- Malone: Last Call for Citizen Input on Texas Gun Rights before House Committee
- Both the Right and the Left Are Unhappy With Abbott
- Texas residents pay 8.7% of their [per capita] income in state, local taxation
- Texas veterans make up 6.8% of state’s population, study finds
- Governor Abbott Announces Over $296 Million In Funding For Public Safety Initiatives In Texas
- DPS Troopers honored for service during mass shooting
- DPS Awards Highlight Exceptional Efforts
- Saturday Appointments Still Available at Driver License Offices
- Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick on the Death of Houston Fire Department Arson Investigator Lemuel Bruce
- AG Paxton Issues Letter Regarding Masking Requirements for Individuals Administering Elections
- Texas AG Reminds Election Officials: Masks Not Mandated at Polling Places
- We cannot stop mail-in voting, but it’s a terrible idea with so many opportunities for fraud
- Texans cast over 2.6 million ballots in 3 days of early voting
- Allen West, Texas GOP Chair, coming to Lubbock 10/24 for free event
- he Back Mic: Abbott Hints at Stronger Bar Reopening, Work Search Requirement for Unemployment Resumes, New Campaign Ads Released
- Beto O’Rourke slated to teach Texas politics at Texas State University in spring 2021 – your taxpayer schools are where liberals who can’t earn a real living go to get paid.
- MJ Hegar flips the script on John Cornyn in Senate fundraising – Cornyn’s polling numbers appear sound thus money is going to other key races, simple.
- Cornyn, Hegar Senate Race Tightens Ahead of Election
- Gun Owners of America Endorses Numerous Texas Candidates in November’s Election
- Spending in 12 key Texas U.S. House races is up 250% from 2016. Who has this ‘crazy money’?
- Can Republicans Reverse Dallas Democrats’ ‘Blue Wave’ in the Texas House?
- Democrats outraise 4 Austin-area GOP incumbents in congressional races
- Democrats Outraise Republicans in Most Competitive Texas Congressional Races
- Congressional races mirror presidential contest, with Democrats having single-digit poll leads
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- Federal/DC related to Texas
- Sen. Cruz on Confirmation Hearing for Judge Barrett: ‘Democrats Surrendered’
- FERC clears states to move ahead on carbon pricing
- Donald Trump: ‘Very Disappointed’ that ‘Obamagate’ Investigation Won’t Be Released Before Election
- Texans Cruz and Cornyn call to subpoena Twitter CEO over NY Post story on Biden, Ukraine
- Operation Legend: Over 5,000 Arrests Made to Reduce Violent Crimes
- Assessing the $600 Unemployment Boost
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- Presidential race / national politics
- Joe Biden: 8-Year-Olds Should Be Allowed to Decide They’re Transgender VIDEO
- Emails: Burisma Adviser Told Hunter Biden His ‘Ultimate Purpose’ Was to ‘Close Down’ Investigations
- Giuliani: Hunter Biden’s Attorney Contacted Computer Repairman After NY Post Story Broke, Wanted Hard Drive Back
- Biden campaign: Twitter’s response to the NY Post story proves it was false – that’s funny
- Cockburn: Hunter Biden rules, actually. He seems like a riot!
- Mark Levin: Joe Biden a Nasty Human Being Who Lied His Way to Power
- Joe Biden had this impeachment thing that was bleepin’ golden, but Hunter Biden messes it up
- Biden’s Historic ‘Luck’ With a Pusillanimous Press
- Biden Grilled by Young Black Man Over ‘You Ain’t Black’ Blast: His Answer Was Typical Biden
- Can Biden surf the gray wave to the White House? Battle for the boomers.
- The Case for Trump: Victor Davis Hanson Makes The Closing Argument AUDIO
- Donald Trump Town Hall: President talks jobs, economy and Supreme Court
- Congressman Arrington to speak at second Trump Train event, 2 p.m. Sunday at Cook’s Garage in Lubbock
- A Glaring Hole in the Alfa Bank/Trump Server Story Could Unravel the Russia Hoax
- Do TV Commercials Really Work in a Presidential Race Like This?
- Trump billboard in Houston goes viral after being vandalized
- Our democratic process is under threat – from the Left and its tech oligarchs
- Behind the social-media blackout of Biden family corruption
- Facebook and Twitter Censor Biden Bombshells Weeks After Execs Join His Transition Team
- Big Tech Acting as Dems’ Pravda
- RNC Files FEC Complaint Against Twitter
- Censorship Is about Power
- CA Attorney General Backs Down, CAGOP Private Ballot Drop Boxes Will Remain
- California Election Investigation Reveals Details of Shocking Potential Fraud of Incredible Proportion
- We cannot stop mail-in voting, but it’s a terrible idea with so many opportunities for fraud
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- Border / immigration
- Big Spring restaurateur sentenced to 15 months for illegally employing undocumented workers
- Mexico’s Former Secretary of Defense Arrested In California
- ‘This Is a War’: Cross-Border Fight Over Water Erupts in Mexico
- Darling doubts border bridges will be reopened this month
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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 10/16/2020 (pdf) – 16,812* deaths. The # viral tested in Texas is now 7,111,890. * 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
- The incredible vanishing World Health Organization
- After months of encouraging lockdowns WHO officials now condemn them
- Germany’s growing COVID revolt
- Bars in Texas’ Most Populous, Western Counties Stay Shut
- Epidemiologists call Texas’ COVID uptick a ‘warning sign’ – more panic crap. Note the fear of a “second wave.” But wait, didn’t they already call a second wave in June? No credibililty.
- Lubbock dangerously close to shutdown order from Governor Abbott
- As El Paso sees another record-high for coronavirus infections, leaders step up restrictions
- Dr. Fauci: Rethink usual plans for Thanksgiving – go to hell
- Dr. Fauci Has a New Demand of You, as His Shameless Media Tour Continues
- Higher death rate in Rio Grande Valley due to “healthcare shortcomings”
- Gov. Greg Abbott directs state resources to Amarillo, Lubbock to help COVID-19 surge response
- How San Antonio researchers played a key role in President Donald Trump’s experimental COVID-19 treatment
- El Paso Locked Down Again as COVID-19 Cases, Hospitalizations Rise
- Study: Almost impossible to contract COVID-19 on an airplane
- Houston mayor, task force recommend religious organizations limit themselves to 25% capacity -more insanity
- Andrew Cuomo’s revisionist history: Leadership Lessons From the COVID-19 Pandemic by Andrew Cuomo reviewed
- 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
- Citizen Victory: Southlake Stops Mandating Masks When Voting
- AG Paxton Issues Letter Regarding Masking Requirements for Individuals Administering Elections
- ‘Mask mandates don’t work’: White House COVID adviser criticizes ‘obsession’ with 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’
- 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.
- Governor Abbott, TEA, TDEM Announce COVID-19 Rapid Testing Pilot Program For Texas School Systems
- City View ISD getting rid of virtual learning due to student failure rates – seeing the same many places – the places that actually care about student success.
- Schools Should Return to Virtual Learning, Tarrant County Public Health Director Advises
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- Business/Economy
- Texas Unemployment Rate Rises to 8.3 Percent in September
- Rig count jumps by double digits nationally, Baker Hughes rotary rig count
- Schlumberger loses $82 million in third quarter
- FERC clears states to move ahead on carbon pricing
- Baker Botts launches carbon technology arm
- Oil claws back early loss on shrinking U.S. stockpiles
- BBVA USA offers loan discounts for clean-energy vehicles
- Oxy CEO: There won’t be ‘high growth’ in production
- Texas is a top destination for international homebuyers
- Wichita Falls Mary Kay consultant earns pink Cadillac
- Texans more likely to post negative reviews
- Austin real estate tech firm Ojo Labs makes fourth acquisition
- Leander announces proposed $1 billion mixed-use development featuring lagoon
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- Protest, rioting, looting & more
- Portland Protesters Start Fire in Street near Federal Courthouse, Police Threaten Arrests
- Cities of Portland, Oakland sue Homeland Security and DOJ
- Setting fires is not protest no matter what the hometown paper says
- Woke NFL adds National Coming Out Day to its social justice agenda
- Seattle Cop Car Set on Fire With Officer Inside
- Security Guard to Face 2nd-Degree Murder Charges in Denver Shooting
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- Crime & general news of Texas
- Midland: Prayer rally held for Bob Fu as protests continue, Payton to Fu’s neighbors: City is doing ‘everything that we can’ about protests, more
- Woman arrested for making husband’s ears bleed – wow, most all wives are then subject to arrest! J
- Cisco man accused of trafficking teen boys for years arrested
- Abilene police searching for information on hit-and-run that left woman in critical condition
- Abilene police issue warning about purse thief suspect wanted in 3 West Texas cities
- Teen with toy rifle shot and killed after approaching man who had real gun, deputies say – you can’t tell it’s a toy. VIDEO
- Big Spring restaurateur sentenced to 15 months for illegally employing undocumented workers
- Benny Judah, ordered to pay back $60 million from Lubbock ponzi scheme, files for compassionate release
- Austin billionaire Smith reaches deal to end federal investigation
- Body of Muleshoe missing woman found in NM; two potential suspects in custody
- Aryan Brotherhood gang member arrested after K-9 finds narcotics during traffic stop
- Lubbock PD searching for missing woman
- Houston billionaire charged with biggest tax evasion case in U.S. history, feds say
- Is home title theft a real thing? You bet it is, and here’s how to protect your property
- Alvin ISD student on bicycle dies after being struck by car
- Identity thief stole $26,000 from victim’s bank accounts, police say
- 18-year-old man shot in head while driving in League City; search underway for shooter
- Houston Fire Dept. arson investigator killed in shootout; suspect also dead
- Williamson deputy indicted in traffic stop that turned violent
- Driver charged with intoxication manslaughter in weekend South Austin crash
- 5 convenience store robberies around Austin linked, police say
- Affidavit says East Texas woman confessed to faking pregnancy, cutting baby from New Boston mother’s body
- ‘I am going to die’: Court docs shed light on events leading to fatal crash that killed Fort Bliss soldier
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- Local government
- Lubbock’s Mayor Equates Planned Parenthood With A Southern Baptist Church: A Pastor’s Response
- Midland ISD meets with city council to ask for CARES funds
- Burkburnett ISD selects superintendent finalist
- Wichita Falls council to consider contract for environmental report at landfill
- City of Abilene announces new Chief of Police: Marcus Dudley, Jr. VIDEO
- San Antonio ISD asked principals not to highlight National Coming Out Day – public schools have no business having anything to do with this.
- Environmentalists’ latest fight with CPS Energy draws notice from credit rating agencies
- City kicks in $141k to help lure ‘Walker’ TV reboot to Austin
- Austin Council: More talk planned on funding for music industry
- Appeals court dismisses Williamson county attorney’s lawsuit against commissioners
- Hinojosa: Cameron County should reject tax break for Rio Grande LNG
- Campirano: Port of Brownsville is proud to drive growth, economic prosperity
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- Colleges & universities
- Beto O’Rourke slated to teach Texas politics at Texas State University in spring 2021 – your taxpayer schools are where liberals who can’t earn a real living go to get paid.
- Multi-faceted approach sparks UTPB enrollment increase
- ACU receives $1.3M federal student success support grant
- TTU: Ribbon-cutting ceremony marks renovated Dairy Barn
- Sami Ward named Texas Tech head softball coach
- Prairie View A&M Students Combat Voter Suppression By Marching To Early Voting Site – there is no voter suppression and the march demonstrates such
- UT responds to Stan Richards’ comments that ad idea was ‘too Black’ in recent meeting with Motel 6
Pratt’s post for 10/16/2020
October 16, 2020 by 3 Comments
Love you RP ! If you have 2020 fall election recommendations on your website, I sure cant find them.
I apologize if you’ve already posted it and I missed it, but Mark Lee Dickson wrote another excellent response to the City of Lubbock and Mayor Pope concerning their objection to acting on the Sanctuary for the Unborn Ordinance: https://morning-mercies.org/2020/10/15/lubbocks-mayor-equates-planned-parenthood-with-a-southern-baptist-church-a-pastors-response/
It was posted in an earlier daily Pratt post. Happy to have it shown again.