, Orlando Riddick resigns as Midland ISD superintendent
- Ector Co. juvenile detention plan aired
- Brownwood City Council approves $8.9 million multipurpose event center in downtown – amazingly bad timing
- Will North Texas County Commissioners Serve Their ‘Spokesman’ or the Citizens?
- Arlington City Council, School Ask Citizens to Hike Taxes
- Morton Outlaws Abortion, Declares Itself “Sanctuary City for the Unborn”
- Dallas ISD Adds Program to Recruit More Black Male Teachers
- New Dallas City Council Committee Assignments Reflect Johnson’s Priorities, Mayor Says
- Rio Grande City utilities director alleges theft within department
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- Colleges & universities
- MSU athletes host Unity March
- Tech researchers study mosquito resistance to insecticides
- Texas Tech Will Not Resume In-Person After Thanksgiving Break – more B.S. unwarranted wimpism but hey, why not? They still all get paid – with our tax money.
- South Plains College to continue as scheduled after Thanksgiving break non-wimps!
- UT System chancellor discusses future of higher education at #LBJ50 event
- UT-Austin teaching assistants lack PPE, hazard pay – what babies.
- Without a break, TCU students feel more overwhelmed – more babies
- TCU to give raises for employees
Pratt’s post for 10/13/2020
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