- Sid Miller to Greg Abbott: ‘End the lockdown immediately’, more
- Rinaldi: The Forgotten House Speaker Race
- Quorum: The first symptoms of a speaker race
- Unraveling a Scandal in the Office of the Attorney General
- Texas sees higher sales in hunting, fishing licenses in 2020
- Governor Abbott Appoints Three To Governor’s Committee To Support The Military
- Why did Texas strip protections for LGBTQ and disabled from social worker code? – one should not be forced to support such things as transgenderism in children
- DeOtte: Baby Tinslee Made History for Life in Texas
- Even during a pandemic, government must be open and accessible
- A.G. Releases Elections Guidance Letter on Drive-Thru Voting – “…,officials should not actively encourage voters to engage in unauthorized curbside voting when they fail to meet the requisite legal criteria. Fear of COVID-19 does not render a voter physically unable to cast a ballot inside a polling place without assistance.”
- Lawsuits continue over Harris County’s new drive-through voting operation
- Critical GOP Election Worker Expulsions Reported
- Texas Tribune Leftist: It’s harder to vote in Texas than in any other state – really? I vote in every election and have since a teenager. How is it “hard” to vote?
- Texas can reject mail-in ballots over mismatched signatures without giving voters a chance to appeal, court rules – that has long been the law and something the county ballot board, made up of citizens from both the Dem and GOP, does.
- Appeals court: Texas not required to let voters fix signatures on rejected ballots
- Don’t Call Texas’s Latino Voters the “Sleeping Giant”
- Texas Will Be Turning Blue Any Second Now: A short history of overoptimistic predictions about the always-imminent liberal takeover of the Lone Star State.
- Harris County on pace to reach 50 percent of 2016 local turnout by tonight
- Dallas Commissioners Stop County Judge’s ‘Targeted’ Voting Ad Scheme
- Two key Texas counties — Democratic stronghold Harris and traditionally red Denton — are setting early voting records
- TX2: Rep. Dan Crenshaw vs. Sima Ladjevardian is the most expensive race for Congress in Texas
- TX17: Sessions seeks return to Congress in Central Texas district – typical liberal media hit piece.
- TX32: Colin Allred, Genevieve Collins clash over health care, taxes during debate
- TX32: Colin Allred accuses Genevieve Collins of darkening his skin in her campaign mailers – really?
- HD47: ‘Defund the Police’ Takes Center Stage in House District 47 Race
- HD60: Rep. candidate goes on a “Learning Tour” of District VIDEO
- Gov. Greg Abbott spends millions to help down-ballot Republicans in Texas – he has much more he could spend and he should have started earlier.
- Dem-nominee for Travis Co. DA runs on less prosecution of crime
- Harris County Democrats Efforts to Weaken Law Enforcement
- Fact-checking ‘PolitiFact’: Journalists Ignore Austin’s Crime Wave
- Texas leans Republican, but Democrats poised for across-the-board gains – we’ll see
- Senate hopeful MJ Hegar stumps in North Texas, seeks to put spat with Royce West in rearview mirror
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- Federal/DC related to Texas
- Federal Officials Making Changes to Some Oil-Lease Terms
- Amy Coney Barrett Is Following the Law All the Way to the Supreme Court
- DNI Ratcliffe: ‘Hunter Biden’s Laptop Is Not Part of Some Russian Disinformation Campaign
- Director of National Intelligence refutes Adam Schiff, says Hunter Biden laptop, emails ‘not part of some Russian disinformation campaign’
- The census doesn’t count Arab Americans, which leaves some Texans feeling invisible – ridiculous, it counts everyone.
- Negotiations in works to free hostage Austin Tice, a Texan believed held in Syria since 2012
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- Presidential race / national politics
- Joe Biden embraces the radical Left; Supports young children being “transgender”, more
- Joe Biden Walks Off When Questioned About FBI Seizing Son’s Laptop VIDEO
- Biden Campaign Surrogate on Hunter Biden Emails: Nobody ‘Is Saying They Are Inauthentic’
- Nolte: We All Know Why Joe Biden Is Hiding Out Two Weeks from Election Day
- NY Times Smears NY Post but Can’t Deny Authenticity of Hunter Biden Emails
- Hunter Biden’s Flipped Business Partner Provided 26,000 Emails
- Black Officers Break From Unions Over Trump Endorsements – a handful?
- Kamala Harris’ Method of Questioning Witnesses Reveals Her Low Character
- Despite a tightening presidential race in Texas, Biden-Harris isn’t quite all-in
- Beto Pancho nudges Biden to visit Texas
- Biden continues 8-point lead in stable nationwide polls
- Biden Is Asked About Milkshake Flavors Two Weeks out From Election, His Answer Is Worse Than the Question
- Pennsylvania union that endorsed Trump blasts Biden for claiming to have its support
- Upper Income, Insured Americans Gain Under Biden Plan to Lower Medicare Eligibility Age
- How Trump Might Be Winning
- Donald Trump in Georgia: ‘Lock Up the Bidens’
- Trump Warns ‘A Nation Without Borders Is Not a Nation’ After ‘Vicious’ Beheading in France
- Strong turnout, again, for Lubbock ‘Trump Train’, more – many thousands of vehicles, 5000+ No Lubbock city fire trucks in rally
- Confessions of the Secret Suburban Trump moms: Ohio
- The paranoid style in left-wing politics
- The rise of the left-wing language police
- Report: Big Tech Censored Trump and His Campaign’s Social Media Accounts at Least 65 Times, Biden’s 0
- Cancel Culture Targets Chris Pratt for Not Joining ‘Avengers’ Biden Fundraiser
- Election Interference: NY Post Still Suspended from Twitter for Not Deleting Biden Stories
- ‘And they say Trump is a Nazi’! WaPo opinion piece argues that social media platforms ‘must muzzle Trump’ until after the election
- Cruz on Fox Blasts Big Tech Censorship: We Are Seeing Silicon Valley Billionaires Drunk With Power VIDEO
- Report: New Yorker Suspends Jeffrey Toobin for Exposing Himself on Zoom
- Bring back robber barons: Why can’t Amazon and Facebook do what Carnegie and Rockefeller did?
- Bolivia: Socialists Declare Election Win with Less than 6% of Votes Counted – how the Left does it everywhere!
- Bill Gates: ‘Shutting down’ economy ‘nowhere near sufficient’ to stop climate change – what an utter fool
- Disney adds disclaimer about ‘racist’ content to ‘Peter Pan,’ other classics on streaming service
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- Border / immigration
- Supreme Court to Review Two Cases Involving Trump Border Policy
- Human Smugglers Dump Small Children on Border Riverbank in Texas
- DHS: Border travel restrictions to stay in place through Nov. 21
- Border Patrol agents find five people hiding inside trunks of cars
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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 10/19/2020 (pdf) – 17,014* deaths & “active cases” of 82,347 (out of over 29,000,000,000 people.) The # viral tested in Texas is now 7,326.919. * 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
- Study: Almost impossible to contract COVID-19 on an airplane
- Pandemic Air Travel Milestone; 1 Million Passengers Screened
- El Paso Sees Largest Number in Hospitals Due to COVID-19
- Sid Miller to Greg Abbott: ‘End the lockdown immediately’
- Parts of West Texas isolated from coronavirus
- UH Study: Women Report More COVID-19-Related Anxiety Than Men – hardly needed a study to know this.
- UTSA researchers identify coronavirus in local sewage – common, has been used to track COVID in many parts of the world.
- Even during a pandemic, government must be open and accessible
- Cuomo: Americans should be ‘very skeptical’ about COVID-19 vaccine
- Andrew Cuomo: Americans Can’t Trust the FDA and CDC on a Vaccine
- Relatives demand Cuomo apology over COVID deaths in nursing homes
- 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
- About 45% of at-home learners in Abilene ISD failed a class
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- Business/Economy
- ConocoPhillips Buying Concho in $9.7B All-Stock Deal
- SpaceX launches another 60 Starlink satellites
- Old launch tower burns down at Firefly (Texas-based firm) launchpad at Vandenberg
- Investors in Texas tiny homes are reaping big rewards during COVID
- Once flooded by Harvey, the new home of AIA Houston and the Architecture Center is almost open
- Texas Oil & Gas Association launches career center for companies and job seekers
- Ramar sells Fox 34 in Lubbock, other TV stations to SagamoreHill and Gray
- RV Sales, Rentals See Pandemic Boost – basically the loss of a local newsroom
- Downtown Austin high-rise adds Heritage Title as tenant
- Wilson: USMCA provides border region with ‘huge untapped opportunity’
- McAllen economy has shown impressive resilience – funny how the RGV folk write about themselves ignoring that their unemployment rate is usually double or higher that of the rest of the state in boom and bust!
- Electric Truck Company Becomes Latest Austin Area Firm on Stock Exchange
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- Protest, rioting, looting & more
- Federal Judge Allows 21 Businesses to Sue Seattle Over Harms Caused by CHOP
- 73-Year-Old Vietnam Veteran Assaulted for Waving Trump Flag — Bernie Supporter Charged
- Confederate soldier statue in Amarillo to be relocated to Claude
- Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo part of panel on race and equity called ‘Unfinished Business’
- Portland police plan to stencil large 3-digit numbers on officers’ helmets for protests
- Bill Maher baffled that Portland mayor behind avowed Antifa supporter by 11 points
- Antifa and the end of free speech? Anti-Twitter, Pro-Speech Protestors assaulted by Antifa
- Violent Attacks on Trump Supporters Spike as Election Day Draws Near
- San Diego School Districts Abolish Grades to Combat Racism
- New Yorkers Prepare to Flee Election Unrest
- Aurora, Colorado residents figure out that the police aren’t protecting them anymore
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- Crime & general news of Texas
- McLennan Co. Man Killed When Family Violence Call Ends in Shootout
- Man died after industrial accident southeast of Lubbock
- Man shot outside of Houston Third Ward bar
- University of St. Thomas T-shirt offers clue to ID body found in Dutton Lake
- Motorcyclist plunges to death off I-45 610 exit ramp
- Midland: 4 people were stabbed in fight
- Woman killed following disturbance in Midland, MPD looking for murder suspect in 18-year-old girl’s death
- Odessa PD makes arrest in connection with stabbing
- Wichita Falls Police: Former restaurant worker arrived armed, caused disturbance
- False calls to police lands man in jail
- Man arrested after pointing gun at Wichita Falls police officer, more
- Wichita Falls police arrested a woman after she allegedly stole nearly $10,000 from her employer
- Body of missing Abilene man found next to church
- San Angelo teenager charged with murder in overnight shooting
- Suspected drunk driver leads police on high-speed chase, dies after truck rolls over
- DA: Woman passes out behind wheel, hits and kills woman in Houston
- Lubbock Man Evades Police After Traffic Stop
- Lubbock police report says man suffers multiple stab wounds after he was assaulted
- Muleshoe woman dead after crash in Bailey County
- Car crashes into building in Levelland
- Judge denies Lubbock scammer Benny Judah’s motion to reduce sentence
- Personal injury lawsuit filed against charter bus company after fatal crash near Vega, Texas
- San Marcos police troubled by guns fired at weekend parties
- Austin police seeking pair who shot driver in Northeast Austin
- Mail theft cases seeing an uptick across Houston area
- 12 Texans Charged in Connection With Violent, Race-Based Gang
- The case of the Chinese “mystery seeds” is pretty much solved
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- Local government
- Candidates Spar In First And Only Lubbock Mayoral Debate on KFYO AUDIO
- Issues Change During Delayed Lubbock Mayoral Race AUDIO
- Wichita County judge says ‘no’ to bars opening
- Plan to rebuild Galveston public housing divides advocates
- Abilene City Council to consider two of the last remaining 2015 bond projects Thursday
- Abilene ISD seeking suggestions for new names of 3 schools named after Confederate leaders
- Will voters push back against Austin City Council’s shift to left?
- D.A. in San Antonio vows more careful scrutiny of police use-of-force cases – being a George Soros backed DA, expect the worst
- Police reform petitions gain momentum during early voting in San Antonio
- Even during a pandemic, government must be open and accessible
- Houston Homeowners to Pay More Under Proposed City Tax Rate
- Dallas Commissioners Stop County Judge’s ‘Targeted’ Voting Ad Scheme
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- Colleges & universities
- McMurry University offering half-off tuition
- MSU student engage in “racial equity” challenge…?
- Al-Hmoud, student representatives address College Health Alliance of Texas plans
- Austin, UT formalize research partnership
- UT Austin president: There is no higher education without free speech – the Left is the enemy of such
- South Texas College of Law Grads Finally Don Caps and Gowns
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- Military
- ‘Bomb threat’ at Goodfellow AFB’s south gate in San Angelo
Pratt’s post for 10/19/2020
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