- Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick on Tucker Carlson’s show VIDEO
- Dan Patrick claims ‘almost everyone in office’ knows mail-ballot fraud is real – he means people with brains, not Dems and their media propaganda staffs
- Prosecutors asked Rangers to investigate Paxton allegations – see how this works? It’s OK for all the others to request investigations into Republicans but not okay for Republican officials to do the same.
- Top aide in Texas attorney general’s office terminated after accusing Ken Paxton of bribery – good
- Defending himself against criminal allegations, Ken Paxton gave his first interview to a website identified as part of a pay-for-play network – how funny! The Tribune is jealous, attacks media outlet that got a story it didn’t! That media outlet is a straight-up daily coverage resource of legal news in Texas.
- Traffic Crashes Increase In Energy-Producing Areas In Texas
- Advocates File Complaint Over Texas Youth Prison Conditions
- 5 things to know about La Niña and its effect on Texas weather – dry, that’s it.
- Medina Lake drying up again – it fills when we have rain, empties when dry.
- New Planned Parenthood property draws protests in Lubbock
- Fiscal Notes – Uninsured Texans
- Governor Abbott, TEA Establish Targeted Education Funds for Families Of Students With Cognitive Disabilities
- Governor’s Committee On People With Disabilities Announces 2020 Lex Frieden Employment Awards Winners
- Abbott Appoints Three And Names Chair Of Texas State Board Of Examiners Of Professional Counselors
- Abbott Appoints Three And Names Chair Of Texas State Board Of Examiners Of Marriage And Family Therapists
- House Leadership Tried to Kill Pro-Life Policy They Now Support
- A Dallas County Election Judge Assaults Trump Supporter
- GOP candidate for Harris Co. DA: Democrat DA Ogg responsible for death of Houston police officer
- Houston Police Sgt. Killed By Repeat Offender After Soros-Funded D.A. Refused to Press Charges
- Young Conservatives of Texas Endorses Candidates Across the State
- In Texas House fight, Democrats bet big on health care, while Republicans emphasize police support
- Texas Dems need 9 to win Texas House, GOP playing offense
- HD28: Fort Bend statehouse race is a study in 2020 whiplash politics
- TX32: Allred calls on Genevieve Collins to take down ads with false claims
- U.S. Senate candidate MJ Hegar calls for better protection of frontline workers from politicians
- RRC candidate Jim Wright – Importance Of Upholding Texas Energy-Based Economy
- Silicon Valley billionaires bankroll $28M deluge to help Hegar oust Cornyn in Texas Senate contest
- Poll: Biden tied with Trump in Texas; Hegar closing on Cornyn – Quinnipiac was close to right on the Abbott & Cruz races in 2018 at end of October but I don’t buy into this one.
- A ‘blue wave’ or eager Trump voters? 5 takeaways from early voting in Harris County – an interesting read.
- DNC launches Hindi, Vietnamese radio ads in Texas
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- Federal/DC related to Texas
- Cuellar: We Democrats want to bring earmarks back in January – oink, oink, oink!
- Pompeo: no reason to believe Hunter Biden story is Russian disinformation
- U.S. Antitrust Case Against Google Mirrors Microsoft Battle
- Clyburn: Barrett Confirmation Will ‘Throwback’ SCOTUS to Days of Segregation, Slavery – really? How?
- Sen. Cruz, Colleagues Introduce Bipartisan Resolution Rejecting Upcoming Sham Legislative Elections in Venezuela
- Blue States Should Set Their Own Houses in Order
- Graham wants to review sources of ActBlue small-dollar donations, some Senate Republicans agree
- Sen. Cruz Calls Out Democrats for Once Again Blocking Coronavirus Relief
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- Presidential race / national politics
- 10 Examples of Joe Biden’s History of Racially Charged Conduct and Comments
- Charlamagne tha God: Trump Is Going After Black Voters. ‘It Works.’ Democrats Think Black Voters Will Simply ‘Fall in Line’
- A Bizarre and Revealing Biden Interview from 1974
- Joe Biden Flip-Flops Again: My Coronavirus Plan ‘Starts with a Mask Mandate Nationwide’ – Dems love “solutions” that don’t work
- Biden is running against Trump’s record on the pandemic, but he has no new ideas
- Biden ad criticized after depicting ‘struggling’ bar owner, who is actually a wealthy investor
- Is California a window into Kamala Harris’s America?
- Rios: If elected, Biden should set up Presidential Commission on 2020 Census Undercount – so they can then go and increase Democrat-heavy Congressional and statehouse districts!
- Did Joe Biden Take a Bribe?
- Biden finally breaks silence on son Hunter’s laptop
- Jill Biden on Hunter Story: ‘The American People Don’t Want to Hear These Smears Against My Family’
- Hunter associate emails: Let’s profit off our “direct administration pipeline”
- Giuliani: Hunter Biden’s Laptop Contains Images of Underage Girls; Evidence Given to Delaware State Police
- Hunter Biden Business Partner Bevan Cooney Moved by Bureau of Prisons Without Warning
- Trump and Biden Tied In Wisconsin; Biden Down 3 Points
- Bloomberg knocks Trump back on his heels in Florida
- Narratives Get Busted as Trump Is Now Closer In the Polling Averages Than 2016
- Cotton on NYT Endorsing Biden, Claiming Bipartisanship: ‘What a Joke’
- Get ready for Russiagate 2.0 if Trump wins
- Pollak: A Biden Win Would Reward Democrats for Russia Hoax, Phony Impeachment, and Race Riots Pollak: A Biden Win Would Reward Democrats for Russia Hoax, Phony Impeachment, and Race Riots
- Trump campaign was down to $63 million in the bank for the final month of the race
- VDH: How Trump Should Approach the Final Debate
- Trump calls upcoming ’60 Minutes’ interview ‘bias,’ tweets clip, hints at posting exchanges – it always is from “60 Minutes”
- NYT Tries Desperate Anti-Trump Hit to Distract From Hunter Biden, Makes Things Worse
- Federal appeals court allows North Carolina to accept mail-in ballots nine days after polls close – a week and a half!
- Florida USPS Worker Accused of Stealing Mail-in Ballots
- Ballot box set on fire in CA, burning up to 100 ballots
- Jeffrey Toobin’s stroke of misfortune – great headline!
- Report: Facebook Hires Chinese Nationals to Censor Platform
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- Border / immigration
- Trump Administration Adds Criminal Disqualifiers to Asylum
- 200K Migrants Expelled After Illegally Crossing U.S. Border Under Coronavirus Protocols
- Border Patrol, Law Enforcement Arrest Nearly 300 Illegals in Laredo Area Raids
- U.S.-based coalition formed to challenge new food and beverage laws in Mexico – the Leftists are upset at Leftist policy being implemented!
- EXCLUSIVE: ICE Places Detainer on Accused Houston Cop-Killer Illegally Present in U.S. – well, well, well, he is an illegal alien!
- Haitian Migrants Surging Into U.S., Say Feds in Texas
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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 10/21/2020 (pdf) – 17,087* deaths & “active cases” of 83,973 (out of over 29,000,000,000 people, less than 3/10ths of 1% of the population.) The # viral tested in Texas is now 7,444,326. * 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
- The US is coming out of COVID no worse than any European country
- Local [Lubbock] COVID outbreak out of control – yellow journalism on display! The headline is false in a relative sense and the story gives no data to support such a scare claim.
- EMS sees a huge rise on 911 calls regarding COVID-19 – this is one of the costs of yellow journalism like that of the AJ and all the other media propaganda.
- College student cohort at center of Lubbock rise in COVID cases
- At Least 6 Texas Bars’ Licenses Suspended for COVID-19 Violations in Statewide Sting
- Family restaurant fined for reopening beats the rap in Pennsylvania court
- Michigan Drops Charges Against Barber After Court Strikes Down Whitmer COVID-19 Restrictions
- Epidemiologists: Wichita Falls likely to exceed hospital capacity in next three weeks
- You’re Only an ‘Expert’ When You Agree
- 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.
- Joe Biden Flip-Flops Again: My Coronavirus Plan ‘Starts with a Mask Mandate Nationwide’ – Dems love “solutions” that don’t work
- 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
- Houston ISD’s closure of 16 schools over COVID cases draws mixed reviews
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- Business/Economy
- 30-story student housing project going up in Austin’s West Campus
- Austin’s Parsley Energy sold to Dallas firm for $4.5 billion
- Even Aspen is losing flights — a bad omen for small cities like Del Rio – but you newspaper folk cheered on the lockdowns and restrictions!
- JC Penney Sees Bankruptcy Protection Exit by Christmas
- U.S. Shale Mergers Accelerate, as Pioneer-Parsley Deal Joins Roster, more
- Texas shale deal must navigate potential father-son conflict
- SpaceX completes static fire test on Starship prototype #8 in Texas
- Ector Co. ISD partners with SpaceX to provide internet access, more
- Abbott Presents National Small Business Person Of The Year Award To Timothy Porter
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- Protest, rioting, looting & more
- Man injured by police with bean bag round during May protests sues city of Austin
- Minneapolis Residents Sue for More Police on the Streets
- Antifa Topples Historic Statue, Sets Fire to Billboard, Threatens the President, Attacks ICE Building, But It Doesn’t End Well
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- Crime & general news of Texas
- Authorities looking for vehicle that struck, injured Travis County deputy
- Accused Houston Cop-Killer an Illegal Alien
- Suspect in Shooting of Houston Police Officer Not a Legal U.S. Resident
- Another alleged domestic killer in Dallas County got out on low bond. How can we stop this? – stop promoting Democrats, it’s their policy
- 3 dead in shooting at Midtown nightclub, Houston police say, more
- Man Arrested in Texas in 1996 Slaying of Los Angeles Girl
- Lubbock bank robbery tied to robberies in Odessa and Abilene, LPD says
- Man charged with tapping into neighbor’s and Oncor’s lines for free electricity multiple times
- Former Nocona natives killed in car crash
- Police arrest woman in connection to March robbery where victim was beaten and stripped of his clothes
- Murray: Man takes 30-year deal after trial begins
- Abilene PD say no signs of foul play in body found outside church
- Cash rewards offered for info on wanted fugitives in Abilene
- Two injured after three-vehicle crash in Hamby
- Document: Murder suspect arrested in Jones County accused of killing pregnant woman, leaving body in freezer
- Driver in deadly crash that killed Rankin mother and daughters had BAC more than two times legal limit
- Lubbock man pleads not guilty to federal charges of receipt and distribution of child pornography
- Indictments returned against members of Central Texas gang responsible for series of murders, assaults, robberies .
- Suspects arrested after armed local resident encountered armed intruder indicted
- Man arrested in connection with triple fatal shooting at Dallas hotel
- Rowlett man accused of killing mother of his child released on house arrest
- El Paso firefighters discover body after extinguishing small blaze in El Paso’s Lower Valley
- Rio Grande City man arrested for carrying stolen weapon
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- Local government
- Audit: Ex-city of Austin employee abused position by hiring roommates
- Trinity Metro Asks City of Fort Worth for $86 million to Extend TEXRail
- DeGuerin denies ex-Houston ISD official involved in kickback scheme, says seized money obtained legally
- Houston wants to buy 7,000 residential trash bins with federal coronavirus relief funds – typical
- Abilene Police Chief Stan Standridge offered police chief job in San Marcos
- The evolution, politicization of Lubbock’s mayoral race – how stupid is this? The “politicization” of a political race? Shows the low IQ of AJ folk.
- Pratt’s Lubbock mayoral & other election recommendations
- Bexar Co. commissioners vote to add more polling places at whatever cost necessary
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- Colleges & universities
- Ex-Lady Raider coach Marlene Stollings files lawsuit against TTU, Hocutt, claims discrimination, Texas Tech releases statement after Ex Lady Raiders coach Marlene Stollings files lawsuit – from the folks who still refuse to pay Mike Leach what he is owed.
- Black Female Faculty Members Recognized For Contributions To Academia – great but do we have a press release for the white, or Asian profs being recognized?
- TTU Law Professor Receives State Award For Advocacy For Texans With Disabilities
- UTPB postpones fall graduation
- MSU Texas cancels Spring Break, ends semester a week early
- Entire MSU football team quarantined due to COVID-19 exposure; volleyball team also included
- Photographer files suit against Bevo handlers, owner after being bucked at Sugar Bowl
- Free Speech Is Embattled on Campus
- Former RGV congressman and wife make major gift to Texas A&M HEC
Pratt’s post for 10/21/2020
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