- Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick Appoints Sen. Birdwell to Senate Redistricting Committee
- ALEC calls Abbott best governor in the nation, more
- AG Paxton sues Google for illegally maintaining monopolies in Internet search and search advertising services, more
- Railroad Commission eyes change to flaring rules
- Texas courts were strikingly well-prepared for COVID-19
- Abbott Appoints Kofran And Scanlan To Texas Early Learning Council
- New State Grants Focus on Preventing, Investigating Violence Against Women
- Pro-Life Citizens Confirm & Protest New Lubbock Planned Parenthood Location
- Fifth Circuit Grants Stay Protecting Election Fraud Prevention Measures, more
- Drive-thru voting is the dystopian experience of 2020 – maybe but in Texas it is illegal.
- Texas AG: Legal Action for Unlawful Drive-Thru Voting
- Poll Workers Can Face Fines of $1,000 for Requiring Masks in Galveston County
- Republican Election Workers Fired for Not Wearing Masks – Keith Ingram needs to be removed from the SOS office.
- The Texas congressional delegation doesn’t reflect the state’s diversity. Will the election change that? – the premise itself is pure Leftist dogma. Diversity of what? All people are different and thus diverse and it’s the Left that opposes diversity of belief. To say that a white man can only get effective representation by another white man is condemnable but that is exactly what the Left is arguing.
- Wichita County Republican Women host “Get out the Vote Rally”
- SREC Member Endorses Democrat for Texas House
- Seinfeld stars reunite for Texas Democratic Party virtual fundraiser
- National Democratic super PAC says it will double its spending to $12 million in battle for the Texas House
- Trump, Biden Attempting to Influence Highly Contested Texas Races
- Cornyn Says He Is Not Distancing Himself From President Trump
- TX32: Allred Criticizes Trump in Congressional Debate, Collins Labels Allred ‘Ineffective, Party Line Politician’
- Pratt recommendation in Abilene & Wichita Falls mayoral race
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- Federal/DC related to Texas
- Justice Dept. Files Landmark Antitrust Case Against Google
- Justice Dept to File Antitrust Lawsuit Against Google
- Donald Trump: Bill Barr Has to Act Fast to Investigate Joe Biden
- 51 percent want Barrett seated on Supreme Court: poll
- Ted Cruz Is Taking Steps to Make Sure Joe Biden Can’t Pack the Supreme Court
- Sens. Cruz, Cornyn Honor Pearland Mayor, Tom Reid
- Roberts Joins Liberals in Supreme Court Ruling on PA Mail-In Ballots
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- Presidential race / national politics
- IBD/TIPP Poll Shows Biden 48%, Trump 46%: ‘Biden Is Leaking Democratic Support’
- Joe Biden embraces the radical Left; Supports young children being “transgender”, more
- Biden Defector’s Emails Reveal Hunter’s Associates Viewed Direct ‘Pipeline’ to Administration as ‘Currency’
- Majority of likely voters believe Biden had conflict of interest involving Ukraine oversight, son
- Biden spox on Hunter e-mails: “I don’t think anybody is saying they are inauthentic”
- 14 Days: Joe Biden Campaign Posts Cat Videos
- PHOTO: Joe Biden Meets Hunter Biden’s Business Associate from Kazakhstan
- Far left already plotting takeover of Biden administration
- A vote for Biden is a vote for the DC swamp
- Former commander who oversaw bin Laden raid endorses Biden, saying he’ll ‘Make America Lead Again’ – I’ve long wondered why so many think that military officers are by default conservative or Republican, they are not.
- WaPo Reporter Gets Rude Awakening After Claiming Biden ‘Successfully Refuted’ Sexual Assault Allegation
- The Hunter Biden story isn’t going away
- Debate Commission Nixes Foreign Policy Topics for Last Presidential Debate – I guess they knew such is an easy opening to bring up the Biden foreign cash machine
- Trump and Biden will get muted during “debate”, more
- Donald Trump: Anthony Fauci a ‘Democrat’ and ‘Friend’ of the Cuomos
- President Trump says Fauci is ‘terrific guy’ but not ‘team player’
- A Record Worth Defending, If the President Was Interested
- ‘It never happened,’ Exxon says of a hypothetical fundraising call Trump described having with company’s CEO
- Melania Trump nixes campaign trip due to cough from COVID
- Whitmer, Trump campaign clash after ‘8645’ seen next to Michigan governor
- Biden landslide? Not so fast. MSM begin hedging their bets.
- Biden Is Still Underperforming Hillary
- Trump brunt of late-night hosts’ presidential race jokes 97% of time, report
- Nordlinger: Trump and Dictators
- Republicans cutting into Democrats’ registered voter leads in Florida, Arizona other key states
- Report: Facebook Successfully Suppressed Reach of NY Post Biden Bombshell by Half
- Facebook Employees ‘Ashamed’ by Censorship of NY Post’s Biden Bombshell
- Facebook pulls down Babylon Bee joke about Sen. Hirono on grounds that it ‘incites violence’
- When Do Problems with Mail-in Ballots Become a Problem for the Media?
- Ballot Fraud Proved Again After Kentucky USPS Worker Fired Over Trashing Ballots
- Joe Buck and Troy Aikman caught on hot mic criticizing military flyovers
- How Republican Voters Took QAnon Mainstream – more insanity from NYT
- New Data Analysis Finds 353 Counties With 1.8 Million More Registered Voters Than Eligible Citizens
- Talk radio’s Limbaugh says cancer has shown ‘some progression’ recently
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- Border / immigration
- 200,000 Expelled After Illegally Crossing U.S. Border Under Coronavirus Protocols
- Border Apprehensions Drop With Pandemic in Fiscal Year 2020, But Expected to Rise
- Gulf Cartel Removes Bodies After Reynosa Shootout
- Leader of Gulf Cartel faction ‘Los Xs’ arrested in Chihuahua
- Illegal alien who shot Kate Steinle tells judge, ‘I’m tired of waiting here’
- AMLO thanks Trump while questioning Obama’s Fast & Furious, and DEA breaking Mexican sovereignty
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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 10/20/2020 (pdf) – 17,022* deaths & “active cases” of 82,930 (out of over 29,000,000,000 people.) The # viral tested in Texas is now 7,384,043. * 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
- Texas, UTHealth launch one of the nation’s largest COVID-19 antibody surveys
- Bexar County bars can reopen this week
- Health officials predict most Texans won’t have access to COVID-19 vaccine until July at the earliest, more
- The US is coming out of COVID no worse than any European country
- 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
- Dr. Birx Rips the Mask off and Goes After Scott Atlas
- CDC: ‘Strong recommendation’ but no rule for masks on planes
- CDC: 85% of COVID-19 patients report ‘always’ or ‘often’ wearing a mask – Americans are wearing masks, but masks aren’t working.
- 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
- Schools Should Return to Virtual Learning, Tarrant County Public Health Director Advises
- Texas schools say teachers with medical risks must return to classrooms during pandemic
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- Business/Economy
- Texas is booming with ‘Best Places to Retire,’ according to U.S. News
- Houston holiday spending projected to plunge by nearly 25 percent
- Jeff Luhnow denies knowledge of Astros’ sign-stealing plot
- Railroad Commission eyes change to flaring rules
- Conoco plans to retain Midland presence
- Conoco CEO: Acquisition is ‘marriage of two great companies’
- Second airline takes off from Abilene on Wednesday for first time since 2008
- Lubbock’s RAMAR Communications Sells FOX 34 and Co-owned Television Stations
- Austin auto sales see September rebound
- Why fracking matters
- Future Amazon fulfillment center brings excitement to Central Texas
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- Protest, rioting, looting & more
- The big lie of “systematic racism” in America
- Antifa Knocks Out Black Man’s Teeth for Holding Free Speech Rally While Calling Him ‘N’ Word
- Police High-Speed Extraction of Mobbed Free-Speech Activists at Twitter HQ VIDEO
- Antifa Medic Calls for Federal Agent to Be ‘Executed’ VIDEO
- Antifa Mob Attacks Pro-Trump Free Speech Rally at Twitter HQ VIDEO
- Woman Wearing U.S. Flag Shirt Mobbed near San Francisco Antifa Protest VIDEO
- AP Finds Most Arrested in Protests Aren’t Leftist Radicals – you find what you look for. Their conclusion is that they are not “Leftist Radicals” only because the AP has no evidence of their affiliation with organized groups which, of course, does not in any way suggest or demonstrate that such people are not Leftist Radicals.
- Denver TV station security guard charged with murder in connection with shooting of demonstrator
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- Crime & general news of Texas
- Houston Police Officer Shot, Killed . 2nd Wounded; Suspect in Custody
- One Houston police officer killed, another wounded in shooting; suspect and suspect’s son also shot
- What we know about Elmer Manzano, suspect in fatal shooting of HPD officer
- 1 killed, 4 injured in foggy crash on I-10 in Vidor
- Man, woman arrested for street racing crash on Kuykendahl that critically injured person: constable
- Houston PD: Young woman shot twice while trying to break up fight
- Man fatally shot in car at Northshore apartments in Houston
- Houston ISD third-grade teacher accused of raping, inappropriately touching several of his students: court documents
- Midland teen killed in one vehicle crash
- One killed in crash west of Odessa
- Fort Stockton man dies in head-on crash
- Suspect located in New Mexico following the murder of 18-year-old girl in Midland
- Police searching for teenager involved fatal shooting in North Odessa
- Alleged female accomplice in aggravated robbery, beating arrested after traffic stop
- Man charged in biting of his stepson who was defending his mom
- WFPD: Searching for 3 men they say attempted to rob an ATM VIDEO
- Joke backfires on theft suspect
- 18-wheeler wreck tosses hauled cars along route
- San Angelo murder victim found in freezer, wrapped in blue tarp; pregnant with 3rd child
- San Angelo police investigating woman’s death, suspect arrested
- Murder suspect arrested in Hamlin after pursuit in Jones County
- Road rage gun incident in Southwest Lubbock described by police report
- Lubbock Police search for suspect in aggravated robbery
- New details emerge about circumstances of Lubbock woman’s 2019 disappearance VIDEO
- Lubbock man facing federal child porn charge
- Skyline: Repairs underway at San Antonio church damaged by scaffolding accident
- Guillen family to receive military benefits after Spc. Vanessa Guillen’s death ruled ‘in the line of duty’
- Police: Truck stolen with 2 kids inside, Waco man in custody
- Travis County Sheriff’s Office search for driver accused of hitting deputy conducting traffic
- 1 arrested in Tyler for allegedly robbing gas station, running from police
- Body of missing A&M-Kingsville professor found
- Austin Police investigating student robbed at gunpoint in West Campus
- Access to Waco Suspension Bridge to be suspended for 18 to 24 months
- Woman held teen girls captive, took them to hotels to pimp them out, San Antonio police say
- East El Paso woman dies from injuries in car crash just minutes down the street from her home
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- Local government
- Wichita Falls City Council meets in regular session Oct. 20 VIDEO
- McKinney City Council to hear advisory board recommendation on disputed Throckmorton statue
- Snyder ISD brings in academic programming organization in response to failing TEA score VIDEO
- Abilene officials set public forum on downtown parking
- McCord: Frenship ISD’s $299 million bond “expensive, but due to increased growth” in the district – growth produced new revenue.
- Sens. Cruz, Cornyn Honor Pearland Mayor, Tom Reid
- Poll Workers Can Face Fines of $1,000 for Requiring Masks in Galveston County
- GOP Congressional Candidate Ronny Jackson Raises Concerns Over Amarillo Bond Election
- Copperas Cove residents want answers after continuous errors with water bill
- Bell County elections officials working out early voting kinks
- Bexar County burn ban, watering rules reinstated as drought conditions return
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- Colleges & universities
- No Mandate For UT Football Players To Remain On Field For School Song
- UT student voters face confusion over where to deliver mail-in ballots – how about to a mail box; too stupid to vote?
- UT creates new stuttering center with $20 million grant from Home Depot co-founder
- MSU Texas lauded for success in social mobility
- Texas Tech NWT SBDC hits record in securing loans for entrepreneurs
- Law professor sues St. Mary’s University for fraud
- Aggie Band recording marches for statue unveiling in Hungary
- A&M vet school names new dean
- As National Racial Tensions Rise, Black SMU Students Feel the Pressure in Their Classrooms
Pratt’s post for 10/20/2020
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